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Voices, The Peoples News

January 5, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Growth Of ‘Most Transmissible Subvariant’ XBB.1.5 Worries Health Officials: White House cautions against panic as XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant spreads. XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant, which has rapidly grown to account for 40 percent of U.S. COVID-19 cases, with officials stating it is not yet known if this version is more dangerous.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3798876-white-house-cautions-against-panic-as-xbb-1-5-omicron-subvariant-spreads/

Baby Dies of Blood Clot After Transfusion of COVID-Vaccinated Blood, Parents Claim: The baby’s mother said that Providence Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital in Spokane, Washington, threatened to call Child Protective Services (CPS) if they did not allow their baby, Alexander Eliot Bly, to receive the COVID-vaccinated blood transfusion. “They would not even consider it was the blood transfusion that killed him. They did admit it was the blood clot that killed him. I’m hoping it can warn others about the danger of the blood from the blood bank,” baby Alexander’s mother said.
https://nationalfile.com/baby-dies-of-blood-clot-after-transfusion-of-covid-vaccinated-blood/

WHO Labels Unvaccinated People a ‘Major Killing Force Globally’ | 18 Dec 2022 | The World Health Organization (WHO) has labeled unvaccinated people a “major killing force globally” in a new campaign being promoted on social media. The WHO is promoting a new video that targets “anti-vaccine activism” by blasting those who choose not to be vaccinated for supporting “anti-science aggression.”
https://thinkcivics.com/who-labels-unvaccinated-people-a-major-killing-force-globally/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
No Matter Who Leads House GOP, Advocates Say, ‘They All Want to Cut Your Social Security’: “Democrats must stand strong and united to protect Social Security from Republican hostage-taking,” said Social Security Works.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-cuts-house-gop

Driven by Economic Injustice, Gen Z Deemed ‘Most Pro-Union Generation’ in US: “Young people see that their parents are worse off than their grandparents. They’re worse off than their parents,” said one economist. “They recognize that their lives have been impacted by the decline in unions.”
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/03/gen-z-is-the-most-pro-union-generation/

The little secret about corporate profits: The power of big corporations to raise their prices higher than their costs are rising.
https://robertreich.org/post/705458064464183296

# Education / Schools
‘Shook me to the core’: Threats to San Antonio schools, real or not, more than doubled in 2022: The Uvalde tragedy left students, parents and staff more willing to relay their suspicions. “Recently we have noticed an uptick in the number of incidents that come to our attention,” says San Antonio-based FBI special agent Michelle Lee. She says the bureau, which assists local school districts’ law enforcement officials when needed, takes every threat seriously.
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/rash-of-recent-threats-against-san-antonio-area-schools-reflects-larger-trend

Texas’ School-to-Prison Pipeline, Ticketing, Arrest & Use of Force in Schools. How the Myth of the ‘Blackboard Jungle’ Reshaped School Disciplinary Policy: This report is the third in a series examining the intersection of school discipline and gateways to the juvenile justice system. It focuses on Class C misdemeanor ticketing and arrest of
students and on use of force (including pepper spray and Tasers) by school police officers.
https://www.njjn.org/uploads/digital-library/Texas-School-Prison-Pipeline_Ticketing_Booklet_Texas-Appleseed_Dec2010.pdf

# Employment / Labor
Amazon to Cut 18,000 Jobs in Biggest Ever Layoffs: The tech behemoth cited an “uncertain economy” for the huge cutbacks.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-lay-off-over-17000-workers-wsj-2023-01-04/

# General Information / Other News
We’re not entering a new Cold War with China, though it might be better if we were. At least the 20th-century struggle between the West and USSR had clear sides and a single goal: world domination. After decades of deepening ties and building bridges to the West, China is turning inward. It’s expanding its military, developing sophisticated new weapons and growing more belligerent. It’s starting to feel as if the arms races and power struggles of the old Soviet-American rivalry have come roaring back, Beijing taking Moscow’s former place at the heart of the communist world.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-were-not-entering-a-new-cold-war-with-china-though-it-might-be-better/

# Gov / Politics / Global
An Economic Proxy War in the Indian Ocean amid Virtual Realty in a post-truth world. Welcome to 2023!
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/01/05/an-economic-proxy-war-in-the-indian-ocean-amid-virtual-realty-in-a-post-truth-world-welcome-to-2023/

Zelensky to Join World Economic Forum at Davos, Partner With BlackRock to ‘Rebuild’ Ukraine: Dictator plans to meet with the architects of the “great reset” at Davos and partner with globalist firm BlackRock for the “reconstruction” of Ukraine. Zelensky told the people of Ukraine in a recent address to the nation that BlackRock “specialists” are already helping Ukraine to build a “reconstruction” fund, and that next month, he’ll take part in the World Economic Forum’s infamous Davos summit.
https://nationalfile.com/zelensky-to-join-world-economic-forum-at-davos-partner-with-blackrock-to-rebuild-ukraine/

Why a New Israeli Minister’s Temple Mount Visit May Signal a Shift in the Status Quo: The country has had right-wing governments before, but none has been this extreme, with a prime minister so beholden to the extremists.
https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/88726?utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=titlelink&mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGJIz8d5sdi3EpMYxq3D___z5tIOG0cFPjhau-kquSWXDu3OqAH62zIYz45VYlfJRlQHfg0EEtYbdm4vGRX_26eVE2k9pZ0xE9AJjgpxvU

# Gov / Politics / US
Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense, Issues for Congress: The emergence over the past decade of intensified U.S. competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) and the Russian Federation (Russia) often referred to as great power competition (GPC) has profoundly changed the conversation about U.S. defense issues from what it was during the post–Cold War era
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/R43838.pdf

Biden: A Proxy War with Russia Is Not Enough. We Must Also Seek War with China: If you need any more evidence that U.S. foreign policy is completely out of control, look no further than Commander-in-Chief Biden’s latest pronouncements regarding Taiwan, which is not a country. That’s right. Not according to the United Nations or the United States government. In fact, it is acknowledged by both that Taiwan is part of China.
https://mises.org/power-market/biden-proxy-war-russia-not-enough-we-must-also-seek-war-china

Texas Republicans urge Chip Roy and other McCarthy opponents to let Congress get to work: Texans poised to assume committee leadership are growing frustrated by Republicans blocking Kevin McCarthy’s election for speaker because Congress can’t get to work until a leader is in place.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/04/texas-chip-roy-speaker-kevin-mccarthy/

Republicans and Democrats Quietly Consider a Speaker Deal: Democrats’ Sherman Floats Possible Deal to Make McCarthy Speaker. Democrats could seek concessions on US debt ceiling, spending. Such a deal would likely cost McCarthy more GOP support
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/democrat-s-sherman-floats-possible-deal-to-make-mccarthy-speaker?leadSource=uverify%20wall

McCarthy’s Losing Streak Hits 10, The House Republican stalemate continues: For the third straight day, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Republican lawmakers were unable to break their deadlock in voting for the next speaker of the House
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20230105-McCarthy-s-Losing-Streak-Hits-10

# Medical / Health
Women in Deep East Texas drive over an hour to give birth after the last obstetrics unit in the area closed in 2019. But if closing the unit was hard, reopening it is proving nearly impossible. Only 40% of Texas’ rural hospitals offer labor and delivery services, forcing some patients to drive hundreds of miles to give birth. With nurses in short supply, more hospitals are considering cutting those services entirely.
https://www.kbtx.com/2022/01/20/texas-maternity-deserts-grow-staff-shortages-close-rural-labor-delivery-units/

# Military / DOD
‘CIA is behind spate of explosions in Russia’: US Army Special Ops veteran claims intelligence agency and NATO ally are conducting sabotage missions: The CIA is working with an unnamed “NATO ally,” according to Jack Murphy. Murphy was a former senior trainer and adviser to an Iraqi SWAT team –He said the CIA and Joe Biden are personally authorising missions
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11572881/CIA-spate-explosions-Russia-veteran-claims-CIA-NATO-ally-sabotage.html

U.S. military bases that housed Afghan evacuees suffered $260 million in damage: A new Department of Defense (DOD) report found that the U.S. military bases that housed Afghan evacuees suffered 260 million in damages, with the Air Force saying the damage was “unrepairable.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-military-bases-housed-afghan-evacuees-suffered-260-million-damage

# Military / Global
Ukraine Intel Boss Warns Putin: Brace for More Strikes: Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s chief military intelligence official, said there will be strikes “deeper and deeper” inside Russia in an interview with ABC News. But he didn’t clarify whether Ukraine would be behind the upcoming attacks.
https://upstract.com/x/84a708dec77f723d

New weapons from the West to be sent to Ukraine: France will send “light tanks” to Ukraine’s military, AP reports. This will be the first time that this type of armored vehicle is sent to the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said. The US is also considering sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles, another Western-designed armored vehicle, to Ukraine, a sign that the White House is willing to expand its military support against Russia.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/15/u-s-eyes-new-weapons-for-ukraine-00074153

# Pharmas / Drugs
Warnock Hails Start of Medicare’s $35 Insulin Copay Cap That ‘Will Save Lives’: “If you need insulin, you really need insulin—it is not a choice,” said the Democratic senator from Georgia. “I’m thrilled to see my provision to cap insulin costs for Medicare recipients finally take effect.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/insulin-copay-cap-warnock

# Technology
Disgusting Infrastructure Bill Installs Kill Switches in All New Vehicles, Turns America into a police state: The website Motorious reported that former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr has been sounding the alarm on an item buried within the Biden-McConnell “infrastructure” legislation, which passed in August 2021. According to Barr, the government will now have the power to shut off your vehicle if they determine you are partaking in any “illegal” activity.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/big-brother-will-watch-drive-disgusting-infrastructure-bill-installs-kill-switches-new-vehicles-turns-america-police-state/

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Voices, The Peoples News

January 4, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
The omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 has rapidly spread to become the dominant COVID-19 mutation in the U.S., now accounting for 40.5 percent of all cases. The XBB subvariant, from which XBB.1.5 descends, is a recombinant of two subvariants that descended from the BA.2 omicron subvariant.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3793446-covid-variant-xbb-1-5-now-accounts-for-40-percent-of-cases-in-the-us-cdc/

# Environment / Climate / Global
Has the Amazon reached its tipping point? Some Brazilian scientists fear that the Amazon may become a grassy savanna, with profound effects on the climate worldwide. About 26 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost or badly degraded and without intervention the rest could transform into savannah, says a report on its status
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336521-the-amazon-rainforest-has-already-reached-a-crucial-tipping-point/

# Gov / Politics / Global
In Search of Big Bucks: Zelensky Zips Over to Washington: Russia has stabilized the situation on the battlefield and is preparing to seize the initiative, a reality that obviates the tens of billions of dollars of military assistance that has been dispatched to Ukraine. The current package, except for a single Patriot missile battery, is simply more of the same, virtually guaranteeing that Ukraine will continue to lose this conflict going forward.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/01/03/in-search-of-big-bucks-zelensky-zips-over-to-washington/

Putin’s Top Propagandist Urges Russians to Embrace Death: Vladimir Solovyov’s bizarre tirade comes amid fears of a new military call-up—and after Ukraine said it killed hundreds of Russian draftees left like sitting ducks.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-putin-propagandist-vladimir-solovyov-urges-russians-to-embrace-death

# Gov / Politics / US
U.S. House adjourns without electing new speaker. Kevin McCarthy can’t secure majority after 3 votes
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/u-s-house-adjourns-without-electing-new-speaker/article_3f31f6ba-8b9f-11ed-ab74-374cab653e68.html

# Media
Project Censored: Billionaire Press Domination
* Part 1: Fossil fuel subsidies, wage theft, EPA risk reports, congressional conflicts of interest, and dark, dark money: Concentration of corporate wealth and power distorts everything we see—and don’t see—in the world around us every day.
https://prospect.org/power/project-censored-part-1-billionaire-press-domination/
* Part 2: The real causes of inflation, Gates Foundation media investments, the CIA and Julian Assange, ALEC’s push to preserve its influence networks in state legislation, and surveillance advertising are the next five stories on the list.
https://prospect.org/power/project-censored-part-2-billionaire-press-domination/

# Medical / Health
Abortion pills: Under a regulatory change made by the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. retail pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens will now be allowed to offer abortion pills to patients with a prescription from a certified health provider
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fda-says-abortion-pills-can-be-sold-retail-pharmacies-new-york-times-reports-2023-01-03/

Texas now bans medical abortions after seven weeks of pregnancy: Beginning today, a new law restricts abortion-inducing medication, the most common abortion method in Texas.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/02/texas-ban-medical-abortion/

She didn’t get shoulder surgery but was billed anyway and sent to collections
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kaiser-health-news-cbs-news-investigation-grace-elizabeth-elliott/

# Nuclear
Joint nuclear exercise with South Korea not on the table, US official says: Biden denies US in talks on nuclear exercises with South Korea. S Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said Seoul and Washington were in talks on exercises involving US nuclear assets
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/3/biden-denies-us-in-talks-on-nuclear-exercises-with-south-korea

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Voices, The Peoples News

January 3, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Biden declares Arizona floods a federal disaster for Havasupai tribe: The White House has made a federal disaster declaration for the Havasupai Native American tribe that mainly lives deep inside the Grand Canyon
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/ap-northern-arizona-tribe-to-get-federal-aid-for-flood-damage/

# Chemicals
Why the government fails to limit many dangerous chemicals in the workplace: Before his shift at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Niagara Falls, N.Y., in May 2021, a worker peed in a cup. Before he clocked out, he did it again. Goodyear shipped both specimens to a lab to measure the amount of a chemical called ortho-toluidine. The results, reviewed by ProPublica, showed that the worker had enough of it in his body to put him at an increased risk for bladder cancer, and that was before his shift. After, his levels were nearly five times as high. It’s no secret that the plant’s workers are being exposed to poison. Paralyzed by industry lawsuits from decades ago, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has all but given up on trying to set a truly protective threshold for ortho-toluidine and thousands of other chemicals. The agency has only updated standards for three chemicals in the past 25 years; each took more than a decade to complete.
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/12/15/why-the-government-fails-to-limit-many-dangerous-chemicals-in-the-workplace/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
COVID-19 Omicron Variant XBB.1.5 More Dominant in US according to CDC. Is this the New Artificial SARS Virus?
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/17/dr-fauci-covid-omicron-subvariants-bq1-bq11-are-troublesome.html

Australian Doctor Injured by COVID Vaccine Slams Regulators for ‘Censoring’ Public Discussion, Calls for More Research
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/2022/12/23/australian-doctor-injured-by-covid-vaccine-slams-regulators-for-censoring-public-discussion-calls-for-more-research/

Gov. DeSantis calls for grand jury to investigate COVID-19 vaccines: DeSantis wants to determine any misconduct by vaccine makers with regards to adverse effects
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/12/13/watch-live-gov-desantis-hosts-roundtable-with-florida-surgeon-general/

U.K. Coronor Says AstraZeneca’s COVID Vaccine Caused ‘Fit and Healthy’ Young Man to Die from Blood Clot in Brain: A 27-year-old man in England developed a blood clot in the brain and died on Apr. 20, 2021, three weeks after receiving the first dose of AstraZeneca/Oxford University’s experimental viral vectored COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria (also known as AZD1222), and a U.K. coroner determined his death was causally related to the vaccination.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-63960457

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Inflation, unemployment, the housing crisis and a possible recession: Two economists forecast what’s ahead in 2023: Although many say the economic outlook for next year appears bleak, there is room for optimism.
https://theconversation.com/inflation-unemployment-the-housing-crisis-and-a-possible-recession-two-economists-forecast-whats-ahead-in-2023-195797

Global economy 2023: Why central banks face an epic battle against inflation amid political obstacles: Central banks are raising interest rates to tame inflation, but 2023 will increasingly turn a technical decision into a political challenge. Where is the global economy heading in 2023? After all the challenges of last year, it’s a question we ask with trepidation. Just as the economy was dealing with the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February ramped up inflation.
https://theconversation.com/global-economy-2023-why-central-banks-face-an-epic-battle-against-inflation-amid-political-obstacles-197088

Wells Fargo ordered to pay $3.7 billion for ‘illegal activity’ including unjust foreclosures and vehicle repossessions:
Federal regulators fined Wells Fargo a record $1.7 billion on Tuesday for “widespread mismanagement” over multiple years that harmed over 16 million consumer accounts. Wells Fargo’s “illegal activity” included repeatedly misapplying loan payments, wrongfully foreclosing on homes, illegally repossessing vehicles, incorrectly assessing fees and interest and charging surprise overdraft fees. “Wells Fargo’s rinse-repeat cycle of violating the law has harmed millions of American families.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/investing/wells-fargo-cfpb-foreclosure-fine/index.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
The Scorched-Earth Legal Strategy Corporations Are Using to Silence Their Critics: Drummond’s charges represent a scorched-earth legal strategy in which corporations are turning the tables on attorneys and advocates who accuse them of wrongdoing. By shifting the spotlight to these attorneys’ conduct, corporations effectively sidestepped the original allegations against them. The true purpose is to send attorneys and activists a message: Going toe-to-toe with heavyweight corporations can lead to personal ruin.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/16/corporate-rico-environmental-advocate/

Gas prices to remain high in 2023, projected to peak at $4.12 a gallon in June: The past year saw extremes in the U.S. prices of gas at the pump. Gas prices averaged $5.03 per gallon in June 2022, the highest ever, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But by December, gas had dropped to $3.32 a gallon.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/gas-prices-to-remain-high-in-2023-projected-to-peak-at-4-12-a-gallon/article_243fc1f4-8ad5-11ed-b7f4-cf73df80595b.html

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast: The White House has set into motion a five-year outline for research into “climate interventions”. Those include methods such as sending a phalanx of planes to spray reflective particles into the upper reaches of the atmosphere, in order to block incoming sunlight from adding to rising temperatures.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/25/can-controversial-geoengineering-fix-climate-crisis

# General Information / Other News
The Soleimani Assassination: The virtual worship of Donald Trump on the part of many American nationalists, America-First standard bearers, and professing Christians in the United States has always amazed me, given The Donald’s overt allegiance to the Zionist State and the Israeli Lobby in thought, word, and deed.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/01/02/the-soleimani-assassination/?mc_cid=627a717918&mc_eid=3f7488d454

The Soleimani Assassination Was Supposed to Weaken Iraqi Militias. Instead, They’re Flexing Their Muscles.
As U.S. troops fend off attacks by Iran-backed militias, American and Iraqi officials worry that the groups’ growing power is destabilizing Iraq.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/04/iraq-militia-drone-strike-soleimani-baghdad-mohandis-501602

“Brazen” Fraud: David Cay Johnston on How Trump’s Tax Returns Show He Fleeced U.S. & Enriched Himself: The new documents show “absolutely brazen” tax fraud. “Donald Trump has been a criminal his whole life,” says Johnston.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/3/trump_taxes_david_cay_johnston

# Gov / Politics / Global
China’s new foreign minister seeks better US ties: New Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang sought better Sino-U.S. ties in a phone conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on New Year’s Day
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/new-china-foreign-minister-seeks-better-us-ties-call-blinken

# Gov / Politics / US
What the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Know About China: 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. The Pentagon reports that China may challenge the US in the international arena. It is true that China is taking the lead internationally in economic development, in technological innovation, and in fighting climate change.  In contrast, the United States asserts its global dominance through direct or proxy war, occupation, crippling sanctions, and regime-changing coups.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/23/5-things-the-pentagon-isnt-telling-us-about-the-chinese-military/

New Texas State laws: Although the 2023 legislative session is not yet underway, a number of laws from Texas’ 2021 legislative sessions have gone into effect in the new year
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/02/new-texas-laws-2023/

Just over 1 in 4 members of Congress in 2023 will be women – at this rate, it will take 118 years until there is gender parity: In order for women to gain half of the seats in Congress, more women need to run, especially on Republican tickets
https://theconversation.com/just-over-1-in-4-members-of-congress-in-2023-will-be-women-at-this-rate-it-will-take-118-years-until-there-is-gender-parity-195504

Kevin McCarthy Can’t Stop Losing House Speakership Votes: The vote over who will take up the gavel has turned into a five-alarm dumpster fire with the House Freedom Caucus stonewalling the rest of the party
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/done-kevin-mccarthy-speakership-battle-154822410.html

George Santos’ First Day in Congress Is Off to a Rocky Start: The New York Republican who made up large swaths of his backstory is set to be sworn into the House of Representatives on Tuesday
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/george-santos-rocky-first-day-congress-1234655332/

# Legal / DOJ
Jan. 6 panel closes down after referring Trump for crimes: The House Jan. 6 committee shuts down Tuesday, when the new Republican-led House is sworn in, having completed a whirlwind 18-month investigation of the 2021 Capitol insurrection.
https://news.wttw.com/2023/01/03/jan-6-panel-shutting-down-after-referring-trump-crimes

# Medical / Health
FDA wants doctors to better inform patients of possible LASIK complications, including “psychological harm.” LASIK is the most common ophthalmologic surgical procedure in the US. Years after the FDA declared it a safe option to improve vision, the organization is reconsidering what information on long-term side effects should be given to patients.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/fjollaarifi/fda-lasik-risk-psychological-harm

15 Million Americans Set to Lose Medical Coverage as Public Health Emergency Ends: America is facing a health crisis and it isn’t made up of bacteria or viruses, instead, it’s an impending medical insurance meltdown. There is an expectation that as of Jan. 11, 2023, an estimated 15 million Americans will begin to lose health coverage
https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/15-million-people-may-lose-medicaid-coverage-after-covid-19-phe-ends-says-hhs

# Military / DOD
Proposal to use Montana’s Limestone Hills for aerial gunnery practice raises questions: The Montana Army National Guard has requested the FAA establish a joint-use restricted area airspace to authorize helicopter aerial gunnery training for “multiple” Department of Defense service branches.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2023-01-02/montana-army-air-force-training-8618213.html

# Military / Global
South Korea asks US for greater role in managing nuclear weapons: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said his government is in talks with the U.S. on taking a more active role in managing nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-united-states-government-south-korea-a32718713839355b1df94e871df7c312

# Nuclear
In the Pacific, outcry over Japan’s plan to release Fukushima wastewater: The proposal has angered many of Japan’s neighbors, particularly those with the most direct experience of unexpected exposure to dangerous of radiation.
https://slashdot.org/story/22/12/30/1148245/in-the-pacific-outcry-over-japans-plan-to-release-fukushima-wastewater

# Veterans / VA
Stars and Stripes photo reunites Marine with doctor who saved his life in Vietnam: An iconic 1968 photo taken by Stars and Stripes photographer John Olson of a wounded Marine helped turn U.S. public opinion against the Vietnam War. It also sparked an unlikely reunion 54 years later.
https://www.stripes.com/history/2023-01-02/marine-doctor-photo-vietnam-reunited-8618889.html

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
‘Shameful and Heartbreaking’: Largest Wolf Cull in Modern History Underway in Sweden: “It’s disastrous for the entire ecosystem,” warned one activist. “The existence of wolves contributes to a richer animal and plant life. Human survival depends on healthy ecosystems.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sweden-wolves

# Children / Youth
Arizona Governor-Elect Taps Critic of Racism in Child Welfare to Lead CPS Agency: A report found that 1 in 3 Black children in Phoenix had endured a DCS investigation over one five-year period. Matthew Stewart will become the first Black leader of the Department of Child Safety, which ProPublica and NBC News found had investigated the families of 1 in 3 Black children in metro Phoenix during a recent five-year period.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-matthew-stewart-child-safety-hobbs

# Chemicals / Drugs
Bill Gates: “COVID Vaccines Are The Final Solution.” ADL: “That’s Anti-Semitic!”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/31/bill-gates-final-solution/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
After Repeated Interest Rate Hikes, IMF Warns a Third of World Will Suffer Recession in 2023: With the world’s three largest economies slowing down, said the IMF managing director, economic conditions will “feel like recession for hundreds of millions of people” this year.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/global-recession

# Employment / Labor
‘Union-Busting on Day 1’: House GOP Aims to Stop Congressional Staff From Organizing: “We’re going not to stop in the 118th Congress,” said the Congressional Workers Union. “When we fight, we win, and we’re ready to take on any anti-worker battles that may come our way.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/union-busting-on-day-1-house-gop-aims-to-stop-congressional-staff-from-organizing

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Colorado Law Could Force Boulder to Sell Oil and Gas to a Private Company: State regulators could order Boulder County to sell its gas rights without the consent of voters or property owners.
https://truthout.org/articles/when-it-comes-to-greed-and-tax-dodging-sanders-points-out-trump-is-not-alone/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
It might bug you, but University of Manitoba’s insect collection is key to understanding the world: ‘These biodiversity collections are effectively a time machine,’ Jeremy Kerr says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bugs-insects-collection-climate-change-entomology-university-manitoba-1.6684008

Lake Mead’s receding waters revealed long-lost bodies. But who are they? The remains have caused a public stir, but authorities say the falling water level due to the climate crisis is the real scandal.
https://earthsky.org/earth/lake-mead-shrinking-reveals-bodies-boats/

How agriculture hastens species extinction: Scientists believe humans are now causing a mass extinction of plants and animals. Modern agriculture is a major contributor.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/agriculture-mass-extinction-60-minutes-2023-01-01/

# Environment / Climate / Global
Beavers are moving north because of climate change and overhunting, as Nunavik communities deal with the consequences and look for ways forward.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/beavers-expanding-north-bring-damning-consequences-for-inuit-and-wildlife-1.6694226

Happisburgh: The Norfolk village crumbling into the sea: A nurse says she is heartbroken that nothing can be done to save her house from coastal erosion. During the last 20 years, 34 homes have crumbled into the water in Happisburgh because of coastal erosion.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-63822899

Agroindustry Lobby Is Using the Ukraine War to Push Unsustainable Farming Policy: Warfare killed pollinators and threatened food security in World War II. It’s happening again in Ukraine.
https://truthout.org/articles/agroindustry-lobby-is-using-the-ukraine-war-to-push-unsustainable-farming-policy/

# General Information / Other News
New York approves composting of human bodies: State becomes sixth to pass legislation since 2019 and gives New Yorkers access to an alternative, green method of burial: The legislative move makes the state the sixth to do so since 2019 and gives New Yorkers access to an alternative, green method of burial deemed environmentally friendly.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/01/new-york-governor-legalizes-human-composting-after-death

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin, unaccustomed to losing, is increasingly isolated as war falters: With the Russian president refusing to back down in Ukraine, Russia’s elite is split between those who want the war to end and those supporting further escalation.
https://ground.news/article/putin-unaccustomed-to-losing-is-increasingly-isolated-as-war-falters

How 46 Toddlers Were Disappeared by Putin in One Fell Swoop: Interviews with employees at a Ukrainian children’s home, along with photo and video evidence, paint a disturbing picture of a mass abduction by Russian authorities.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-46-ukraine-toddlers-were-disappeared-by-putin-in-one-fell-swoop

# Gov / Politics / US
President Biden signs $1.7 trillion bill funding government operations: President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the federal government operating through the end of the federal budget year in September 2023, and provide tens of billions of dollars in new aid to Ukraine for its fight against the Russian military.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2022/12/30/president_biden_signs_17_trillion_bill_funding_government_operations_873023.html

Biden pardons 6 convicted of murder, drug, alcohol crimes: The pardons, announced Friday, mean the criminal record of the crimes is now purged. They come a few months after the Democratic president pardoned thousands of people convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana under federal law. He also pardoned three people earlier this year and has commuted the sentences of 75 others.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/30/biden-pardons-convictions-00075877

When It Comes to Greed and Tax Dodging, Sanders Points Out “Trump is Not Alone”: Sen. Sanders called out seven major companies that also payed no federal income taxes in 2020.
https://truthout.org/articles/when-it-comes-to-greed-and-tax-dodging-sanders-points-out-trump-is-not-alone/

DoJ is concealing documents that lay bare Hunter and Jim Biden’s payoffs with China and Russia
https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1324133/pg1

Impeaching Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, for abuse of power by enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following article of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117hres57ih/html/BILLS-117hres57ih.htm

Marjorie Taylor Greene Reveals Details of Investigation Into Joe Biden: Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has shared details of the new rules that will govern the House of Representatives when Republicans take charge on Tuesday.
The proposed rules, which will have to be passed on January 3, include a resolution to create a subcommittee to probe “the Weaponization of the Federal Government” under President Joe Biden’s administration.
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-reveals-details-investigation-joe-biden-1770674?utm_source=Flipboard&utm_medium=App&utm_campaign=Partnerships

Progressive Democrats Announce Nationwide Democracy Rallies for Jan. 6 Anniversary: “We cannot be complacent; we are calling for an end to the ongoing violent and criminal attacks on our freedoms.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressive-democrats-of-america

‘This Must Be Stopped’: House Republicans Plan to Gut Ethics Office:  After public denunciations from watchdogs and criticism from President-elect Donald Trump, House Republicans on Tuesday reversed course and dropped plans to gut an independent agency that polices potential ethical wrongdoing by lawmakers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2017/01/03/trump-slams-house-move-ethics-watchdog/96103514/

# Legal / DOJ
Highest-profile January 6 trial begins with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio: Chairman of militia group and four others are charged with seditious conspiracy related to Capitol  insurrection. Seating jury of DC residents presents a challenge in Proud Boys trial: Many D.C. residents have strong, negative views of the far-right group.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/25/january-6-proud-boys-trial-begins-enrique-tarrio

Judges Keeping Capitol Riot Trials in DC Amid Bias Claims: More Capitol riot defendants are pushing to get their trials moved out of Washington, D.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-07-06/judges-keeping-capitol-riot-trials-in-dc-amid-bias-claims

Exposé Reveals Lobbyists Bought Access to Supreme Court Justices With Donations: The Supreme Court Historical Society has raked in millions from corporations and lobbyists with cases before the court.
https://truthout.org/articles/when-it-comes-to-greed-and-tax-dodging-sanders-points-out-trump-is-not-alone/

# Military / Global
NATO rapid-response force leadership passes to Germany  in wake of armor failures: The German army is about to take the lead of the NATO quick reaction force, shortly after reports of armored vehicle failures that raised concerns about its contributions to the military alliance.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_210076.htm

North Korea’s leader orders ‘exponential’ expansion of nuke arsenal: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s moves suggest he will continue his provocative run of weapons tests this year despite U.S.-led pressure campaigns to curb his nuclear ambition.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/01/north-koreas-kim-orders-exponential-expansion-of-nuke-arsenal-00075992

# Science
The Astonishing Way COVID Could Actually Help Us Cure Cancer: A momentous breakthrough in the fight against cancer may be on the horizon and the pandemic nightmare helped scientists get there.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/astonishing-way-covid-could-actually-023926697.html

# Water
Biden WOTUS rule revives decades-old protections: EPA heralded the rule as rooted in, but improving upon, Reagan-era Clean Water Act regulations.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2022/12/30/biden-wotus-rule-revives-decades-old-protections-00075840

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December 31, 2022
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
To Save the Vaquita Porpoise, Conservationists Entreat Mexico to Keep Gillnets Out of the Northern Gulf of California: The country must enforce its ban on gillnet fishing in the area to save the world’s most endangered marine mammal, experts warn. Only around 10 of the porpoises are thought to remain.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30122022/vaquita-porpoise-gillnets-mexico/

# Archaeology
A Groundbreaking Geological Discovery in the Grand Canyon: When one goes to the Grand Canyon, the first impression typically involves how big the geological formation is. The last thing anyone is looking for tends to be a big boulder. The Canyon itself is far more demanding of a visitor’s attention. However, in one particular case, a very massive boulder stood out like an immediate sore thumb.
https://www.historyallday.com/a-groundbreaking-geological-discovery-in-the-grand-canyon/?utm_source=facebook&utm_content=feed&utm_campaign=VV_FB_US_HAD_ALL_LC_GrandCanyon_V1_UV8_1229_ui&utm_term=23852483608670007&utm_medium=23852483605370007

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
An mRNA vaccine strategy under study to fight the flu as a shot and intranasal spray: Messenger RNA vaccine technology, once an arcane area of research, became household terminology because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now scientists are working on an mRNA flu vaccine strategy that, at least in this study, involves a first dose administered as a shot but a booster administered as an mRNA nasal spray.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-mrna-vaccine-strategy-fluas-shot.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Autopsies show COVID-19 virus in brain, elsewhere in body: An analysis of tissue samples from the autopsies of 44 people who died with COVID-19 shows that SAR-CoV-2 virus spread throughout the body, including into the brain, and that it lingered for almost eight months. The study was published in Nature.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-autopsies-covid-virus-brain-body.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

Millions of Americans gained Medicaid coverage during the pandemic. Starting next year, millions are likely to lose it: The mammoth spending bill passed by Congress would allow states to kick some people off Medicaid starting in April. Millions would become uninsured, according to estimates from the administration and several health care nonprofits.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/millions-of-americans-to-lose-medicaid-coverage-next-year/ar-AA15Gahj?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=0e8882ab12b54e74b511430b8422121e

# Gov / Politics / Global
Tucker ‘Gets It’ – Putin Doesn’t Want American Missiles on His Border: Ukraine’s non-membership in NATO is largely “a fiction.” “Getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia. We didn’t get it at the time. (But) Now it’s obvious. Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine because he didn’t want Ukraine to join NATO. Putin certainly had other motives as well; people always do, but that’s the main reason Russia invaded. The Russians don’t want American missiles on their border. They don’t want a hostile government next door. Now that is true, whether you are allowed to say it aloud in public or not.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/tucker-gets-it-putin-doesnt-want-american-missiles-on-his-border/5803324

US, Israel Vote No as UN Approves World Court Resolution on Illegal Occupation: “The time has come for Israel to be a state subject to law,” said a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, “and to be held accountable for its ongoing crimes against our people.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/31/un-seeks-icj-opinion-on-israels-illegal-occupation-of-palestine

# Gov / Politics / US
On Greed and Tax Avoidance, Says Bernie Sanders, ‘Trump Is Not Alone’: “Yes. Dr. King was right,” says the U.S. Senator from Vermont. “We have socialism for the rich, rugged capitalism for the rest.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tax-returns-2659052893

# Legal / DOJ
‘Why Are These Conflicts Allowed?’ Corporate Giving to Group Tied to Supreme Court Sparks Concern
“You want to ‘preserve #SCOTUS history’?'” said one watchdog group. “Hire a curatorial staff. Don’t run a pay-for-play.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/why-are-these-conflicts-allowed-corporate-giving-to-group-tied-to-supreme-court-sparks-concern

‘Final nail in his coffin’: Trump’s taxes contain ‘powerful evidence of criminal tax evasion’: In a column for the Daily Beast, longtime investigative journalist and Donald Trump biographer made the case that there is enough evidence of financial fraud in the former president’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020 to indict and prosecute him.
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/12/final-nail-in-his-coffin-trumps-taxes-contain-powerful-evidence-of-criminal-tax-evasion/

# Medical Science
16,000 Nurses Say They Are Ready to Strike Across New York City: “We are truly struggling,” said one member of the union which says frontlines caregivers are at a breaking point while patient safety is at risk.
https://abc7ny.com/nyc-nurses-strike-new-york-state-association/12632155/

# Pharmas / Drugs
Pharma Giants to Hike 350+ US Drug Prices in the New Year: Analysis
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-prices-oxycontin-predaxa-purdue-pharmaceuticals-boehringer-ingelheim/

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December 30, 2022
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# Bundy Rides Again
Ammon Bundy Threatens ‘Shotgun’ Standoff Over Hospital Suit: He’s being sued for a harassment campaign on a hospital. If he loses, he says he’s not paying up. Six years after his last armed standoff with law enforcement, far-right leader Ammon Bundy appears to be threatening another armed action—this time over a lawsuit from an Idaho hospital he’s accused of harassing.“They’re suing me for defamation. They’re probably going to try to get judgments of over a million dollars and take everything they have from me,” Bundy told the conservative Idaho Dispatch in a livestream video this week.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217506797

# Employment / Labor
Wage Theft: US Businesses Suffer Few Consequences for Stealing Millions from Workers Every Year: Thousands of US companies illegally underpay workers yet are seldom punished for doing so. An Economic Policy Institute study from 2017 found that just one form of wage theft, minimum wage violations, costs US workers an estimated $15 billion annually and impacts an estimated 17 percent of low-wage workers. The Department of Labor cited more than 8,500 employers for stealing approximately $287 million from workers.
https://www.projectcensored.org/2-wage-theft-us-businesses-suffer-few-consequences-for-stealing-millions-from-workers-every-year/

Musk Fired Twitter’s Janitors Leaving Offices a Smelly Mess: Twitter has stopped paying rent on its Seattle office, and cut its janitorial and security services at several locations. Employees don’t seem to be enjoying the results. Some of Twitter’s remaining employees have reportedly begun bringing their own toilet paper to the office as Elon Musk implements sweeping cost-cutting measures at the company.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/30/twitter-employees-using-own-toilet-paper-offices-stink-after-musk-cut-janitors-report/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
At Least 128 Members of Congress Invested in Fossil Fuel Industry: A series of Sludge articles written by David Moore in November and December of 2021 reported that at least 100 US Representatives and twenty-eight US Senators have financial interests in the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.projectcensored.org/4-at-least-128-members-of-congress-invested-in-fossil-fuel-industry/

Fossil Fuel Industry Subsidized at Rate of $11 Million per Minute: A comprehensive study of 191 nations, published by the International Monetary Fund in September 2021, found that globally the fossil fuel industry receives subsidies of $11 million per minute. Fossil fuel companies received $5.9 trillion in subsidies in 2020, with support projected to rise to $6.4 trillion by 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/06/fossil-fuel-industry-subsidies-of-11m-dollars-a-minute-imf-finds

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Corporate Consolidation Causing Record Inflation in Food Prices: A handful of ‘food giants’, including Kraft Heinz, General Mills, Conagra, Unilever, and Del Monte, control an average of 64 percent of sales of sixty-one popular grocery items. The nation has “roughly one-third fewer grocery stores today than we did 25 years ago.”
https://www.projectcensored.org/6-corporate-consolidation-causing-record-inflation-in-food-prices/

# General Information / Other News
Assange’s Father John Shipton & Lee Camp: Saving Julian! Julian Assange’s father John Shipton joins Lee Camp to discuss his son’s condition, from his incarceration in London to the prospect of being extradited into the custody of the government he exposed and its Intelligence officers, who had planned to assassinate him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuOtyikYRfs

Right-Wing Influencer Arrested on Human Trafficking Charges After Online Spat With Greta Thunberg: “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes,” Thunberg quipped. Tate and Thunberg’s interactions began after Tate addressed her on Twitter  regarding his ’33 cars’ and asked her to provide an email address “so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions.” “Email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com,” replied Thunberg.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/andrew-tate

# Legal / DOJ
Leader of Neo-Nazi Group Sentenced for Plot to Target Journalists and Advocates: A Washington man was sentenced today to 84 months, or seven years, in prison for his role in a plot to threaten and intimidate journalists and advocates who worked to expose anti-Semitism. Kaleb Cole, 25, a leader of the Neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, was convicted by a federal jury in the Western District of Washington
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-neo-nazi-group-sentenced-plot-target-journalists-and-advocates

# Medical / Health
Doctors Seek to Bar Corporate Control of Health Practices: Advocates want to enforce statutes banning ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by physicians. A group of emergency physicians and consumer advocates in multiple states are pushing for stiffer enforcement of decades-old statutes that prohibit the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors.
https://undark.org/2022/12/29/doctors-seek-to-bar-corporate-control-of-health-practices/

# Pharmas / Drugs
Big Pharma’s Takeover of Modern Medicine Created a ‘Pandemic of Misinformed Doctors’:  The everyday poor health of Americans and the inability of our healthcare system to mitigate preventable deaths amounts to a crisis that dwarfs even the COVID-19 pandemic. This raises a key question: Why have so many smart, well-trained doctors stood by as American healthcare descended into a state of profound dysfunction? The answer lies in the gradual, nearly invisible commercial takeover of the medical “knowledge” that doctors are trained to trust.
https://time.com/6171999/big-pharma-clinical-data-doctors/

Big Pharma and GOP allies aim to sabotage Medicare drug price reforms: “Patients fought hard for the reforms in the Inflation Reduction Act, and we won’t let Big Pharma and its allies’ fearmongering scare us.” “All the contributions they make and all their lobbying money gives them a lot of power,” Democratic Rep. Peter Welch said of the pharmaceutical industry.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-pharma-gop-drug-prices

# Security
Former Neo-Nazi Leader Now Holds DOJ Domestic Counterterrorism Position: Brian P. Haughton, a former member of multiple racist skinhead bands and a past leader in the neo-Nazi movement, had connections to members of the Aryan Republican Army, a neo-Nazi gang that robbed twenty-two Midwest banks in the mid-1990s. He now holds an important counterterrorism position in the Department of Justice as a law enforcement coordinator for domestic counterterrorism in the Middle Atlantic Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network of the Department of Justice’s Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS)
https://www.projectcensored.org/former-neo-nazi-leader-now-holds-doj-domestic-counterterrorism-position/

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Earth’s Orbit Is About to Get More Crowded: The military is launching a fleet of small, interconnected satellites to collect data, track missiles, and aim weapons. The satellites will be part of a future herd of hundreds that, according to the Space Development Agency, or SDA, will bolster the United States’ defense capabilities. It will need to contend with many challenges: crowded orbits, potential collisions, and a sky already filled with electromagnetic emission
https://undark.org/2022/12/26/earths-orbit-is-about-to-get-more-crowded/

No human being has yet set foot on Mars, but something has preceded us: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover announced on its Twitter account Wednesday that it had encountered a piece of human-generated litter on the Red Planet. “My team has spotted something unexpected: It’s a piece of a thermal blanket that they think may have come from my descent stage, the rocket-powered jet pack that set me down on landing day back in 2021,” the rover tweeted. Perseverance first landed on Mars in February, 2021. Since then, it has been scouring the planet’s Jezero Crater for any evidence of life, Insider reported. Instead, it’s found evidence of the life that sent it there.
https://www.ecowatch.com/human-trash-discovered-mars.html

# Water
Months after Ian, many private water wells at homes in east Manatee are still contaminated
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/manatee/2022/12/29/manatee-county-water-wells-still-contaminated-months-after-hurricane-ian/69747087007/

In ‘Major Step Forward,’ Biden EPA Restores Water Protections Rolled Back by Trump: The EPA’s new rule “officially cleans up the Trump administration’s Dirty Water Rule,” said one conservation group, “which wiped out federal protections for thousands of waterways and nearly half of all wetlands.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/epa-water

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December 29, 2022
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Biden Administration Plans to Expand Title 42 to Expel Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians: The new rules will model the policy used for Venezuelan asylum seekers, which advocates have denounced as inhumane. According to Reuters, officials say that the administration is planning to implement new rules for the asylum seekers under Title 42, modeling the guidelines on the administration’s expansion of the policy for Venezuelans.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-admin-plans-to-expand-title-42-to-expel-cubans-nicaraguans-and-haitians/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Guaranteed income programs should replace, not supplement, other welfare subsidies: The concern among many participants in guaranteed income programs is that the new revenue could cancel out other social subsidy programs, such as food stamps. But many economists say the best way for guaranteed income programs to work is if they consolidate all government aid programs, creating one subsidy with less bureaucracy and thereby reducing administrative expenses paid for by taxpayers.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/economists-guaranteed-income-programs-should-replace-not-supplement-other-welfare-subsidies/article_2414ade0-86c3-11ed-a52b-531b3529a3aa.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
Stamps to increase in price starting Jan. 22: The increase and decrease in prices are expected to take effect Jan. 22, prices for standard 1-oz. letters will increase from 60 cents to 63 cents, domestic postcards will increase from 44 cents to 48 cents and international postcards and letters will both increase by 5 cents to $1.45.
https://www.fp-usa.com/usps-rate-change-planned-for-january-22-2023

# Education / Schools
Progressives Must Not Concede School Board Elections to the Right: Austin school board victories show how progressive organizing can beat anti-LGBTQ candidates.
https://truthout.org/articles/progressives-must-not-concede-school-board-elections-to-the-right/

# Employment / Labor
Union Organizing Surged in 2022: Let’s Push for a Radical Labor Movement in 2023: More workers are forming independent unions, untethered from the AFL-CIO and other established labor groups.
https://truthout.org/articles/union-organizing-surged-in-2022-lets-push-for-a-radical-labor-movement-in-2023/

Before COB on the first workday of 2023, CEOs will make more than the average annual pay for all US workers:
Less than seven hours the first workday of the New Year, a typical CEO will have made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year. A look at wider disparities for various types of essential workers, calculations based on average S&P 500 CEO pay of $18.3 million in 2021 (most recent figure available), works out to $8,798 per hour, or $147 per minute.
https://inequality.org/great-divide/ceo-pay-hours-comparison-other-occupations/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
A 3M plant in Illinois was the country’s worst emitter of a climate-killing ‘immortal’ chemical in 2021: The 566-acre facility on the east bank of the Mississippi River, which also makes resins and fluorochemicals, released 73 tons of perfluoromethane (CF4) into the air in 2021, more than any other facility in the country, according to data the company reported to the Environmental Protection Agency.
https://www.kwqc.com/2022/04/05/illinois-ig-suing-3m-over-forever-chemicals/

# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
These Easy Tricks Will Make Anyone An Expert In The Kitchen: For some of us, cooking can be a daunting task, either because your pancakes don’t come out fully round or because you don’t want to wait for something to cook thoroughly to eat it. 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
Girl Sold into Slavery After Facebook Did Nothing for 24Hrs: The Daily Beast tracked down a teen girl who was sold into sex slavery via a Facebook account, even though the Silicon Valley giant was warned about the ad showing her picture.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/teen-sold-into-sex-slavery-after-facebook-did-nothing-for-24-hours

Southwest Owes Passengers Refunds. This Is What They’ve Been Doing Instead: Between Dec. 23 and Dec. 27, Southwest Airlines canceled nearly 10,000 flights, more than 50 percent of its schedule, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking company. Southwest has apologized, blaming its “operational challenges” on the way severe weather intersected with its scheduling tool.
https://slate.com/business/2022/12/southwest-canceled-flights-refunds-department-of-transportation-rules.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
Israel Swears In Far-Right Government That Pledges to Expand Illegal Settlements: Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel’s prime minister on Thursday in a comeback at the head of a hard-right cabinet that promises to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and pursue other policies criticised at home and abroad.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-swears-in-netanyahu-as-prime-minister-most-right-wing-government-in-countrys-history

Taliban bans women from higher education in Afghanistan: This ban “takes Afghanistan back to the Taliban’s first period of rule when girls could not receive formal education.” Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women, the ministry of higher education said in a letter issued to all government and private universities.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/taliban-ban-afghan-women-university-education

Second Russian Defense Sector Bigwig Dies in Two Days: The former army general previously commanded Russia’s ground troops, and died just two days after Vladimir Putin abruptly canceled a planned visit.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2872711744515/second-russian-defense-sector-bigwig-dies-in-two-days

# Gov / Politics / US
Dems Must Ask, ‘How the Hell Did We Lose to George Santos’?: Republicans nominated a complete fraud, and the media failed to vet him. But we couldn’t beat him.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-must-ask-how-the-hell-did-we-lose-to-george-santos

# Law Enforcement
FBI Cointelpro is Back and Worse Than Ever: James Bovard: Americans would be damn fools to believe their constitutional rights are safe.  The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the FBI disapproved, including parody accounts.  The FBI and other federal agencies also browbeat Facebook, Instagram, and many other tech companies.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/29/fbi-cointelpro-is-back-and-worse-than-ever/

# Legal / DOJ
In Child Welfare Cases, Most of Your Constitutional Rights Don’t Apply: the mostly low-income families who are ensnared in this vast system have few of the rights that protect Americans when it is police who are investigating them, according to dozens of interviews with constitutional lawyers, defense attorneys, family court judges, CPS caseworkers and parents.
https://www.propublica.org/article/some-constitutional-rights-dont-apply-in-child-welfare

Federal prosecutors are investigating Rep.-elect George Santos’ finances: Santos told Semafor on Wednesday that he made his money through “capital introduction” and “deal making” for “high net worth individuals.” The US attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York declined to comment.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/28/politics/george-santos-investigating-federal-nassau-county/index.html

New York Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Representative-Elect George Santos: The investigation comes as top Republicans have remained silent about his numerous lies.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1145950468/n-y-rep-elect-george-santos-is-being-investigated-for-lying-about-his-past

George Santos’ Massive Campaign Loans May Not Be Legal: Rep. elect George Santos managed to loan his campaign $700,000. How he did that has been a bit of a mystery. But it also may have been illegal.
https://archive.vn/oqaek

George Santos’ List of Dubious Claims Is STILL Growing: From being half-Black to attending an elite New York City private school, a slew of new claims were being picked apart Thursday.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3791375-list-of-george-santos-falsehoods-continues-to-grow-amid-apology-tour/

Trump Lawyer Celebrates Beating Jan. 6 Committee: ‘Waved the White Flag’: One of Donald Trump’s lawyers reacted with glee after the January 6 House Select Committee withdrew its subpoena for the former president.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-subpoena-jan6-withdrawn-harmeet-dhillon-1770065

# LGBTQ
# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
New York’s First Legal Weed Store Opens Today. The state’s plan prioritizes restorative justice.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/12/new-york-legal-weed-starts-today.html

# Medical / Health
TennCare costs will increase as emergency COVID waiver ends: Throughout the federal COVID-19 emergency, Tennessee’s Medicaid service TennCare and programs like it across the country have been barred from removing those who initially qualified for services. Medicaid program will need to recertify eligibility for all recipients as federal matching dollars end
https://www.thecentersquare.com/tennessee/tenncare-costs-will-increase-as-emergency-covid-waiver-ends/article_129b9952-8619-11ed-b332-af9443cfc696.html

Insulin costs will be capped in 2023, but most people with diabetes won’t benefit: Under the bill, a Part D beneficiary’s cost-sharing would be no more than $35 for a 30-day supply of insulin.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/house-passes-bill-cap-insulin-copays-35-month-medicare-private-plans

# Military / Global
Russia intensifies artillery attacks on Ukraine’s liberated Kherson: Russia fired 33 missiles from multiple rocket launchers at civilian targets in Kherson in the 24 hours leading to Wednesday, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in a daily bulletin. Russia, however, denied targeting civilians
https://www.firstpost.com/world/russia-intensifies-artillery-attacks-on-ukraines-liberated-kherson-11889311.html

China Warns Taiwan over Military Expansion; U.S. Approves Sale of Anti-Tank Mines to Taiwan: Taiwan says the sale will boost the island’s capacity for ‘asymmetric warfare’ amid escalating tensions with China.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/29/us-approves-sale-of-180mn-anti-tank-systems-to-taiwan

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December 28, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Salmon People: A Native Fishing Family’s Fight to Preserve a Way of Life. This documentary film features the plight of the salmon of the Columbia River and the Native people whose lives revolve around them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/salmon-people-a-native-fishing-familys-fight-to-preserve-a-way-of-life

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.abqjournal.com/2559961/nm-native-students-are-most-expelled.html

# Indigenous / Global
Leaders from an Oji-Cree First Nation in Treaty 9 in Ontario say they want the Canadian government to take action to properly compensate all their community members enduring a long-term boil-water advisory, after learning most of them won’t be eligible for a class action settlement. Canada’s Federal Court and Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench jointly approved an $8-billion settlement for First Nations living under drinking-water advisories lasting longer than one year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wunnumin-lake-drinking-water-settlement-1.6697066

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
‘Disastrous’: SCOTUS upholds Title 42 migrant policy during court fight: “As a Covid control strategy, a humanitarian policy, and a border policy, Title 42 has not only failed but caused irreparable harm on a massive scale.” “Title 42 was unnecessary when it was first used and it continues to be wrong. It must end,” said one rights advocate. “This country is at its best when it welcomes people seeking asylum with dignity and compassion.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/title-42

# 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?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
3 Social Security Changes Joe Biden Wants That Republicans Support, Too: The PPC survey found that 59% of Democrats and 55% of Republicans supported replacing the CPI-W with the CPI-E.
*1. Increase the payroll tax cap: Social Security is on track to become insolvent by 2035. The problem is that more money is being spent on benefits than is being received in taxes.
*2. Raise the minimum benefit: Biden also would like to “implement a true minimum benefit” for retirees who receive Social Security.
*3. Change how COLAs are calculated
The big story for Social Security this year has been the huge cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) announced for 2023. However, there’s been criticism for quite a while that the way COLAs are calculated doesn’t truly reflect the costs that seniors pay.
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2022/12/25/3-social-security-changes-joe-biden-wants-that-rep/

2 Ways a New Law Expands Medicare Coverage: On Dec. 23, Congress passed a $1.7 trillion package that keeps the federal government from shutting down while also handing out legislative goodies for the holidays. These include, among other things, revisions to retirement law through the Secure 2.0 Act and to Medicare coverage through the Mental Health Access Improvement Act.
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/2-ways-a-new-law-expands-medicare-coverage/

# Education / Schools
The most recent efforts to combat teacher shortages don’t address the real problems: Looser requirements for teacher certification don’t fix teachers’ problems, which are low pay, high workload and lack of respect.
https://www.penncapital-star.com/commentary/the-most-recent-efforts-to-combat-teacher-shortages-dont-address-the-real-problems-opinion/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Putin bans all Oil Sales to ‘Price Cap’ States: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order on Tuesday, December 27, banning the sale of oil and oil products to foreign companies and individuals abiding by the price cap imposed by the Westrn nations.
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/putin-bans-oil-sales-to-countries-abiding-by-the-price-cap/

# Environment / Climate / Global
The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees: Adama Diémé was motivated after seeing once-verdant villages in Senegal without a single tree.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64022938

# General Information / Other News
The Montreal Convention and international passenger rights: International airline passengers are protected under the Montreal Convention, and unfortunately, many people are unaware this treaty exists.
https://www.slackdavis.com/blog/the-montreal-convention-and-international-passenger-rights/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian Lawmaker Who Slammed Putin’s War Dies in Window Fall: Two days before Pavel Antov fell out a window, a Russian businessman he was traveling with was also found dead, according to local reports. Russian entrepreneur and local lawmaker Pavel Antov, who criticized the Kremlin’s assault on Ukraine on one brief occasion,  was found dead on Christmas Eve during a holiday in India, with authorities reportedly saying he fell from his hotel window. A friend of Antov named Vladimir Budanov died in the same hotel just days earlier.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pavel-antov-vladimir-putin-dies-after-reported-fall-from-hotel-window/

# Gov / Politics / US
Shadow Diplomats Have Posed a Threat for Decades. The World’s Governments Looked the Other Way: The U.S. State Department trusts foreign governments to nominate reputable honorary consuls, despite global accounts of wrongdoing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/honorary-consuls-shadow-diplomatic-immunity-governments

Right-Wing Extremists Will Hate This New Government Spending: The omnibus bill included new spending for two programs that conservatives are sure to hate. In one of their final moves before they relinquish control of the U.S. House, Democratic lawmakers made sure to do something Republicans almost certainly never would: significantly expand the federal government’s resources to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters and counter domestic extremism.
https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/wing-extremists-hate-government-spending-092943191.html

# Legal / DOJ
They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars: Tracing the fallacy of 911 call analysis through the justice system, from Quantico to the courtroom. Prosecutors know it’s junk science too. But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/911-call-analysis-fbi-police-courts

Jan 6 committee refers Donald Trump for criminal prosecution on four counts: Four Republicans referred to House ethics committee for refusing to comply with panel’s subpoenas, including Kevin McCarthy. The panel made several criminal charge referrals to the Department of Justice against the former president, including obstruction of a congressional proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, inciting an insurrection and conspiracy to make a false statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/dec/19/jan-6-hearing-trump-criminal-charges-referral-committee-vote-live-updates

Nevada Republicans appoint failed GOP politician with no judicial experience to judgeship: Michele Fiore, a Republican politician, has been appointed to a Nevada judgeship even though she has no prior legal or judicial experience. She has also previously been accused of obstructing an investigation into her own business and once said it’s okay to point a gun at federal officers. County commissioners unanimously appointed her to the judgeship. She will serve on the court through 2024.
https://www.alternet.org/nevada-republicans-failed-politician-judgeship/

# Medical / Health
Medicare Advantage Is a Massive Scam: Medicare is being stealthily privatized through the Advantage program, in which private insurance companies are paid to provide Medicare coverage. The program has mountains of regulations to prevent profiteering, which don’t work, these companies have figured out several ways to rig the system, and provide worse coverage for a higher price. But those profits allow them to advertise and lobby heavily, and if present trends continue, fairly soon almost every senior will be enrolled in Advantage plans.
https://prospect.org/health/medicare-advantage-is-a-massive-scam/

# Military / DOD
Space Force launches slick new website to recruit guardians of tomorrow: The youngest branch of the U.S. military hopes its flashy new website will attract new troops and overcome recruiting challenges that have plagued virtually every branch of the armed forces in recent years.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/space_force/2022-12-27/space-force-new-website-8559611.html

# Science
This Popular Food Dye Could be Triggering IBD in Children, Scientists Warn: Increasingly common food dye Allura Red AC is used to add color and texture to sweets, soft drinks, dairy products and some cereals, often with the aim of attracting children. But new animal testing revealed the dye disrupts the way the gut barrier works, harming gut health, encouraging inflammation, and potentially influencing the development of IBDs such as Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. As if there isn’t enough reason to keep children away from junk food as much as possible, new research suggests some products could be linked to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
https://studyfinds.org/food-dye-junk-food-ibd/

# Veterans / VA
Kin of two US sailors, veteran killed by ISIS sue French firm that bribed group: The families of three active-duty or former U.S. service members killed by the Islamic State are suing a French company that pleaded guilty to providing material support to the terrorist group.
https://wfin.com/fox-world-news/us-military-families-sue-french-company-that-pleaded-guilty-to-supporting-isis/

# Water
A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River: 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

Los Angeles taps contaminated aquifers at Superfund sites to boost drinking water supplies: The three new treatment facilities are expected to become operational in the second half of 2023. The project is a major step toward achieving the city’s goal of obtaining 70% of its water from local sources by 2035. About half of the $600 million price tag for the three facilities is funded by a $7.5 billion water bond measure.
https://ground.news/article/la-taps-contaminated-aquifers-at-superfund-sites-to-boost-drinking-water-supplies

Study: Higher concentrations of arsenic, uranium in drinking water in Black, Latino, Indigenous communities: The findings underscore the reality that communities where people of color live often bear the brunt of “contamination that they didn’t cause.” There are greater concentrations of arsenic and uranium in the drinking water of communities nationwide that have a high proportion of Black, Latino or Indigenous residents, compared to the levels in other locales, according to a team of researchers
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27122022/study-higher-concentrations-of-arsenic-uranium-in-drinking-water-in-black-latino-indigenous-communities/

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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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# 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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