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Voices, The Peoples News

November 18, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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This almost daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Indigenous
Returning Diablo Canyon Lands to Indigenous Hands: The Yak Titʸu Titʸu Yak Tiłhini in California have requested the return of their coastal homelands, currently occupied by a nuclear power plant.
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/returning-diablo-canyon-lands-to-indigenous-hands/

Tribal nations fight for influence on the Colorado River: Indigenous nations in the basin are making a stand for their water, and upsetting the river’s power structure. States wish they wouldn’t. Indigenous nations have significant water rights, but many lack the infrastructure to take advantage of them.
https://grist.org/indigenous/colorado-river-tribal-water-rights-navajo-nation-arizona-nevada-drought-data/

# Indigenous / Global
Indigenous guardian program brings hope, sovereignty to Manitoba’s last undammed river: Thanks to the persistence of five Indigenous communities, Indigenous youth will be able to realize dreams of becoming river guides and stewards of their territory as they protect the 50,000-square-kilometre watershed, home to about two dozen at-risk species, from the impacts of climate change. The land itself stores almost two billion tonnes of carbon — equivalent to eight years worth of Canada’s emissions — in its tundra, forests and wetlands.
https://thenarwhal.ca/seal-river-indigenous-guardians-manitoba/

‘Removing the evidence of our existence’: Logging of culturally important trees rampant in B.C:  Trees are an important marker of Indigenous Peoples’ presence on and stewardship of the land, and not enough is being done to protect them. With little independent oversight, experts say these irreplaceable trees are regularly being cut down by the forestry industry.
https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-logging-culturally-modified-trees/

# Border / Immigration
Immigrants in a US detention facility endured excessive, unnecessary gynecological procedures, often without consent, according to a bipartisan Senate investigation that offers the starkest details yet of alleged mistreatment
https://whistleblower.org/in-the-news/bloomberg-law-detained-immigrants-faced-invasive-medical-care-senate-finds/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
How scientists from the “Global South” are sidelined at IPCC: Researchers say systemic bias at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has led to projections that perpetuate economic inequality.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/17/climate-un-ipcc-inequality/

# Education / Schools
A congressional report has found that sexual misconduct by instructors in a military leadership program operating in high schools across the United States was a bigger issue than previously known
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/sexual-misconduct-report-jrotc

Military Acknowledges More Sexual Abuse in J.R.O.T.C.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3738502-house-panel-finds-sexual-abuse-in-militarys-jrotc-more-widespread-than-previously-thought/

Should We End Military Recruiting in High Schools as a Matter of Child Protection and Public Health? Recruiters for the various US armed forces have free access to our nation’s high schools, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act. Military recruiter behaviors are disturbingly similar to predatory grooming.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000735/

An unlikely city in the South could be home to a public education renaissance: Advocates for school improvement in Jackson, Mississippi, want investments in education infrastructure, not more charter schools and privatization.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/unlikely-city-in-the-south/

# Employment / Labor
New Wave of Resignations at Twitter After Musk Ultimatum: The tech company is struggling to retain workers after Musk demanded employees sign a pledge to work ‘long hours at high intensity’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/17/elon-musk-twitter-closes-offices-loyalty-oath-resignations

All Twitter Offices Closed as Hundreds of Employees Resign
https://www.yahoo.com/news/twitter-offices-closed-hundreds-employees-010903837.html

Starbucks Workers Walk Out Nationwide to Protest Chain’s Anti-Union Efforts
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hundreds-starbucks-workers-strike-red-162254591.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
As evidence mounts, new concerns about fracking and health: Two decades after the advent of fracking, a growing number of studies are pointing to a link between gas wells and public health
https://e360.yale.edu/features/fracking-gas-chemicals-health-pennsylvania

Tiny soot particles from fossil fuel combustion kill thousands annually. Activists now want Biden to impose tougher standards: The soot, known as PM 2.5, has been linked to cardiac arrest, asthma attacks and “premature deaths” from a range of cardiovascular and breathing disorders.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17112022/soot-heath-fossil-fuels-biden-standards/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
What the unusual midterm elections mean for climate action: A split Congress makes it unlikely that Republicans will undo Biden’s climate legislation, but they’re likely to try to slow it.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/what-midterm-election-results-mean-climate-action-and-environment

The Klamath dams are coming down: FERC ordered PacifiCorp to surrender the dam license, the final hurdle after 20 years of studies and advocacy, and local Tribes are rejoicing. For decades, people have “poured their blood, sweat, and tears into making this happen.”
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/11/klamath-river-dams-removal-ferc/

Bison’s complicated return: Growing herds in the Yellowstone area are adopting ancient migratory behavior causing logistical issues for ranchers and Montana state officials. This herd  is not in a national park or a protected sanctuary, they are on tribal lands. Belonging to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes of Fort Peck Reservation, the 340 bison is the largest conservation herd in the ongoing bison restoration efforts by North America’s Indigenous people.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/12/how-native-american-tribes-are-bringing-back-the-bison-from-brink-of-extinction

# Environment / Climate / Global
COP27 climate talks in Egypt hit ‘breakdown’ over finance, fossil fuels: With time running out for nations to agree on a road map for tackling climate change, the fate of U.N. climate talks in Egypt appeared in jeopardy. Countries were far from agreeing the contours of a climate deal at the COP27 summit in Egypt on Wednesday, with the host country urging negotiators to resolve their differences ahead of a weekend deadline.
https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/cop27-climate-talks-get-boost-g20-declaration-2022-11-16/

“Fossil Fuels Fund Dictatorships”: Ukrainian Climate Activist Suspended from COP27 over Russia Protest
https://freespeech.org/stories/fossil-fuels-fund-dictatorships-ukrainian-climate-activist-suspended-at-cop27-over-russia-protest/

World leaders crack down on methane pollution: Several countries that draw fossil fuels out of the ground, spewing vast amounts of methane gas in the process. At the last climate summit, the US and EU led a push to cut methane emissions 30% by 2030, less than the UN recommendation, with a pledge that has since been signed by more than 140 countries.
https://www.dw.com/en/methane-emissions-cop27-pledges/a-63793929

Rat killers in paradise: An eradication program remakes a tropical atoll: A 2021 study found invasive species cost the U.S. $21 billion a year. Global costs, including from agricultural pests, have been estimated at $1.28 trillion or about 5% of the world’s GDP over the last 50 years.
https://nordot.app/963323853734068224?c=776487456938950656

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
The Fed’s Thanksgiving Turkey: Misleading reports on the rising cost of dinner are feeding the Fed’s appetite for more perverse rate hikes. The American Farm Bureau Federation is out with a report supposedly showing how much more U.S. families will pay for their Thanksgiving dinner this year. The headline number is scary, 20 percent more than last year—enough to make the Federal Reserve keep tightening the money screws.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/feds-thanksgiving-turkey/

Cultured meat gets the green light from the United States Food and Drug Administration: One approach that could appease both groups at the same time would be to take livestock out of the picture entirely and grow meat in the lab. We’ve been seeing a great deal of effort invested in such technology lately, and now the US is getting its first greenlit cultivated meat production in the form of Upside Foods
https://www.zmescience.com/science/cultured-meat-chicken-usa-92352342/

# General Information / Other News
Trump family signs $1.6bn branding deal with Saudi real estate developer: The family business of former US President Donald Trump has signed a licensing deal worth $1.6 billion with a real estate developer based in Saudi Arabia to build a resort in Oman, as the 76-year-old businessman-turned-politician prepares his return to presidential politics.
https://parstoday.com/en/news/world-i189254-trump_family_signs_1.6bn_branding_deal_with_saudi_real_estate_developer

# Gov / Politics / Global
Violence, conflict and unrest robs nearly 580 children of their lives in the Middle East and North Africa since start of year.  Ahead of World Children’s Day, UNICEF calls for protection of children and their rights across region
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/violence-conflict-and-unrest-robs-nearly-580-children-their-lives-middle-east-and#:~:text=As%20this%20date%20approaches%2C%20children,than%2010%20children%20every%20week

Saudi Arabia: Mass Execution of 81 Men: Rampant Abuses in Criminal Justice System Make Fair Trials Highly Implausible: The mass execution of 81 individuals, Saudi and non-Saudi citizens, on Saturday signals an appalling escalation in Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty, Amnesty International said today, bringing the country’s tally of executions to 92 so far in 2022 alone.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/03/saudi-arabia-mass-execution-of-81-men-shows-urgent-need-to-abolish-the-death-penalty/

# Gov / Politics / US
State Department Says Saudi Crown Prince Has Immunity from Lawsuit over Khashoggi Killing
https://www.reuters.com/legal/biden-admin-says-saudi-prince-has-immunity-khashoggi-killing-lawsuit-court-2022-11-18/

WaPo slams Biden’s move to shield MBS in Khashoggi killing suit
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/biden-admin-saudi-prince-immunity-khashoggi-killing-lawsuit

Russia, India, China, Iran: The Quad That Really Matters:     Lavrov stressed how Europe and NATO “want to militarize the region in order to contain Russia and China
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/11/15/692770/Russia,-India,-China,-Iran–the-Quad-that-really-matters

Jeffries Announces Bid to Replace Pelosi as Dem Leader: He would be the first Black leader of a congressional caucus and the top-ranking Black lawmaker in D.C.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3741768-jeffries-announces-bid-for-house-democratic-leader/

# Law Enforcement
Major Corporations and Institutions Are Helping to Build “Cop City” in Atlanta: Police foundations act as a back channel for corporate and wealthy interests by adding to already overinflated budgets.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/atlantas-cop-city-will-become-a-reality-despite-pushback

The US activists holed up in tree houses to block $90m ‘Cop City’: Atlanta wants to build a police training facility in a forested area amid community opposition
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/16/us-activists-protest-atlanta-cop-city-training-forest

# Legal / DOJ
Meet the Special Prosecutor Deciding Whether to Charge Trump: Jack Smith is a Harvard Law grad who served as chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague, where he’s investigated war crimes in Kosovo. ‘Extraordinary circumstances’ require appointment of Jack Smith to determine whether charges should be brought, Garland says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/18/trump-special-counsel-justice-department-merrick-garland

# LGBTQ
Congress to officially protect same-sex marriage. Here’s what the bill does and doesn’t do: The bill would act as a fail-safe should the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority do to marriage equality what they did to abortion rights. Currently before the Senate, the Respect for Marriage Act will give some measure of relief to activists who had feared that the top US court would reverse its own precedent on marriage equality.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/respect-marriage-act-same-sex-equality-supreme-court

# Medical Alternatives / Herbology
5 Science-Backed Wound Healers Found in Nature Support your body’s natural wound healing potential with potent compounds like honey, aloe vera and curcumin. Even tasty fruits like kiwi contain special enzymes to support the wound healing process. The natural biological process that occurs in your body to heal a wound is as incredible as it is complex. Four precise phases, hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation and remodeling, must occur in the proper sequence and with the correct timing for the wound to heal successfully
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2022/11/5-science-backed-wound-healers-found-in-nature.html

2 Tablespoons of Honey Lowers Blood Sugar and Cholesterol Levels: Adding some honey to your meals is a great way to include some extra flavor, and some seriously beneficial health effects, in your diet, according to researchers from the University of Toronto.  Scientists have discovered that honey improves multiple key measures of cardiometabolic health such as blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Importantly, raw honey from a single floral source appears to offer the biggest health benefits.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2022/11/2-tablespoons-of-honey-lowers-blood-sugar-and-cholesterol-levels.html

# Medical / Health Global
Australia may have to stop making cancer medicine if it doesn’t build nuclear waste dump. Ansto chief says it may not be able to keep producing nuclear medicine if it runs out of waste storage space at its Lucas Heights facility. The chief executive of the Australian Nuclear Science Organization (ANSO), Shaun Jenkinson, said the federal government organization would not be able to continue producing nuclear medicine if the waste storage space at the Lucas Heights facility ran out.
https://chof360.com/australia-may-have-to-stop-making-key-cancer-medicine-if-it-doesnt-build-nuclear-waste-dump-peak-body-says-nuclear-waste/

# Medical / Health
Concerns Over Rising Use Of Drugs To ‘Restrain’ Nursing Home Patients: In 1987, Congress passed regulations and reforms for the nursing home industry in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. These reforms were aimed at protecting nursing home residents rights. The use of chemical restraints and unnecessary medications were specifically prohibited.
https://www.nursinghomeabuseguide.org/neglect/chemical-restraints

# Military / Global
German garrison town gears up for a thousand US arrivals with incoming Army units: U.S. soldiers conduct Avenger missile reload procedures training at Oberdachstetten Training Area in Ansbach, Germany, in March 2022. The Army garrison in Ansbach is preparing for an influx of 500 new soldiers in connection with the arrival of air defense and engineering units.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-11-17/ansbach-army-germany-8087412.html

# Pharmas / Drugs
And this year’s ‘Pharma Greed Awards’ go to… “Pharma execs are celebrating their own greed with a round of back-slapping awards and swigging champagne.” Protesting an event celebrating the industry, activists reminded Big Pharma that “it’s disgusting that they present awards to each other titled ‘driving health equity’ while their actions hold back equitable access to medicines for the world’s poorest.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/17/and-years-pharma-greed-awards-go

# Veterans / VA
Veterans Who Have Borne the Battle Suffer the Peace in Isolation: When men and women survive in the military, their greatest struggle lies ahead: Reentering civilian life.

https://prescottenews.com/index.php/2022/11/11/opinion-veterans-who-have-borne-the-battle-suffer-the-peace-in-isolation-inside-sources/?amp=1

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Voices, The Peoples News

November 17, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration
Fenced in: How the global rise of border walls is stifling wildlife: Amid a rising tide of nationalism, walls and fortified fences are proliferating around the world. These barriers pose a growing threat to wildlife, blocking animal migrations and threatening millions of species that will need to move to keep up with a changing climate.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/border-walls-animals-climate-change

# Chemicals
The EPA should not allow Lysol Air Sanitizer to be sprayed in indoor environments: Lysol Air Sanitizer is 14% dipropylene glycol — commonly found in antifreeze, air fresheners, cosmetic products, solvents and plastics. The world has learned that the best remedy for a healthy indoor environment is a good exchange of clean air.
https://www.ehn.org/does-lysol-kill-covid-virus-in-air-2658630179.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
What Doesn’t Fauci Want Us to Know? We May Soon Find Out: A federal court ruled that Dr. Anthony Fauci and other government officials must testify under oath about whether they colluded with Big Tech to censor certain users and viewpoints.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/anthony-fauci-big-tech-collusion-cola/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=15cb755a-d6dc-4f3c-88ed-2d8cd7d63791

G-20 Leaders Promote Global Vaccine Passports So ‘You Can Move Around’: Leaders of the Group of 20 on Wednesday issued a joint declaration promoting a global standard on proof of vaccination for international travel and calling for the establishment of “global digital health networks” that build on existing digital COVID-19 vaccine passport schemes.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/global-digital-health-vaccine-passports-et/

# Education / Schools
Citing Orwell, Judge Blocks ‘Positively Dystopian’ Censorship Law Backed by DeSantis: The federal judge lambasted Florida officials’ argument that “professors enjoy ‘academic freedom’ so long as they express only those viewpoints of which the state approves.” In an order that begins by quoting the famous opening line of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, a federal judge on Thursday blocked key provisions of a Florida censorship law that aimed to restrict how state university professors teach race, gender, and U.S. history.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/17/citing-orwell-judge-blocks-positively-dystopian-censorship-law-backed-desantis

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Will lithium  mining turn California’s Salton Sea into a green energy sacrifice zone? Once a tourist destination, the Salton Sea faces ecological collapse, toxic dust storms, and maybe a lithium boom.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/lithium-mining-california-salton-sea-green-energy

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Time to stop counting forest biomass as ‘renewable energy’: Phasing out forest biomass as ‘renewable energy’ would yield massive benefits in terms of air pollution and climate protection.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/biomass/opinion/time-to-stop-counting-forest-biomass-as-renewable-energy/

# General Information / Other News
Facebook Won’t Let Trump Return Despite 2024 Bid: Former president will remain banned from the social media platform until at least January 2023.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-says-no-plans-to-lift-donald-trump-ban-despite-new-presidential-campaign

Facebook won’t fact-check Trump after presidential bid announcement: The memo noted that “political speech is ineligible for fact-checking” on the site, which has long been accused of censorship.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/16/facebook-wont-fact-check-trump-after-2024-announcement/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the missile that killed two Polish citizens “was not our missile and not our missile strike,” despite NATO officials finding evidence implicating Ukraine. Leadership in NATO insisted that while the missile was from Ukraine’s air defense system, ultimately Russia is to blame due to its repeated attacks in the region.
https://offthepress.com/ukraine-refuses-to-admit-lie-despite-nato-forgiveness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ukraine-refuses-to-admit-lie-despite-nato-forgiveness

Three Found Guilty of Murdering 298 People in MH17 Downing: Two Russians, including separatist commander Igor Girkin, and a Ukrainian were convicted in absentia by a Dutch court.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/17/three-men-found-guilty-of-murdering-298-people-in-flight-mh17-bombing

Secret Signs Show Putin’s Own Henchmen Are Turning on Him: Some are said to be fleeing the country, while others reportedly came extremely close to ousting him this week.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/secret-signs-show-putin-own-180630925.html

# Gov / Politics / US
Republicans won the House. Democrats kept the Senate. It’s going to get more difficult for Congress to get anything done. “Things do happen,” one political science professor told BuzzFeed News, “but the intensity of partisanship makes it much, much harder to legislate in divided government.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/congress-post-midterm-elections-house-senate

Medicare for All Champion Bernie Sanders Eyes Key Senate Committee Chair: A spokesperson said the senator would “focus on universal healthcare, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, increasing access to higher education, and protecting workers’ rights on the job.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/17/medicare-all-champion-bernie-sanders-eyes-key-senate-committee-chair

# Law Enforcement
Texas youth prisons: U.S. Department of Justice investigating abuse, mistreatment at Texas’ juvenile lockups
The department says it’s looking into whether the Texas Juvenile Justice Department provides “reasonable protection from physical and sexual abuse by staff and other residents, excessive use of chemical restraints and excessive use of isolation.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/13/federal-investigation-texas-lockups/

# Medical / Health Global
In El Salvador and beyond, an unsolved kidney disease mystery: Since the 1990s, tens of thousands of people across Central America, Sri Lanka, India, and elsewhere have been killed by chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu), in a ballooning epidemic that has baffled researchers, overwhelmed health care systems, and wiped out entire families.
https://undark.org/2022/11/16/in-el-salvador-and-beyond-an-unsolved-kidney-disease-mystery/

# Military / DOD
US, allies pledge more air defense weapons for Ukraine after Russia launches largest missile assault of war: Russia’s barrage of dozens of missiles into Ukrainian territory Tuesday marked its largest air assault on Ukraine since launching its unprovoked invasion of the country in February, the top U.S. general said.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2022/11/17/us_allies_pledge_more_air_defense_weapons_for_ukraine_865364.html

# Military / Global
Poland, NATO say missile landing wasn’t Russian attack: NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday that a missile strike in Polish farmland that killed two people appeared to be unintentional and was probably launched by air defenses in neighboring Ukraine. Russia had been bombarding Ukraine at the time in an attack that savaged its power grid.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-g-20-summit-nato-biden-government-and-politics-c76bead57a11bc8397a30ee7bb06264e

# Pharmas / Drugs
Acceptability of a Fentanyl Vaccine to Prevent Opioid Overdose and Need for Personalized Decision-Making: Synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) comprise the most common drugs involved in overdose (OD) death. A vaccine that blocks fentanyl from reaching the brain to prevent OD is under development, and insight is needed into its acceptability.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9376272/

Pfizer Sinks $100 Billion in COVID Profits Into Developing and Marketing More Drugs: Pfizer reaped nearly $100 billion from selling COVID-19 vaccines and treatments to U.S. taxpayers and foreign governments, now it plans to get richer, sinking the cash into developing and marketing lucrative drugs for everything from obesity to migraines.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-100-billion-covid-profits-develop-market-drugs/

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Feds Conduct Raids Tied to Area 51 Website: The website features articles about UFOs and “black projects” at the shadowy military base, as well as videos from drones flown overhead and satellite images.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/air-force-fbi-raid-homes-in-probe-of-area-51-website-2677764/
See also: Dreamland resort: https://dreamlandresort.com/

# Water
Treated, recycled wastewater found to be cleaner and less toxic than conventional drinking water samples
New research from Stanford University is telling us something that some of us may not want to stomach: recycled wastewater, a new paper reports, is not only safe to drink but may actually be less toxic than water from most other sources.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/recycled-drinking-water-83252342/

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Voices, The Peoples News

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

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# Indigenous
Clarence Thomas May Destroy Native Children’s Rights Based on a Lie:  The plaintiffs are asking the justices to invalidate the 44-year-old Indian Child Welfare Act, which prioritizes the placement of Native American children in custody proceedings with Native families. But they’re also contesting a constitutional foundation of Indian law itself
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/clarence-thomas-indian-child-welfare-originalism-lie.html

# Border / Immigration
TX Governor Put Sick Child on Migrant Bus to Philadelphia: The child was reportedly taken to a hospital for treatment when she arrived with 27 others.
https://apnews.com/article/texas-colombia-immigration-philadelphia-dominican-republic-ace111f3d20c51e540e8f0ad3b4239c8

Video Footage Shows Asylum Seeker in ICE Detention Being Force-Fed: ICE’s response to peaceful hunger strikes continues to expose the cruelty of the immigration detention system. The video depicting nurses forcibly inserting a tube into the nose of Indian asylum-seeker Ajay Kumar in an El Paso, Texas detention center marks the first time the U.S. public has ever seen the federal government force-feed someone
https://truthout.org/articles/video-footage-shows-asylum-seeker-in-ice-detention-being-force-fed/

# Chemicals
Cop27 sponsor Coca-Cola has been named the top plastic polluter for the fifth year in a row, enraging climate activists worldwide. Activists in Manila file complaint against Coca-Cola as demonstrations are held at the Cop27 summit
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/coca-cola-cop27-plastic-pollution-b2225712.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Bankman and the Bastardization of Bankruptcy: He gets to cheat his customers, write off debts, and then keep control of his company? (Yup, that’s how bankruptcy often works for big dogs.)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/bankman-and-the-bastardization-of-bankruptcy/

The U.S. has crossed a line in declaring economic war on China: The U.S. wants to remain the unchallenged force in shaping global rules in technology, cybersecurity, trade, and economics
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-u-s-has-crossed-a-line-in-declaring-economic-war-on-china-11668614173

Family Dollar and Another Discount Chain Are Closing Stores, Starting Friday: The retail industry has faced incredible volatility over the past few years. With financial challenges born from the COVID pandemic and rising inflation, companies have been forced to analyze their costs and cut locations across the country.
https://bestlifeonline.com/dollar-general-family-dollar-stores-closing-news/

# Employment / Labor
The Trump Org’s ‘Fired’ Money Man Actually Still Has His Job: The Trump Org’s ex-CFO Allen Weisselberg revealed at trial that he’s still getting paid, and still doing the same job.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-trump-organizations-fired-money-man-allen-weisselberg-actually-still-has-his-job

Missouri Allows Some Disabled Workers to Earn Less Than $1 an Hour. The State Says It’s Fine If That Never Changes. Sheltered workshops are meant to employ disabled adults as they prepare to enter the regular workforce. In Missouri, these workers rarely graduate to higher-paying jobs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-sheltered-workshops-low-graduation-rate?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
30+ Media Organizations Call for Windfall Tax on Fossil Fuel Profits: More than 30 media organizations in more than 20 countries have come together with a simple but daring proposal: world leaders should tax big fossil fuel companies to help the most vulnerable nations respond to the climate crisis. “All this underlines that humanity has to end its addiction to fossil fuels,” the editorial said. “If renewable energy was the norm there would be no climate emergency.”
https://www.ecowatch.com/fossil-fuel-companies-windfall-tax-climate-crisis.html

Heating Costs Are Rising. Here’s How to Lower Your Bill: This winter, Americans are projected to pay the highest price in a decade to heat their homes. A recent study by The National Energy Assistance Directors Association estimates that the average U.S. household will pay 17.2% more for heating costs, $177 more on average, compared to last year, which already saw record-breaking prices.
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/3675450-soaring-heating-costs-loom-how-to-save-money-this-winter/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
A parade of tankers has eased Europe’s energy crisis: Chilled gas from the United States has helped replace fuel from Russia, upending European energy markets.
https://us.knews.media/news/a-parade-of-tankers-has-eased-europes-energy-crisis/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Climate protesters endangering ‘irreplaceable’ art, say global museums: Almost 100 representatives of international art galleries warn that climate protest groups like Just Stop Oil are endangering priceless masterpieces. Climate activists attacking art ‘severely underestimate’ fragility of works, gallery directors warn. Protesters have thrown soup and glued themselves to famous artworks around the world, prompting response by high-profile galleries including Moma and the Louvre
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/11/climate-activists-attacking-art-severely-underestimate-fragility-of-works-gallery-directors-warn

Climate change denial makes an untimely comeback: The science about the climate crisis is unequivocal, but a recent report shows a rise in misinformation about the topic.
https://www.cnet.com/science/climate/climate-change-denial-makes-untimely-comeback/

# Environment / Climate / Global
EU accused of climate accounting tricks: The bloc says it’s doing more to cut emissions, but environmentalists aren’t convinced.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-accused-climate-accounting-tricks-cop27/

Visit the Great Barrier Reef Before Climate Change Kills the Coral: Despite record coral regrowth this year, the Great Barrier Reef is facing danger from regular heat-induced bleaching events
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-19/visit-the-great-barrier-reef-before-climate-change-kills-the-coral?leadSource=uverify%20wall

# General Information / Other News
DeSantis Finally Fires Back After Trump Attacks: A Trump adviser told The Daily Beast that Trump would be best avoiding the DeSantis attacks, now the two are locked in a public spat with no end in sight.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/15/desantis-trump-2024-announcement-00067006

The global threat of rogue diplomacy: Honorary consuls were meant to foster ties between countries. Accused terrorist financiers, arms traffickers and drug runners are among those who have wielded diplomatic protection. Corrupt, violent and dangerous appointees, including those accused of aiding terrorist regimes, have turned a system meant to leverage the generosity of honorable citizens into a perilous form of rogue diplomacy that threatens the rule of law around the world. [Video]
https://www.propublica.org/video/honorary-consuls-diplomatic-immunity-trailer

Key Findings From the “Shadow Diplomats” Investigation: A global investigation by 160 journalists identified hundreds of current and former honorary consuls who have been accused of crimes or embroiled in controversy — including those who exploited their status.
https://www.propublica.org/article/honorary-consuls-diplomatic-immunity-key-takeaways

Shadow Diplomats: The untold story of how hundreds of rogue honorary consuls, including alleged terror financiers and criminals, have undermined a little-known system of global diplomacy.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/shadow-diplomats/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Turkey threatens to strike US as security chief accuses Washington of planning bomb attack: “Whoever is supporting the PYD (terrorist organisation in the eyes of Turkish President Erdogan and backed by the USA) here, whoever is trying to provide intelligence to the PKK (Armed Kurdish Groups) is the real perpetrator [of this terror attack].
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/turkey-threatens-to-strike-us-as-security-chief-accuses-washington-of-planning-bomb-attack/ar-AA1481CH?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=612db4f32a83450288f8965b131962ae

# Gov / Politics / US
Donald Trump says he will run for president in 2024 nearly two years after inspiring deadly Capitol riot
Twice-impeached ex-president makes election announcement despite shaky midterms and surge from rival Ron DeSantis. The long-expected announcement by a twice-impeached president who incited a deadly attack on Congress seems guaranteed to deepen a stark partisan divide that has fueled fears of increased political violence.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/15/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run-2024-midterms-ron-desantis

Trump’s 2024 Announcement Was So Boring Even Fox News Cut Away: The former president seemed bored as he squinted at his teleprompter and regurgitated well-trod talking points about immigration, crime, the economy, and more, mixing in several rambling tangents.
https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-2024-announcement-boring-even-031906683.html

Just ONE Congressman Showed Up for Trump’s Announcement: Other top Republicans cited poor weather as the reason why they couldn’t make it to the Mar-a-Lago spectacle.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/madison-cawthorn-was-reportedly-the-only-member-of-congress-to-show-up-for-trumps-2024-announcement

Trump’s latest campaign would also be something unseen in mainstream American political history: He would be an explicitly anti-democratic candidate after pressuring state officials for years to overturn the 2020 election results in his favor. And at this point, whatever happens at the election, the breed of toxic and damaging politics known as Trumpism will likely continue for the rest of our lives.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/trump-announces-2024-run-for-president?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11/16/2022%20Incoming%20newsletter&utm_term=News%20confirmed%20list

Trump Is Losing Major Donors Less Than a Day After Announcing 2024 Bid: Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman is the second high level Trump donor to disavow the former president in the last two weeks, according to Axios
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-losing-major-donors-less-151307941.html

Control of the House still up in the air, but Republicans edge closer to majority: With several races still uncalled, Republicans are on the verge of taking the 218 seats needed for a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/control-of-the-house-still-up-in-the-air-but-republicans-edge-closer-to-majority/article_bde9f9cc-64f2-11ed-838a-0bcceb8c4963.html

McConnell Easily Bests Scott in Senate Leadership Election: Mitch was re-elected House GOP leader in a landslide vote.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-mitch-mcconnell-congress-9f1be1d3635127dbb3e17a3fae1ac86d

Republicans Are in for Two Years of Hell: Trump and the Freedom Caucus are going to unleash chaos in their own party.
https://prospect.org/politics/republicans-are-in-for-two-years-of-hell/

# Law Enforcement
Harris County, Texas: Today, the Harris County jail detains more than 10,000 people, the highest number in more than a decade. And as the population has surged there’s been an increase in reported incidents of violence, abuse and in-custody deaths. There currently exists neither plans nor sufficient political pressure to put a stop to the systematic violence Houston’s most vulnerable residents are reportedly experiencing in the jail.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/in-custody-deaths-surging-houston-harris-county-jail.html

New Audio Fuels Outrage Over Beating of Black Man in Jail: The latest video of the beating of Jarrett Hobbs is the first to include sound, and it’s horrifying. Two videos were released by Hobbs’ legal team, which provided a brutal view of how lawyers say deputies beat their client and even ripped out one of his dreadlocks, leading to a growing national outcry.
https://news.yahoo.com/audio-fuels-outrage-over-vicious-212938909.html

# LGBTQ
Senate Passes Bill to Protect Same-Sex Marriage: Twelve Republicans voted with all Democrats to move forward on the bill, after negotiators reached a bipartisan deal to include protections for religious liberty.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/16/same-sex-marriage-bill-senate-gop-support-00067104

# Medical / Health
Healthcare Hell: 1 in 5 Seniors Skip Paying Rent, Buying Groceries to Afford Their Cocktail of Prescription Meds:
A health-focused survey of 2,000 seniors finds that 35 percent have cut down on costs in other aspects of their life in order to have enough money to afford their healthcare needs.
https://studyfinds.org/healthcare-hell-seniors-prescription-medication/

A Florida Fund for Injured Kids Raided Medicaid. Now It’s Repaying $51 Million: “The Medicaid program provides a safety net for our most vulnerable populations that do not have access to traditional healthcare coverage,” U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez said. “The misuse of Medicaid funds will not be tolerated.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/miami-nica-settlement-medicaid-repay

# Military / Global
A missile strike in Poland kills two and raises NATO concerns: Poland announced that a missile hit the village Przewodow and killed two people on Tuesday. US intelligence said that evidence indicates it was a Ukrainian missile defending itself against Russian strikes.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-kherson-9202c032cf3a5c22761ee71b52ff9d52

Russian Colonel Who Helped Putin’s Mobilization Shot Dead: Colonel Vadim Boyko reportedly worked with new troops called up under Vladimir Putin’s mobilization order before he was found dead in his office.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/russian-colonel-helped-putin-mobilization-185132020.html

# Pharmas / Drugs
Pfizer And Moderna To Investigate Their Own Vaccines For Myocarditis Risks: Both Pfizer and Moderna are launching clinical trials to track health issues, if any, in the years following a diagnosis of vaccine-associated heart problems in teens and young adults. Myocarditis is a condition that has long been linked to a number of viral infections, including influenza, coxsackieviruses, as well as Covid. It has also been observed as an infrequent but worrisome side effect of the mRNA Covid vaccines.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/myocarditis-covid-vaccine-research-long-term-effects-rcna55666

# Science
NIH researchers unlock pattern of gene activity for ADHD: New study uses postmortem brain tissues to understand genomic differences in individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-researchers-unlock-pattern-gene-activity-adhd

Wireless earphones work as inexpensive hearing aids: Some commercial earbuds can perform as well as hearing aids. This finding, presented November 15 in the journal iScience, could help a large proportion of people with hearing loss access more affordable sound amplification devices.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221115113924.htm

Billionaire-Funded “Anti-Science” Campaigns Are Causing Unnecessary Deaths: In places like Texas where the legislature took a strong anti-vaccine stance, the consequences have been devastating.
https://truthout.org/articles/billionaire-funded-anti-science-campaigns-are-causing-unnecessary-deaths/

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
NASA’s Long-Awaited Return to the Moon Has Finally Begun: Marred by delays, high spending, and tech criticism, NASA’s Artemis program has finally taken flight. After a decade of delays, cost overruns, and redesigns, NASA’s Artemis 1 blasted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 1:47 a.m. local time, with all the dramatic flourish nearly 9 million pounds of thrust can promise. Thousands of late-night viewers watched the biggest rocket NASA has ever built ascend in a stunning spectacle of fire against the dark sky, despite a slight delay. The launch was initially expected at 1:04 a.m.
https://news.yahoo.com/nasa-long-awaited-return-moon-065118722.html

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November 15, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate

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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Heart Inflammation Risks Much Higher After Moderna’s mRNA COVID Shot Compared to Pfizer Shot: A new study has flagged higher risks of heart inflammation associated with Moderna’s shot compared with the rival from Pfizer and BioNTech.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/modernas-spikevax-comes-2-3-times-higher-risk-myocarditis-comirnaty-new-study-shows

The Solidarity Argument for Forced Mass Vaccination Turned Out to Be False: We now have the data in black and white from Pfizer itself, when the vaccines were launched, it was known that they would not protect from the spread of infection.
https://brownstone.org/articles/solidarity-argument-vaccination-false/

Weaponizing COVID to Promote Collectivism: Whether or not the SARS-CoV-2 virus spontaneously jumped out of a bat and into a human being4 or was created by scientists in a biohazard lab,5 6 7 one thing is clear: the chaotic response by the experts in charge has been a disaster in itself
https://www.nvic.org/newsletter/nov-2022/weaponizing-covid-to-promote-collectivism

Increase of Collectivistic Expression in China During the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Empirical Study on Online Social Networks: The pathogen-prevalence hypothesis postulates that collectivism would be strengthened in the long term in tandem with recurrent attacks of infectious diseases. However, it is unclear whether a one-time pathogen epidemic would elevate collectivism. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the widespread prevalence of online social networks have provided researchers an opportunity to explore this issue.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.632204/full

A Plea for Making Virus Research Safer: New scientific breakthroughs make it increasingly easy to identify dangerous viruses in nature, manipulate them in the lab and synthetically create them from genetic sequences. But some scientists have taken it further, adding “gain of function” mutations that make potential pandemic viruses more transmissible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/opinion/virology-safety.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Why Inflation Didn’t Wipe Out the Democrats. How Bidenomics actually worked: In more cases than virtually anyone predicted, both the outrage over the Court’s Roe revocation and the rejection of Republicans who’d gone full Trump eclipsed voters’ discontent over inflation when they cast their ballots.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/why-inflation-didnt-wipe-out-the-democrats/

# Education / Schools
Students experiencing homelessness face stark academic disadvantages. Across the nation they’re less likely to graduate from high school and in 18 states, their gap in graduation rates lagged more than 20 percentage points behind the overall rate.
https://publicintegrity.org/education/unhoused-and-undercounted/schools-fail-to-count-homeless-students/

Courts Use Increasingly Lawless Arguments to Block Student Debt Relief: The Eighth Circuit turned a non-plaintiff into a plaintiff. The verdict granted standing to sue to an alleged plaintiff which has said publicly and in writing that it had nothing to do with the lawsuit, and no relationship with the office that filed it. The ruling, in effect, turned a non-plaintiff into a plaintiff.
https://prospect.org/education/courts-use-increasingly-lawless-arguments-block-student-debt-relief/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
The environmental consequences of Gov. Ducey’s rogue ‘border wall’: Slicing across Arizona’s Coronado National Memorial, the barrier will stop more migrating mammals than humans.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-borderlands-the-environmental-consequences-of-gov-duceys-rogue-border-wall

# Environment / Climate / Global
Brazil, Indonesia and Congo sign rainforest protection pact: The three countries, home to more than half of the world’s tropical rainforests, have agreed to negotiate a “funding mechanism” for conservation
https://www.barrons.com/news/rainforest-giants-brazil-indonesia-dr-congo-sign-deforestation-pact-01668443409?refsec=topics_afp-news

# General Information / Other News
“Once Upon A Time In Londongrad” is a new docuseries exploring fourteen mysterious deaths in the UK with alleged connections to Russia. BuzzFeed News reporters delve into the hidden underworld of Russian exiles in London to link some of the most internationally significant cases in living memory — including the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the suspicious death of oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Inspired by the explosive investigation led by Heidi Blake, the series serves as a cautionary tale and origin story of Russia’s path to invading Ukraine. Stream all six bingeable half-hour episodes now on Peacock.
https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/once-upon-a-time-in-londongrad/7168111517232977112?cid=2211brndouatilpkownsocial6099&utm_campaign=2211brndouatil&utm_source=pk_metatw_st-sv&utm_medium=own_social_awa_sclpst&utm_term=buzzfeed&utm_content=londongrad

# Gov / Politics / Global
At G20, world leaders condemn Russia: At Indonesias’ G20 conference, where 19 countries plus the EU gather to discuss global economic affairs, Western allies support a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/world-leaders-set-to-condemn-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-at-g-20-summit

# Gov / Politics / US
Arizona went for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. This election, the state rejected MAGA candidates for Senate and governor. The critical swing state went for former president Donald Trump in 2016 and then President Joe Biden in 2020
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annabetts/arizona-election-governor-senate-hobbs-lake-kelly-masters

Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground war on Russia: After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.
https://countercurrents.org/2022/11/congressional-amendment-opens-floodgates-for-war-profiteers-and-a-major-ground-war-on-russia/

This one thing may stop Trump from running for re-election: Far-right politicians are dragging America back to the 19th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB4PH4aSeFY

Trump Sat On $94 Million As His Chosen Candidates Lost The Senate For Republicans: Donald Trump hoarded $94 million this election in his various political committees as his anointed candidates lost the Senate for Republicans in tight races where that money might have made the difference between winning and losing.
https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/14/trump-sat-on-94-million-as-his-chosen-candidates-lost/

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) took a step Tuesday toward becoming speaker as his Republican colleagues nominated him for the role in a closed-door vote, a spokesman for the lawmaker said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3736521-mccarthy-wins-gop-vote-for-speakership-handily-over-right-wing-challenge/

# Law Enforcement
Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation: Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. Discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/

# Legal / DOJ
The Trump Org’s Courtroom Shenanigans Are Wearing Thin: The Trump Organization’s accountant is showing just how sloppy the company’s finances were. But his reluctance to come clean all the way is pissing off prosecutors and the judge.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217371674

The House select committee investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol and Donald Trump’s alleged role in it said Monday it’s weighing possible “next steps” in light of the ex-president’s refusal to comply with the proceedings.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jan-6-committee-trump-subpoena_n_6372d99ce4b09c4db1799fb1?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-fringe_2022-11-15&utm_term=us-fringe

# LGBTQ
The Senate is expected to vote this week on legislation to codify same-sex marriage and, more importantly, the bill has enough GOP support to pass: With the midterm elections over, Democrats have found enough Republicans ready to join them in advancing basic LGBTQ rights.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-vote-codify-same-sex-marriage_n_6372a027e4b0ca9acf2790c9

Texas Lawmakers Are Gearing Up to Make Life Miserable for Trans People: More than 800 bills were submitted to the Texas legislature. The docket is full of culture war legislation
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trans-rights-under-attack-texas-lawmakers-1234631195/

# Medical / Health
A new analysis shows a “crisis” of male reproductive health:  Sperm count globally dropped by more than half between 1973 and 2018, and that the decline is accelerating.
https://www.ehn.org/sperm-count-decline-2658644446.html

CDC May Bring Back Oral Polio Vaccine in U.S: CDC recommends that children get four doses of polio vaccine. They should get one dose at each of the following ages: 2 months old, 4 months old, 6 through 18 months old, and 4 through 6 years old.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/public/index.html

“We Need to Defend This Law”: Inside an Anti-Abortion Meeting With Tennessee’s GOP Lawmakers:
Anti-abortion groups helped write and pass laws that kicked in to ban abortion when Roe v. Wade was overturned. The groups see Tennessee’s ban as the country’s strongest, and they want to keep it that way, according to audio reviewed by ProPublica.
https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/11/15/we-need-to-defend-this-law-inside-an-anti-abortion-meeting-with-tennessees-gop-lawmake/

# Security
Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump: The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/6/2133996/-Homeland-Security-Admits-to-Fake-Terrorist-Plot-Against-Democrats-Progressives

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

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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Federal government throws away millions more COVID vaccines due to lack of demand: The number of expired Moderna shots has risen to 7.7 million and the government has also now disposed of 3.1 million doses of the Novavax vaccine
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ottawa-throws-away-millions-more-covid-vaccines-due-to-lack-of-demand

Doctors Fight Back Against Law That Punishes Them for Diverging from ‘Contemporary Scientific Consensus’: As The Free Thought Project has reported, Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, who has sponsored a slew of mandatory vaccine laws throughout his career, came out in 2019 to threaten the speech of those who question forced vaccination.
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/11/doctors-fight-back-against-law-that-punishes-them-for-diverging-from-contemporary-scientific-consensus.html

10-Year-Old Boy Died of Cardiac Arrest 7 Days After Moderna Shot, VAERS Data Show: Thirteen days after taking a first Pfizer COVID-19 shot on February 3, 2022, a seven-year-old boy became lethargic and listless. He vomited on his way to the emergency department. He proceeded to a shocked state and went into cardiac arrest. He was not able to be resuscitated and died in the emergency department.
https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/latest-vaers-data-shows-youngest-washington-death-after-a-covid-19-shot/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX had ties to Ukrainian government, WEF, and top Biden adviser: FTX had some eye-opening connections to powerful entities and individuals around the world before it all came crashing down. Reuters reported that between 1 billion and 2 billion in customer funds vanished from the FTX cryptocurrency exchangeCuriously, the Ukrainian government launched a cryptocurrency donation website in March that was backed by FTX. The World Economic Forum (WEF) lists FTX as a partner, and provides a link to the exchange’s website.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-democrats-ukraine

How Title Lenders Trap Poor Americans in Debt With Triple-Digit Interest Rates: For some Georgia residents, title pawn contracts offer a quick way to obtain desperately needed cash. But poor regulation of a confusing system traps many borrowers in high-interest debt they can’t pay off.
https://www.propublica.org/article/title-lenders-trap-georgia-residents-in-debt

# Education / Schools
Prison education: An order from the Biden administration is set to make Pell Grant funding available to prisoners starting next July. For decades, nearly all prisoners have been excluded from applying to the federal program, which is one of the biggest sources of federal need-based funding in the U.S. for college students.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/28/2022-23078/pell-grants-for-prison-education-programs-determining-the-amount-of-federal-education-assistance

4 University of Idaho Students Dead in Suspected Homicides: The victims were found at a house off-campus, police said. University President Scott Green confirmed in a statement that the four people found dead were students living off-campus and said the families have been informed of their deaths.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/14/university-idaho-student-deaths/10695891002/

# Employment / Labor
Why it may not matter whether Elon Musk broke US labor laws with his mass firings at Twitter: The country’s reliance on ‘at-will’ employment means that companies face few restrictions when they want to downsize their workforces.
https://theconversation.com/why-it-may-not-matter-whether-elon-musk-broke-us-labor-laws-with-his-mass-firings-at-twitter-194149#:~:text=That’s%20because%20%E2%80%9Cat%2Dwill%20employment,foundation%20of%20U.S.%20labor%20laws

Amazon Preparing for Largest Layoffs in Its History: The tech giant plans to let go of 10,000 employees. The cuts will focus on the division that makes the company’s Echo devices and Alexa voice assistant, Amazon’s retail operations, and human resources, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed people with knowledge of the plan.
https://www.geekwire.com/2022/report-amazon-to-cut-10000-corporate-and-tech-jobs-making-largest-layoffs-in-its-history/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Animal agriculture is dangerous work. The people who do it have few protections: OSHA protections don’t apply to 96% of U.S. animal ag operations that hire workers. Federal OSHA protections don’t apply to 96 percent of the animal agriculture operations that hire workers in America. When people die on the job, the federal agency doesn’t respond 85 percent of the time. While the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has hundreds of standards to protect workers in industries like construction, it has only a handful protecting workers in agriculture.
https://civileats.com/2022/11/14/injured-and-invisible-1-few-protections-animal-agriculture-workers-cafos-dairy-migrants-injuries/

Here’s why the market for vegan, plant-based meat has cooled: High price, nebulous health benefits and other challenges have hindered the success of plant-based meats. It’s not just Beyond: Meat giant JBS SA announced in early October it was shuttering its two-year-old Planterra business in the United States. and closing its 190,000 square-foot Colorado facility, and McDonald’s has tabled its idea to roll out the McPlant burger nationally.
https://minmin-tv-cp.com/heres-why-the-market-for-vegan-plant-based-meat-has-cooled/

Junk Foods Put the “Die” in “Diet”: Ultra-processed Foods Linked to Early Death: Pre-packaged snacks, frozen pizzas, and other processed ready-to-eat meals may seem like a time-saver in the moment. Important new research finds such dietary choices may end up robbing us of time in a different way down the line, however.
https://studyfinds.org/junk-foods-put-the-die-in-diet-ultra-processed-foods-linked-to-early-death/

# Food Recalls / Alerts
Popular dietary supplement causes cancer risk, brain metastasis: While previous studies have linked commercial dietary supplements like nicotinamide riboside (NR), a form of vitamin B3, to benefits related to cardiovascular, metabolic and neurological health, new research from the University of Missouri has found NR could actually increase the risk of serious disease, including developing cancer.
https://studyfinds.org/nicotinamide-riboside-vitamin-b3-supplement-cancer/

# General Information / Other News
US, Japan, South Korea vow unified response to North Korea threat: “We face real challenges, but our countries are more aligned than ever, more prepared to take on those challenges than ever,” Joe Biden said. “So I look forward to deepening the bonds of cooperation between our three countries.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-japan-south-korea-vow-unified-response-to-north-korea-threat

# Gov / Politics / Global
China wants to mend ties with the US, but it won’t make the first move: Chinese experts say that fixing the relationship will require more than a show of goodwill from the United States. It will take agreement on fundamental aspects of the relationship, including the fate of Taiwan.  Xi is more focused than ever on China becoming a modern socialist superpower with global influence, a status he expects the United States to accept.
https://headtopics.com/us/china-wants-to-mend-ties-with-the-u-s-but-it-won-t-make-the-first-move-31648294

# Gov / Politics / US
Why the Hell Haven’t We Ended the Cuba Embargo Already? Cuban people are suffering under pointless, ineffective U.S. sanctions. It’s well past time to end this six-decade-old Cold War battle.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-the-hell-havent-we-ended-the-cuba-embargo-already

U.S. Government Quietly Declassifies Post-9/11 Interview With Bush and Cheney: In a newly declassified interview conducted in 2004, Bush shows not a glimmer of awareness of the destruction and carnage he had unleashed on the world. The interview, carried out by members of the 9/11 Commission, was not recorded and the summary document constitutes the only known official record of the meeting. The meeting took place on April 29, 2004.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/10/september-11-bush-cheney-interview/

Democrats didn’t win, they simply held the line: Yes, it was a relief that increasingly fascist Republicans didn’t sweep the midterms. But our democratic standards cannot fall so low as to accept a split Congress. Democrats made greater gains than expected, winning races in both the Senate and the House that they didn’t expect to.
It happened because masses of people cast ballots, defying long-standing historical trends of low midterm turnout.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/11/14/democrats-didnt-win-they-simply-held-the-line/

The Global Threat of Rogue Diplomacy: Honorary consuls were meant to foster ties between countries. Accused terrorist financiers, arms traffickers and drug runners are among those who have wielded diplomatic protection, a global investigation finds. (Video)
https://www.propublica.org/article/honorary-consuls-shadow-diplomatic-immunity-investigation?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature

# Law Enforcement
Cops Might Already Have Your DNA, Without Your Consent: We’ve entered the era of genetic surveillance and nothing, not even our own cells, is off-limits. Everyday genetic surveillance is no longer just a thing on Black Mirror, it’s being widely used abroad, and increasingly in America as well.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/cops-might-already-dna-without-095119664.html

Chicago Sheriff Systematically Denies New Rights Laid Out in Criminal Justice Reform: New rules around pretrial electronic monitoring are being ignored in Cook County, with Illinois lawmakers pushing to undo even more reforms.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/13/cook-county-illinois-pretrial-fairness-act/

# LGBTQ
Nevada just voted a law into existence that will make it a crime to criticize transgenderism, even for children: By a margin of 57.1 percent to 42.9 percent, Nevada voters passed Nevada Question 1, which constitutionally enshrines sexual orientation and gender identity as specially protected classes that cannot be criticized or otherwise discriminated against.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-11-nevada-voted-law-crime-criticize-transgenderism-children.html#

Doctors often aren’t trained on the preventive health care needs of gender-diverse people, as a result, many patients don’t get the care they need: From primary care to cancer screening and insurance coverage, gender-diverse people still face many hurdles to getting good medical care.
https://theconversation.com/doctors-often-arent-trained-on-the-preventive-health-care-needs-of-gender-diverse-people-as-a-result-many-patients-dont-get-the-care-they-need-191933

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Cannabis holds promise for pain management, reducing the need for opioid painkillers – a neuropharmacology expert explains how. The hope would be that THC or CBD may lower the amount of opioid necessary for powerful pain relief without increasing addiction risk.
https://www.growopportunity.ca/cannabis-holds-promise-for-pain-management-reducing-the-need-for-opioid-painkillers/

# Medical / Health
Vaping exposes users to harmful levels of particulate matter, study suggests: The use of electronic cigarettes is increasing, especially among young people. In the U.S., outbreaks of lung injury and other respiratory illnesses and deaths associated with vaping have been reported, but the short- and long-term health implications are largely unknown.
file:///C:/Users/19364/Downloads/2022-11-vaping-exposes-users-particulate.pdf

Sick profits: Private equity’s stealthy takeover of health care in multiple cities, specialties: Private equity firms have shelled out almost $1 trillion to acquire health care businesses in deals almost always hidden from regulators. The result, higher prices, lawsuits and complaints about care. A new investigation by KFF’s Kaiser Health News lays bare the sizeable efforts by private equity investors to take over large and lucrative parts of the U.S health care system in recent years. KHN found that private equity firms have invested nearly $1 trillion through thousands of deals to acquire hospitals and specialized medical practices during the last decade alone.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/11/13/private-equity-firms-takeover-health-care/8294483001/?gnt-cfr=1

# Military / Global
Another Ukrainian soldier spotted with Nazi insignia, the emblem of Dirlewanger Brigade, known for mass murder of civilians and other war crimes committed during World War II: Earlier, a man with an SS-style patch was present among President Vladimir Zelensky’s security detail. Footage of a Ukrainian soldier, wearing an insignia of a notorious SS brigade, emerged online this week, as the Kiev forces moved towards the city of Kherson following withdrawal of the Russian troops.
https://www.rt.com/russia/566414-ukraine-nazi-insignia-soldiers/

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
A team of researchers has found evidence of a large extragalactic assembly hiding behind one part of the Milky Way galaxy. The group has published a paper describing their findings on the arXiv preprint server while awaiting publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. In studying the infrared imagery, the researchers found they were able to identify several galaxies that exist far beyond the Milky Way. Because of their numbers, the researchers believe that together, they make up what they describe as a massive extragalactic structure. They estimate there might be as many as 58 galaxies in the structure.
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-huge-extragalactic-milky.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-nwletter

The Government Is Officially Preparing For First Alien Contact:  Science has made it so that astronomers are able to detect the makeup of planets outside of our solar system. As a result, a new research hub dedicated solely to the quest for alien life has been established in Scotland.
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/alien-contact-government-prepping.html

# Technology
Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification, and if the employees building it don’t meet their deadline, they’ll be fired by Elon Musk. The directive is to change Twitter Blue, the company’s optional, $4.99 a month subscription that unlocks additional features, into a more expensive subscription that also verifies users, according to people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence seen by The Verge.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23431931/twitter-paid-verification-elon-musk-blue-monthly-subscription

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

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# Indigenous
The Precarious State of a Cultural Keystone Species: Tribal and Biological Assessments of the Role and Future of Black Ash. Black ash (Fraxinus nigra Marsh.) plays a central role in several Native American teachings (including a Wabanaki creation story) and has long been used for basketry, yet relatively little is known about the species’ ecology. The ongoing invasion of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire), an invasive beetle killing millions of ash trees in eastern North America, threatens the future of black ash and the centuries-old basketry tradition
https://umaine.edu/nativeamericanprograms/wp-content/uploads/sites/320/2017/07/Ranco-Cultural-Keystone-Species.pdf

Supreme Court Considers Dismantling Native Sovereignty in Haaland v. Brackeen: The Supreme Court is deciding whether to overturn four decades of legal precedent on Indigenous rights. In the worst-case scenario, the court could usher in a new termination era in which tribes’ nation-to-nation relationship with the U.S. would be terminated as was done in the 1950s and 60s. Tribal sovereignty and nationhood would be eliminated, with disastrous consequences for Native people.
https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-considers-dismantling-native-sovereignty-in-haaland-v-brackeen/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Exclusive Interview – Dr. Joe Mercola of Mercola.com with NVIC’s Co-founder and President Barbara Loe Fisher.
This in-depth interview discusses topics that include the coronavirus pandemic and COVID vaccine, censorship, growing public skepticism of the mass vaccination system, and more.
https://www.nvic.org/newsletter/nov-2022/mercola-fisher-vaw-interview

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Already in a Hole, the Federal Reserve Keeps Digging: The Fed’s strategy of hiking interest rates has nothing to do with inflation, but Jerome Powell is determined to keep going. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian wrote about the true causes of inflation. Unfounded Fed tightening myths are backfiring on the economy.
https://prospect.org/economy/already-in-a-hole-federal-reserve-keeps-digging/

Economics professor: Interest rates likely will continue to rise into 2023, lead to job losses: While high rates of inflation have hit the entire nation hard, some regions have experienced it more intensely
https://www.thecentersquare.com/minnesota/economics-professor-interest-rates-likely-will-continue-to-rise-into-2023-lead-to-job-losses/article_5ce2ca10-61b8-11ed-a4ed-bbef4123bd62.html

The Working Class Lost the $2 Billion Powerball Lottery: This is no accident, but rather the conscious marketing decisions of predatory lottery companies, who purposely market aggressively in lower-income communities and communities of color. The impressive potential payout of the lottery, coupled with the relatively low cost of buying a single ticket, can lead to addictive behaviors that can be extremely destructive to already distressed individuals.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-working-class-lost-the-2-billion-powerball-lottery/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Ohio Lawmakers Seek Strict Rules for “Clean Energy” Lending: A statewide clean-energy lending program in Ohio stalled last year before making any loans. Lawmakers want to add consumer protections in case the program resurfaces.
https://www.governing.com/finance/ohio-lawmakers-seek-strict-rules-for-clean-energy-lending

Satellites discovered two “dark ships” near Nord Stream before the explosions: Satellite monitors discovered two vessels with their trackers turned off in the area of the pipeline prior to the suspected sabotage in September.
https://www.wired.com/story/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-dark-ships/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Peter Dykstra: Environmental takeaways from Election Day: The midterms came and went. And because we have to, you know, count all of the ballots, some things are still unresolved.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/climate-change-midterm-elections-2658638128.html

California Regulators Urged to Ban Herbicide Linked to Parkinson’s Disease: Dozens of Countries Have Banned Paraquat, But U.S. Use Is Increasing
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/california-regulators-urged-to-ban-herbicide-linked-to-parkinsons-disease-2022-11-04/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Rethinking artificial sweeteners? Fake sugars may not cause cancer but they’re not great for losing weight either:  The WHO advises against using artificial sweeteners for dieting purposes.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/11/10/rethinking-artificial-sweeteners-fake-sugars-may-not-cause-cancer-but-theyre-not-great-for-losing-weight-either/

# General Information / Other News
Trump’s Election Gambit to Avoid Charges Isn’t So Sound: Donald Trump may think he can never be indicted as a political candidate. But former prosecutors say they fully expect charges.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-election-gambit-to-avoid-charges-isnt-so-sound

Trump Sues House January 6 Panel to Avoid Testifying: The suit will likely allow Trump to escape being forced to testify before the committee disbands.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/12/trump-sues-house-jan-6-panel-avoid-testifying

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia and US to hold first nuclear talks since Ukraine war: Russia said it will hold talks with the U.S. from late November to early December in Cairo about inspections of atomic weapons sites under the New START treaty.
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-us-discuss-first-nuclear-talks-since-ukraine-conflict-kommersant-2022-11-08/

Kremlin Darling Shocks Putin Officials in Backstabbing Spree: Vladimir Putin’s most power-hungry crony is plunging Russia’s elite into chaos.
https://news.yahoo.com/top-kremlin-darling-shocks-putin-053648693.html

Former British embassy guard pleads guilty to spying for Russia in Berlin: A former British security guard has pleaded guilty to spying for Russia when he worked at the British Embassy in Berlin, including giving a Russian military attaché details of the identities and phone numbers of British civil servants.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-worker-uk-embassy-berlin-pleads-guilty-eight-spying-charges-2022-11-11/

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz strongly criticized the Iranian government Saturday for its bloody crackdown on protests in the country said Germany stands “shoulder to shoulder with the Iranian people.”
https://www.euronews.com/2022/11/12/iran-should-expect-more-eu-sanctions-says-german-leader-scholz

# Gov / Politics / US
Four States Just Got a ‘Trifecta’ of Democratic Control, Paving the Way for Climate and Clean Energy Legislation:
Democrats in Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and Minnesota now run state government—and environmental organizations see the opportunity for more ambitious and equitable policies.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09112022/state-legislature-democratic-trifectas-massachusetts-maryland-michigan-minnesota/

How Tennessee Disenfranchised 21% of Its Black Citizens: While many states have made it easier for people convicted of felonies to vote, Tennessee has gone in the other direction.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-black-voters-disenfranchised

These 20 Churches Supported Political Candidates. Experts Say They Violated Federal Law. Churches aren’t supposed to endorse political candidates, according to IRS rules. Across the country, churches appear to be doing so anyway.
https://www.rawstory.com/separation-of-church-and-state-2658608839/

Computer chip ban signals new era as Biden and Xi meet: The Biden administration’s move to block exports of advanced computer chips to China is signaling a new phase in relations between the globe’s two largest economies
https://apnews.com/article/biden-technology-china-asia-xi-jinping-cfd6fc9f04cc7ea47f61ee6f04383b57

Scott Ritter: America’s Hubris is Stunning and a Threat to World Peace: “One has to question who is the power seeking to turn this into a nuclear conflict. Because I don’t think it’s Russia.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TApTBn09jW4

# Law Enforcement
Reforms Falter in Police Department Under Scrutiny for Killings: More than two years ago, the California DOJ endorsed 45 reforms for the Vallejo police. The department has implemented 2 of those.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vallejo-police-killings-investigation-reforms-california

Newly Obtained Uvalde 911 Calls Shed More Light on Botched Police Response: Audio and police camera footage obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune show the depths of confusion in the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting.  Several state police troopers remain under investigation.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/01/uvalde-911-dispatch-recordings/

# Medical / Health
Green Tea and Red Wine Show Ability to Clean out Alzheimer’s-related Brain Blockages: A new Alzheimer’s study has found two compounds that reduce the buildup of harmful plaques in the brain, one of hallmarks of the disease. Importantly, these compounds are common ingredients in two popular drinks: green tea and red wine
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130205200241.htm

To improve a promising cancer drug, cut it in half: A new study shows that when an experimental cancer medication is split in half, the molecule becomes safer and more effective.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-cancer-drug.html

South Dakota Approved Medicaid Expansion, But Implementation May Not Be Easy: South Dakotans overwhelmingly voted to expand Medicaid, but conservative state politicians may put up road blocks.
https://khn.org/news/article/south-dakota-vote-medicaid-expansion-implementation/

Her Child Was Stillborn at 39 Weeks. She Blames a System That Doesn’t Always Listen to Mothers. Every year more than 20,000 pregnancies in the U.S. result in a stillbirth, but not all of these tragedies were inevitable. As many as one in four stillbirths are potentially preventable.
https://www.propublica.org/article/stillbirths-prevention-infant-mortality

# Military / DOD
The Stage Is Set for US Combat Troops in Ukraine: No nation can be expected to live at peace when a gun is pointed at its head. (“If anyone from the outside interferes in Ukraine, they should know this: If they create threats for us… we will retaliate immediately. We have all the tools we need to respond, and all the decisions on this (matter), have already been made.” Russian President Vladimir Putin)
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-stage-is-set-for-us-combat-troops-in-ukraine/

The US military is operating in more countries than we think:     “This proliferation of secret war is a relatively recent phenomenon, and it is undemocratic and dangerous.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57341.htm

Where in the World Is the U.S. Military? Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad, from giant “Little Americas” to small radar facilities. Britain, France and Russia, by contrast, have about 30 foreign bases combined. By my calculation, maintaining bases and troops overseas cost $85 to $100 billion in fiscal year 2014; the total with bases and troops in warzones is $160 to $200 billion.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321/

# Science
Scientists made a material that doesn’t exist on Earth. That’s only the start of the story: If synthetic tetrataenite works in industrial applications, it could make green energy technologies significantly cheaper. Two teams of scientists  announced they manufactured a material, in a lab, that does not exist naturally on Earth. Until now, it has only been found in meteorites. It could roil the market in rare earths, currently dominated by China, and create a seismic shift in the industrial balance between China and the West.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/11/08/1134461777/they-made-a-material-that-doesnt-exist-on-earth-thats-only-the-start-of-the-stor

How cancer cells can become immortal, new research finds a mutated gene that helps melanoma defeat the normal limits on repeated replication. One enzyme plays a key role in how tumor cells replicate and divide indefinitely. Identifying the genes that give these cells their immortality could provide new drug targets to treat cancer. A defining characteristic of cancer cells is their immortality. Usually, normal cells are limited in the number of times they can divide before they stop growing. Cancer cells, however, can overcome this limitation to form tumors and bypass “mortality” by continuing to replicate.
https://theconversation.com/how-cancer-cells-can-become-immortal-new-research-finds-a-mutated-gene-that-helps-melanoma-defeat-the-normal-limits-on-repeated-replication-194234

Zapping tiny metal drops with sound creates wires for soft electronics: Wearable medical devices and stretchable displays could benefit from a way to use high-frequency sound to create liquid metal wires.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/metal-sound-flexible-electronics

# Social
Report Finds “Code of Silence” at Mental Health Facility Where Staff Abused and Neglected Patients: A newly released report from an agency watchdog echoes reporting published earlier this year that revealed widespread collusion to cover up misconduct at the Illinois facility.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-choate-abuse-code-of-silence

Chicago Officials Withhold Key Financial Information as City Hands Public Housing Land Over to Wealthy Ally of the Mayor: Mayor Lori Lightfoot has pushed a plan to lease public housing land to the Chicago Fire soccer team. But as the deal awaits federal approval, the Chicago Housing Authority has kept key details hidden from the public and other officials.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-fire-lightfoot-public-housing-abla

# Veterans / VA
Many vets are landing jobs, but the transition can be tough: The nation is experiencing some of its lowest monthly veteran unemployment on record. But the rate, 2.7% in October can mask the difficulty of the transition from military to civilian work.
https://apnews.com/article/business-veterans-norfolk-553d934ae2066fe939c471f10264308d

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

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# Indigenous
The true stakes of the Indian Child Welfare Act: Allie Maldonado’s family was torn apart by removal. It was reunited by community and ICWA.
https://montanafreepress.org/2022/11/09/the-indian-child-welfare-act-what-it-is-and-whats-at-stake/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death: Since the COVID-19 pandemic began almost three years ago, scientists have learned that an initial infection can lead to short- and long-term health risks affecting nearly every organ system in the body. They’ve also determined that people can get COVID-19 a second or a third time, despite acquiring natural antibodies after the first infection and receiving vaccination and booster shots.
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-infections-increase-risk-of-organ-failure-death/

COVID-19 diagnosis linked to more bleeding, worse outcomes in stroke treatments: It is uncertain whether coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with a higher risk of ischemic stroke than would be expected from a viral respiratory infection.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2768098

A French University Hospital’s Shock Study: “Myocarditis in Young People and Embolism in Women Growing after Vaccination Campaign.” Alarms by US Cardiologist Too
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/11/10/a-french-university-hospitals-shock-study-myocarditis-in-young-people-and-embolism-in-women-growing-after-vaccination-campaign-alarms-by-an-us-cardiologist-too/

Repeat coronavirus infections can be dangerous: “The reason reinfection is happening is that our current vaccine strategy does not block transmission,” Ziyad Al-Aly, an epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, the study’s senior author
https://www.voanews.com/a/repeat-covid-infections-increase-risk-of-health-problems-us-study-finds-/6829204.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
How activists are trying to change the way banking gets done: A public bank would allow the state of New York to keep its money closer to home, and put it to good work.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2022/11/09/public-community-banking-land

# Education / Schools
Federal judge strikes down Biden’s student debt relief program: U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee, ruled on Thursday that Biden’s debt relief program is “an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power and must be vacated.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/10/judge-strikes-student-debt-relief-00066413

# Employment / Labor
How workers and pro-union politicians team up for fair trade: “You’ve got to be really vigilant about it. You’ve got to pay attention all the time.”
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/11/11/how-workers-and-pro-union-politicians-team-up-for-fair-trade/

Laid-off Meta workers on US visas say the company has left them hanging: Hundreds of laid-off Meta employees on US work visas are in a panic after failing to get responses from a dedicated email hotline set up by the company to guide them. Many are worried by the fact that if they don’t get a new job soon, they will be required to leave the US. Others who happened to be traveling abroad when the layoffs hit are no longer sure whether they can return to their homes here.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/laid-off-meta-facebook-workers-visas-complain-mark

HarperCollins Workers Are Demanding Murdoch’s News Corp Pay Them a Living Wage: Employees at one of the world’s largest publishing houses are on strike for a fair contract.
https://truthout.org/articles/harpercollins-workers-are-demanding-murdochs-newscorp-pay-them-a-living-wage/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Louisiana shrimpers join environmentalists in protest of LNG terminal expansions: Shrimpers assembled on a flotilla of boats last week to protest the planned construction of new LNG terminals nearby. Louisiana would become leading natural gas exporter
https://lailluminator.com/2022/11/10/shrimpers-join-environmentalists-in-protest-of-lng-terminal-expansions/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Texas, New Mexico pushing for settlement in Rio Grande water fight: The case sparked from a series of lawsuits over Rio Grande water and escalated with Texas arguing that New Mexico pumping prevents Texas from receiving its fair share.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/28/texas-new-mexico-supreme-court/

# Environment / Climate / Global
Alaa Abd El-Fattah and Egypt’s Climate of Repression at COP27: Unfortunately, this crucial summit, known as COP27 for the 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Convention, is being hosted by Egypt, one of the world’s most repressive governments.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/11/10/alaa_abd_el_fattah_and_egypts

Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s Sister Speaks Out at U.N. Climate Summit as Pressure Grows on Egypt to Free Him: The family of the imprisoned Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd El-Fattah says they no longer know if he is still alive
https://freespeech.org/stories/alaa-abd-el-fattahs-sister-speaks-out-at-u-n-climate-summit-as-pressure-grows-on-egypt-to-free-him/

# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
18 Vegetables You Can Grow in the Winter. Plenty of vegetables can grow right through the cold winter months, or overwintered until spring rolls around. Winter also means fewer bugs, fewer weeds, and less-frequent watering
https://www.ecowatch.com/vegetables-that-grow-in-winter.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia’s Swift Return to the Grain Deal Reveals Turkey’s Growing Influence: Earlier this year, Turkey needed its partnership with Russia more than Russia did. Now, Moscow can no longer ignore Ankara’s ambitions and interests.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/laid-off-meta-facebook-workers-visas-complain-mark

Putin’s Stalin phase. The Russian president is isolated, paranoid, and ever more like the Soviet dictator. The harsher and more repressive the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin becomes, the more successful the reign of Joseph Stalin appears to ordinary Russians.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/putin-stalin-phase

# Gov / Politics / US
Trump Is ‘Ready for War’ With 2024 Presidential Announcement: His advisers may be questioning his decision, but Trump seems dead set on announcing his candidacy Tuesday. And prospective GOP candidates may want to tune in
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-is-ready-for-war-with-2024-presidential-announcement

Control of Senate Hangs in Balance as Vote Counting Continues in Arizona and Nevada: Hundreds of thousands of votes still being counted in key Senate states. Dozens of House races also remain uncalled, as does control of the chamber.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/09/uncalled-races-senate-control-hangs-in-balance-as-arizona-nevada-counts-continue-00065905

The Military-Industrial Complex Wins Again! When both political parties pose as pro-military, when both are pro-war, when both act as if a new cold war with China and Russia is inevitable, do election results even matter?
https://bracingviews.substack.com/p/the-military-industrial-complex-wins

Let’s Be Clear: If WW3 Happens It Will Be The Result Of Choices Made By The US Empire: The option to turn away from the collision course with potentially the most horrific war of all time is available right now.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/lets-be-clear-if-ww3-happens-it-will-be-the-result-of-choices-made-by-the-us-empire/5798598

The Largest Political Donation in U.S. History Took Place in the 2022 Midterms: 50 political donors alone injected $1.1 billion into political races during this election season.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-largest-political-donation-in-us-history-took-place-in-the-2022-midterms/

# Law Enforcement
The Transport Security Administration (TSA) is a massive fraud on anyone passing through airports in the US. Not only do they humiliate people on their way to catching a flight, but they also don’t make anyone safer. Lee Camp exposes the TSA for the colossal waste of money and resources that it is. Watch for some extra fun facts about the FBI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aiRhJAjlNM

# LGBTQ
Democrats Tina Kotek and Maura Healey Become First Openly Lesbian Elected Governors: The Oregon and Massachusetts governors-elect will share the historic title, simultaneously increasing female and LGBTQ+ representation in United States’ executive leadership
https://people.com/politics/tina-kotek-maura-healey-first-openly-lesbian-governors/

# Medical / Health
Vaping exposes users to harmful levels of particulate matter, study suggests: E-cigarettes deliver lead, arsenic, nickel, and other metals at harmful levels. The use of electronic cigarettes is increasing, especially among young people. In the U.S., outbreaks of lung injury and other respiratory illnesses and deaths associated with vaping have been reported, but the short and long-term health implications are largely unknown.
https://cen.acs.org/safety/consumer-safety/Vaping-exposes-users-toxic-metals/98/i12

For Many Disabled Patients, the Doctor Is Often Not In: Patients with disabilities are supposed to be protected by law. But not only do clinics often lack the necessary equipment — such as scales that can accommodate people who use wheelchairs — but at least some physicians actively avoid patients with disabilities, according to a recent analysis.
https://undark.org/2022/11/07/for-many-disabled-patients-the-doctor-is-often-not-in/

# Medical Technology
‘Most complicated therapy ever’ success: A small clinical trial has shown that CRISPR gene editing can alter immune cells so that they seek out and destroy a person’s cancer. T cells, a type of white blood cell that patrols the body looking for errant cells, were modified to recognize the mutated proteins in tumours, which are different in every person. It is the first attempt to combine two hot areas of cancer research
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03676-7

# Military / DOD
Pentagon pledges another $400M for Ukraine; aid includes ammo, Stinger missiles and Avenger systems: The aid package includes resupplying Ukrainian troops with thousands of artillery and ammunition rounds and more ammo for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2022/11/11/pentagon_pledges_another_400m_for_ukraine_864284.html

# Science
Treating diseases in the womb: In medical first, doctors treat Pompe disease before birth: Ayla Bashir, a 16-month-old from Ottawa, Ontario, is the first child treated as fetus for Pompe disease, an inherited and often fatal disorder in which the body fails to make some or all of a crucial protein.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/11/11/treating-diseases-in-the-womb-in-medical-first-doctors-treat-pompe-disease-before-birth/
See also: What is Pompe disease? Pompe disease is a rare neuromuscular disorder caused by the buildup of a complex sugar called glycogen. The accumulation of glycogen in organs and tissues impairs their ability to function normally and causes progressive muscle weakness. https://www.barrowneuro.org/condition/pompe-disease/

Could electrical stimulation and robot-assisted exercise reverse paralysis? New results are a resounding ‘yes!’: A group of Swiss researchers is showing that even chronic spine injuries can be treated to restore a patient’s walking ability using a mix of electrical stimulation and intense physical therapy.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/electrical-stimulation-spinal-cord-paralysis-2352324/

# Social
Dad of Black Boys Left by Firefighters: Cops Took My Blood: An internal probe found the firefighters lied about their search for the kids, who later died. But their father experienced his own nightmare that day. Neither Flint Police nor the Michigan State police addressed specific inquiries by The Daily Beast about why Flint PD might have needed a blood sample from Mitchell.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dad-black-boys-left-white-094544684.html

# Technology
Elon Musk’s $8 Twitter plan depends on an old fallacy that if people use their real names online, they won’t say terrible things. Also, relying on a paywall to curb hate speech means that Twitter will be collecting more identifying data about the paid account holders. Largely, he focused on explaining his vision for an $8-per-month Twitter Blue subscription and its verification system.
https://news.yahoo.com/no-elon-musk-8-twitter-184730326.html

How the FCC shields wireless providers from safety concerns: The wireless industry is rolling out thousands of new transmitters amid a growing body of research that calls cellphone safety into question. Federal regulators say there’s nothing to worry about, even as they rely on standards established in 1996. The FCC is an improbable organization to serve the role of protecting humans. It specializes in technical issues that make the communications system function, not in health and safety. “At the FCC, they feel like this is really not their problem,” said Edwin Mantiply
https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-5g-wireless-safety-cellphones-risk

# Veterans / VA
Programs to end homelessness fall short for Black veterans: The number of homeless veterans is falling. But Black veterans still face greater risks. Formerly homeless Army veteran William Keith said as a Black man, it was harder for him to find housing in San Diego with a federal housing voucher than it was for white veterans he knew using the same program.
https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/programs-to-end-homelessness-fall-short-for-black-veterans/

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# Indigenous
The Story of Baby O: Rebecca Nagle on the Supreme Court Case That Could Gut Native Sovereignty: Baby O’s case is at the center of a lawsuit to bring down the Indian Child Welfare Act. But far from proving ICWA should be overturned, it shows why the law is necessary. Octavia’s paternal grandmother was a citizen of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, a federally recognized tribe in El Paso, Tex. This meant Octavia was eligible for citizenship in the tribe and that her case would likely fall under a 1978 federal law known as the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which was created to prevent family separation in Native communities. Among other things, the law gave Octavia’s tribe the right to intervene in her case and required social workers to prioritize placing Octavia with extended family or another member of her tribe.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/icwa-supreme-court-libretti-custody-case/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Point: Social Security’s Future Is a Question of Values, Not Affordability: As a result of its inadequately low benefits, together with the disappearance of private-sector pensions, the nation is facing a retirement income crisis. Cutting Social Security’s already low benefits would exacerbate that crisis.
https://dcjournal.com/point-social-securitys-future-is-a-question-of-values-not-affordability/

Counterpoint: No to Eliminating (or Raising) the Social Security Tax: While there is some redistribution from higher-wage to lower-wage workers so that proportionately lower-wage workers get more from their taxes paid, Social Security is decidedly not a welfare program in design and in its official description
https://insidesources.com/counterpoint-strengthen-social-security-as-key-protection-against-rising-economic-risks/

# Education / Schools
Several Republican State Board of Education candidates who ran in opposition of so-called critical race theory in public schools won their races Tuesday night, giving Republicans one more seat on the board.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/08/texas-state-board-education-election-results/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
US mega-banks behind 1/3 of climate-destroying oil and gas expansion: “Global banks’ top fossil fuel clients amount to a rogues’ gallery of bad actors.” Wall Street’s Dirtiest Secret: How Fossil Fuel Expansion Depends on Big Bank Finance, states. “To meet this goal, the vast majority of oil, gas, and coal must stay in the ground,” the publication continues. “We must phase out production of some oil and gas reserves before they are fully exploited. We must stop building new infrastructure that relies on fossil fuels.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/09/us-mega-banks-behind-13-climate-destroying-oil-and-gas-expansion-report

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Bighorn-lovers butt heads with Vail Resorts’ affordable housing: Bighorn-lovers butt heads with Vail Resorts’ affordable housing: The ski industry giant wants to build workforce housing in wild sheep habitat. The latest Living Planet Index shows that over the last couple of decades the number of North American vertebrate species and their populations are in decline.
https://www.adventure-journal.com/2022/10/colorado-town-seizing-ski-resorts-land-to-stop-it-building-employee-housing/

Uncertainty for Alaskan salmon as mining companies dig in: Active mines, proposed mines, and exploratory projects in Alaska and British Columbia could affect key salmon watersheds.
https://undark.org/2022/11/09/mining-is-booming-will-alaskan-salmon-survive/

# Environment / Climate / Global
The world’s much-maligned climate treaty, known as COP27, has produced some stunning results. The treaty, which is voluntary and nonbinding, has never been particularly revered: Many climate activists believe it doesn’t go far enough—its text doesn’t even mention fossil fuels, which cause climate change, by name—while climate-change-doubting politicians have demonized it. Yet its apparent mediocrity has hidden an important story that has played out slowly over the past few years. The Paris Agreement process seems to be working … at least for now.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/11/paris-agreement-cop27-climate-change-international-collaboration/672052/

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund, called the Living Amazon Report, warns that threats to the Amazon have gotten worse in recent years, and could result in the disappearance of the biome if more drastic action isn’t taken. Around 18% of Amazon forests are lost and another 17% are highly degraded, if more drastic action isn’t taken, the biome could transition from forest to savanna and push global warming above the safe threshold of 1.5°C.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/deforestation-is-pushing-amazon-to-point-of-no-return-wwf-report/

COP27: Sharp rise in fossil fuel industry delegates at climate summit: Data shared exclusively with the BBC show large numbers of oil and gas lobbyists attending COP27. Oil and gas industries have 636 representatives at Egypt conference – a rise of more than 25% on previous year
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/10/big-rise-in-number-of-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-at-cop27-climate-summit

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
31 Kids Found Working Graveyard Shifts on Meat Plant ‘Kill Floors,’ Feds Say: In a complaint filed Wednesday that reads straight out the Great Depression, the feds requested a temporary injunction on a massive sanitation company that’s accused of employing children as young as 13 in “dangerous” overnight shifts at food processing plants. At least two of the child workers suffered caustic chemical burns and other injuries while working on the “kill floor”—where cattle are butchered—at a plant operated by JBS Foods in Grand Island, Nebraska, the complaint said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/31-kids-found-working-graveyard-shifts-on-meat-plant-kill-floors-feds-say/ar-AA13YDlS?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a0da12b05a34470593ae0d9a72dd0df9

# General Recalls / Alerts
Unilever Issues Voluntary U.S. Recall of Select Dry Shampoos Due to Potential Presence of Benzene: Unilever United States today issued a voluntary product recall to the consumer level of select lot codes of dry shampoo aerosol products produced prior to October 2021 from Dove, Nexxus, Suave, TIGI (Rockaholic and Bed Head), and TRESemmé due to potentially elevated levels of benzene. Benzene is classified as a human carcinogen.
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/unilever-issues-voluntary-us-recall-select-dry-shampoos-due-potential-presence-benzene

# General Information / Other News
How Donald Trump Sabotaged the Republican Midterms: After three straight national tallies in which either he or his party or both were hammered by the national electorate, it’s time for even his stans to accept the truth: Toxic Trump is the political equivalent of a can of Raid. Liberal fundraisers actually put money behind Trump-endorsed candidates in GOP primaries all over the place to help them prevail so that Democrats could face them in the general election. It was transparently cynical and an abuse of our political process. But it worked like gangbusters.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/heres-how-donald-trump-sabotaged-the-republican-midterms/amp/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Hit With Humiliating Retreat & Mystery Death of Crony: The Russian defense minister ordered the withdrawal from Kherson despite mounting outrage from hardliners–though the sudden death of a leader provided a convenient distraction.
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-hit-humiliating-retreat-mystery-154034220.html

Chinese President warns of war ahead of the G20 summit: President Xi cited an unstable and uncertain security situation as he ordered the Chinese military to make immediate preparation.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/chinese-president-warns-of-war-ahead-of-the-g20-summit/ar-AA13WhrW?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a0da12b05a34470593ae0d9a72dd0df9

Zelensky: If Russia blows up Kakhovka dam, it will be war declaration to whole world. Any attempt by Russian forces to blow up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, flooding Ukrainian territory and dewatering the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant would mean that Russia is “declaring war on the whole world,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/zelensky-if-russia-blows-up-kakhovka-dam-it-will-be-war-declaration-to-whole-world

# Gov / Politics / US
Republican dominance continues for the two highest courts in Texas: Three seats were up for election in the Texas Supreme Court, which handles civil cases, and three in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Democrats haven’t been elected to either court since the late 1990s.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/09/texas-supreme-court-criminal-election/

Pennsylvania’s first Black woman in Congress, a new wave of trans legislators, and other historic firsts from the midterms. New records that will make you go, “Huh, what took so long?”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/historic-firsts-2022-midterms-elections

Corporations have given $40 million to the Sedition Caucus: Corporate funding of sedition keeps growing
Since the January 6th insurrection, more than two thirds of the corporations who announced they would no longer support members of Congress who refused to certify Trump’s loss have abandoned their commitment. And many others have continued to fund sedition without batting an eye.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/corporations-have-given-40-million-to-the-sedition-caucus/

After election wins, the number of vets in Congress is going up: The number of veterans elected to Congress will increase next session, only the third time that has happened in the past five decades.  79 veterans had won House or Senate races in the congressional midterm elections. Another 12 veterans currently serving in the Senate were not up for reelection this year. One undecided race, the New York 22nd congressional district, features two veterans running against each other.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/election-2022/2022/11/09/after-election-wins-the-number-of-vets-in-congress-is-going-up/

Control of U.S. Senate Hangs on Three Undetermined Races:
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/11/10/headlines/control_of_us_senate_hangs_on_three_undetermined_races

Spend big, win big: 96% of U.S. House races won by the biggest spender: As it has for the past two decades, money performed well this election cycle, helping candidates from both sides of the aisle win. Across the board, 88 percent of congressional races were won by the candidate who spent the most.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/11/top-spenders-won-88-percent-of-2020-races/

‘Dark money’ groups aligned with party leadership steer hundreds of millions of dollars into 2022 federal elections:
Party-aligned “dark money” groups have funneled more than $295 million from secret donors into 2022 federal elections.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/11/dark-money-groups-aligned-with-party-leadership-steer-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-2022-federal-elections/

The US is quietly extracting concessions from Saudi Arabia after Mohammed bin Salman humiliated Biden
* Saudi Arabia has made moves to placate the US after a recent feud over oil.
* The kingdom has increased its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia.
* But tensions between the US and Saudi Arabia are unlikely to ease, one analyst said.
Diplomatic ties between the Biden White House and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are being tested like never before in a series of high-stakes diplomatic encounters.
https://news.yahoo.com/us-quietly-extracting-concessions-saudi-101619894.html

# Law Enforcement
Deputy Charged With Shooting Suicidal Man Already on Ground: LASD Dep. Remin Pineda faces two felony counts over the on-duty shooting death of 34-year-old David Ordaz Jr. last year. The case prompted national headlines, as well as a federal civil rights lawsuit by the Ordaz family, which accused Pineda and three other deputies of using “unnecessary and lethal force to unjustifiably kill” the father of three on March 14, 2021.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/los-angeles-deputy-charged-shooting-201323062.html

Some U.S. cities want to change how police respond to 911 calls: Sparked by the murder of George Floyd in June 2020 by Minneapolis Police officers, some cities are working to find ways to have less civilian interaction with their police departments. David Muhammad, executive director of The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, has been at the forefront of this reassessment and to review their emergency calls. He estimates that between 40% to 60% of 911 calls don’t require a police response. “We don’t need an armed officer to respond to a noise complaint call,” Muhammad told The Center Square.
Muhammad said that, generally, police agree with that.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/some-u-s-cities-want-to-change-how-police-respond-to-911-calls/article_eb6ddaf8-5f43-11ed-aff5-47884526d0f6.html

# Legal / DOJ
The Case Proving ‘Stand Your Ground’ Is for White Men Only: The new Netflix documentary “State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith” uses one tragic case to reveal the misogynistic and racist double standards of the legal system.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brittany-smith-case-proves-stand-155951259.html

# LGBTQ
A Trans Influencer Was Arrested in Miami. They Put Her in a Men’s Unit, “The situation with Nikita, who is legally female, being placed in a men’s unit of a Florida jail is extremely disturbing and dangerous,” Dragun’s rep said.  “This decision made by the Miami-Dade County corrections department directly violates their protocol, which mandates that transgender inmates are classified and housed based on safety needs and gender identity. Nikita has been released and is now safe.”
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/10/1135666239/transgender-beauty-influencer-nikita-dragun-held-miami-mens-jail

# Media
New York Post Plunges the Knife Into Trump After Midterms: The paper backed him in 2020. Now it considers him “the most profound vote repellant in modern American history.”
https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/heres-how-donald-trump-sabotaged-the-republican-midterms/

# Medical / Health
Planned Parenthood revenue trending up as taxpayer funding increases: Planned Parenthood’s revenues increased 16% nationwide over the past four years as private contributions and government reimbursements and grants have risen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/planned-parenthood-revenue-trending-up-as-taxpayer-funding-increases/article_6aa5abec-5e55-11ed-831b-171d6daa8885.html

# Military / DOD
American veterans race to train Ukrainian soldiers as war with Russia sweeps more troops into battle: The Mozart Group, a U.S. veteran-led private security company, has provided a crash-course training program for Ukrainian troops. Its staff has grown to nearly 30 highly experienced trainers made up of mostly former American service members.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-ukraine-war-american-veterans-volunteers-training-11660743714

Troops from Fort Carson, Fort Hood and Hunter AAF tapped for deployments to Europe: The deployments will keep American troops levels at about 100,000, up about 20,000 American service members since Russian began amassing forces along Ukraine’s borders.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-11-09/army-deployments-europe-russia-ukraine-7993573.html

# Military / Global
Mad Dash to Flee Town Swarming With Putin’s Drunken Troops: Efforts are underway to evacuate citizens who are being terrorized by angry Russian soldiers in Southern Ukraine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukrainians-make-mad-dash-to-flee-dudchany-village-swarming-with-putins-drunken-troops

# Social
12 Things You Should Know Before Calling The 988 Suicide Hotline: Now that 988 is here, it’s easier for people in crisis to get support. So far, it seems to successfully be reaching more people. When you call 988, you’ll hear an automated greeting that lists different options, including a connection to the Veterans Crisis Line (press 1), Spanish-language services (press 2), or a service for LGBTQ people under 25 (press 3). If you press one of those three numbers, you will be transferred to a specific crisis line that caters to that group of people; all other calls will be routed to the nearest crisis center based on your area code.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/denisemann/what-to-know-before-calling-988

# Technology
Elon Musk Bans Remote Work in First Email to Twitter Staff: The new CEO said there would be no exceptions unless he personally approved them.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-bans-remote-work-twitter-1849766493

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November 9, 2022
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# Indigenous
The Supreme Court May Ensure Native Kids’ Ancestry Is Erased—Just Like Mine Was: The Indian Child Welfare Act helped keep indigenous families together. Now SCOTUS could tear the law apart.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/supreme-court-indian-child-welfare-erase-ancestry.html

Native American children’s protection against adoption by non-Indian families is before the Supreme Court.
A case before the Supreme Court will determine whether a federal law meant to protect Native American children from being forcibly removed from their families is constitutional. That law, the Indian Child Welfare Act, was originally passed by Congress in response to requests from tribal leaders and other advocates for Native Americans to stop states from removing Indian children from their families.
https://theconversation.com/native-american-childrens-protection-against-adoption-by-non-indian-families-is-before-the-supreme-court-190598

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
NEW Lawsuit Accuses Government of Committing “COVID fraud”: “This COVID-19 health care fraud enforcement action involves extraordinary efforts to prosecute some of the largest and most wide-ranging pandemic frauds detected to date,” the DOJ’s Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement, Kevin Chambers, said in a statement.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/doj-charges-21-defendants-covid-related-healthcare-fraud-schemes-totaling-149m

“COVID: Logic, Reasoning and Scientific Evidence Disappeared with Fauci-Gates’ Dangerous Vaccines” US Retired Neurosurgeon on NIH PubMed: The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies. For the first time in American history a president, governors, mayors, hospital administrators and federal bureaucrats are determining medical treatments based not on accurate scientifically based or even experience based information, but rather to force the acceptance of special forms of care and “prevention.”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/11/08/covid-logic-reasoning-and-scientific-evidence-disappeared-with-fauci-gates-dangerous-vaccines-us-retired-neurosurgeon-on-nih-pubmed/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
California Votes Against Tax on Wealthy to Fund EV Incentives: Proposition 30 in California has been voted against in the midterm elections. The measure would have enacted a 1.75% tax on those making over $2 million, with the funding going toward climate programs, including subsidization for zero-emissions vehicles and funds for wildfire prevention.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/business/california-prop-30

# Education / Schools
High school student killed in ‘targeted’ shooting: The shooting was believed to be a “targeted attack,” superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, Brent Jones, said at a news conference. Officers were at the scene of the shooting in four minutes, police noted.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2816835812432/high-school-student-killed-in-targeted-shooting

Student Found Lifeless at School May Have Died From Fentanyl: The 16-year-old died and four others became ill after possibly ingesting something laced with fentanyl, authorities said.
https://apnews.com/article/health-arrests-los-angeles-hollywood-d92c445a8f43f17de6983dcc5c8d0223

A 10-year-old student hugged his school counselor. Now he’s facing charges and is accused of touching her inappropriately
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-10-year-old-student-hugged-his-school-counselor-now-he-s-facing-charges-and-is-accused-of-touching-her-inappropriately/ar-AA13Vidc?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=9b4431d2dc7e4e438d0cbebaa8819640

# Employment / Labor
Facebook and Instagram Owner Meta Lays Off 11,000+ Employees: Mark Zuckerberg called the move among “the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.” Mark Zuckerberg admits personal mistakes have contributed to Meta’s struggles as he apologises for the need to cut so many workers under wider plans to cut costs and refocus the business.
https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-and-instagram-owner-meta-to-let-more-than-11-000-staff-go-12742404

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Former coal plant near Pittsburgh is poisoning groundwater: The site of a former coal-fired power plant northwest of Pittsburgh is leaking coal ash and poisoning surrounding groundwater
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127157259

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
U.S. Attorney Announces Federal Charges Against 47 Defendants in $250 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme, Nonprofit Feeding Our Future and 200+ Meal Sites Perpetrated the Largest COVID-19 Fraud Scheme in the Nation: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota today announced federal criminal charges against 47 defendants for their alleged roles in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/us-attorney-announces-federal-charges-against-47-defendants-250-million-feeding-our

FDA steps up enforcement on imported candy, fruit juices, dried fruit because of lead; other actions involve pesticides. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/11/fda-steps-up-enforcement-on-imported-candy-fruit-juices-dried-fruit-because-of-lead-other-actions-involve-pesticides/

# General Information / Other News
Trump Reportedly ‘Furious’ Over Oz, Blames Melania & Hannity: The former president suffered sweeping losses in several swing races, reportedly blaming everyone who told him to endorse Dr. Oz.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/trump-furious-over-dr-oz-loss-blaming-wife-melania-report/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Sinking Nation Tuvalu Calls for Treaty Ending Fossil Fuel Use at COP27: In the late 1960s, when the nations of the world were concerned about the spread of a potentially civilization-ending technology, they came together and signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
https://www.ecowatch.com/pacific-island-tuvalu-climate-change-fossil-fuels.html

# Gov / Politics / US
We Still Don’t Know Who Won, But Republicans Lost: Democrats always expected to lose seats in the House. What no one seemed to expect, however, was that they could possibly restrain a GOP majority to just a few seats. Republicans had hoped for a red wave. What they got looked more like purple rain.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/still-don-t-know-won-072533898.html

Insane in the membrane: Nevada Won’t Be Done Counting Mail-in Ballots for Days: Clark County, Nevada, which accounts for about 70% of the state’s population, could take until Thursday to finish counting its mail-in ballots, according to the Nevada Independent. The county will count in-person votes from Tuesday and all the early mail in votes that are in the system.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/08/nevada-counting-mail-in-ballots/

Dominion voting machines down in Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, other voter irregularities reported: Voters in Mercer County, New Jersey, are facing a “county-wide system outage” in their election using Dominion Voting [sic] Machines. Voters are not being turned away, but are being asked to fill out ballots manually and place them in the slot for manual counting later… In Maricopa County, tabulators did not work starting at 6 a.m., when the polls opened. In Texas, the machines are also not working. In Illinois, voters are being told to use the provided Sharpies, or their vote may not count. [!?!] The Champaign County, Illinois, clerk’s office announced the computer server is under cyber-attack. The Gateway Pundit has also reported on massive issues and election irregularities across the country.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/dominion-voting-machines-texas-arizona-new-jersey-voter-irregularities-reported/

Religious Outlet Says Violence Must Be Option if Republicans Lose Midterms: One organization is now calling for its supporters to keep the possibility of violence on the table. Michael Voris, a host at the right-wing religious media outlet Church Militant, said violence may be needed if Democrats hold onto their congressional majorities
https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-outlet-church-militant-says-violence-option-if-republicans-lose-midterm-elections-1758044

Clark County with thousands of uncounted votes as nation eyes Nevada Senate race: Officials in Nevada’s most populous county say they are still processing thousands of ballots that came in through the mail and drop boxes, telling reporters Wednesday that it will likely take days to get to a final tally.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/nevada/clark-county-with-thousands-of-uncounted-votes-as-nation-eyes-nevada-senate-race/article_49323198-6070-11ed-9f00-87bc805a817b.html

US midterms: 42 new voting laws since 2021 risk undermining confidence in American democracy: The ability to exercise one’s democratic choice by participating in free and fair elections should not be up for debate.
https://theconversation.com/us-midterms-42-new-voting-laws-since-2021-risk-undermining-confidence-in-american-democracy-194199

# Law Enforcement
Man Aiding Walmart Shooting Victim Dies After Police Knock Him to Ground: A man who was helping a shooting victim outside a Pennsylvania Walmart died on Sunday after another man believed to be an off-duty police officer allegedly forced him to the ground. “Police officers have to be held to the same standard, in fact a higher standard, than regular citizens,” Sansone said. “We give them the power to use deadly force, and they have to exercise that with responsibility. And when they don’t, we have to hold them accountable.”
https://www.newsweek.com/man-aiding-walmart-shooting-victim-dies-after-police-knock-him-ground-1758030

Cops ID Neo-Nazis Accused of Hanging Antisemitic Banners: One of the men involved told police he was part of the National Socialist Florida org”There is no such thing as hate speech. There is only free speech”: Antisemitic activist Jon Eugene Minadeoanization, which has been labeled as an emerging neo-Nazi organization.
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2022/11/04/jacksonville-identifies-two-men-behind-antisemitic-displays-florida/8265794001/?itm_medium=recirc&itm_source=taboola&itm_campaign=internal&itm_content=BelowHomepageFeed-FeedRedesign

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Maryland Becomes 20th State to Legalize Marijuana for Adult Use
https://norml.org/blog/2022/11/07/maryland-becomes-20th-state-to-legalize-marijuana-for-adult-use/

Missouri Becomes 21st State to Legalize Marijuana for Adult Use
https://reason.com/2022/11/09/missouri-becomes-the-21st-state-to-legalize-recreational-marijuana/

Texas Cities Move to Depenalize Marijuana Possession
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/09/texas-cities-marijuana-decriminalization-election/

# Medical / Health
Abortion Rights Win in Several Statewide Ballot Initiative Contests: Polling conducted prior to the midterms shows that abortion is a critical issue for voters.
https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-rights-win-in-several-statewide-ballot-initiative-contests/

Voters in Deep Red South Dakota Approve Medicaid Expansion: Months ago, voters rejected a GOP-backed constitutional amendment that would have spelled defeat for Medicaid
https://truthout.org/articles/voters-in-deep-red-south-dakota-approve-medicaid-expansion/

# Military / DOD
Ongoing Pentagon push to arm Ukraine will have three-star general leading from Germany: A three-star general will lead a new Army headquarters in Germany that will include about 300 U.S. service members responsible for coordinating security assistance for Ukraine, a senior U.S. military official said.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-11-08/army-ukraine-wiesbaden-germany-7970727.html

# Military / Global
Putin’s ‘Fierce’ Navy Stranded in Hiding After Major Attack: So much for the formidable Russian fleet.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-putins-fierce-russian-navy-stranded-in-hiding-after-black-sea-attack

# Social
Texas-based hate group was behind attempted riot at Pride event in Idaho, authorities say
Authorities say the 31 suspects are part of an extremist group founded in Texas after the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Eight of those arrested Saturday are from North Texas, officials said.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/13/idaho-pride-riot-texas/

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November 8, 2022
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# Indigenous
Gosar Claims Kari Lake Could Sic Military on Tribal Land, floats the idea that Lake could order the National Guard to surround the Tohono O’odham Nation if she becomes Arizona governor: Claiming that “a lot of drugs and human smuggling goes through” the Tohono O’odham Nation, the Arizona Republican said “what if” Lake wins as governor and sends the National Guard to the border where they would “outline the Tohono O’odham Nation.” He went on to say a military blockade could effectively be set up and “we say no one passes” to send the message to “Tohono O’odham, you’re either America and Arizona first. Or you’re Mexico first.”
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2816596290614/paul-gosar-claims-kari-lake-could-sic-military-on-tribal-land

From dominance to stewardship: Chuck Sams’ Indigenous approach to the NPS: The first Native national parks director talks tribal co-management, historical accuracy, harassment, and the fallacy of “wilderness.”
https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.11/indigenous-affairs-national-park-service-from-dominance-to-stewardship-chuck-sams-indigenous-approach-to-the-nps

The Amah Mutsun tribe rallies to save sacred sites: A proposed sand and gravel mine threatens the heritage of the central California tribe. The proposed mine would be located near the town of Gilroy on the 6,400 hectare Sargent Ranch, which encompasses most of the Amah Mutsun cultural landscape. Juristac, meaning “the place of the great head” in the Mutsun language, is a series of foothills in the heart of the tribe’s homeland, covered with cultural artifacts and ceremonial sites. It is home to a vibrant oak savannah landscape that the Amah Mutsun have protected for centuries. It’s also one of only two places in the Santa Cruz Mountains where wildlife can associate with other populations in the state, making it a critical migratory corridor.
https://localtoday.news/ca/amah-mutsun-tribe-gather-to-save-sacred-sites-high-country-news-know-the-west-121964.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The Fed Likes to Tout its Independence, So Why are Big Banks Lobbying It? The Federal Reserve, far from the independent institution it often touts itself as, is under intense pressure at all times from massive commercial banks and other financial institutions advocating for favorable regulations, according to federal lobbying disclosures reviewed by The Intercept, as well as interviews with former Fed and other finance employees.
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/26/federal-reserve-bank-lobby/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Biden’s Threats Will Kill American Energy Independence: The American people are paying the price each day for bad energy policies, as high energy costs fuel inflation and raise prices on gas, groceries and home heating bills. High energy costs are driven by lack of supply, and the Biden administration has worked to limit the supply of fossil fuels at every turn.
https://delawarevalleyjournal.com/perry-bidens-threats-will-kill-american-energy-independence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=perry-bidens-threats-will-kill-american-energy-independence

The oil and gas paradox threatening Biden’s party at the polls: The president promised to move the U.S. away from fossil fuels. But U.S. oil production is up anyway, and so are federal drilling approvals.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/republicans-biden-oil-00064251

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
What to expect from COP27, the most important conference on the climate crisis: The climate summit to be held in 8 November 2022 in Egypt will discuss issues such as financing for developing countries, combating deforestation and reducing emissions.
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/what-to-expect-from-cop27/?goal=0_3b5aad2288-0b4b91fcc0-242676673

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Report: Ice Levels Collapsing at Levels “Unthinkable Just a Decade Ago” , with Arctic sea ice certain to vanish in summers and ruinous sea level rise from melting glaciers now already in motion, a major new report has warned.
Even if planet-heating emissions are radically cut, the world’s vast ice sheets at the poles will continue to melt away for hundreds of years, causing up to three metres of sea level rise that will imperil coastal cities,
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/07/melting-arctic-sea-ice-summer-report

# General Information / Other News
The Rothschilds Murdered at least Seven US Presidents: The Rothschilds have a habit of murdering Presidents who don’t follow their orders. A curious but very credible Internet document called ‘The Mardi Gras Secrets’ states that Illuminati agents poisoned and killed Presidents William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). They also poisoned James Buchanan in 1857 but he survived. All three were obstructing Illuminati- House of Rothschild plans for the US Civil War (1860-1865). The document also describes the Illuminati role in the murder of Abraham Lincoln (1865)
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/11/07/the-rothschilds-murdered-at-least-seven-us-presidents-2/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin:  Have they published “a world map” and “marked all the U.S. military bases on it” yet: “American submarines are on permanent alert off the Norwegian coast; they are equipped with missiles that can reach Moscow in 17 minutes. But we dismantled all of our bases in Cuba a long time ago, even the non-strategic ones. And you would call us aggressive?”
https://rightedition.com/2018/01/10/putin-published-world-map-marked-u-s-military-bases-yet/

Kremlin Enemies Meet to Plot Violent ‘Elimination’ of Putin: The anti-Kremlin group, which includes several former Russian politicians, met in Poland and discussed staging a civil war, taking up arms, and killing Vladimir Putin.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-enemies-of-kremlin-meet-in-poland-to-plot-violent-elimination-of-vladimir-putin

The Weakness of the Despot: An expert on Stalin discusses Putin, Russia, and the West: The worst part of this dynamic in Russian history is the conflation of the Russian state with a personal ruler. Instead of getting the strong state that they want, to manage the gulf with the West and push and force Russia up to the highest level, they instead get a personalist regime. They get a dictatorship, which usually becomes a despotism. They’ve been in this bind for a while because they cannot relinquish that sense of exceptionalism, that aspiration to be the greatest power, but they cannot match that in reality.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/stephen-kotkin-putin-russia-ukraine-stalin

# Gov / Politics / US
How Tennessee Disenfranchised 21% of Its Black Citizens: While many states have made it easier for people convicted of felonies to vote, Tennessee has gone in the other direction. Leola Scott tried to register to vote, she learned she’s not allowed to cast a ballot because she was convicted of nonviolent felonies nearly 20 years ago.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-black-voters-disenfranchised

These 20 Churches Supported Political Candidates. Experts Say They Violated Federal Law. Churches aren’t supposed to endorse political candidates, according to IRS rules. Across the country, churches appear to be doing so anyway.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/07/churches-list-violations-johnson-amendment/

Chicago Officials Withhold Key Financial Information as City Hands Public Housing Land Over to Wealthy Ally of the Mayor: Mayor Lori Lightfoot has pushed a plan to lease public housing land to the Chicago Fire soccer team. But as the deal awaits federal approval, the Chicago Housing Authority has kept key details hidden from the public and other officials.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-fire-lightfoot-public-housing-abla

‘Everyone will be watching’: US midterms cast a long shadow over COP27: Some fear the outcome of the 8 November elections might derail US leadership on the global climate crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/07/us-midterms-cop27-cast-long-shadow

Hope for Progressive Victories May Lie in Races You Haven’t Heard About Yet. Some of the most progressive policy making this year may come via ballot measure.
https://truthout.org/articles/hope-for-progressive-victories-may-lie-in-races-you-havent-heard-about-yet/

Fossil Fuel Firms Spent Millions in Bid to Defeat Democrats in the Midterms: The industry gave Republican super PACs at least $32 million to fight Democrats such as Ohio’s Tim Ryan.
https://truthout.org/articles/fossil-fuel-firms-spent-millions-in-bid-to-defeat-democrats-in-the-midterms/

John Fetterman’s Pa. Senate campaign is suing to have undated and misdated ballots counted: Republicans had successfully gotten thousands of ballots discounted in a lawsuit last week. There will likely be tens of thousands of undated and wrongly dated ballots rejected statewide under a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling.
https://truthout.org/articles/fetterman-sues-to-get-thousands-of-ballots-set-aside-by-gop-lawsuit-counted/

1 in 5 Black Voters in Tennessee Have Been Disenfranchised by State Policies: The state makes little data available about who has lost the right to vote and why.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/who-counts/in-tennessee-1-in-5-black-residents-are-barred-from-voting/

Arizona’s Rollback of Indigenous Voting Rights Could Swing the State for the GOP: Indigenous voters are navigating a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that banned a common method of ballot collection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGeV28WU4z4

Supreme Court Gives Green Light to GOP Voter Suppression Laws. The ruling in favor of Arizona voting restrictions has national reverberations. The Supreme Court upheld two Republican-backed voting restrictions in the state of Arizona on Thursday, giving a green light to Republican efforts to make it harder for Democratic-leaning constituencies to vote.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/supreme-court-gives-a-green-light-to-gop-voter-suppression-laws/

# Law Enforcement
Detroit Cops Want $7 Million in COVID Relief Money for Surveillance Microphones: Detroit’s city council will soon vote on whether to spend millions in federal cash meant to ease the economic pains of the coronavirus pandemic on ShotSpotter, a controversial surveillance technology critics say is invasive, discriminatory, and fundamentally broken.
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/17/police-surveillance-shotspotter-detroit/

# Medical / Health
Amazon’s Health Care Creep Should Alarm Americans: Amazon’s flagship subscription service, Prime, counts 166 million people as members and has become the default way many Americans shop for nearly everything. Amazon, however, now wants to take the Prime model to our healthcare system, a move that comes with serious data privacy concerns.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/21/us-regulators-urged-block-amazons-terrifying-purchase-one-medical

E-cigarettes linked with blood vessel damage: Both cigarette smokers and e-cigarette users had impaired blood vessel function and increased, but different, signs of inflammation.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/e-cigarettes-linked-blood-vessel-damage

Breast cancer awareness slogans like “Save the Boobies” and “Save Second Base” are factually incorrect and sexualize the disease. The issue is less about an individual’s decision to promote these slogans, and more about companies profiting off of people’s pain in what has come to be known as “pinkwashing.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiecamero/tiktok-breast-cancer-awareness-slogans

# Medical Technology
Two living participants receive the world’s first lab-grown blood transfusions in UK trial: Lab-brewed blood is being put to the test in a world-first clinical trial in the UK. The trial will involve living subjects receiving tiny transfusions, around a few spoonfuls each, of the liquid, to see how it interacts with their bodies.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/artificial-blood-transfusion-uk-trial-89235234/

# Pharmas / Drugs
First RSV Emergency Declared as Pfizer and GSK Race to Get Vaccines Approved: GSK nabbed a priority review and a May 3 approval action date for its RSV vaccine in older adults. Pfizer isn’t far behind, with an early stop for the trial of its vaccine given to pregnant women to protect infants and eyeing an approval filing by year-end.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/pfizer-gsk-prep-battle-they-look-create-worlds-first-ever-rsv-vaccine-market

Dr. Pierre Kory, How and Why Pharma Killed Ivermectin: Daily ivermectin use is a mainstay of the treatment plans for long-haulers and those with COVID-19 jab injuries, as the drug very effectively binds to the toxic spike protein that is causing most of the damage in both of these conditions.
Methylene blue can be helpful for those struggling with crippling fatigue, as it boosts mitochondrial respiration and improves energy metabolism. It’s actually the parent molecule for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, off-patent drugs used to treat COVID-19 along with zinc.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/war-on-ivermectin-pierre-kory-big-pharma-cola/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=82daed9a-dac6-4015-8666-054c6c84e867

Moderna’s Spikevax Carries Higher Risk of Myocarditis Than Pfizer’s Comirnaty, Study Says
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/modernas-spikevax-comes-2-3-times-higher-risk-myocarditis-comirnaty-new-study-shows

# Technology
Musk Considers Putting ALL of Twitter Behind Paywall: The shakeup would be the biggest change to the site since Musk’s $44 billion takeover. Elon Musk’s plans to charge a monthly fee of $8 for Twitter users to verify their accounts has been met with widespread resistance, but his plans to monetize the platform could go even further.
https://fortune.com/2022/11/08/elon-musk-twitter-paywall-could-sound-the-death-knell-experts-warn/

TikTok Browser Can Track Users’ Keystrokes, According to New Research: When TikTok users enter a website through a link on the app, TikTok inserts code that can monitor much of their activity on those outside websites, including their keystrokes and whatever they tap on the page, according to new research shared with Forbes. The tracking would make it possible for TikTok to capture a user’s credit card information or password.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2022/08/18/tiktok-in-app-browser-research/?sh=7fff3cdf7c55

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