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Voices, The Peoples News

November 7, 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
In a first, US pays tribes to move away from climate threats: The Interior Department has selected the winners of a new competition to relocate communities vulnerable to climate change. In Louisiana, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe has been awarded a natural disaster grant to resettle away from their sinking land. But other indigenous Americans have no way out. The tiny Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe has called the coastal marshlands of southern Louisiana home ever since their ancestors settled there to avoid forced relocation under the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/23/native-american-tribes-first-nations-climate-change-environment-indican-removal-act

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
The fight to stop Republicans from killing wolves and grizzlies: Two new lawsuits want to hold federal and state leaders accountable for failing to protect the iconic predators.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/05/wolf-grizzly-bear-hunt-endangered/

# Border / Immigration
Lost in the politicized conversation over the busing of migrants is the burden of nonprofits and volunteers who’ve had to create infrastructure to support the influx of people being moved across the country with little to no communication between the political leaders involved. Texas transported about 13,000 migrants to New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. In the absence of communication, nonprofits are having to pick up the pieces for this mass movement of migrants.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/07/texas-migrant-busing-nonprofit/

# Chemicals
Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Lurking in Children’s Textiles, Pet Food Packaging: The environmental toxins known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been found in products geared toward vulnerable pets and babies.
https://www.ecowatch.com/pfas-pets-and-babies.html

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Biden blames unvaccinated for US’s COVID-19 slog. Here We Go Again: Biden’s remarks represented a notable shift in tone as he more sternly confronts Americans who have not got the COVID-19 vaccine and conservative politicians who have spouted anti-vaccine messages or opposed coronavirus-related mandates.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/571593-biden-blames-unvaccinated-for-covid-19s-slog/

The White House is blaming the wrong people for the coming covid-19 wave: Only days after the suggestion that the US makes free at-home tests available for everyone in the US was met with scorn by White House press secretary Jen Psaki, the officials leading the covid-19 response took another step in the wrong direction, blaming the crisis on unvaccinated people, and all but suggesting they will deserve covid-19, if it comes their way.
https://qz.com/2104281/the-white-house-is-wrong-to-blame-the-unvaccinated-for-omicron

Jen Psaki Accidentally Tells the Truth About How Expensive Covid Rapid Tests Are in U.S. When Psaki scoffed at the idea of sending Americans free Covid-19 rapid tests, it was a reminder that a for-profit health care system still limits the U.S. pandemic response.
https://theintercept.com/2021/12/07/jen-psaki-cant-explain-americans-dont-get-free-home-covid-tests/

Health Care System Mandates COVID Shot, Withdraws Religious and Medical Exemptions: The Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health-care workers could spark an uptick in litigation challenging the denial of medical and religious exemptions to the controversial rule. The interim regulation from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires more than 17 million employees to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4, 2022. But it also allows workers to forgo the shots if they have valid religious objections or medical reasons.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/vaccine-exemption-bids-for-health-care-workers-to-spark-lawsuits

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Top Fed Official: Fed will  “keep at this” until your savings accounts are drained: Kansas City Fed President Esther George should be celebrated for being honest about how the Federal Reserve works. Federal Reserve raised its target for interest rates by another 0.75 percent. The target has now gone up overall by 3.75 percent since earlier this year, a steep increase that is essentially an attempt by the Fed to slam the brakes on the U.S. economy and stomp out inflation.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/04/federal-reserve-interest-rates-savings/

House analysis confirms corporations use ‘cover of inflation to raise prices excessively’: “It is unacceptable that certain companies and industries are engaged in extreme price hikes under the cover of inflation,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/vaccine-exemption-bids-for-health-care-workers-to-spark-lawsuits

# Education / Schools
The Texas Education Agency announced a set of school safety proposals that would require public schools to install silent panic alarms, automatic locks on exterior doors and other changes to bolster security. These proposed requirements could take effect this school year after the Texas Education Agency takes public comment into consideration.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/04/texas-schools-add-panic-buttons-uvalde/

# Employment / Labor
Why are mass layoffs at Twitter happening now? Mass layoffs at Twitter have shaped up to be a bloodbath; Bloomberg reported that new Twitter owner Elon Musk planned to lay off half the staff at the 7,500-person company. Claims that the social media platform’s entire curation team was dismissed prompts fears content could become ‘more toxic’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk-revenue-drop

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Biden Promises ‘No More Drilling’ Just Days After Demanding More Drilling: The remarks could prove controversial, as gas prices have risen sharply during Biden’s time in office and some blame his anti-oil policies for contributing to the surge. The average price of a gallon of gas was $2.31 per gallon when Biden took office. It peaked above $5 per gallon this summer, and sits at $3.80 now, according to AAA.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/biden-promises-no-more-drilling-two-days-before-crucial-midterm-elections

30 Companies Emit Nearly Half the Energy Sector’s Methane: Thirty fossil fuel companies contribute to nearly half of the energy sector’s methane emissions, according to a Global Energy Monitor Analysis.
https://www.ecowatch.com/companies-methane-pollution.html

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
In the eye of the storm: The sea level rise is occurring faster than anywhere else in the world because the South Jersey coastline continues to sink. In a remote corner of N.J., a watch is kept on climate change, rising seas, and sometimes hurricanes
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/11/in-the-eye-of-the-storm.html

Egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering microplastics from seawater: Researchers at Princeton Engineering have found a way to turn your breakfast food into a new material that can cheaply remove salt and microplastics from seawater. The researchers used egg whites to create an aerogel, a lightweight and porous material that can be used in many types of applications, including water filtration, energy storage, and sound and thermal insulation.
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-egg-whites-material-capable-filtering.html

Greenpeace Report; ‘Most Plastic Is Just Not Recyclable’: We can’t recycle our way out of the plastic pollution crisis. That’s the definitive conclusion of a new Greenpeace report released Monday that found that only five to six percent of plastics in the U.S. were actually recycled, a major decline from the still relatively low highs of 9.5 percent in 2014 and 8.7 percent in 2018.
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/the-myth-of-single-use-plastic-and-recycling/

# Environment / Climate / Global
As climate change worsens, Egypt is begging families to have fewer kids: The Egyptian government sees large families as an existential threat to the country at a time of dwindling natural resources. The Egyptian government noted that the issue is more urgent than ever, as rising temperatures pose a grave threat to the country’s food and water supplies.
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/egypt-begging-families-to-have-fewer-kids-as-climate-change-worsens-article-95337188

New unusual bee species discovered with dog-like snout: A new native bee species with a dog-like “snout” has been discovered in Perth bushland though Curtin-led research that sheds new light on our most important pollinators. Dr. Prendergast said the rare and remarkable finding would add to existing knowledge about our evolving biodiversity and ensure the bees, named Leioproctus zephyr, were protected by conservation efforts.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-unusual-bee-species-dog-like-snout.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
New evidence shows pesticides contain PFAS, and scale of contamination is unknown: Our new investigation found significant sources of ‘forever chemicals’ on farmland and in communities. The EPA knows that plastic containers are leaching toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into pesticides. But PFAS are also ending up in pesticides from other sources in much higher quantities
https://civileats.com/2022/11/07/pfas-forever-chemicals-pesticides-pollution-farmland-mosquito-control-epa-inert-ingredients/

# General Information / Other News
Democracy in America and Israel: What will it take to hold onto it? The parallels and cross-influences are ominous. When formerly democratic countries descend into fascism, can they come back? In the case of Germany and Italy, both of which had only weak democratic institutions, it took the catastrophic loss of a war and an occupation.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/democracy-in-america-and-israel/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Following a barrage of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced that the capital must brace itself for the possibility of a winter without heat, electricity, or water. Officials are also considering the complete evacuation of the city’s three million residents, and are preparing to lose Kyiv’s entire electricity system.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/06/kyiv-winter-water-heat-power-ukraine-russia-00065327

# Gov / Politics / US
With Competing Florida Rallies Sunday, Trump and DeSantis Preview a Potential GOP Presidential Primary Showdown: Multiple people familiar with the planning around Trump’s rally, which will feature Sen. Marco Rubio and is part of a four-city tour, said DeSantis wasn’t invited and didn’t ask to attend.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/05/trump-desantis-barrel-toward-2024-00065247

Four years after restoring voting rights for people convicted of a felony, an estimated 1 million Florida residents still can’t vote: In 2018, over 64% of Florida voters restored voting rights to people convicted of felonies once they completed prison, parole, and/or probation.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/florida-felons-voter-fraud-disenfranchisement

U.S.-China global influence battle takes center stage at COP27: Biden and Xi will offer competing initiatives for developing world support.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/06/cop27-china-climate-action-00065279

Before you vote for a senator, here are some facts about what they actually do: Thirty-five Senate seats are up for grabs in the midterm elections. What tasks and responsibilities await the winners?
https://theconversation.com/before-you-vote-for-a-senator-here-are-some-facts-about-what-they-actually-do-193703

Trumpists Are Testing Out New Voter Suppression Tactics in the 2022 Election: Twenty-eight bills have already passed that would make law enforcement more involved in the voting process.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumpists-are-testing-out-new-voter-suppression-tactics-in-the-2022-election/

# LGBTQ
What Does The Bible Say About Homosexuality? At the heart of the claim that the Bible is clear “that homosexuality is forbidden by God” is poor biblical scholarship and a cultural bias read into the Bible. Although its unlikely that the biblical authors had any notion of sexual orientation (for example, the term homosexual wasn’t even coined until the late 19th century.)
https://www.hrc.org/resources/what-does-the-bible-say-about-homosexuality

Puberty blockers, hormones, and gender affirmation surgery are no longer available to trans Florida minors. The state medical board, which was entirely appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, banned doctors from offering care to minors seeking to transition. This restriction is the first of its kind to circumvent the state House, where the ban was denied twice.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/florida-restricts-gender-affirmation-care-for-minors

LGBTQ equality is on the ballot , jJust not the way you think: Attacks on LGBTQ rights are hiding in plain sight in the 2022 midterm elections.  Threats to LGBTQ rights and lives are on the ballot, albeit in ways that might be hidden from many voters
https://truthout.org/articles/lgbtq-equality-is-on-the-ballot-just-not-in-the-way-you-think/

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Legal history of cannabis in the United States: Cannabis was officially outlawed for any use (medical included) with the passage of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Multiple efforts to reschedule cannabis under the CSA have failed, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Cooperative and Gonzales v. Raich that the federal government has a right to regulate and criminalize cannabis, even for medical purposes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States

Here’s Why Legalized Pot Won’t End the War on Due Process: Law enforcement still doesn’t need a legitimate reason to destroy your life and seize your money. Satellite images showed greenhouses on Blu Graham’s property in the Emerald Triangle, a region known for cannabis cultivation, and the Humboldt County Planning and Building Department simply assumed he was growing marijuana without paying the county the rebate. Based on nothing else, the government found Graham guilty of growing cannabis without a license, a civil offense in a state with legalized marijuana.
https://www.uktimenews.com/this-is-why-legalized-pot-wont-end-the-war-on-due-process/

Texas was warned its hemp law would complicate marijuana prosecutions. Lawmakers didn’t listen: Crime labs repeatedly told lawmakers and budget officials that they couldn’t distinguish between hemp and marijuana without new testing resources. The issue got almost no attention.
https://www.texastribune.org/series/texas-marijuana-hemp-cbd-medical-marijuana/

The Push to Decriminalize Marijuana Possession Continues, Town by Town: In next week’s midterm elections, voters in Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota will consider statewide initiatives that would legalize recreational marijuana use for adults. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia already have legalized recreational marijuana. Medical cannabis is legal in nearly 40 states, plus the District of Columbia. Marijuana-related measures also will be on the ballot in dozens of municipalities in six other states, including Texas, another indication of how the nation’s attitudes toward marijuana are quickly evolving.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/11/02/the-push-to-decriminalize-marijuana-possession-continues-town-by-town

# Medical Alternatives / Herbology
This Little Weed is one of the Most Useful Medicines on the Planet:  Those bushy green leaves and small, stalk-like buds are part of the miraculous plantain. Plantain is one of the most medicinally powerful “nuisance” plants. For hundreds of years, plantain has been used as one of nature’s most powerful medicines, and for very good reason.
https://gardeningsoul.com/this-little-weed-is-one-of-the-most-useful-medicines-on-the-planet/

# Medical / Health
Limiting Access to Contraception Is the Latest Example of PBM Funny Business: A new report from the House Oversight Committee finds health insurers and Pharmacy Benefit Managers are limiting access to no-cost, birth-control options, contrary to the intentions laid out in the Affordable Care Act.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3703498-house-investigation-finds-insurers-benefit-managers-improperly-limit-access-to-birth-control/

Kentucky Lawmakers Seek Exclusive Control Over Residents’ Reproductive Rights: A Kentucky ballot measure, Amendment 2, would bar state courts from considering the constitutionality of abortion.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/06/kentucky-abortion-amendment-2/

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# Military / DOD
Ukraine War is ‘Warmup’ for U.S. in Face of China “Threat”: Stratcom Commander:     The war in Ukraine isn’t the largest conflict that the U.S. will see right now—it must be prepared for a global conflict involving China.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-war-us-china-threat-warning-charles-richard-1756972

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Voices, The Peoples News

November 6, 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
Border Patrol union tells ACLU ‘go to Hell,’ over migrant fight, urges votes for pro-border defense candidates: After another clash with foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S., the union representing Border Patrol agents is urging Americans to vote on Nov. 8 for candidates who will defend them, the rule of law, and the southern border
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/border-patrol-union-aclu-migrant-fight-votes-for-pro-border-defense-candidates

‘Wilful Ignorance’: Indigenous Delegation Incredulous At Bankers’ Attitude to Fossil Fuel Impacts:
Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global banks cease financing new fossil fuel projects on their ancestral lands in what is today North America.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/11/04/wilful-ignorance-indigenous-delegation-incredulous-at-bankers-attitude-to-fossil-fuel-impacts/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Gut issues and Covid-19: A team of medics at NYU Langone Health in the US analysed 96 men and women who were hospitalized in New York City with the virus in 2020. Their analysis reveal that around a quarter of patients studied had their guts compromised, meaning they were less resilient than others, making it harder to fight off infections. Symptoms such as headaches, brain fog and ringing in the ears have been reported, and recently, physicians are seeing more patients with gastrointestinal problems.
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/long-covid-and-the-digestive-system-mayo-clinic-expert-describes-common-symptoms/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
How Democrats and Republicans Want to Change Social Security, Explained in Plain English: Today we’re going to break down three complex topics that’ll be explained in plain English:
* How America’s top retirement program got itself into financial trouble.
* The Social Security changes Democrats and Republicans want to make to strengthen the program.
* Why a resolution to Social Security’s problems is a ways off.
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2022/11/05/democrats-republicans-want-change-social-security/

‘Why put seniors through that?’ Chuck Todd corners Rick Scott for plot to cut Social Security: While speaking to Scott on Sunday, Todd noted that the senator has called for making Social Security and Medicare eligible for cuts every five years. “Why do that?” Todd wondered. “Why put Social Security into sort of the political arena every five years? Why put seniors through that? Why do you think that’s a good idea?”
https://www.rawstory.com/rick-scott-social-security/

# Employment / Labor
Rail Unions Got Pressured Into a Bad Deal, Now Workers Are Threatening to Strike: If one railroad union strikes, 11 more could respect the picket line and shut down the nation’s railway infrastructure.
https://truthout.org/articles/rail-unions-got-pressured-into-a-bad-deal-now-workers-are-threatening-to-strike/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
A caustic shift is coming for the Arctic Ocean: Scientists have already begun to observe the ecological effects of acidifying oceans on sea life. The changes ahead may be more drastic.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-caustic-shift-is-coming-for-the-arctic-ocean/

Drought, fire, insects destroyed nearly a third of southern Sierra Nevada forest in last decade: In just 10 years, fires, drought, and insect infestations have devastated close to a third of forests in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. The Sierra Nevada region of California covers nearly 27 million acres of forests that provide habitat for thousands of animal species and is home to dozens of species of conifers, including native redwoods (the world’s tallest trees), sequoias (the world’s widest trees), or Great Basin bristlecone pines (the world’s longest living trees).
https://www.earth.com/news/one-third-of-sierra-nevada-forest-wiped-out-by-drought-and-fires/

DeSmog Launches Project to ‘DeBunk’ Climate Misinformation: Anti-climate politicians, media and think tanks are pumping out false and misleading arguments which erode public support for climate action.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/10/31/desmog-launches-project-to-debunk-climate-misinformation/

# Environment / Climate / Global
‘Earth is in our hands’: Astronaut Pesquet’s plea for the planet: From his unique viewpoint hundreds of kilometres above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told AFP he felt helpless watching fires rage across the planet below, calling for more to be done to protect this fragile “island of life”.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-earth-astronaut-pesquet-plea-planet.html

‘Carbon timebomb’: Climate crisis threatens to destroy Congo peatlands: The Congo peatlands are a huge carbon ‘timebomb’ that could be triggered by the climate crisis, research has shown. Scientists are now worried that human-caused global heating could tip the fragile system over the edge once more, accelerating the climate crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/02/carbon-timebomb-climate-crisis-threatens-to-destroy-congo-peatlands

100-Year-Old Community Forced To Move As Caribbean Island Sinks: Residents of Gardi Sugdub are the first to be moved by the government to the Panama mainland as the sea rises, but several other communities will soon be impacted. They’ll become the first residents of Latin America to be moved by the government because their island, home to a community for 100 years, is fated to disappear beneath the rising sea
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gardi-sugdub-panama-climate-change-island-evacuation_n_63671b0ee4b06f38ded53721

# General Information / Other News
8 billion humans: How population growth and climate change are connected as the ‘Anthropocene engine’ transforms the planet: The UN estimates the global population will pass 8 billion people on Nov. 15, 2022. From the Stone Age to today, here’s how things spiraled out of control.
https://theconversation.com/8-billion-humans-how-population-growth-and-climate-change-are-connected-as-the-anthropocene-engine-transforms-the-planet-193075

The Anti-Defamation League has partnered with researchers from Princeton University on a new subjective “data collection initiative” to track so-called threats and criticism of elected officials. Why it matters: Last week’s brutal attack on Paul Pelosi was the most dramatic manifestation of the recent rise in threats targeting politicians, candidates and election workers.
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/01/princeton-threats-officials-elections-harassment

Why Donald Trump’s Business is Now Being Watched: Just one day after Donald Trump managed to shut down a lawsuit, the former POTUS might now have been landed with new legal trouble as a judge orders that the Trump Organization be kept under observation. But why is Trump’s business being watched?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulH3DVgbpiM

# Gov / Politics / Global
It’s a Coup: Team Biden Bragged About Rigging Brazil Election Against President Bolsonaro Before Election Day: Just two days ago, Foreign Policy magazines admitted, and bragged that Biden was involved in Brazil’s presidential election. “How Team Biden Tried to Coup-Proof Brazil’s Elections,” reads the headline. Biden personnel from the White House, Defense Department, State Department, and CIA all took part in threatening the Bolsonaro administration in rare, escalatory diplomatic meetings. Then, they took their false narratives to the corporate media.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/coup-team-biden-bragged-rigging-brazil-election-president-bolsonaro-election-day-says-stop-steal-leader-ali-alexander/

Saudi Arabia, U.S. on High Alert After Warning of Imminent Iranian Attack: Saudis said Tehran wants to distract from local protests, and the National Security Council said the U.S. is prepared to respond. Despite crackdowns and internet shutdowns, demonstrations against the Iranian government have grown into one of the biggest challenges to its leadership in four decades. WSJ maps out how protests have bubbled up across Iranian society.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-u-s-on-high-alert-after-warning-of-imminent-iranian-attack-11667319274

# Gov / Politics / US
RNC chair says committee can’t pay Trump’s legal bills if he announces 2024 run
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3721990-rnc-chair-says-committee-cant-pay-trumps-legal-bills-if-he-announces-2024-run/

# Law Enforcement
The State Department is giving law enforcement and intelligence agencies unrestricted access to the personal data of more than 145 million Americans, through information from passport applications that is shared without legal process or any apparent oversight
https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-state-dept-gives-law-enforcement-intelligence-agencies-unrestricted-access-to-americans-personal-data-020409616.html

Hundreds of County Sheriffs Think Their Authority Supersedes Federal Law: The survey shows an alarming rate of popularity for the so-called constitutional sheriff movement.
https://truthout.org/articles/survey-hundreds-of-county-sheriffs-think-their-authority-supersedes-federal-law/

Latest QAnon killer had murder hit list: Rory Banks’ murderous QAnon hunt would end in tragedy for a man who had never met him. As a sign of how common QAnon violence has become, the jury verdict was delivered the same day the violent hammer attack on Mr. Pelosi, violence committed by a suspect who, according to his blog, was also obsessed with QAnon.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-qanon-killer-had-murder-034735482.html

# Legal / DOJ
DOJ Considering Special Counsel for Trump Cases in Event He Runs for President: DOJ Considering Special Counsel for Trump Cases in Event He Runs for President. The conversations between DOJ officials indicate that indictments are likely for the former president.
https://truthout.org/articles/doj-considering-special-counsel-for-trump-cases-in-event-he-runs-for-president/

Do we really need a special counsel to indict Trump? It may be argued with some force that we will look like a banana republic if we fail to uphold the rule of law.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3721939-do-we-really-need-a-special-counsel-to-indict-trump/

A Judge Just Ruled That There Is ‘Ample Evidence’ Of ‘Conspiracy’ Between Rudy Giuliani And The Trump Campaign In Georgia: A judge ultimately ruled that two election workers presented enough evidence to justify their case against the former New York City mayor.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/judge-just-ruled-ample-evidence-220007672.html

# LGBTQ
Republicans in Midterm Races Are Embracing Anti-Trans Rhetoric Like Never Before: Politicians are targeting trans rights and spreading incorrect information about the care provided to trans youth. It’s frequently tied to the idea of ‘parental rights’ and spreads incorrect information about what kind of care is provided to trans youth.
https://19thnews.org/2022/11/election-transgender-rhetoric-gop-campaign-ads/

# Medical / Health Global
British Medical Journal’s BOMB: “US FDA Hides Data on Serious Adverse Events after Covid Vaccines”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/11/04/british-medical-journals-bomb-us-fda-hides-data-on-serious-adverse-events-after-covid-vaccines/

# Medical / Health
In Government-Regulated Healthcare, There Is No Competition Like No Competition; The Price Of A Highly Concentrated Health Care Market: Imagine you are a young, idealistic doctor. After some years in clinical practice at a private hospital you tire of the fact that more of your time is spent filling out forms and attending staff meeting than with your patients.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20130306.028873/

Sick sinus syndrome: Sick sinus syndrome is a type of heart rhythm disorder. It affects the heart’s natural pacemaker (sinus node), which controls the heartbeat. Sick sinus syndrome causes slow heartbeats, pauses (long periods between heartbeats) or irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias). Signs and symptoms of sick sinus syndrome may include:
A sensation of rapid, fluttering heartbeats (palpitations), Chest pain or discomfort, Confusion, Dizziness or lightheadedness
Fainting or near fainting, Fatigue, Shortness of breath, Slower pulse (bradycardia)
Many medical conditions can cause these problems. It’s important to get a timely and accurate diagnosis.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/sick-sinus-syndrome/ar-AA13LqRg?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=cc48c3e6605441d2b6cd69a6608bbbae

# Medical Technology
Helping the liver regenerate itself could give patients an option other than a transplant: Mayo Clinic transplant surgeons, hepatologists and other researchers in the Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics are developing and refining a number of regenerative liver therapies for patients who today must wait for whole-liver transplants.
https://www.mayo.edu/research/centers-programs/center-regenerative-biotherapeutics/focus-areas/liver-regeneration

# Military / DOD
‘Committed to Ukraine for as Long as It Takes’; Pentagon announces another $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, establishes headquarters in Germany to handle shipments and training: The Defense Department announced Friday that it will provide another $400 million aid package for Ukraine. The assistance includes, for the first time, funding to refurbish 45 tanks from the Czech Republic. It also includes 1,100 drones, 40 armored boats and money to refurbish air defense missiles and armored vehicles. The Netherlands will provide another 45 refurbished tanks.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3210297/400-million-in-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

Air Force adds nine inns to closure list as funding struggles persist: Nine more Air Force inns are shuttering and others may follow suit as the service struggles to sustain its network of dozens of lodges without taxpayer funding. All the inns in the latest closure round are in the United States.
https://defensecommunities.org/2022/11/air-force-to-close-nine-more-u-s-inns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=air-force-to-close-nine-more-u-s-inns

# Military / Global
‘This is a strong warning’: Austin, South Korean defense chief condemn North’s missile launches, agree to strengthen defenses. The United States and South Korea have agreed to strengthen their alliance and defenses and increase training after a flurry of new missile launches this week by North Korea, the military leaders of both countries said Thursday.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3209711/secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-and-south-korean-minister-of-national-d/

Japan suspects North Korean missile that sparked take-shelter alerts was an ICBM: North Korea fired at least four ballistic missiles, including a possible ICBM on Thursday.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/north-korea-fires-suspected-icbm-missile-that-sent-triggered-shelter-alert-in-japan

# Planetary
Marsquakes hint that the planet might be volcanically active after all: Seismic data recorded by NASA’s InSight lander suggest molten rock moves tens of kilometers below the planet’s fractured Cerberus Fossae region.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-quakes-volcanic-activity-planet-nasa-insight#:~:text=Researchers%20have%20analyzed%20a%20slew,October%2027%20in%20Nature%20Astronomy

# Social
Hate in America is on the rise. It’s making it more dangerous for everyone from politicians to librarians to do their jobs. The FBI and other federal agencies recently warned other security agencies of the potential of violence on or following America’s midterm elections, according to documents obtained by NPR
* Hate-motivated incidents in 37 US cities increased in 2021 and appear to be trending upward.
* Politicians, poll workers, and even librarians report growing harassment, threats, and attacks.
* The midterm elections and the 2024 presidential race could make the situation worse.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hate-america-rise-making-more-101500280.html

# Veterans / VA
SBA announces certification process for veteran small businesses to receive contracts: The U.S. Small Business Administration is streamlining its efforts to help veteran-owned small businesses access federal grant dollars ahead of Veterans Day next week
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/sba-announces-certification-process-for-veteran-small-businesses-to-receive-contracts/article_904cd4ae-5b91-11ed-89bb-fb5468ecbe4c.html

# Water
Water is drying up in Arizona because foreign owned megafarms are sucking it up for their crops: That’s because, according to Gary Saiter, a resident and head of the Wenden Water Improvement District, the water was being literally and rapidly pumped out of the ground by a neighboring well belonging to a United Arab Emirates-based company. It’s important because residents of towns Wenden and Salome get their water from the same source as farms – underground pools – but declining water tables in the area show levels have dropped from about 100 feet in the 1950s to about 540 feet in 2022.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/water-is-drying-up-in-arizona-because-foreign-owned-megafarms-are-sucking-it-up-for-their-crops/ar-AA13MYM7?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=cc48c3e6605441d2b6cd69a6608bbbae

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# Indigenous
Despite an optimistic jobs report, new data shows Native American unemployment remains staggeringly high: Persistently high levels of unemployment for Native Americans may be related to the structural racism that permeates the U.S. economy, affecting educational access and attainment as well as employment opportunities for many communities of color.
https://ground.news/article/despite-an-optimistic-jobs-report-new-data-shows-native-american-unemployment-remains-staggeringly-high

# Border / Immigration
New York City opens another hotel for bused-in migrants: The number of migrants seeking asylum in New York City has waned in recent weeks. The third Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center will soon open 175 rooms at the Hotel Wolcott in Midtown Manhattan with a focus on providing shelter and resources for single women and adult families coming to New York, according to a release from the mayor’s office.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/new_york/new-york-city-opens-another-hotel-for-bused-in-migrants/article_ef609be0-5bb1-11ed-8388-b3a6b7e2ddc1.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Survey: Growing number of small businesses can’t pay rent: Newly released small business survey data shows that an alarming number of businesses are unable to pay rent. According to the report, small businesses cited several reasons for being unable to pay rent, including higher rent costs, gas prices, recessionary fears, supply chain issues, labor costs, less consumer spending and “the cumulative, negative impact of more than a year of high inflation, which has absorbed most sales gains.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/survey-growing-number-of-small-businesses-can-t-pay-rent/article_faded89c-59ea-11ed-8079-5f9f9f787122.html

This graph shows where surging corporate profits increasingly go; Tax havens: The global corporate minimum tax would ensure all companies worldwide pay a minimum tax of 15% and would require higher taxes of large companies in countries where they have customers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/03/graph-shows-where-surging-corporate-profits-increasingly-go-tax-havens

# Education / Schools
Angry Right-Wing Moms Are Trying to Have Librarians Arrested by ‘Constitutional Sheriffs’: Coty Wamp won that promotion to district attorney and was one of the earliest law enforcement figures to begin to establish a frightening new alliance between far-right sheriff’s offices and the radical right-wing parent’s group seeking to upend America’s educational system.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/ron-desantis-moms-for-liberty-florida-book-bans.html

Hoodie Ban Fuels Wild Brawls and 10 Arrests on H.S. Campus: A Pennsylvania school board ultimately backpedaled on the new ban after a four-hour emergency meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pwDiG8GB0

# Employment / Labor
Nearly two open jobs for every unemployed worker, data shows: There are nearly two open jobs for every unemployed worker in the U.S., the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics new employment data shows
https://www.news-journal.com/nearly-two-open-jobs-for-every-unemployed-worker-data-shows/article_1fbde0f6-4e6f-5784-aa26-c3cbf31ea281.html

Twitter Sued by Staff as Elon Musk’s Mass Layoffs Begin: Workers say the cuts are coming without enough notice to be legal: The lawsuit, brought on behalf of five Twitter employees so far, says one was fired on 1 November, while three were not informed at the time of filing but had been locked out of their email accounts. “Plaintiffs here are reasonably concerned that, absent court intervention, Twitter will engage in similar behaviour and seek releases from laid-off employees without informing them of their rights or the pendency of this case,” the filing stated.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/twitter-sued-by-former-staff-as-elon-musk-begins-mass-sackings

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
The White House announces a net-zero initiative that will pour federal funding into research and development of clean fuels, building efficiency, and other “game-changing” clean energy technologies.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/white-house-releases-net-zero-road-map/

Readout of the Fifth Greening Government Initiative Meeting: GGI Countries Shared Ways They are Leading the Transition to Net-Zero Emission Transportation by Greening Their National Government Vehicle Fleets
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updates/2022/09/20/readout-of-the-fifth-greening-government-initiative-meeting/

Biden-Harris Administration Releases Bold Agenda to Reduce Emissions Across America’s Industrial Sector: DOE Report Identifies Pathways for Decarbonizing Critical Components of American Industry, Announces $104 Million to Fund Emission Reduction Technologies and Build on President Biden’s Climate Agenda
https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-releases-bold-agenda-reduce-emissions-across-americas

Republicans in Congress are dusting off past plans to address climate change as they prepare for the likely prospect they will win control of at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections next week. Their ideas include planting millions of trees and boosting energy efficiency, hydropower, nuclear energy and carbon sequestration. They would also increase domestic fossil fuel production by expanding federal oil and gas leasing and banning energy development moratoriums on federal lands.
https://worldoil.com/news/2022/11/3/gop-plans-to-offer-oil-gas-and-trees-as-climate-fixes-in-next-congress/#:~:text=Their%20ideas%20include%20planting%20millions,development%20moratoriums%20on%20federal%20lands

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
This loophole allows pesticide-coated seeds to kill birds. It’s time to close it: Pesticides kill almost 100 million birds every year in the United States, and a federal loophole ensures this crisis will continue. Changing the special status of coated seeds is a long overdue step for wildlife conservation in the U.S.
https://www.ehn.org/pesticides-and-birds-2658578889.html

Port Arthur pollution fight shows how Texas blocks citizen protests: A local activist went before a judge, arguing for lower pollution limits on two new liquified natural gas facilities. The judge sided with him, but the state environmental agency sided with the companies.
https://localtoday.news/tx/port-arthur-pollution-fight-shows-texas-blocking-citizen-protests-houston-public-media-88979.html

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
If the Mexican government bans genetically modified corn, the country’s poorest and America’s farmers will suffer the most: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador administration has prioritized the country’s smaller farms, and a ban on biotech corn and glyphosate appears to be part of that broader effort. The cost, however, is steep.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/11/04/viewpoint-if-the-mexican-government-bans-genetically-modified-corn-the-countrys-poorest-and-americas-farmers-will-suffer-the-most/

# General Information / Other News
American Who Snuck Out of Dad’s House to Fight Putin Is Dead: Skyler Greggs, 23, was interviewed by The Daily Beast from a hospital bed in Ukraine back in June.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-snuck-dad-house-fight-083853494.html

Exiled Putin foe who sold home to Ivanka Trump mysteriously found dead in DC: A well-known businessman living in exile in the US after criticizing Russia’s Vladimir Putin was found dead outside his apartment building in an upscale neighborhood of Washington, DC, police said. Dan Rapoport, 52, was discovered lying on the sidewalk outside 2400 Main St. apartments in the Georgetown neighborhood shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday, according to police. Police said they made the grim discovery after responding to a call about a “jumper.”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/17/putin-foe-dan-rapoport-found-dead-in-washington-dc/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia Hopes to Solve Low Morale By Killing Deserters: Russian’s Vladimir Putin sparked the wrath of his own people by drafting hundreds of thousands to join the war against Ukraine, and now it seems some of those men were sent not to fight the so-called “enemy” but to “snuff out” any of the Russian troops who dare to retreat.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-now-second-frontline-set-123404714.html

# Gov / Politics / US
House GOP Unveils Road Map For Making Biden’s Life Hell: The “Commitment to America” includes four broad pillars focusing on the economy, safety, individual freedom and government accountability. Big on ideas (“expand U.S. manufacturing”) but short on policy specifics, the agenda is in keeping with tradition established in 1994 with Rep. Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America,” where the minority party releases their agenda priorities ahead of Election Day.
https://knpr.org/npr/2022-09/house-gop-unveils-its-legislative-roadmap-if-they-win-back-house-november

The Quiet Way Trump and DeSantis Are Preparing for a Fight: There’s a battle brewing between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. And both sides seem to be preparing for a bitter fight. The universe of GOP employees is a notoriously small one, where the most protestant Republican politicians often have overlapping classes among their employees. But there are two GOP stars with remarkably little overlap: Donald Trump And Ron DeSantis
https://darik.news/florida/the-quiet-way-donald-trump-and-ron-desantis-are-preparing-for-a-fight/804041.html

Cheri Beasley Is Running for More Than a Senate Seat In North Carolina: After a string of democratic heartbreaks here, Beasley is banking on a new strategy to win her race against a MAGA extremist. For both parties, North Carolina Senate race is pivotal for 2022 – and 2024
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3714321-budd-grows-lead-over-beasley-in-north-carolina-senate-race-poll/

Trump Pushes Supporters to Become Poll Challengers at Unhinged Iowa Rally: Donald Trump encouraged supporters to take “election integrity” into their own hands by manning polling places during a Thursday night pre-midterm rally in Sioux City, Iowa.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-pushes-supporters-become-poll-035756005.html

The 2022 Midterms Are a Referendum on the Future of Democracy in the U.S: The coming election will show whether the mass of voters in the U.S. support democracy or fascism. A number of politicians running for a variety of political offices believe in conspiracy theories, embrace elements of white supremacy, espouse antisemitic ideology, are election deniers, and argue for white Christian nationalism and policies that endorse voter suppression and the banning of books, among other repressive measures.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-2022-midterms-are-a-referendum-on-the-future-of-democracy-in-the-us/

Why the US midterms matter, from abortion rights to democracy: Guardian writers lay down what’s on the line and what a Republican victory could mean for the future of the country
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/03/why-do-the-us-midterms-matter-abortion-rights-democracy-2024

Trump Team Is Reportedly Eyeing November 14 for a 2024 Campaign Launch: The news comes as the Department of Justice weighs whether it will bring charges against the former president.
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/04/trump-presidential-run-2024-announcement

Nonprofit Watchdog Group Promises to Sue Trump If He Tries to Run for President: The group says Trump’s involvement in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol should disqualify him from running.
https://truthout.org/articles/nonprofit-watchdog-group-promises-to-sue-trump-if-he-tries-to-run-for-president/

Dangerous Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Spiked This Election Season: Immigration advocates worry the lies perpetuated by Republicans this election cycle could spur some to violence.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/anti-immigrant-rhetoric-spiked-in-this-election-heres-why-its-dangerous/

Pelosi Attack Could Portend Right-Wing Violence on Election Day, Experts Warn: Experts call on officials to speak out against militia activity at the polls as the right prepares to contest the vote.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1132822805/election-violence-concerns-voting-threats

# Law Enforcement
State Cops Called in After White Firefighters Leave Black Boys Behind: Firefighters Sergeant Daniel Sniegocki and Michael Zlotek were tasked with searching the room the boys were sleeping in on the second floor of a home. The two firefighters called an all-clear for the rooms in which the boys still lay. It wasn’t until six minutes later that another team of firefighters looking to vent the room found the boys and rushed them to safety, only for them to perish days later.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/state-cops-called-white-firefighters-203057597.html

# Legal / DOJ
Trump’s Efforts to Hide Cash From NY AG Shot Down in Court: Judge Arthur F. Engoron forbade the Trump Organization from trying to transfer assets into a new Trump business.
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trumps-company-watchdog-ensure-201946998.html

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Get a Medical Cannabis Prescription from Anywhere in Texas: In Texas, you must have a prescription from a physician that is registered in the Compassionate Use Program. Texas Original makes this process easy!
https://texasoriginal.com/medical-marijuana-prescription/

# Medical / Health
The Supreme Court Weighs A Massive Change to Medicaid: Marion County agency wants SCOTUS to strip protections for millions of vulnerable Americans. Marion County’s public health agency is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strip legal protections for millions of Americans in a monumental case that experts say could dramatically weaken federal benefit programs.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2022/10/06/scotus-nursing-home-case-could-threaten-medicaid-protections/69521691007/

# Military / Global
Putin deploys MiG-31K jets, with ballistic Killjoy missile in Belarus; Russia dares the West.  The missile, launched from a MiG-31K fighter, is nearly impossible to intercept due to its hypersonic speed, can carry either a conventional or nuclear payload, and has a range of around 1,240 miles, according to an analysis from the Nuclear Threat Initiative
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/russia-deploys-hypersonic-missiles-belarus

Kim Jong Un Inches Closer to All-Out War Than Ever Before: They’re playing war games on both sides of the North-South line between the two Koreas, coming close to the real thing but stopping short of killing their enemies.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kim-jong-un-inches-closer-to-all-out-war-than-ever-before/ar-AA13FyXN?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=f9c7641f3d7a40c4a27486141ccd91e1

# Pharmas / Drugs
Taxpayers support medical research that private corporations then profit from. For more equitable drug access, we need a new model for research and development, and how research institutions sell their discoveries. A better model, the global access licensing framework, has already been proposed.
https://undark.org/2022/11/03/the-public-shouldnt-pay-for-drugs-twice/?utm_source=Undark%3A+News+%26+Updates&utm_campaign=e333894951-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5cee408d66-e333894951-144015349

# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
A Massive Chinese Rocket Crashed Back to Earth, Somewhere: The 50-foot, 22,000-tonne booster was forecast to fall in an area containing 88 percent of the planet’s population. It’s currently expected to end up somewhere on the surface of our planet late Friday or Saturday.
https://www.cnet.com/science/space/another-uncontrolled-chinese-rocket-is-about-to-crash-back-to-earth/

# Technology / Medical
‘Optical electrodes’ can read your mind, paving the way toward fully-functional prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces. These optrodes bypass several of the most glaring limitations of current electrodes.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/optrodes-prosthetics-nerves-interaction-923524/

Paralyzed patients can now connect their iPhones to their brains to type messages using thoughts alone: It’s now possible to mind control your smartphone. But are we ready to open this can of worms?
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/paralyzed-patients-can-now-connect-their-iphones-to-their-brains-to-type-messages-using-thoughts-alone/

# Technology
Elon Musk Hints at Trump’s Return to Twitter, Possibly in “a Few Weeks”:  Polling shows most Americans support the social media bans imposed on Trump.
https://truthout.org/articles/elon-musk-hints-at-trumps-return-to-twitter-possibly-in-a-few-weeks/

# Veterans / VA
First Look at the VA’s New Toxic Exposure Screening All Vets Will Take When Seeing a Doctor: With a short screening, the VA hopes to learn more about combat exposures and help patients learn more about potential services and benefits.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/10/31/first-look-vas-new-toxic-exposure-screening-all-vets-will-take-when-seeing-doctor.html

# Water
Corpus Christi sold its water to Exxon, gambling on desalination. So far, it’s a losing bet: Concerns over ecological destruction have delayed desalination plans for years in this booming seaside city, where environmentalists see water supply as the “chokehold” on an oil sector buildout along the rugged Gulf Coast of South Texas.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04112022/corpus-christi-texas-exxon-water-desalination/#:~:text=So%20far%2C%20it’s%20a%20losing%20bet,-Autumnspanne1&text=Concerns%20over%20ecological%20destruction%20have,Gulf%20Coast%20of%20South%20Texas

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# Chemicals
Dry shampoo added to list of products contaminated with benzene: Findings represent the highest levels found in a consumer product to date, according to Valisure
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/101550

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Student Infected With Debilitating Virus in Undisclosed Biolab Accident: By the time a researcher who pricked her finger in Missouri reported the accident, she was already sick.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/01/biosafety-lab-accident-chikungunya-virus/

Lab That Created Risky Avian Flu Had “Unacceptable” Biosafety Protocols: Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal disturbing biosafety lapses and troubling gaps in oversight by government agencies.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/01/biosafety-avian-flu/

The cost of vaccine hoarding: More than one million lives might have been saved if COVID-19 vaccines had been shared more equitably with lower-income countries in 2021, according to mathematical models incorporating data from 152 countries.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03529-3

Groundbreaking: Study Details How Media, Big Tech Censored Doctors and Scientists Who Challenged COVID Narrative: A groundbreaking new scientific paper published Tuesday exposes the suppression and censorship of doctors and medical experts who opposed and challenged the official COVID-19 narrative.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-narrative-big-tech-media-censorship-doctors/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=61483b7f-b9d9-4322-bad6-4e9175d7eef2

The Pediatric Perils of PEG: From MiraLAX to COVID Shots, FDA and CDC Ignore Safety Signals: Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that some ultrasound contrast agents contain polyethylene glycol (PEG) and therefore shouldn’t be administered to patients with known or suspected allergies to PEG — but there are no similar warnings for adults or children who get PEG-containing COVID-19 shots or MiraLAX, an over-the-counter laxative.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccine-miralax-polyethylene-glycol/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fed hikes interest rate despite recession warnings from experts: Economists warned that increasing interest rates too quickly was “a very dangerous approach,” could make inflation worse and cause “great pain” without addressing real economic issues.
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/11/02/fed-hikes-interest-rates-despite-expert-warnings-more-economic-pain-working

# Education / Schools
The Racism of the Supreme Court’s Supermajority Was on Full Display This Week: The six right-wingers appear poised to gut affirmative action in higher education.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-racism-of-the-supreme-courts-supermajority-was-on-full-display-this-week/

# Employment / Labor
Demand for US workers rebounds despite Fed’s efforts to cool economy: ‘Jolts’ report points to tight labour market amid string of interest rate rises. “The huge increase in job openings was expected to slow, but the numbers show a job market that is speeding up, not slowing down,” said Layla O’Kane, an economist for analytics company Lightcast.
https://www.ft.com/content/c2cc606c-3aef-4c1d-912d-d78da291d69f

Job openings unexpectedly surge in September despite Fed efforts to cool labor market: U.S. job openings unexpectedly surged higher in September, even as the Federal Reserve tries to bring down near-record high inflation and cool the labor market with the most aggressive interest rate hikes in decades.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/job-openings-unexpectedly-surge-september-140922555.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Where Are the Methane ‘Super-Emitters’? NASA Identifies More Than 50 Major Methane Leaks From Space
There is 262 percent more methane in the atmosphere now than there was before the start of the industrial revolution, but where is all that methane coming from?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-finds-more-than-50-super-emitters-of-methane-180981045/

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Starbucks is suspected in NC action of pumping too much potassium without disclosure: The High Point, NC-based Puroast Coffee Company has filed a complaint with Stein, alleging that Starbucks coffee is adulterated with chemicals deceiving consumers by artificially changing the flavor of its coffee. Spiked potassium levels do not present a traditional food safety issue. However, those with kidney disease could be harmed by elevated potassium levels in the bloodstream. The condition known as hyperkalemia can result.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/11/starbucks-is-suspected-in-nc-action-of-pumping-too-much-potassium-without-disclosure/#:~:text=The%20High%20Point%2C%20NC%2Dbased,a%20traditional%20food%20safety%20issue

Iowa Orders 1.1 Million Chickens Be Killed After A Case Of Avian Flu Was Found: In Wright County, Iowa, a commercial egg-laying facility will be forced to kill 1.1 million chickens in an effort to contain the “highly contagious and deadly” avian flu virus.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2022/10/31/bird-flu-iowa-avian-influenza-hens-destroyed-egg-facility-wright-county/69607869007/

# Food Recalls / Alerts
Domino sugar recalled over metal wire in product: Domino Foods Inc is recalling certain Domino and C&H Sugar Tubs because of the potential of metal wire in the product. The product was distributed in Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/11/domino-sugar-recalled-over-metal-wire-in-product/

Rolls recalled over possible microbial contamination: Piantedosi Baking Co., Inc. is recalling bread rolls because products may be contaminated with Cronobacter sakazakii or Clostridium botulinum. The products were distributed in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Mississippi and Colorado. The recall was initiated on Aug. 17, 2022
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/08/dinner-rolls-sandwich-rolls-buns-recalled-because-of-potential-microbial-contamination/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Kim Jong Un Inches Closer to All-Out War Than Ever Before: An unprecedented barrage of missiles from North Korea has some experts fearing the worst is yet to come.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-inches-closer-to-all-out-war-than-ever-before

# Gov / Politics / US
These Texans were trying to help run elections. Then Ken Paxton’s office launched criminal investigations. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hasn’t just been pursuing supposed voter fraud. His office has also criminally investigated at least 10 election workers, in a harbinger of potential post-midterm turmoil.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/03/texas-election-workers-voter-fraud-paxton-midterms/

We Really Need to Fix Presidential Succession, Like Now: The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 is a constitutional crisis waiting to happen.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-really-need-to-fix-presidential-successionlike-now
See also: Under the 1947 Act, any person serving as Acting President can be supplanted or bumped from the acting presidency by an officer higher in the order of succession. Finally, the Act requires that any Cabinet officer, by serving as Acting President, automatically vacates his Cabinet position.
https://www.senate.gov/about/officers-staff/president-pro-tempore/presidential-succession-act.htm

We’re Watching White Anxiety Turn Into Violent Rage: Many white Americans believe in the myth of their own greatness. And it’s become a threat to us all.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-watching-white-anxiety-turn-into-violent-rage

The GOP Has a New Way to Take Power From Cities: ‘Rogue city leaders’: How Republicans are taking power away from mayors. State lawmakers are preempting the ability of city leaders to enforce their own regulations. The moves represent a sharp ideological shift for a party that has long championed local control.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/23/republicans-are-taking-power-away-from-mayors-495564

Pelosi Attack Could Portend Right-Wing Violence on Election Day, Experts Warn: Experts call on officials to speak out against militia activity at the polls as the right prepares to contest the vote.
https://truthout.org/articles/pelosi-attack-could-portend-right-wing-violence-on-election-day-experts-warn/

# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Lawmakers seeking to change law allowing cops to charge patients with marijuana DUIs even if they are not impaired: A Pennsylvania law allows medical marijuana patients to be charged with driving under the influence even if they are not impaired. Patients and even prosecutors are trying to change the law.
https://www.wtae.com/article/medical-marijuana-dui-charge/41835001#

# Medical / Health
Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We’re paying for drugs twice and this needs to change now
https://www.zmescience.com/science/taxpayers-foot-the-bill-for-medical-research-but-companies-profit-were-paying-for-drugs-twice-and-this-needs-to-change-now/

# Pharmas / Drugs
Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We’re paying for drugs twice and this needs to change now. Part of the problem is an outdated licensing system that allows private companies to buy exclusive rights to use publicly funded research, with few strings attached.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/taxpayers-foot-the-bill-for-medical-research-but-companies-profit-were-paying-for-drugs-twice-and-this-needs-to-change-now/

# Security
Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation: Under the guise of counterterrorism, the government is accelerating pressure on social media companies to crack down on speech the feds deem disinformation.
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/

Probe launched into Homeland Security’s ‘taxpayer-funded censorship campaign’: House Oversight Committee Republicans are kicking off an investigation into a “taxpayer-funded censorship campaign” at the Department of Homeland Security.
https://tylerpaper.com/news/national/probe-launched-into-homeland-security-s-taxpayer-funded-censorship-campaign/article_446139ab-8058-5a9a-8ead-2978dbfd090b.html

# Technology
Elon Musk plans to profit from Twitter, not create a town square for global democracy: His acquisition of Twitter, a powerful opinion platform, as a private company also further cements his power.
https://countercurrents.org/2022/11/elon-musk-plans-to-profit-from-twitter-not-create-a-town-square-for-global-democracy/

L’Oréal Becomes Latest Brand to Suspend Twitter Advertising: The announcement comes as a number of other brands are expected to remove themselves from the social media platform.
https://www.ft.com/content/17281b81-b801-4a8f-8065-76d3ffb400fa

# Military / DOD
‘Someone has to do it’: American vets in Ukraine train front-line medics as war rages with Russia: Founded by four U.S. veterans in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Task Force Yankee Ukraine has crisscrossed the country to prepare more than 12,000 Ukrainians to treat the unique injuries of war.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-11-02/american-veterans-ukraine-training-medics-7884246.html

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# Indigenous
Can Native America Transform The World Again? November is Native American Heritage Month,  a good time to take a look at these ancient cultures that have given us so much and have so much more to share now.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2022/11/can-native-america-transform-the-world-again.html

As climate change worsens, US weighs which communities to save: The Biden administration is considering proposals to relocate Native American communities threatened by global warming. As climate change gets worse, tribes like Shoalwater Bay are being squeezed between existential threats and brutal financial arithmetic. Consigned to marginal land more than a century ago by the United States government, some tribes are now trying to relocate to areas better protected from extreme weather yet lack the money to pay for that move.”
https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-change-worsens-us-weighs-which-communities-save

# Border / Immigration
Operation Lone Star realities: Continued successes, record number of dead: Law enforcement, working with Border Patrol agents, found 856 dead bodies of individuals who’d illegally entered the U.S. and likely died from the natural elements. The number of deaths of illegal foreign nationals reported in fiscal 2022 outpaced the record set in fiscal 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/operation-lone-star-realities-continued-successes-record-number-of-dead/article_ca03885c-57b6-11ed-9844-23242316c3a4.html

GOP States Are Suing to Expel Legal Immigrants at the Border: The states want a court to delegalize Haitian immigration, even if it means more chaos at the border.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-led-states-are-suing-to-expel-legal-immigrants-at-the-border

# Chemicals
‘Everybody’s contaminated:’ Maine hunters worried about PFAS contamination in animals: Hunting season is now underway, but with new worries, as many hunters are forced to avoid areas of PFAS contamination.
https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-hunters-pfas-contamination-animals-deer-turkeys-fairfield-hunting

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
New COVID Shots Same As Old Ones: Two studies performed recently have found that the new COVID-19 bivalent (two-in-one) booster shots developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna/ NIAID do not provide better protection against the Omicron subvariant viruses than the original monovalent formulations of the shots.
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2022/10/new-covid-shots-same-as-old-ones/

New Oxford study finds increased COVID infection among the COVID vaccinated: Researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom published a study in The Lancet finding that those who received two doses of COVID-19 shot were 44 percent more likely to be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus than those who were unvaccinated.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/13/oxford-university-study-says-omicron-can-hit-the-double-vaccinated.html

Pretty Much Everyone is Getting Heart Damage from the COVID Vaccines: “We all know that mRNA vaccines are associated with myocarditis. It’s rare, but it’s an important safety signal. It’s more likely to affect men than women, and more likely to affect people in age range about 16 to 24.
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2022/11/pretty-much-everyone-is-getting-heart-damage-from-the-covid-vaccines/

Now It’s UK: Why Are Labs Racing To See Who Can Create The Most Deadly Virus? Any lab experimenting with the creation of or gain-of-function of human pathogens should be summarily terminated and its researchers banned from further activities. The depth and scope of this kind of research goes far beyond just China and the U.S.
https://www.technocracy.news/now-its-uk-why-are-labs-racing-to-see-who-can-create-the-most-deadly-virus/

‘Trick on Taxpayers’ outlines questionable projects funded by COVID-19 relief:  More and more federally funded, controversial projects that came as part of pandemic-relief spending passed by Congress are coming to light, and few of them do not have anything to do with COVID-19
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/trick-on-taxpayers-outlines-questionable-projects-funded-by-covid-19-relief/article_df7c95ce-5a0a-11ed-9efd-9720d76fa313.html

CDC Pushed for COVID-19 Boosters Without Clinical Trials. Disturbing Emails:  “Pfizer Recommends It and I Trust in their Guidance”: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pressured U.S. regulators to clear COVID-19 boosters without clinical trial data, according to newly released emails.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/11/01/cdc-pushed-for-covid-19-boosters-without-clinical-trials-disturbing-emails-pfizer-recommends-it-and-i-trust-in-their-guidance/

CDC Inflicts Biowar Vax on Children: Children are being injected with a potentially dangerous substance that brings them essentially no health benefits whatsoever. COVID mRNA vaccines are still classified as experimental.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/11/01/massacre-of-the-innocents-cdc-inflicts-biowar-vax-on-children-now-the-perps-want-amnesty/

The Other Form of Long COVID: How the pandemic sets back children’s learning: The COVID-19 pandemic devastated poor children’s well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away their parents’ jobs, sickening their families and teachers, and adding chaos and fear to their daily lives.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/covid-19-pandemic-massively-set-back-learning-especially-for-high-poverty-areas

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fed Fights Inflation With Another 0.75 Interest Rate Hike: The Fed’s latest jumbo increase marks the most aggressive period of monetary policy since the early 1980s. The Federal Reserve ordered another big boost in interest rates on Wednesday, and warned that rates will have to go even higher to bring stubbornly high inflation under control.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133195996/fed-federal-reserve-interest-rates-hike-increase-inflation-unemployment-powell

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
‘Powerful victory’ as judge dismisses charges against Line 3 water protectors: “Why are U.S. citizens who are trying to protect themselves from a foreign fossil fuel corporation facing arrest, when no one at Enbridge will ever be held accountable for their crimes?” “Protecting water, land, and treaty rights is not a crime,” said one defendant. “Perhaps now we can hold the Enbridge corporation accountable for their crimes against nature and humanity.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/01/powerful-victory-judge-dismisses-charges-against-line-3-water-protectors

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
The shadowy history of the Cargill family and the richest private company in America: The biggest supervillains in the world are not human, they’re corporations. Cargill Inc. gets dragged into the light. The agricultural conglomerate is the largest private held corporation in the U.S. The current price increases in the food market are driving their profits higher.
https://perfectunion.us/this-evil-company-owns-all-the-food-in-your-house/

Conserving farmland also benefits the air we breathe: A new study shows how land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program also significantly improves air quality in the region
https://civileats.com/2022/11/02/conserving-farmland-also-benefits-the-air-we-breathe/

# General Information / Other News
Why 18-year-olds in Texas can buy AR-15s but not handguns [Web posted May 26, 2022 .. Reposted Nov 2, 2022] Under federal law, Americans buying handguns from licensed dealers must be 21, which would have precluded Salvador Ramos from buying that type of weapon. That trumps Texas law, which only requires buyers of any type of firearm to be 18 or older.
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-18-year-olds-in-texas-can-buy-ar-15s-but-not-handguns

Trump Org Suddenly Settles With Protesters Beat Up by Guards: Defense lawyers made the last-minute decision after struggling to find Bronx jurors who didn’t have strong feelings about Trump and his eponymous company.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-settles-lawsuit-protesters-allege-210554761.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
‘Final Destruction’: Russia Threatens Norway With Ugly Row: Russia’s foreign ministry has promised to deliver “a timely and adequate response” to what it describes as mounting provocations from the Scandinavian country.
https://news.yahoo.com/final-destruction-russia-threatens-norway-202518969.html

# Gov / Politics / US
They were 12 when Trump became president. Now, they’re voting for the first time: Now 18 and registered to vote, they see abortion access, LGBTQ rights, and immigration as not just issues on which to make their voices heard, but as matters their lives depend on.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/first-time-voters-2022-midterms

AIPAC Echoes Republicans’ Crime Messaging in Pennsylvania: After failing to stop Democrat Summer Lee’s primary bid, the pro-Israel group is now helping Republicans put the seat into play.
https://prospect.org/politics/aipac-echoes-republicans-crime-messaging-in-pennsylvania/

A new wave of celebrity politicians breaks the rules on acceptable behavior, inspired by Trump: GOP candidates Kari Lake, Herschel Walker and Dr. Mehmet Oz have caught people’s attention for outlandish stunts and false statements that are increasingly accepted in politics.
https://theconversation.com/a-new-wave-of-celebrity-politicians-breaks-the-rules-on-acceptable-behavior-inspired-by-trump-193056

# Medical / Health
NIH-funded study finds personalized kidney screening for people with type 1 diabetes could reduce costs, detect disease earlier
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-funded-study-finds-personalized-kidney-screening-people-type-1-diabetes-could-reduce-costs-detect-disease-earlier

New 3D model shows how cadmium exposure may affect heart development: Maternal cadmium exposure in the mouse leads to increased heart weight at birth and programs susceptibility to hypertension in adulthood. NIH researchers develop new tools to demonstrate how environmental agents can lead to diseases.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49807-5

A blood test that screens for multiple cancers at once promises to boost early detection: MCED tests are likely to transform cancer screening in the near future, particularly if they receive strong federal support to enable rapid innovation.
https://theconversation.com/a-blood-test-that-screens-for-multiple-cancers-at-once-promises-to-boost-early-detection-191728

Abortion Rights Opponents Are Targeting Patients Seeking Care in Blue States: Clinic defense is an essential part of the abortion rights movement in the repressive post-Roe era. As draconian abortion bans sweep the nation, cities like New York, Chicago and Santa Fe remain vital holdouts for patients seeking abortion care, and also a site of ongoing focus for the far right.
https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-rights-opponents-are-targeting-patients-seeking-care-in-blue-states/

# Military / DOD
‘Someone has to do it’: American vets in Ukraine train front-line medics as war rages with Russia: Founded by four U.S. veterans in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Task Force Yankee Ukraine has crisscrossed the country to prepare more than 12,000 Ukrainians to treat the unique injuries of war.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-11-02/american-veterans-ukraine-training-medics-7884246.html

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# Indigenous
Putting Native America Back On The Map To Re-Discover Ourselves: Mapping a New Geography of Hope With Native America shows that our Foundational Stories shape our minds and our relationship to the Earth. The map is available online and via the Native Land app (for both iOS and Android). Just type in your address, and you’ll be able to see what indigenous group(s) once lived there or nearby. It’s even possible members of that community still live in that area, though of course many native people were displaced, thanks to, uh, centuries of shitty federal policy.
https://mashable.com/article/indigenous-map-america

# Border / Immigration
Greg Abbott Is Still Prosecuting Migrants Under a Bogus Disaster Declaration: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ‘Operation Lone Star’ sets a dangerous precedent for authoritarian attacks on migrants.
https://truthout.org/articles/greg-abbott-is-still-prosecuting-migrants-under-a-bogus-disaster-declaration/

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Vaccine Passports Are Here to Stay. Why Worry? The digital Covid vaccination certification, or “passport,” is a mobile app that instantaneously affirms the vaccinated status, Covid test results, birth date, gender, and/or other identifiers of its holder.  “Spoiler alert,” tweeted British DJ, Lange. “They are not planning on removing vax passports once introduced. This is just the first step to get you conditioned to accepting government restrictions in your daily life via your mobile phone. This digital ID is going to expand to all aspects of your life.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/01/01/covid-vaccine-passports-surveillance/

Pfizer COVID vaccine price hike to boost revenue for years, rivals may follow: Pfizer’s plan to as much as quadruple U.S. prices for its COVID-19 vaccine next year is beyond Wall Street’s expectations and will spur its revenue for years despite weaker than anticipated demand for the new booster shot so far, analysts said.  The price range announced by Pfizer represented a more than 10,000% markup over what experts have estimated it costs the vaccine makers to produce the shots.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-covid-vaccine-price-hike-seen-giving-revenue-boost-years-2022-10-21/

Exclusive: 14-Year-Old Leads ‘Miserable Life’ After Being Injured by Vaccines as an Infant: Laura Chicos, now 14, leads “a miserable life,” according to her mother, with allergic reactions to “almost everything,” including but not limited to food, dust and environmental contaminants.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/laura-chicos-allergic-reactions-vaccines-injuries/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Why inflation will likely stay sky-high regardless of which party wins the midterms: Many voters say inflation is the issue that matters to them most as they head to the polls. The problem is, the people they choose can’t do much about it.
https://theconversation.com/why-inflation-will-likely-stay-sky-high-regardless-of-which-party-wins-the-midterms-193416

# Education / Schools
Safety concerns prompts Election Day school closings: Safety concerns have prompted Election Day school closings for Austin Independent School District as schools navigate their roles as polling sites in the wake of threats to poll workers and possible security challenges.
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2022/10/31/safety-school-election-day-closings

US Schools Have Two Years to Use or Lose Once-in-a-Lifetime Relief Funds: Without adequate planning now, states and districts may be left scrambling to allocate funding efficiently and effectively.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3712504-us-schools-have-two-years-to-use-or-lose-once-in-a-lifetime-relief-funds/

Supremes Give Icy Reception to Affirmative Action in College: The Supreme Court heard two cases on Monday about the consideration of race in college admissions. The consequences could be massive.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-indicated-it-might-head-toward-ending-affirmative-action-in-harvard-unc-cases

# Employment / Labor
US Unemployment System ‘Wholly Unprepared’ as Fed Risks Throwing Millions Out of Work: “If another wave of job losses does indeed hit, the unemployment safety net isn’t ready to cushion the blow without significant improvements,” warns the co-author of a new study. “If another wave of job losses does indeed hit, the unemployment safety net isn’t ready to cushion the blow without significant improvements,” warns the co-author of a new study.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/01/us-unemployment-system-wholly-unprepared-fed-risks-throwing-millions-out-work

Lawmakers to Powell: ‘How Many Millions Will Be Thrown Out of Their Jobs’ Due to Fed Policy?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/01/lawmakers-powell-how-many-millions-will-be-thrown-out-their-jobs-due-fed-policy

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
In Nevada, a tribe and a toad halt a geothermal plant:   The rugged, remote corner of Nevada’s Great Basin region found itself at the epicenter of a confrontation between some of President Biden’s, and the nation’s, most pressing priorities: renewable energy, wildlife conservation and Indigenous rights.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/31/nevada-toad-geothermal-paiute/

Biden Threatens Big Oil With Windfall Profits Tax: President Joe Biden on Monday stepped up his pressure on major oil companies, accusing them of racking up record earnings by profiteering off the war in Ukraine.
https://www.thestreet.com/markets/president-biden-threatens-big-oil-windfall-tax-as-profits-surge

President Biden threatens oil companies with higher taxes if they don’t use recent windfall profits to increase production and lower prices. “They have a responsibility to act in the interest of their consumers, their community and their country, to invest in America by increasing production and refining capacity,” Biden said
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3713013-biden-threatens-oil-companies-with-higher-tax-if-they-dont-increase-production/?utm_medium=email

# General Information / Other News
Watch 9/11: Press For Truth, one of the most well-documented and revealing documentaries on 9/11 that traces the passionate journey of a small group of grieving families who waged a tenacious battle against those who sought to bury the truth of the events surrounding that fateful day. Both a 15-minute summary of key excerpts and the full 84-minute 9/11 video documentary can be viewed for free
https://www.wanttoknow.info/911video

UN General Assembly says Israel must get rid of its nuclear arsenal: Five countries; Canada, Israel, Micronesia, Palau and the United States – opposed the resolution. Israel never admitted to possess nuclear weapons, but nevertheless, the UNGA resolution was aimed at Israel, not Iran.
https://apa.az/en/america/un-general-assembly-says-israel-must-get-rid-of-its-nuclear-arsenal-388359

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Lackey Urges Russians to Choose Death Over War Defeat: An unsettling speech given by Vladimir Putin has prompted the Kremlin’s most prominent mouthpieces to promote martyrdom on Russian airwaves.
https://news.yahoo.com/top-putin-lackey-urges-russians-091047778.html

Fed up with  invasion of Ukraine, a billionaire gives up his citizenship: Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov renounced his citizenship to protest the war in Ukraine, becoming one of the first Russian business tycoons to publicly criticize the Kremlin’s actions.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/11/billionaire-yuri-milner-renounces-russian-citizenship
Go deeper: What about Yuri? https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-e3bd2d0e-8c7d-4f3e-8a18-978a9c6176cd.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

# Gov / Politics / US
Why the Fate of Medicare and Social Security Is a Midterm Issue: “They [Republicans] would put us in default unless we yield to their demands to cut Social Security and Medicare. They’re so determined to cut Social Security and Medicare, they’re willing to take down the economy over it,” Biden told supporters in Syracuse, N.Y., on Thursday.
https://thehill.com/reliable-voters/3709839-why-the-fate-of-medicare-and-social-security-is-a-midterm-issue/

The Crime Wave That Republicans Defend: Corporate theft and fraud is not only tolerated by the GOP, it’s shielded. Yet Democrats rarely use this to attack Republican messaging on crime. Bracketed by Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra, President Biden took aim at “junk fees.” They are “surprise charges that companies sneak into bills because they can,” Biden said. “They benefit big corporations, not consumers, not working families.”
https://prospect.org/power/corporate-crime-wave-that-republicans-defend/

The US, not China, is the aggressor:     Christopher Black, a respected international lawyer, tells Finian Cunningham why the United States is actually the aggressor over Taiwan, not China.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57321.htm

New Senate Report Spotlights ‘Barbaric Consequences’ of GOP Abortion Bans: “Republicans’ crusade against women’s reproductive freedoms has created national chaos that is a mortal threat to women’s health.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/01/new-senate-report-spotlights-barbaric-consequences-gop-abortion-bans?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter

# Law Enforcement
‘Slavery by any name is wrong’; the push to end forced labor in prisons:  about 800,000 prisoners out of the 1.2 million in state and federal prisons are forced to work, generating a conservative estimate of $11bn annually in goods and services while average wages range from 13 cents to 52 cents per hour. Five states, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, force prisoners to work without pay
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loophole-unpaid-labor-in-prisons

One Dead, 20 Wounded in Halloween Shootings, Police Say: A single drive-by shooting in Chicago left 14 hurt, including two children and a teenager.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/separate-mass-shootings-in-chicago-kansas-injures-20-people-halloween-night/

Off-Duty Pentagon Cop Caught Dealing Cocaine, Police Say: Eric Welch, an officer with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, has allegedly been engaged in a decidedly sketchy side hustle.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pentagon-police-officer-arrested-cocaine

The Fashionable Police Strategy That Is Just Mass Incarceration By Another Name
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/focused-deterrence-police-strategy-just-like-mass-incarceration.html

‘Alarm bells’ ring in red states where election deniers are set to lead election offices: Wyoming’s secretary of state came out forcefully against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s effort to spread lies about the 2020 election. Then-Secretary of State Ed Buchanan (R) said Lindell was “Not the purveyor of election integrity truth” but rather a “peddler of pillows and promises.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/alarm-bells-ring-red-states-094505646.html

# Legal / DOJ
How a 2013 US Supreme Court ruling enabled states to enact election laws without federal approval: In the Shelby v. Holder decision, a key section of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act was eliminated, thus enabling states with histories of racial discrimination to enact new voting laws.
https://theconversation.com/how-a-2013-us-supreme-court-ruling-enabled-states-to-enact-election-laws-without-federal-approval-193064

Bite mark forensic analysis is junk science, but U.S. courts are still convicting innocent people over it: At least two dozen people have been wrongfully convicted for crimes they never committed because of bogus bite mark analysis.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/bite-mark-forensic-analysis-is-junk-science-but-u-s-courts-are-still-convicting-innocent-people-over-it/

# Medical / Health
I’m A Doctor. Here’s Why We Need Universal Healthcare: From each vantage point, as a patient, a provider, and a small business owner, I see everyday how for-profit corporations fail to provide adequate access and coverage for vital health care services. Corporations are about profits. We need a national single payer health insurance program. It is time to join the growing wave of support for passage of the Medicare for All Act of 2021.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/01/im-doctor-heres-why-we-need-universal-healthcare

Five popular tampon brands — including two advertised as organic — have detectable levels of fluorine, an indicator of the group of chemicals known as PFAS, according to a new report from Mamavation.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/tampons-toxic-pfas-forever-chemicals-ehn/

# Military / DOD
Crossing the Border into Ukraine: The U.S. “Screaming Eagles” have been deployed three miles from Ukraine and are ready to fight the Russians. World War III beckons. God help us.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57316.htm

# Military / Global
Putin Parades New Missile Nightmare in Latest Threat to West: A new intelligence report reveals that Vladimir Putin has now deployed nuclear-capable missiles to Russia’s neighbor, Belarus.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/putin-parades-missile-nightmare-latest-182410020.html

# Science
The CIA Just Invested in Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology: The embrace of this technology will allow U.S. agencies to read, write, and edit genetic material.  The embrace of this technology, according to In-Q-Tel’s blog post, will help allow U.S. government agencies to read, write, and edit genetic material, and, importantly, to steer global biological phenomena that impact “nation-to-nation competition.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/28/cia-extinction-woolly-mammoth-dna/

# Security
DHS began meeting monthly with Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, and others to coordinate ‘content moderation’ efforts starting in 2020 | 31 Oct 2022 | The Department of Homeland Security has been working to influence big tech platforms. This became originally evident when the Biden administration launched the ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board early in 2022, but has been a focus of their efforts even beyond that now-defunct unit, and before.
https://thepostmillennial.com/dhs-leaks-starting-in-2020-dhs-began-meeting-with-twitter-facebook-wikipedia-and-more-monthly-to-coordinate-content-moderation-efforts

# Technology
Elon Musk fires Twitter’s top brass after closing $44 billion deal – reports
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-fires-twitters-top-brass-closing-44-billion-deal-reports

Entire Twitter Data Engineer Team Let Go – Reports
https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Twitter-s-Entire-Data-Engineer-Team-Let-Go-CNBC–42126215/

Michael Rectenwald’s Appeal to Twitter After the Musk Takeover
https://www.legitgov.org/michael-rectenwalds-appeal-twitter-after-musk-takeover-0

Elon Musk’s Twitter Gambit and What It Means to the ‘Clique in Power’
https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/essays/elon-musks-twitter-gambit-and-what-it-means-to-the-clique-in-power

# Technology / Global
US sending satellite antennas to Ukraine after Musk’s Starlink U-turn: The U.S. said it will send Ukraine satellite communications antennas that can work without Elon Musk’s Starlink network to assist the battered country in its fight against Russia. The four antennas, to be taken from the Department of Defense’s own shelves, were included in a $275 million aid package announced Oct. 28. It’s the Biden administration’s twenty-fourth drawdown of equipment for Ukraine since August 2021.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/c2-comms/2022/10/31/us-sending-satellite-antennas-to-ukraine-after-musks-starlink-u-turn/

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October 31, 2022
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Emperor penguins get Endangered Species Act protection – with 98% of colonies at risk of extinction by 2100. Emperor penguins survive in a ‘Goldilocks zone’ between too much sea ice and too little. Climate change is having an impact.
https://theconversation.com/emperor-penguins-get-endangered-species-act-protection-with-98-of-colonies-at-risk-of-extinction-by-2100-can-it-save-them-193439

# Border / Immigration
Pentagon’s US-Mexico border mission extends for another year: Federally-activated National Guard troops are expected to continue to deploy along the U.S. southern border through summer 2023, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed on Friday.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/10/28/pentagons-us-mexico-border-mission-extends-for-another-year/#:~:text=Federally%2Dactivated%20National%20Guard%20troops,to%20Military%20Times%20on%20Friday

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Defies Biden With Border Wall Made of Shipping Containers: The Biden administration remains silent as the Republican governor brazenly builds an ad hoc wall on protected lands.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/us/border-arizona-shipping-containers-cec

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab: The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-origin-wuhan-lab

New Hybrid Virus Discovered as Flu And RSV Fuse Into Single Pathogen: Researchers have witnessed two viruses, influenza A and respiratory syncytial virus, fuse together to form a single, hybrid virus.
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-hybrid-virus-discovered-as-flu-and-rsv-fuse-into-single-pathogen

The Truth about the COVID Vaccine and Stroke, Key Studies:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-truth-about-the-covid-vaccine-and-stroke-key-studies/ar-AA13zPSU?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=486e8fee052747f991c3cf1e9ca86fcc

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Chairman Turning SEC from Protection to Business-Crushing Bully: The crypto industry threatens Democrats in charge at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under Chairman Gary Gensler, the SEC has been on the warpath to pull all cryptocurrencies under the securities umbrella.
https://dcjournal.com/gensler-turning-sec-from-protector-to-business-crushing-bully/

Consumers Stand to Lose From Swipe Card Regulations: Politicians and a coalition of powerful retail giants are pushing bills intended to limit the fees that businesses pay when a customer buys things with a credit or debit card.
https://dcjournal.com/consumers-stand-to-lose-from-swipe-card-regulations/

# Education / Schools
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Handcuff Universities: US court poised to ban affirmative action: The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week in two cases that will determine whether Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are allowed to use race as a factor in deciding which students they admit.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/10/31/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ban-00064058

EPA gives school districts across U.S. nearly $1 billion to buy clean school buses: “It doesn’t make sense to send our kids to school on buses that create brain-harming, lung-harming, cancer-causing, climate-harming pollution.″
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/28/ro-khanna-unveils-bill-ban-us-gas-exports-big-oil-rakes-record-profits

Teacher Exodus Proves We Are Willfully Destroying US Public Education: Republicans are literally running a political platform on weakening teachers, schools and education because they need the poorly educated to make up their voting base.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/31/teacher-exodus-proves-we-are-willfully-destroying-us-public-education

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Oil companies resist calls to cut prices amid record profits, as ExxonMobil’s CEO insists they’re “returning some of our profits directly to the American people” in the form of dividends to investors.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/30b-of-profits-renews-big-oils-clash-with-white-house/

Ro Khanna unveils bill to ban US gas exports as big oil rakes in record profits: The California Democrat’s bill would temporarily bar U.S. gas exports when prices at the pump are high, like they are right now.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/28/ro-khanna-unveils-bill-ban-us-gas-exports-big-oil-rakes-record-profits

# Gov / Politics / Global
80% of Kyiv residents are without water after Russian missiles severely damaged city infrastructure. Power outages also swept parts of the city, as Moscow repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s capital .
https://wnyt.com/us-news/russian-strikes-hit-ukraine-most-of-kyiv-without-water/

Russia halted the UN-brokered grain deal after accusing Ukraine of attacking one of their ships. Ukraine denied responsibility for this attack.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-government-and-politics-3b563bd6f79f815c7e9f33505dd25334

Iran’s Secret Manual for Tracking and Controlling Protesters’ Mobile Phones: The documents provide an inside look at an Iranian government program that lets authorities monitor and manipulate people’s phones.
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/28/iran-protests-phone-surveillance/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

What Brazil Teaches America: Actually delivering for working people matters. It also matters whether elites support democratic institutions. The two-point victory of progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over neofascist incumbent Jair Bolsonaro prompts comparisons with the containment of neofascism in the U.S. But let’s draw the right lessons.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/what-brazil-teaches-america-lula-da-silva/

# Gov / Politics / US
A County Elections Director Stood Up to Locals Who Believe the Voting System Is Rigged. They Pushed Back Harder. Even in a county where Trump won more than 70% of the 2020 vote, local election deniers have mounted a campaign to access voting machines and slash the elections director’s pay.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-election-denial-voting-surry

Churches Are Breaking the Law by Endorsing in Elections, Experts Say. The IRS Looks the Other Way: For nearly 70 years, federal law has barred churches from directly involving themselves in political campaigns, but the IRS has largely abdicated its enforcement responsibilities as churches have become more brazen about publicly backing candidates.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/30/johnson-amendment-elections-irs/

Greg Abbott’s Executive Power Play: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has consolidated power like none before him, at times circumventing the GOP-controlled Legislature and overriding local officials. A flurry of executive measures has solidified his base and raised his national profile.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbotts-executive-power-play

Republicans Have a Symbiotic Relationship With Crime:  You can’t whip up a hysterical meltdown about crime without lots of crime happening.
https://prospect.org/politics/republicans-have-symbiotic-relationship-with-crime/

The Crime Wave That Republicans Defend: Corporate theft and fraud is not only tolerated by the GOP, it’s shielded. Yet Democrats rarely use this to attack Republican messaging on crime.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3688971-republicans-ride-crime-wave-worries-in-midterms-home-stretch/

Biden Lost His Temper With Zelensky During Aid Call: The Ukrainian president allegedly annoyed Biden by asking for more help after he’d just been told another billion dollars-worth of assistance was on the way. The phone call in June, one of many between the two leaders, turned testy when Zelensky began listing what else Kyiv needed and wasn’t getting​ shortly after Biden announced the aid package
https://nypost.com/2022/10/31/biden-lost-his-temper-with-zelensky-over-more-aid-report/

Covid Scam, NATO Wars, Green Extremism: The Tyrannical Trifecta From Hell: I have no confidence in politicians from either party having the courage to make the hard decisions that would help correct the direction of our ship of state from the path of destruction that it’s currently on.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/30/covid-scam-nato-wars-green-extremism-the-tyrannical-trifecta-from-hell/

Armed Vigilantes in Arizona Are Just the Tip of the Voter-Intimidation Iceberg: It’s not just happening in Arizona. GOP vigilantes are working to intimidate voters across the U.S.
https://truthout.org/articles/armed-vigilantes-in-arizona-are-just-the-tip-of-the-voter-intimidation-iceberg/

Hand count halted in Nevada county as court rips pro-Trump official: Voters in Nye County, near Las Vegas, could tip the balance in close state and federal contests.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/hand-count-halted-in-nevada/

Armed Vigilantes in Arizona Are Just the Tip of the Voter-Intimidation Iceberg: It’s not just happening in Arizona. GOP vigilantes are working to intimidate voters across the U.S.
https://truthout.org/articles/armed-vigilantes-in-arizona-are-just-the-tip-of-the-voter-intimidation-iceberg/

Florida officials quietly tweak probation system to make it easier to arrest people for ‘voter fraud’: Miami Herald reported that Florida officials have made a change to the criminal probation process that would make it easier to arrest and charge people for fraud when they sign up to vote while ineligible to do so.
https://www.rawstory.com/florida-voter-fraud-arrests/

# Law Enforcement
We’re Putting Kids in Maximum-Security Prisons… in America. Louisiana is relocating minors to Angola, the nation’s largest adult maximum-security prison. An infamous adult prison is no place for incarcerated kids. Get it together, Louisiana. Children are locked away from their families, facing shackles, pepper spray and solitary confinement. While these horrors persist nationwide, nowhere are they more apparent than in Louisiana.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2022/10/02/louisiana-criminal-justice-system-sending-teens-angola-prisons/8075127001/

Children in Adult Prison: Children threatened by abuse, neglect, violence, racial bias, and poverty are usually ignored—unless they do something violent.
https://eji.org/issues/children-in-prison/

# Legal / DOJ
Conservative Supreme Court justices are dragging the court deeper into a ‘crisis of legitimacy’: In a blunt-talking editorial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the editors took two of the most conservative members of the Supreme Court to task for doing little to halt the slide in the court’s credibility that has been in freefall after it became a 6-3 conservative majority.
https://www.rawstory.com/dconservative-supreme-court/

# LGBTQ
Fla. Medical Board Becomes First In US To Seek Ban On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/28/florida-gender-affirming-treatments-kids-ban-00064039

# Medical / Health
Podcast, racism in health: In the United States, COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic and Native American people, compared with white people, and this disparity has appeared across the world. This episode of the Nature Podcast explores the complex tale behind this inequality, including a reading list of sources that illustrate the myriad issues.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03325-z

NYC Doc vanishes in alleged boat accident after fed charges: Marvin Moy accused in a $100 million healthcare fraud scheme.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/30/manhattan-md-charged-by-feds-vanishes-in-li-boat-accident/

A blood test that screens for multiple cancers at once promises to boost early detection: Multicancer early detection tests are among the priorities of the Biden administration’s Cancer Moonshot. The tests show promise, but questions remain about when and how to use them.
https://theconversation.com/a-blood-test-that-screens-for-multiple-cancers-at-once-promises-to-boost-early-detection-191728

# Military / DOD
U.S. to Send Nuke-Ready B-52s to Australia Amid China Unease: The Pentagon could deploy up to six of the heavy bombers to the region.
https://wacotrib.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/china-slams-reported-plan-for-us-b-52-bombers-in-australia/article_ad95f974-f7ee-568f-8ade-234e16e50efb.html

# Technology
How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World: The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable.
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-alphabet-ads-fund-disinformation-covid-elections

Musk Set to Axe 25% of Twitter Staff in First Round: The purge is said to affect a wide swathe of departments.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-set-to-axe-a-quarter-of-twitter-staff-in-first-round-of-layoffs-report-says

Twitter to Start Charging Per-Month for Verification: “The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk tweeted after the news was first reported. And if the employees building it don’t meet their deadline, they’ll be fired.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23431931/twitter-paid-verification-elon-musk-blue-monthly-subscription

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

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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fed Seen Aggressively Hiking to 5%, Triggering Global Recession: Federal Reserve officials are expected to maintain their hawkish stance at next week’s policy-setting meeting where they are likely to approve another super-sized interest rate hike, paving the way for borrowing costs to climb above 5% by March 2023, according to a survey of Bloomberg economists.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/fed-expected-aggresively-hike-rate-triggering-global-recession-survey

How the GOP could win its long war against Social Security: The GOP has been angling to dismantle Social Security as long as it’s been law, if they win enough seats this election, they may be able to do it. It began as Congress was debating the Social Security Act of 1935. Republicans attacked the program with rhetoric as extreme as that of today’s right.
https://prospect.org/politics/how-gop-could-win-long-war-against-social-security/

# Education / Schools
New study confirms: Structural racism in STEM programs needs fixing: The study offers some of the most stark evidence yet that even when students enter college with equal qualifications, white males are rewarded more richly for their grades in introductory courses while students from underrepresented populations are more severely punished.
https://blog.ucsusa.org/derrick-jackson/a-new-study-confirms-structural-racism-in-stem-programs-needs-fixing/

Why Our Public School Culture Wars Will Never End: Americans can’t agree on what “America” is, so how can we possibly reach a consensus on how to educate our kids?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-our-public-school-culture-wars-will-never-end

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
With fossil fuel companies facing pressure to reduce carbon emissions, private equity is buying up their aging oil, gas and coal assets: Environmentalists fear the sell-offs could keep facilities operating years into the future, worsening climate change.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102022/fossil-fuels-private-equity/

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Humans are decimating wildlife, report warns ahead of U.N. biodiversity talks: Wildlife populations tracked by scientists shrank by nearly 70%, on average, between 1970 and 2018, a recent assessment has found.
http://www.envirolink.org/2022/10/26/humans-are-decimating-wildlife-report-warns-ahead-of-u-n-biodiversity-talks/

Here’s what happened to the Delaware-sized iceberg that broke off Antarctica: The powerful pull of currents in the Southern Ocean probably pulled apart the largest remnant of a massive iceberg that split off Antarctica in 2017.
Researchers say they have pieced together the powerful forces that led to that final breakup.
https://publicnewstime.com/news/tech/heres-what-happened-to-the-delaware-sized-iceberg-that-broke-off-antarctica/

Landslides shaped a hidden landscape within Yellowstone: Scientists have used lasers to get a detailed view of the national park’s topography, and they’ve spotted more than a thousand landslides. Yellowstone researchers have a massive new digital dataset at their whim, highlighting further vital information on this nearly 1-million-hectare of natural beauty.
https://outsider.com/outdoors/news-outdoors/yellowstone-national-park-researchers-discover-hidden-landscape-shaped-by-landslides-2/

A Timber Mill Below Mount Shasta Gave Rise to a Historic Black Community, and Likely Sparked the Wildfire That Destroyed It: Segregation and climate change contributed to the destruction of the Lincoln Heights neighborhood in Weed, California. They may also hinder the recovery of its unique character.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25102022/weed-california-mill-fire-mount-shasta/

For the Third Time, Black Residents in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Neighborhood File a Civil Rights Complaint to Fend Off Polluting Infrastructure: First they sued to block a sewage treatment plant, and then bridge construction. Now, they are trying to stop Texas’ first seawater desalination plant.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27102022/for-the-third-time-black-residents-in-corpus-christis-hillcrest-neighborhood-file-a-civil-rights-complaint-to-fend-off-polluting-infrastructure/

What gets prioritised and ignored at UN climate negotiations? In our new study, published in Climate Policy, we analysed COP agendas going back to 1995 to understand which issues have been prioritised – and those that have not. Our results identify some significant gaps in the discussions over the years, including little focus on cutting emissions from major polluting sectors such as the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-what-gets-prioritised-and-ignored-at-un-climate-negotiations/

# General Information / Other News
Why Trump Is Ramming Millions Through a Campaign Loophole: Donald Trump’s leadership PAC just made a $20 million donation to another PAC. Trump could’ve spent the money on other Republicans. Now the PAC can spend it on him.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-donald-trump-is-ramming-millions-through-a-campaign-loophole-save-america-pac?ref=home

# Gov / Politics / Global
Bolsonaro and Allies Accused of Massive Vote-Buying Operation Ahead of Election: Far right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has syphoned tax money into a congressionally approved secret budget.
https://truthout.org/articles/bolsonaro-and-allies-accused-of-massive-vote-buying-operation-ahead-of-election/

Russian president Vladimir Putin takes part in Valdai discussion club meeting – Video and transcript
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5UUN6Y-KbY

# Gov / Politics / US
Washington’s Plan to Break Up Russia: Elite members of the foreign policy establishment are doggedly searching for new and more convincing justifications for a confrontation with Russia. “Cheney ‘wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the Russian empire but of Russia itself, so it could never again be a threat to the rest of the world.’…The West must complete the project that began in 1991 …. Until Moscow’s empire is toppled, though, the region and the world will not be safe…” (“Decolonize Russia”, The Atlantic)
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/28/washingtons-plan-to-break-up-russia/

Media helped hide the real Joe Biden by censoring Hunter stories: With fewer than 45,000 votes in three states deciding the outcome, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that suppression of The Post’s stories won Biden the election and denied voters the truth about his character. This is the importance of Hunter Biden’s laptop and why it refuses to be shoved down the memory hole, where other inconvenient truths go to die. It provides a rare and detailed window onto the corruption that is Washington’s original sin, as conducted on a global scale by one of its most calculating practitioners.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/media-helped-hide-the-real-joe-biden-by-censoring-hunter-stories-devine/

National eyes on Pennsylvania for Fetterman-Oz U.S. Senate debate: For Tuesday’s highly anticipated U.S. Senate debate in Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz agreed to meet hosted by the largest local TV and media company in America. Nexstar Media Group, which owns NewsNation and about 200 local news stations nationally, gained exclusive rights. The candidates, who have drawn national attention in the tussle for control of Congress, will be broadcast statewide on linear channels and available everywhere online; national coverage is on NewsNation.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/national-eyes-on-pennsylvania-for-fetterman-oz-u-s-senate-debate/article_5fa25bcc-5492-11ed-81df-d732d18c2c0c.html

Hypocrisy is beneath them – political figures in the Trump era don’t bother concealing their misdeeds: Shame and guilt seem equally foreign to many politicians and public figures these days. Rather than cover their bad behavior with a veneer of hypocrisy, they revel in it, a classics scholar says.
https://theconversation.com/hypocrisy-is-beneath-them-political-figures-in-the-trump-era-dont-bother-concealing-their-misdeeds-192926

House Progressives Pushed Negotiations With Russia, Then Buckled Under Pressure: The Biden administration’s new Nuclear Posture Review allows the “first use” of nuclear weapons.
https://truthout.org/articles/house-progressives-pushed-negotiations-with-russia-then-buckled-under-pressure/

House progressives retract Russia-diplomacy letter amid Dem firestorm
Party lawmakers were blindsided by Monday’s release of a letter calling for direct negotiations in Ukraine, according to several people familiar with the situation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/25/house-progressives-russia-diplomacy-00063338

Sanders Urges Massive Midterm Voter Turnout to ‘Preserve American Democracy’: “We are in a pivotal moment in American history where the crises that we face are unprecedented,” the democratic socialist told a crowd of thousands in Eugene, Oregon.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/27/sanders-urges-massive-midterm-voter-turnout-preserve-american-democracy

‘The Future the GOP Wants for All of America’: Texas Gun Law Unleashes Deadly Mayhem: “Who could’ve predicted arming folks without a license would result in this type of chaos?” one columnist asked sardonically.
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/28/the-future-the-wants-for-all-of-america-texas-law-unleashes-mayhem_partner/

Americans die younger in states run by conservatives, study finds
More liberal policies on environment, gun safety, labor, economic taxes and tobacco taxes associated with lower mortality
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/27/life-expectancy-us-conservative-liberal-states

Americans not only divided, but baffled by what motivates their opponents: The nationally representative poll of 1,000 citizens included 307 voters who cast votes for Republican Congressional candidates in the midterm elections.  We asked them, “In your opinion, how many citizens voting for the Democrats did so because they sincerely believe that the Democratic party is best for the country?”
https://democracy.psu.edu/poll-report-archive/americans-not-only-divided-but-baffled-by-what-motivates-their-opponents/

GOP Threatens to Hold Economy Hostage to Slash Climate Investments: “If Republicans take over Congress, they plan to hold the government hostage and ransom our future,” said one climate advocate.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/25/gop-threatens-hold-economy-hostage-slash-climate-investments

Scandal-Plagued MAGA Candidate Has Even More Wild Secrets: North Carolina congressional candidate Sandy Smith might seem like just another far-right culture warrior. Her past is messier than that.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/scandal-plagued-maga-candidate-even-035527770.html

# LGBTQ
‘Dark Day for Trans Youth’ as Florida Moves to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Minors: “I cry for Florida’s trans youth. This was a sham hearing with fake experts,” said one activist.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/29/dark-day-trans-youth-florida-moves-ban-gender-affirming-care-minors

# Medical / Health
Curcumin Prodrug Shows Promise as Cancer Treatment Without Toxic Side Effects: Curcumin, the biologically active compound found in turmeric, has shown lots of promise in clinical cancer research. A new study from Kyoto University adds more evidence that supports its use in clinical-care settings.
https://studyfinds.org/curcumin-prodrog-cancer-tumor-treatment/

Human insulin saga: Anomalous, successful 40-year history of the first genetically-modified medicine underscores how regulators can scuttle innovation
https://www.pacificresearch.org/human-insulin-saga-anomalous-successful-40-year-history-of-the-first-genetically-modified-medicine-underscores-how-regulators-can-scuttle-innovation/

# Science
Why fuzzy definitions are a problem in the social sciences: Social sciences research is plagued by murky definitions and measurements. Here’s why that matters.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/social-sciences-definitions-terms-research-measurment

# Veterans / VA
VA grant opportunities will expand landlord, tenant incentives to combat veteran homelessness: Three grant opportunities offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs will expand services and incentives already provided by the agency including one that encourages landlords to rent residences to veterans
https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5821

# Water
Virginia uses treated wastewater to shore up a drinking water aquifer: A crucial aquifer is running low, so officials are pumping in treated sewage. In the case of coastal Virginia, the goal is to stabilize groundwater to address two increasingly urgent problems. First, underground water depletion has led the ground to slowly sink and collapse in some places.
https://news.yahoo.com/theres-something-water-virginia-yuck-182244496.html

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

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A Message from Jeffrey St. Clair:
I have been writing about wars for nearly three decades now, even when
I’d rather be writing about cerulean warblers or the geology of the Snake
River canyon. New wars keep coming, regardless of who controls Congress
or the White House, and the old ones don’t end. Not really: Iraq,
Afghanistan, Somalia, Serbia, Libya, Palestine, and now Ukraine.
History keeps getting recycled, only more gruesomely.
We can’t move on, we must move on.
https://muckrack.com/jeffrey-st-clair/articles
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# Indigenous
Drilling down on water access as drought becomes the ‘new normal’: Navajo Nation’s chief hydrologist weaves scientific knowledge with Diné cultural values to address clean water issues across the reservation. Crystal Tulley-Cordova’s job is addressing one of the most pressing needs of the Navajo Nation: access to clean water.
https://publicintegrity.org/environment/natural-resources/drilling-down-on-water-access-as-drought-becomes-the-new-normal/

Treaty-less tribes struggle to have their rights recognized: A five-year fight over a few dozen clams in Washington highlights the inconsistent rights of Indigenous tribes.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/treaty-less-tribes-struggle-to-have-their-rights-recognized

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab: The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal. Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica give the clearest view yet of a biocomplex in crisis.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-origin-wuhan-lab

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration in an effort to halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, accusing it of overstepping its executive powers.
https://www.krgv.com/news/gop-states-sue-biden-administration-over-student-loan-plan

The Economy Is Still Robust: Will the Fed take that health as a cue to keep strangling it? The third-quarter numbers on economic growth, released yesterday by the Commerce Department, contained some surprisingly good news. But the good news is bad news, in that it will likely reinforce the Fed’s resolve to hike interest rates by another three quarters of a point when our central bankers meet again next week. This will be the fifth such rate hike.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/economy-is-still-robust-fed-interest-rates/

Another Fed jumbo rate hike is expected next week and then life gets difficult for Powell: Economists widely expect the Federal Reserve to approve the fourth straight jumbo interest rate rise at its meeting next week. The three quarters of one percentage point hike would bring the central bank’s benchmark rate up to a level of 3.75%- 4%.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/another-fed-jumbo-rate-hike-is-expected-next-week-and-then-life-gets-difficult-for-powell-11666982034

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
“This Is What Price-Gouging Looks Like”: Exxon Profits Break All-Time Records: Exxon has posted third-quarter profits of $19.7 billion, the highest ever posted by an international oil company.
https://truthout.org/articles/this-is-what-price-gouging-looks-like-exxon-profits-break-all-time-records/

Ro Khanna Unveils Bill to Ban US Gas Exports as Big Oil Rakes in Record Profits: The California Democrat’s bill would temporarily bar U.S. gas exports when prices at the pump are high—like they are right now.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/28/ro-khanna-unveils-bill-ban-us-gas-exports-big-oil-rakes-record-profits

Historic Exxon, Chevron Profits Signal ‘All-Out War on American Consumers’: “Instead of providing badly needed relief to consumers, they spent over $32 billion to enrich their wealthy shareholders while forcing American families to foot the bill.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/28/historic-exxon-chevron-profits-signal-all-out-war-american-consumers

Special Report: Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking: The agency believes most of the methane comes from the more than 2 million abandoned wells it estimates were never properly plugged.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-abandoned-specialreport/special-report-millions-of-abandoned-oil-wells-are-leaking-methane-a-climate-menace-idUSKBN23N1NL

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
European oil giants report ‘obscene’ profits as millions face deadly energy crisis: “We are sleepwalking into a life-or-death winter for so many people, but the government refuses to listen to us.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/27/european-oil-giants-report-obscene-profits-millions-face-deadly-energy-crisis

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
‘Worst Possible News’: Scientists Urge Immediate Action as Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit All-Time High
“The brutal truth is here for everyone to see,” said one researcher in response to record CO2, methane, and N2O atmospheric concentrations. “Far from emissions being brought under control, they are actually accelerating.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/27/worst-possible-news-scientists-urge-immediate-action-greenhouse-gas-levels-hit-all

# Environment / Climate / Global
Data Reveals Major Africa Pipeline as Climate Killer: EACOP “promises to worsen the climate crisis, waste billions of dollars that could be used for good, [and] bring mayhem to human settlements and wildlife along the pipeline’s path,” said one climate expert.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/28/data-reveals-major-africa-pipeline-climate-killer

# General Information / Other News
“Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland” explores the lives and attitudes of white voters suffering personally from the severe consequences of their states’ refusal to take advantage of benefits under the Affordable Care Act, limit access to guns or fund education.
https://journals.stfm.org/familymedicine/2020/march/br-mar20-westbrook/

“Dog Whistle Politics: Strategic Racism, Fake Populism, and the Dividing of America” explains how politicians from Reconstruction to Nixon, Reagan and Trump have convinced white Americans to vote against their own interests.
https://www.academia.edu/43159064/Dog_Whistle_Politics_Strategic_Racism_Fake_Populism_and_the_Dividing_of_America_by_Ian_Haney_L%C3%B3pez

# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia Now Has a Second Front Line Just to Kill Its Deserters: Russian soldier on leaked call said: “If someone runs back, we snuff them out.”
https://news.yahoo.com/russia-now-second-frontline-set-123404714.html

On the Edge of Armageddon? Why Ukraine conflict is dangerously similar to Cuban Missile Crisis: Rising tensions between Washington and Moscow are reminiscent of a crisis from 60 years ago that nearly triggered devastation
https://www.rt.com/news/564590-from-cuba-to-kiev/

# Gov / Politics / US
The U.S. Blunder That Could Hand Putin Victory in Ukraine: Squabbling over whether the U.S. should continue to bankroll Ukraine’s fight against Russia has Putin smelling blood already.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-us-blunder-that-could-hand-putin-victory-in-ukraine

Ralph Nader Throws Support to Democrats Ahead of Midterms But Warns the Party’s Message Is Failing: We speak with political organizer Mark Green and four-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader, co-authors of a new report titled “Crushing the GOP, 2022.” They argue Democrats have the better policies but are not conveying them to a public that is eager to vote for a party that will protect democracy and their pocket books. ​​”This party doesn’t know how to win,” Nader says of Democrats.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/25/ralph_nader_mark_green_midterms_2022

GOP May Launch Impeachment Blitz If They Win the House: Marjorie Taylor Green, Ted Cruz and the House Freedom Caucus have identified Biden and his administration as targets.
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/28/can-the-really-impeach-joe-biden-yes-they-can/

Poverty Is at Emergency Levels in the U.S. Why Isn’t It a Midterm Election Issue? Issues like raising the minimum wage and expanding health care should be front and center.
https://truthout.org/articles/poverty-is-at-emergency-levels-in-the-us-why-isnt-it-a-midterm-election-issue/

DeSantis Is Using “Election Police” to Intimidate Voters With Felony Convictions: Florida voting rights activist Desmond Meade speaks out against the arrests of people on trumped-up voter fraud charges
https://truthout.org/video/desantis-is-using-election-police-to-intimidate-voters-with-felony-convictions/

Why the Most Dangerous Political Movement Since the Civil War Must Be Crushed: “This is an order of magnitude we have never seen before,” Nader concluded, denouncing Republicans. “We have never seen a party literally trying to repress the vote, miscount the vote, purge the vote, intimidate precinct worker volunteers, and steal elections.”
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/28/why-most-dangerous-political-movement-civil-war-must-be-crushed

You, Poor Voter, Must Stand Back and Watch as Billionaire Plutocrats Purchase Democracy: Regular people cannot, but the billionaire class can spend as much as their hearts desire to influence election outcomes.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/28/you-poor-voter-must-stand-back-and-watch-billionaire-plutocrats-purchase-democracy

# Law Enforcement
6 Shot Outside Pittsburgh Funeral for Mass Shooting Victim: One victim is said to be in critical condition while five others are expected to survive.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/10/28/pittsburgh-police-say-6-shot-church-during-funeral-service/10625241002/

# Legal / DOJ
Trump’s Secret Files At Mar-a-Lago More Dangerous Than We Thought:  “some of the White House documents that Donald Trump improperly took to his Mar-a-Lago residence were clearly marked as classified,” including ones that had the words “top secret” on them. That the materials the ex-president helped himself to weren’t simply stacks of White House stationery or crude drawings
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/donald-trump-classified-documents-mar-a-lago

Ordeal Is Not Over for Criminalized Survivor Wendy Howard After Trial Verdict: Abuse survivor Wendy Howard was acquitted of murder, but the prosecutor may decide to bring her to trial again.
https://truthout.org/articles/ordeal-is-not-over-for-criminalized-survivor-wendy-howard-after-trial-verdict/

Dallas-Houston bullet train developer vows project is on track, but state officials lack confidence: A lawyer is threatening to take legal action on behalf of 100 Texas property owners who are at risk of having their land being seized to make way for a high-speed rail line from developer Texas Central. Patrick McShan, the lawyer representing property owners, said if the company does not provide more details, he’s prepared to ask a judge to depose the company.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/27/texas-high-speed-rail-dallas-houston/#:~:text=Dallas%2DHouston%20bullet%20train%20developer,forthcoming%20about%20the%20project’s%20status.

# Medical / Health
A Texas doctor has pleaded guilty to federal charges in relation to Medicare fraud. According to court documents, the doctor billed Medicare for more than $54 million worth of services, which included tests that preyed on older adults’ cancer fears. A federal jury found a Texas rheumatologist guilty today for his role in a $325 million health care fraud scheme in which he falsely diagnosed patients with life-long diseases and treated them with toxic medications on the basis of that false diagnosis.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-doctor-found-guilty-role-325-million-health-care-fraud-scheme-involving-false-diagnoses

# Military / DOD
Commander Bans Army-Issued Warm, Comfy Fleece Jacket as Winter Approaches: A battalion commander is forbidding soldiers under his command from wearing their Army-issued fleece jackets while on a rotation in South Korea.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/10/25/commander-bans-army-issued-warm-comfy-fleece-jacket-winter-approaches.html

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

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# Border / Immigration
Texas approves $339 million to keep state Guard troops deployed along border with Mexico: Gov. Greg Abbott and four top state lawmakers approved $339 million to keep thousands of Texas National Guard troops deployed to the state’s border with Mexico.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-10-27/national-guard-texas-border-troops-7834347.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The Fed Likes to Tout Its Independence. So Why Are Big Banks Lobbying It? Unlike Trump, Biden vowed to “respect the Fed’s independence,” even as bank lobbyists continue to swarm it.
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/26/federal-reserve-bank-lobby/

A Debt Ceiling Showdown in Congress Could Send Us Economy Into Tailspin: Democrats are under pressure to raise the federal debt limit before a likely loss of control in Congress next year to prevent a potential showdown with Republicans.
https://thehill.com/policy/3703950-a-debt-ceiling-showdown-in-congress-could-send-us-economy-into-tailspin/

Privatizing Social Security: The Troubling Trade-Offs: Proponents of privatization see three main arguments, in addition to ideological advantages, for moving toward a private retirement system:
*It can lift the rate of return workers obtain on their retirement contributions;
*It can boost national saving and future economic growth;
*It has practical political advantages in comparison with a Social Security rescue plan based on higher payroll taxes and a bigger accumulation of Social Security reserves.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/privatizing-social-security-the-troubling-trade-offs/

Biden slips and exposes the truth about the inflation reduction act: Reduction Act does not reduce inflation, voters’ top concern and was never intended to do so.
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/biden-slips-and-exposes-the-truth-about-the-inflation-reduction-act/

Democrats Increasingly Worry About The Federal Reserve Crushing The Economy: Did you know that the U.S. government’s most powerful economic tool has been working at nearly full blast to slow down the economy for most of the year?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-federal-reserve_n_63597af5e4b04cf8f38a8985

Federal lobbying topped $3 billion through third quarter for the first time ever: Federal lobbyists raked in $3 billion through the third quarter of 2022, putting the year on track to set a new record year for lobbying spending.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/10/federal-lobbying-topped-3-billion-through-third-quarter-for-the-first-time-ever/

Republican Attorneys General Association pouring millions into state super PACs targeting Democratic incumbents
https://www.minnpost.com/elections/2022/10/minnesota-lawyers-companies-help-fund-super-pacs-running-attack-ads-in-attorney-generals-race/

Wall Street Shrugs Off Biden and Reaffirms Commitment to Saudi Monarchy: Even as President Biden questions the U.S, Saudi alliance, big banks in the U.S. are cozying up to the crown prince.
https://truthout.org/articles/wall-street-shrugs-off-biden-and-reaffirms-commitment-to-saudi-monarchy/

# Education / Schools
All 15 seats of the State Board of Education are up for grabs this November, and the often ignored races have gained greater spotlight after a conservative shift erupted in local school board races in suburbs across the state amid culture wars over books, pandemic precautions and how history is taught in the classroom.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/27/critical-race-theory-state-board-education/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Big oil companies are selling their wells. Some worry taxpayers will pay to clean them up: “The overall industry is being assaulted right now through policy changes at the state and federal level. That’s the story writ large. The industry is dying.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-oil-wells-shell-exxonmobil

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Wrong trend for right whales amid ‘devastating’ population decline: A newly released estimate suggests that only 340 critically endangered North Atlantic right whales remained as of 2021, a 2.3% decline from 2020, when the population numbered around 348. The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales continues to dwindle, sparking concerns that the species might be creeping closer to extinction.
http://www.envirolink.org/2022/10/25/wrong-trend-for-right-whales-amid-devastating-population-decline/

# Environment / Climate / Global
In the western Amazon, oil blocks eat away at Indigenous lands, protected areas: A total of 1,647 Indigenous territories and 52 protected areas are affected by encroaching oil lots in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, some of them subsumed entirely within concessions. In some cases, prevailing laws provide loopholes for oil activity in ostensibly protected areas, often on the nebulous basis of ‘national interests.’
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/in-the-western-amazon-oil-blocks-eat-away-at-indigenous-lands-protected-areas/

# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
9 Money-Saving Hacks From The Past To Cut Food Costs During Inflation: The rising prices of groceries is no joke. These tactics from the Great Depression and World War II rationing make sense today.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/food-money-saving-hacks_l_6351654ce4b0b7f89f5f2312

# Gov / Politics / Global
The Larger Geopolitical Shift Behind Iran’s Drone Sales to Russia: The partnership is an indication of major changes, as emerging states leverage digital technology and sophisticated weaponry to compete for influence and power.
https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-iran-agrees-ship-missiles-more-drones-russia-defying-west-sources-2022-10-18/

# Gov / Politics / US
Ron DeSantis’ Old Law Firm Received Millions in State Funds: One beneficiary of the Ron DeSantis administration has been Ron DeSantis’ former employer.
https://abovethelaw.com/2022/06/ron-desantis-handing-law-firms-millions-in-public-dollars-to-handle-unnecessary-symbolic-cases/

Bizarre Republican Ad Blames Biden for Anti-Asian Violence Incited by Trump: A new attack ad blames Joe Biden for the spike in Covid-era violence against Asian Americans that community leaders say Donald Trump fueled.
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/24/anti-asian-ad-trump-citizens-for-sanity/

Republicans Hammer Biden on Inflation as He Heralds Economic Recovery: Administration officials point to data showing that the labor market is recovering and consumer confidence is rising
https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-highlight-inflation-in-effort-to-thwart-bidens-midterm-economic-case-11626341401

Republican policies are killing Americans: “If we don’t have the proper regulations in place to protect people, then what happens is that they could be exploited.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/26/republican-policies-are-killing-americans-study

For the First Time, LGBTQ Candidates Are on the Ballot in All 50 States: There are 678 LGBTQ candidates across the country who are on the ballot in the general election.
https://truthout.org/articles/for-the-first-time-lgbtq-candidates-are-on-the-ballot-in-all-50-states/

# Law Enforcement
New Texas law allowing people to carry handguns without permits stirs mix of fear, concern among law enforcement
Starting Sept. 1, most Texans will be able to carry handguns in public without going through training or having to get permits. Law enforcement officers worry that could make their jobs more dangerous.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/16/texas-permitless-carry-gun-law/

Murderer Behind Notorious Cold Case Possible Serial Killer: The convicted criminal is now at the center of another murder in central Florida, and at least one case in Tennessee.
Samuel Little
Victims: 60 confirmed, 93 claimed and suspected
Span of crimes: 1970–2005 (confirmed) 1960–2012 (possible)
Country: United States
State(s): California, Texas, and Ohio (convicted) 16 others (accused)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/convicted-killer-confessed-another-murder-91-told-florida-authorities-rcna54024

# Legal / DOJ
Three more men were convicted on terrorism and gang charges of terrorism over the foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The men were founding members of a far-right paramilitary group, who wanted to trigger a civil war or “boogaloo.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/michigan-governor-kidnap-convictions-guilty

Strip Club Death Trial Delayed by Lawyer Dying in Same Club: The second death at Shotgun Willie’s in Colorado was called “kind of weird” by the attorney’s co-counsel.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/26/colorado-strip-club-lawyer-death-trial-delayed

Judge May Unseal Documents Showing Trump’s Attempts to Block Aide Testimonies: The secret court documents reportedly detail efforts to stop testimony on Trump’s role in the events of January 6.
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/27/may-unseal-secret-docs-showing-trumps-attempts-to-block-aides-from-testifying-report/

# Military / Global
Ukrainian forces push back on Russian troops in Kherson, an area of Ukraine that Putin claims to have annexed. Russian officials have forced tens of thousands of residents to evacuate as fighting intensifies and crucial infrastructure in the area gets damaged, AP reports.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-crimea-europe-government-and-politics-990aeb315f9de76ab32ff3674c6c660c

# Social
National Guard Sent to Support Overwhelmed Homeless Shelters: The move comes after occupancy levels hit a depressing record this month.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/27/national-guard-deployed-to-nyc-homeless-shelters-to-assist-migrant-crisis/

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