Voices, The Peoples News
October 3, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration
The warden of an immigration detention center yelled profanities at a group of Mexican immigrants before killing one of them and injuring another with a shotgun, according to an arrest affidavit from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Suspects in migrant shooting went to a meeting after firing fatal shots, police report says. Michael Sheppard, one of the suspects, was the warden of an immigration detention center that was the subject of several human rights abuse complaints in 2018.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/30/texas-migrants-shooting-warden-sierra-blanca/
Texas brothers charged with manslaughter for shooting migrants getting water near border: Twin brothers in Texas has been charged with manslaughter for shooting at a group of migrants who had stopped to get water near the U.S.-Mexico border. One of the migrants died, and another was injured. One of the two brothers, Michael Sheppard, was the warden at a privately run immigration jail, the West Texas Detention Facility, which has been accused of abuse. He was fired after the attack.
https://www.kwtx.com/2022/09/30/authorities-texas-warden-brother-arrested-after-migrant-is-killed-near-mexico-border/
# Chemicals
Crucial misrepresentations about glyphosate continue to threaten agriculture. This scientist explains how the UN agency IARC likely manipulated the data: It seems that IARC’s judgment carried such cachet that few felt the need to actually read the 91 pages devoted to it and form an independent opinion of the report. A partial explanation for IARC’s largely unquestioned authority may be the fact that the agency is loosely affiliated with the World Health Organization.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/27/crucial-misrepresentations-about-glyphosate-continue-to-threaten-agriculture-this-scientist-explains-how-the-un-agency-iarc-appears-to-have-deliberately-manipulated-the-data/?mc_cid=7947e0e5a0&mc_eid=c87bac2a19
Iowa joins 9 states in suing ag pesticide makers, alleging anticompetitive practices: The complaint, filed in a U.S. District Court in North Carolina, accuses the companies of using “loyalty programs” with pesticide distributors to exclude generic competitors from the market.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2022/09/30/iowa-joins-states-suing-corteva-syngenta-over-loyalty-programs-lawsuit/69528808007/
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Terrifying Russian Bat Virus Could Spark the Next Pandemic: Lab tests suggest the Khosta-2 virus thrives in human cells and is resistant to current coronavirus vaccines. We need better jabs to fight new animal viruses. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over. In fact, it shows signs of lingering for, well, a long time. But even as politicians and health authorities struggle with how, if at all, to keep addressing the current pandemic, scientists are already anticipating the next one.
https://news.yahoo.com/terrifying-russian-bat-virus-could-225907485.html
Revealed: How scientists who dismissed Wuhan lab theory are linked to Chinese researchers: Despite declaring no conflicts of interest at the time, it has since emerged that the letter was orchestrated by British zoologist Peter Daszak, president of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance, which funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the leak was suspected. However, The Telegraph can disclose that 26 of the 27 scientists listed in the letter had connections to the Chinese lab
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/10/revealed-scientists-dismissed-wuhan-lab-theory-linked-chinese/
UK scientist with links to Wuhan lab ‘recuses himself’ from inquiry into Covid origins: Dr Peter Daszak, president of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance, has “recused himself” from the inquiry by leading medical journal the Lancet after he failed to declare ties to the Wuhan Laboratory of Virology, which was conducting research into coronavirus in bats
https://www.nationandstate.com/2022/10/03/uk-scientist-with-links-to-wuhan-lab-recuses-himself-from-inquiry-into-covid-origins/
Scientists Square Off Over Covid, Wuhan, and Peter Daszak: A group of academics claim the president of EcoHealth Alliance has misled the public amid Covid origins investigations.
https://undark.org/2021/11/24/scientists-square-off-over-covid-wuhan-and-peter-daszak/
Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife’s net worth grew by $5 million during the COVID-19 pandemic as thousands of US residents struggled financially, according to a government spending watchdog group.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/fauci-and-wifes-wealth-skyrocketed-by-5m-during-pandemic-analysis/
Top vaccine expert with FDA and NIH warns healthy young people not to get COVID-19 booster: ‘There’s not clear evidence of benefit’ versus risk: “You’re asking people to get a new product for which there’s no data,” Offit also told CNN. “Mice data [from eight mice] are not adequate to launch 100-plus-billion-dose effort.” The booster shot was authorized by the FDA despite not having been tested on humans.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/vaccine-expert-covid-booster-young
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
International Finance Capital Rebels Against British … Tax Cuts for the Rich? Bankers shoot down the Conservative Party budget plan. Bankers shoot down the Conservative Party budget plan.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/international-finance-capital-rebels-against-british-tax-cuts-for-rich/
# Education / Schools
Corporal punishment of students with disabilities in U.S. public schools: A 2008 American Civil Liberties Union /Human Rights Watch report found that corporal punishment in public schools is routine in many parts of the US, and that almost a quarter-of-a-million school children were subjected to this violent, degrading punishment in the 2006-2007 school year
https://www.aclu.org/impairing-education-corporal-punishment-students-disabilities-us-public-schools-html
Schools Should Ban Corporal Punishment and Teach Restorative Justice Instead: By instituting corporal punishment, school districts are exposing children to violence that causes long-term damage
https://truthout.org/articles/schools-should-ban-corporal-punishment-and-teach-restorative-justice-instead/
Old-school discipline doesn’t work any more, and shouldn’t: Why last year’s discipline reforms were the right move, and why we need to go further. Schools that buck the trend and continue to dole out punishment for minor ‘infractions’ end up producing the very thing they want to attack: bad behavior. The happiest schools are those that know when to turn a blind eye.
https://edsource.org/2022/old-school-discipline-doesnt-work-any-more-and-shouldnt/670966
This campus takes “learning environment” literally: At the University of the District of Columbia, sustainable infrastructure is part of the educational experience.
https://ensia.com/articles/university-district-columbia-sustainability/
Families of the Uvalde shooting victims are camping outside the school district’s office demanding action. “My son is dead because of the inactions of your school district, of the city, of all the police involved, starting with the school to the city to the state, they all failed,” said Brett Cross. “We did everything how they wanted to and nothing was done, so now we’re doing it our way. I guarantee I’m a lot more stubborn than they are.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/uvalde-camp-out
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
California Gov. Newsom proposes windfall profits tax on Big Oil: Calls for windfall profits taxes have increased globally in recent weeks that would go directly back to California taxpayers.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/30/governor-newsom-calls-for-a-windfall-tax-to-put-record-oil-profits-back-in-californians-pockets/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
“And pray …. What will you tell them when they ask you why?” Author Unknown
Deforestation 101: Everything You Need to Know: Trees have been around for about 370 million years. Today, there are about three trillion trees and ten billion acres of forest on Earth. That may sound like a lot, but the planet has lost more than one billion acres of forest to deforestation since 1990. The biggest human causes of deforestation are farming, raising cattle and the uncontrolled cultivation of crops like rubber and palm oil.
https://www.ecowatch.com/deforestation-explained.html
‘Dangerously Low’ Mississippi River Level May Spark Transport Chaos For Farm Goods During Harvest: A drought is drying up parts of the Mississippi River, a major export channel for corn and soybeans. The waterway is responsible for at least half of the US corn and soybean exports. The shrinking water level, barge shortage, and skyrocketing shipping costs are terrible for farmers during harvest season.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dangerously-low-mississippi-river-level-may-spark-transport-chaos-farm-goods-during-harvest
# Environment / Climate / Global
The guardians of the future: It’s time for Indigenous voices to lead the climate fight. As the climate crisis escalates, activists fighting to protect what remains of the world’s forests are at risk of being persecuted by governments, even at risk of death. For decades Indigenous activists have been sounding the alarm, but their warnings have too often been ignored. So, they organized.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/opinion/climate-change-indigenous-activists.html
# General Information / Other News
Free Stores Offer an Alternative to the Exploitative Capitalist Economy: A coordinated network of free store hubs could begin to act as a building block for moving beyond capitalism.
https://truthout.org/articles/free-stores-offer-an-alternative-to-the-exploitative-capitalist-economy/
Dem Senator Targets Gun Group Over Its Secret Gun Registry: Sen. Richard Blumenthal is wondering why the National Shooting Sports Foundation was keeping a list of gun owners.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/abortion-clinic-escorts-say-work-is-becoming-a-war-zone
9 NATO countries call to admit Ukraine as counteroffensive presses on: The leaders of Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and Slovakia issued a joint statement backing a path to NATO membership for Ukraine.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-10-02/nine-nato-countries-call-to-admit-ukraine-as-counteroffensive-presses-on-7544389.html
Nearly 2,000 Environmental Defenders Killed in Last 10 Years: At a rate of every other day for the past 10 years, an environmental defender has lost their life protecting their home.
https://www.ecowatch.com/environmental-defenders-killed.html
Trump Demanded a Government Shutdown and Nobody Noticed
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/trump-demanded-a-government-shutdown-and-nobody-noticed.html
# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Has Left the World No Other Option But Regime Change: The Russian dictator’s deranged “annexation” speech should make it clear to the global community of nations that his staying in power won’t provide “stability.”
Those desiring regime change in Russia should be careful what they wish for. Many western analysts are clearly hoping Putin’s disastrous Ukraine war brings his downfall. But the track record in these cases isn’t great
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/those-desiring-regime-change-in-russia-should-be-careful-what-they-wish-for
Russian Commissar Fired as Half of Drafted Men Sent Home: The setback is just the latest farce to blight the Kremlin‘s mass military mobilization.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-10-03/half-of-mobilised-men-in-russian-region-sent-home-commissar-fired-governor
Brazil’s Election Heads Into Second Round With High Stakes for Amazon Rainforest, World Climate. Brazil’s tense presidential election has gone into a runoff that will take place on October 30, 2022.
https://www.ecowatch.com/brazil-election-amazon-rainforest.html
National Archives Says It’s Still Missing Docs Trump Removed From White House: More than 11,000 government documents, 300 of which were classified, have been retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
https://truthout.org/articles/national-archives-says-its-still-missing-docs-trump-removed-from-white-house/
# Gov / Politics / US
After U.S. soldiers were told to go on Food Stamps, Congress finds another $12 billion for Ukraine: News follows the Senate passing a 40 billion aid package in May, a 14 billion package in March. President Biden asked Congress for an additional 11.7 billion in aid for Ukraine, with Congress, in turn, seems to be jumping at his behest. As a reminder, earlier this month the Army told active-duty American soldiers to go on food stamps if they were unable to afford food thanks to inflation. Food stamps for American soldiers, endless billions for Ukraine. This is your country now.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/after-u-s-soldiers-were-told-to-go-on-food-stamps-congress-finds-another-12-billion-for-ukraine/
Former Congressman Sentenced to Prison for Stuffing Pennsylvania Ballot Boxes: Former Abscam Congressman ‘Ozzie’ Myers is headed back to federal prison, this time for election fraud. The former politician was sentenced to 2 1/2 years behind bars after pleading guilty to bribing election workers to stuff ballot boxes in local elections.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/ozzie-myers-prison-sentence-abscam-philly-election-fraud-20220927.html
Reporter claims to have seen ‘steady stream of attendees heading for exits since about the 15-minute mark of this now hour-long’ speech: A reporter who was live-tweeting from the Macomb College Sports & Expo Center suggested the crowd was far from the arena’s full capacity of 6,600. One picture purportedly taken 10 minutes before the end of the rally showed sparsely populated seating towards the rear of the venue.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/video-shows-steady-stream-leaving-trump-rally-after-just-15-minutes/ar-AA12wBJN?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=fc1bde588b414ed3a02bede9f44ab255
Pat Toomey Blockades Biden’s Housing Nominees Amid Historic Rent Hikes: The Department of Housing and Urban Development is lacking vital staff during a crisis of housing affordability.
https://prospect.org/cabinet-watch/pat-toomey-blockades-biden-housing-nominees-amid-historic-/
Every Single Florida House Republican Voted Against Disaster Relief Funding: “That is a level of callous indifference and political opportunism that boggles the mind,” one Florida Democrat said.
https://truthout.org/articles/every-single-florida-house-republican-voted-against-disaster-relief-funding/
Grassroots Groups in Mississippi Are Pushing for Representation in Local Office: Mississippi has never elected a Black person to statewide office to this day.
https://truthout.org/articles/grassroots-groups-in-mississippi-are-pushing-for-representation-in-local-office/
# Law Enforcement
Hundreds of prison and jail deaths go uncounted by the federal government, report finds: The Justice Department is failing to adequately and efficiently collect data about deaths in state prisons and local jails, with at least 990 incidents going uncounted by the federal government in fiscal year 2021 alone, according to a newly released bipartisan Senate report.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/09/24/a-moral-disgrace-how-the-u-s-stopped-counting-deaths-behind-bars
GOP reputation as the party of law and order collapsing under the weight of Trump’s ‘anarchy and lawlessness’:
Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, claimed that the Republican Party’s attempts to play the law and order card in the upcoming election is falling flat with voters who are inundated with new revelations of Donald Trump’s criminality on a daily basis. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-criminal-2658374880/
# Legal / DOJ
The Supreme Court is back in session, with new controversial cases that stand to change many Americans’ lives, here’s what to expect. Affirmative action, discrimination against LGBTQ people and election laws are some of the hot-button issues that the Supreme Court will tackle this fall.
https://theconversation.com/the-supreme-court-is-back-in-session-with-new-controversial-cases-that-stand-to-change-many-americans-lives-heres-what-to-expect-190819
The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act for 9 years. This case could be the next blow.
The diminished Voting Rights Act has already played a key role in the 2022 elections via redistricting.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/27/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-00042478
More Rights in Danger as Supreme Court Term Begins: Threats to voting rights, affirmative action, the environment, and student debt relief take center stage.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126041958/supreme-court-new-term
The Supreme Court May Well Legalize Election Theft This Term: The court’s rulings in two cases could drive a dagger through the heart of the democratic process. At issue is a legal theory that would give state legislatures unfettered authority to set the rules for federal elections, free of supervision by state courts and state constitutions.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1106866830/supreme-court-to-take-on-controversial-election-law-case
# LGBTQ
Some States Are Quietly Trying to Limit Health Care Access for Trans Adults: Although gender-affirming care for adults remains legal, attacks on youth care could open the door for restrictions. Legal battles have kept policies and bills at bay, but advocates sense they are in a ‘never say never’ moment.
https://19thnews.org/2022/10/transgender-healthcare-adults-limit-restrict/
# Medical / Health
Abortion Clinic Escorts Say Work Is Becoming a ‘War Zone’: From dead raccoons pelted at front doors to arson attacks, abortion clinics say they are seeing an uptick in violence and are demanding action.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/abortion-clinic-escorts-say-work-is-becoming-a-war-zone
They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay: in recent decades, many of the hospitals have become virtually indistinguishable from for-profit companies, adopting an unrelenting focus on the bottom line and straying from their traditional charitable missions. And, as Providence illustrates, some hospital systems have not only reduced their emphasis on providing free care to the poor but also developed elaborate systems to convert needy patients into sources of revenue. The result … is that thousands of poor patients were saddled with debts that they never should have owed.
https://news.yahoo.com/were-entitled-free-care-hospitals-164551068.html
Gates’ GMO Mosquitoes as “Flying Syringes” to Vaccinate All! Test in Seattle with Human Guinea-Pigs after Italian Study: “We use the mosquitoes like they’re 1,000 small flying syringes,” explains University of Washington, Seattle physician and scientist Dr. Sean Murphy
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/02/gates-gmo-mosquitoes-as-flying-syringes-to-vaccinate-all-test-in-seattle-with-human-guinea-pigs-after-italian-study/
Abortion Doctors Under the Microscope: The task of defending reproductive rights from the ‘Dobbs’ ruling is being led by progressive doctors, but everyone has a stake in the outcome.
https://prospect.org/health/abortion-doctors-under-the-microscope/
14-Year-Old Denied Necessary Medication Thanks To Arizona’s Civil War-era Abortion Law: “14 year old Emma Thompson has debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis which has kept her in and out of the hospital for most of her life. She relies on methotrexate to help tame the effects of the disease.”
https://www.themarysue.com/arizona-teen-denied-meds-over-abortion-law/
# Science
Part I: 14 days or 28 — What should the standard be for research on lab-grown human embryos?
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/27/part-i-14-days-or-28-what-should-the-standard-be-for-research-on-lab-grown-human-embryos/?mc_cid=7947e0e5a0&mc_eid=c87bac2a19
Part II: Science and the courts clash over different views about human life and on what limits should be set on human embryo laboratory research
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/09/28/part-ii-science-and-the-courts-clash-over-different-views-about-human-life-and-on-what-limits-should-be-set-on-human-embryo-laboratory-research/
# Security
Former NSA Chief Signed Deal to Train Saudi Hackers Months Before Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder: The agreement between IronNet, founded by Alexander, and the cyber school, faced no scrutiny for its association with Qahtani, after the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi he reportedly orchestrated just a few months later. Alexander officially inked the deal with the Prince Mohammed bin Salman College of Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Advanced Technologies, a school set up to train Saudi cyber intelligence agents, at a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/26/keith-alexander-saudi-hackers-khashoggi/
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