Voices, The Peoples News
Nov. 12, 2020
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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“This is the time we most need our public leadership. Right now.”
David Rubin, director of PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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# Indigenous A whistleblower speaks out over excavation of Native sites. In California, archaeologists unearthed Indigenous burials 11 years ago, but the remains have yet to be repatriated.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.12/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-a-whistleblower-speaks-out-over-excavation-of-native-sites
# Children / Youth
USA Today Reports How Florida Takes Children Away from their Parents and Puts Them with Pedophiles in Foster Care https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/10/15/flooded-foster-kids-florida-failed-find-safe-homes/3624505001/
# CoronaVirus
Life after COVID hospitalization: Study shows major lasting effects on health, work and more. Two months after a stay in one of 38 Michigan hospitals include high rates of death, rehospitalization, lingering health issues and problems with work and finances.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201111180635.htm
Smell and taste changes provide early indication of COVID-19 community spread https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201111153107.htm
Study finds lasting fatigue common after COVID-19 infection https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201111144413.htm
Texas Becomes First State to Break One Million COVID Cases. State leaders have announced no plans for new COVID restrictions, though some local officials have implemented stricter lockdown measures.
https://apnews.com/article/texas-1-million-covid-cases-first-state-097550b8324b0f54f06bf4d2a1fa4fbd
COVID Plans Include Family Separation and Involuntary Quarantine in
“Camps”: The CDC calls for “Isolation Camps” as part of a “Shielding Plan.” The plan subjects U.S. Citizens and residents who are deemed “high risk” for Covid-19 to be forcibly removed from their families and homes, and be involuntarily isolated in guarded camps.
https://ahrp.org/covid-plans-include-family-separation-involuntary-quarantine-in-camps/
Time to Discuss Potentially Unpleasant Side Effects of COVID Shots?
Scientists Say Yes
https://khn.org/news/article/time-to-discuss-potentially-unpleasant-side-effects-of-covid-shots-scientists-say-yes/
Donald Trump is purging the Defense Department to elevate his most fervent supporters https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/donald-trump-the-purge-defense-department/
Trump wants to throw out legal votes from Detroit https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/trump-michigan-lawsuit/
Harris County Public Health Department Goes Door-To-Door To Collect Blood Samples. Contact Tracing is morphing into a generalized control program where random homeowners will get a knock on the door to ask very personal questions and solicit blood samples.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/11/11/harris-county-public-health-to-conduct-survey-go-door-to-door-to-collect-blood/
# Economy / Trade
China denounces US sanctions over Hong Kong crackdown
https://apnews.com/article/international-news-beijing-hong-kong-national-security-carrie-lam-f92603733e2555162595dbbd20cdbf82
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals
Trucker Strike: Media Warns “Stock Up Now” – Food Shortages Coming https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/11/trucker-strike-media-warns-stock-up-now-food-shortages-coming.html
E.Coli Found In Tanimura & Antle Packaged Single-Headed Romaine Lettuce https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/11/10/salinas-based-company-recalls-romaine-lettuce-over-possible-e-coli-contamination/
# Global Politics and other news
In calls with Biden, leaders of America’s Pacific allies pledge to work with president-elect. The leaders of South Korea, Japan and Australia each released details of their calls with President-elect Joe Biden Thursday.
https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/in-calls-with-biden-leaders-of-america-s-pacific-allies-pledge-to-work-with-president-elect-1.651800
# Gov / Politics
Trump’s Top Evangelical Ally Demands he Concede Defeat https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/11/11/trumps-top-evangelical-ally-demands-he-concede-defeat/
Trump Went Apesh*t on FDA Chief After Vaccine News: President reportedly flew into a rage on hearing the news, and saw it as further evidence that he was somehow screwed out of election victory.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-screamed-at-fda-commissioner-after-pfizers-vaccine-announcement-says-report
Trump Admin Holding Back World Leaders’ Notes to Biden: Embarrassingly, foreign leaders have had to work around the uncooperative State Department to get a message to Biden.
https://us.cnn.com/2020/11/11/politics/state-department-biden-messages/index.html
GOP Senator: I’ll Step in if Trump Keeps Freezing Biden Out. Oklahoma’s Sen. James Lankford is losing patience with president’s outright refusal to cooperate with Joe Biden’s transition team.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-lankford-gop-senator-says-hell-step-in-if-trump-keeps-freezing-biden-transition-team-out?source=cheats&via=rss
Senate majority battle snags Biden Cabinet hopefuls. A razor-tight Senate margin is complicating President-elect Joe Biden’s strategy for filling his Cabinet by making it more difficult to pick sitting lawmakers for plum posts.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/525598-senate-majority-battle-snags-biden-cabinet-hopefuls
Biden’s Victory: Is the Worst Yet to Come? The dark side of Biden’s win.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/12/bidens-victory-is-the-worst-yet-to-come/
Biden’s Choice of Ron Klain to Run White House Signals Rejection of Trump-Era Chaos https://www.youtube.com/embed/iDNeQR3VFPE
State Department Is Preventing Biden From Accessing Messages From Foreign Leaders https://thehill.com/policy/international/525616-state-department-wont-give-biden-messages-from-foreign-leaders-report
Here’s the real danger lurking in Trump’s world-historical tantrum https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump-coup-2648878907/
Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is increasing fears of a coup-in-progress https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump-coup-2648865938/
More ‘Dictatorship Than a Democracy’: Trump Purge at Pentagon Increases Fears of Coup-in-Motion. “The purge happening at the Department of Defense, in the middle of a messy transition, should worry us all.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/11/more-dictatorship-democracy-trump-purge-pentagon-increases-fears-coup-motion
Why this retired general says Trump loyalists want to stage a coup:
‘Crazy thing going on inside that White House’
https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/crazy-thing-going-on-inside-that-white-house-retired-general-says-trump-loyalists-want-to-stage-a-coup/
We’re witnessing the birth of a dangerous new strain in the right-wing movement https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/it-doesnt-matter-if-trumps-conspiracy-theories-represent-a-real-coup-attempt-or-a-big-grift/
Legal experts fear the White House will violate the Presidential Records Act during the transition https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/presidential-records-act-takes-centerstage-amid-trumps-refusal-to-commit-to-a-peaceful-transfer-of-power/
# Law Enforcement
Louisville Police Concealed 738,000 Records of Sexual Abuse by Officers https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/11/11/lmpd-explorer-scandal-lawyers-say-police-lied-conceal-records/6224382002/
L.A. County Coroner Opens Inquest into Police Killing of Andrés Guardado https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/11/la-coroner-orders-inquest-in-police-shooting-death-of-18-year-old-the-first-in-3-decades/
# Veterans / VA
Senate passes Veteran’s Health Act; a package of bills addressing healthcare and suicide prevention for veterans. “By identifying and eliminating barriers for veterans to access public lands, AVRO will ensure that veterans can heal on the landscapes they served to protect.”
https://www.nationofchange.org/2020/11/12/senate-passes-veterans-health-act-a-package-of-bills-addressing-healthcare-and-suicide-prevention-for-veterans/
Far Right Militias Are Recruiting Vets. We Must Organize Against This Trend.
Veterans already primed with the military’s racist indoctrination make up 25 percent of all militia members in the U.S.
https://truthout.org/articles/far-right-militias-are-recruiting-vets-we-must-organize-against-this-trend/
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