Voices, The Peoples News
July 26, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Meet the group that’s been bringing bison back to tribal lands for 30 years: For the past three decades, the InterTribal Buffalo Council has worked to reconnect Indigenous people with bison, reviving traditions and healing communities.
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FBI shares list of Native Americans missing in New Mexico: More than 170 Indigenous Americans have been reported missing. In an effort to improve the reporting of missing persons in Indian Country, the FBI is releasing a list of more than 170 Native Americans verified as missing throughout New Mexico and the Navajo Nation. The list was last updated on July 21, 2022.
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# Border / Immigration
ICE Is Using Data From LexisNexis to Skirt Sanctuary Laws and Deport Immigrants: A hearing this week in Illinois will probe how the data-sharing contract may violate Cook County’s sanctuary ordinance.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
US agencies aren’t ‘following the science’ on COVID, and staff are too scared to complain. “It’s like a horror movie I’m being forced to watch and I can’t close my eyes,” one senior FDA official lamented. That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency.
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With no solid clinical data, the agency authorized COVID vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had COVID. FDA bypassed its external experts to authorize booster shots for young children. As of Wednesday, just 11,077 kids from 6 months through 4 years old had received the shot, which gained approval for that age group on June 18. There are about 530,000 New York City kids younger than 5.
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Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater: A system that combined advanced sample preparation with powerful computer analysis was able to identify individual SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade
Wall Street is buying up family homes. The rent checks are too juicy to ignore: Pension funds, investment firms and Wall Street banks are snapping up family homes in Europe and the United States at a rapid pace as prices rocket higher.
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Inflation is hammering rural America, report shows: A report from Iowa State University shows that rural Americans are feeling the pain of inflation more than the rest of the country. Earnings were not able to keep pace with inflation, rising by only 6.1%. The net effect cut rural discretionary incomes by –49.1% between June 2020 and June 2022, reducing the cushion to only $5,426. Expenses now consume 91% of rural take‐home pay.”
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Homeowners insurance rate may force some families out of Colorado: Increased homeowner’s insurance rates have forced some Coloradans to look for areas where they can cut costs for necessities like food.
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# Education / Schools
The Trump Effect: The Impact of the 2016 Election on the Nation’s Schools: These verbatim comments came in response to questions on a survey asking educators about the impact of the 2016 election campaign on students and schools. The survey was conducted by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, from March 31 to April 2, 2016.
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# Employment / Labor
You’re Going to Miss the Deep State When It’s Gone: Trump’s terrifying plan to purge tens of thousands of career government workers and replace them with loyal stooges must be stopped in its tracks.
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Why Trader Joe’s workers are joining the fight to unionize: Workers at two stores among the hundreds of Trader Joe’s locations nationwide are hoping to join a newly formed independent union.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical Rising cost of energy: With triple-digit temperatures reported in parts of the U.S., including Texas, the cost of electricity has become “beyond affordable” for some low-income households.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals / Global
Zelensky: Russia Is Waging an ‘Overt Gas War’ Against Europe: His comments came after Gazprom slashed Germany’s supply by around a fifth.
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Russian gas company Gazprom announced on Monday it’s severely cutting supply to a pipeline in Germany. EU leaders plan to meet today to discuss the possibility of a winter with unpredictable gas supplies from Moscow, the New York Times reports.
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World Oil Production Is Rising, With No End in Sight: Global production is projected to rise to 126 million barrels a day by 2050. It’s time to end the tyranny of oil.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure EPA needs funding and staffing restored for any environmental justice:
Advocates want Congress to make up for the funding and staffing the EPA has lost in its enforcement division. Since 2011, enforcement budget has declined by nearly 30 percent.
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We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
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Performative Cruelty Is Republicans’ Only Remaining Policy: Being mean and nasty to perceived enemies is all the GOP has to offer. We should disabuse ourselves of illusions that Republicans want power for any purpose other than to exercise power, and to exercise it arbitrarily, unfairly, and with vindictiveness.
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# Environment / Climate / Global
Freezing Point on Swiss Alpine Summits Reaches a New High, Another Sign of Climate Change: Meteorologists in Switzerland sent weather balloons over Alpine country in search for the freezing point. The weather balloons had to rise over 5,100 meters (over 17,000 feet), before finding the freezing point, setting a new record and breaking the previous highest freezing point of 27 years ago.
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In First-of-its-Kind Protest, Hill Staffers Arrested After Sit-in for Climate Action at Schumer’s Office: Democratic leadership may have given up on passing major climate legislation, but their employees aren’t ready to throw in the towel.
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# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other Food additive or carcinogen? The growing list of chemicals banned by EU but used in US: There’s a hidden ingredient used as a whitener in an array of foods, from candies and pastries to cheeses and gum. It’s called titanium dioxide, and while commonly used in the US, it’s being banned in the EU as a possible carcinogen. The additive, also known as E171, joins a host of other chemicals that are banned in foods in the European Union but allowed in the US.
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# General Information / Other News
They Want To Kill Americans: New York Times bestselling author, Malcolm Nance, offers a chilling warning on a clear, present existential threat to our democracy. Our fellow Americans “Malcolm Nance is one of the great unsung national security geniuses of the modern era.”
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Steve Bannon Calls On ‘4,000 Shock Troops’ To ‘Deconstruct’ The Government ‘Brick By Brick’: Fresh from a double contempt of Congress conviction linked to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, Steve Bannon is now calling on “4,000 shock troops” to “deconstruct” the federal government “brick by brick.” He wants to see people “stepping forward, say[ing], ’Hey, I want to be one of those 4,000 shock troops,” Bannon said on his “War Room” podcast Monday. “Shock troops” are assault forces that lead an attack. “Suck on it,” said Bannon. “We’re destroying this illegitimate regime.”
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Exclusive: Neo-Nazi Marine Plotted Mass Murder, Rape Campaigns with Group, Feds Say: While tasked with protecting the nation, Matthew Belanger was plotting a killing spree against minorities and to rape “white women to increase the production of white children,” according to federal prosecutors
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# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia says it wants to end Ukraine’s `unacceptable regime’: Russia’s top diplomat said Moscow’s overarching goal in Ukraine is to topple President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government
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Moldova, which borders Ukraine, fears an invasion by Russia. “If a country can start an annexation war without any regard for, you know, international law, then in this sense nobody is safe, and I think that a lot of countries are worried,” Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita told CNN.
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# Gov / Politics / US
Global Reform and How the US Hurts Itself: Both Russia and Iran have, in the past, offered the US the reform it desires. And in both cases, the US undermined those attempts and destroyed what it most desired. Two of the biggest international crises confronting the US today are Russia’s war in Ukraine and the comatose renegotiations of the nuclear agreement with Iran.
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The Biden comedy act wows the world in the Middle East: Biden’s trip to the Middle East, like his Presidency, is an unmitigated disaster. His performance with Israelis underscores that his Administration will support the Zionist enterprise under any and all circumstances, but clearly paves the way for an illegitimate and catastrophic American Zio-War with Iran
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Mo Brooks Falls With Trump’s Knife in His Back: Casting about for an excuse to dump Brooks, Trump seized on the hard-core constitutionalist’s refusal to support a post-inauguration ouster of President Joe Biden to suggest that this classic troglodyte had gone “woke.” He soon de-endorsed Brooks.
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Trump Returns to D.C. and His Minions Can’t Wait to Knife Each Other:
“It’s a mile wide and an inch deep,” a Trump adviser told The Daily Beast of the nonprofit where Trump will speak on Tuesday. The keynote speech will offer “an opportunity to showcase the dual contrasts between America under Trump and America under Biden,” according to the source, who speaks frequently with the former president.
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Why do we have state senates? How can 49 percent of the electorate support a candidate for office, yet get no representation? And why doesn’t everybody vote? In today’s installment of the Prospect’s big ideas series, Prospects 2032, Harold Meyerson, Miles Rapoport and E.J. Dionne look closer at these issues of democracy and voting, and imagine a different world Read Harold Meyerson’s piece here:
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Read Miles Rapoport and E.J. Dionne’s piece here:
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House progressives are alarmed about a package of bills that would increase funding for local law enforcement, raising concerns that the moves could cost them votes in the upcoming midterm elections, even as moderate Democrats see them as a chance to blunt GOP political attacks.
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Lindsey Graham: The GOP Likes Trump Because We Can Use Him: Graham said the quiet part aloud about why he and others who once loathed Trump have become so obsequious to him.
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Sanders: If U.S. Can Spend $76 Billion on Computer Chips, It Can Pass Medicare for All: “Let’s join the club” of countries that offer people universal health care and paid medical leave, Sen. Bernie Sanders said.
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‘Really Inexcusable’: Progressives Lament Democrats’ Failure to Reverse Trump Tax Cuts: “If the so-called party of the people cannot raise taxes on the ultra-rich they have little purpose other than being yet another handmaiden for the wealthy in Washington.”
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# Legal / DOJ
According to an internal email obtained by The Texas Tribune, Attorney General Ken Paxton has banned his office’s lawyers from speaking at any events organized by the State Bar of Texas, further escalating his feud with the entity. The state bar is suing Paxton, alleging professional misconduct, over his lawsuit challenging the 2020 presidential election results.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/25/ken-paxton-texas-bar/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJdFyE15i$
Corporate interests have given $21.5 million to GOP ‘sedition caucus’ since Jan. 6 attack: In the month of June, as the House J6 committee revealed alarming new details on former President Donald Trump’s coup attempt, corporate trade groups and Fortune 500 companies donated more than $819,000 to the Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/26/corporate-interests-have-given-215-million-gop-sedition-caucus-jan-6-attack__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJShT4O5R$
North Carolina AG ‘Concerned’ About Shkreli’s New Venture: Shkreli was banned for life from the pharmaceutical industry earlier this year for conduct at his former drug company.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/north-carolina-ag-concerned-about-martin-shkrelis-new-drug-software-venture__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJT8bJkmC$
Department of Justice Is “Finally Going for the Jugular” as Top Pence Aides Testify About January 6: Pence’s ex-chief of staff and top White House attorney recently appeared before the Justice Department’s grand jury.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/doj-is-finally-going-for-the-jugular-as-top-pence-aides-testify-about-jan-6/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJZdE3pGO$
# LGBTQ
GOP Lawmaker Attends Gay Son’s Wedding Days After Opposing Same-Sex Marriage Bill: Glenn Thompson voted against Respect for Marriage Act, which would codify the right to have a same-sex marriage into federal law
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/26/glenn-thompson-republican-son-gay-marriage-vote-bill__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJfdC0Ze0$
# Medical / Health
Biden’s top-down booster plan sparks anger at FDA: Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock sent a memo Tuesday evening to vaccine regulators, reiterating her support as frustration over the process spreads within their ranks.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/31/biden-booster-plan-fda-508149__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJeB9iAvN$
Kids’ Risk of Severe Reaction to Pfizer Shot 4 Times Greater Than Risk of Needing Oxygen Therapy, Singapore Data Show: A New England Journal of Medicine study involving more than a quarter million children ages 5 to 11 raises serious questions about the risk-benefit analysis for vaccinating young children, according to John Campbell, Ph.D., who reviewed the study in a recent video.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kids-pfizer-covid-vaccine-risk-benefit-omicron-singapore-data/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJRMZ2u59$
Texas Abortion Ban Turned One Woman’s Pregnancy Into a ‘Dystopian Nightmare’: “Anti-abortion zealots should be forced to read this…” asserted one journalist. “They are responsible for her suffering.” Reproductive healthcare advocates on Tuesday recoiled at a harrowing report describing how one Texas woman’s wanted pregnancy became a “dystopian nightmare” after she suffered potentially deadly complications but was still initially denied lifesaving care under the state’s extreme abortion ban.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/26/texas-abortion-ban-turned-one-womans-pregnancy-dystopian-nightmare__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJe6oTAf1$
# Pharmaceuticals
From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire? Over the past decades, regulatory agencies have seen large proportions of their budgets funded by the industry they are sworn to regulate. In 1992, the US Congress passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), allowing industry to fund the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directly through “user fees.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1538__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJfe8DxOX$
Bayer Loses Again as US Supreme Court Allows $87 Million Roundup Award: The US Supreme Court let stand an $87 million award against Bayer AG, rejecting the company for the second time in a week as it tries to fend off tens of thousands of claims that its top-selling Roundup weedkiller causes cancer.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.courthousenews.com/us-supreme-court-deals-bayer-another-roundup-loss/*:*:text=The*20court*20delivered*20its*20rejection,of*20using*20its*20signature*20product__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJdIiEAHh$ .
Pharma Dirtbag Martin Shkreli Wants to Disrupt the Drug Biz: Two months after getting out of prison, the notorious “pharma bro” is back in the game.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news5s.com/pharma-dirtbag-martin-shkreli-now-wants-to-disrupt-the-drug-biz/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJcMHV-sT$
The opioid crisis isn’t just the Sacklers’ fault, and making Purdue Pharma pay isn’t enough on its own to fix the pharmaceutical industry’s deeper problems. Making them pay is important but it’s not going to stop drugmakers from endangering public health.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/the-opioid-crisis-isnt-just-the-sacklers-fault-and-making-purdue-pharma-pay-isnt-enough-on-its-own-to-fix-the-pharmaceutical-industrys-deeper-problems-178710__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJZTsMdxU$
Biden, Pharma Pressured Top FDA Officials to Approve Booster Timeline, Emails Reveal: Judicial Watch announced it received 112 pages from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that show top officials being pressured by “companies and for that matter the administration, who try to impose timeless [sic] that make no sense.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-pharma-fda-officials-covid-booster-timeline/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=4d9020e2-4c38-4822-b0ca-eb9e5698c9d2__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJVchW2LL$
# Science
Understanding how sound suppresses pain. Scientists used mice to identify brain circuits through which sound can blunt pain.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jphmpdirect.com/2018/08/15/sound-healing-and-therapy-for-treatment-of-pain-anxiety-stress-and-drug-addiction-part-1-an-introduction/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJeXVXCLL$
# Social
Lawmakers, Law Enforcement in Two States Crack Down on Homeless: Missouri makes it a crime for the homeless to sleep on state-owned land, while authorities in California’s LA County have forced roughly 200 unhoused people into the desert.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thecrimereport.org/2022/07/18/lawmakers-law-enforcement-in-two-states-crack-down-on-homeless/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJeNCxzMn$
# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Russia Quits International Space Station to Build Its Own: The Kremlin will no longer send cosmonauts to the ISS after 2024. Yuri Borisov, head of Roscosmos, says Moscow will fulfil obligations to ISS partners before quitting project
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/26/russia-opt-out-international-space-station-2024-build-own-outpost__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJb8Tb-cz$
# Technology / Global
Russians reportedly building a satellite-blinding laser – an expert explains the technology: Build a powerful enough laser, and you can shine it into space. Aim it well, and you can blind satellites.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/russians-reportedly-building-a-satellite-blinding-laser-an-expert-explains-the-technology-186890*:*:text=Russia*20is*20building*20a*20new,flooding*20them*20with*20laser*20light__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!xU7RZvPCnNoLDwoWmB3_KX5hXIIAebO_PcSfKzfHjhGLTELuAknOUVXa2FF2CCul2SrvM4edLHzzRiyYHDy-BKCNJSTLurfd$
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