Voices, The Peoples News
October 4, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Education / Schools
2 Men Targeted A School Librarian Who Spoke Out Against Censorship.
They’re Not Facing Any Consequences. At a July school board meeting in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, middle school librarian Amanda Jones spoke out against book censorship. Like many other librarians across the country, Jones also received an explicit death threat via email, and her friends and family have received harassing messages as well.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/library-smears-lawsuit_n_63371f46e4b03e8038be31fb
# Employment / Labor
CEO Pay Has Grown by 1,460 Percent Since 1978, as Workers’ Wages Stagnate: Worker pay has only grown by 18 percent over the same period.
https://truthout.org/articles/ceo-pay-has-grown-by-1460-percent-since-1978-as-workers-wages-stagnate/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
A new report surveys how states are supporting communities in the wake of coal mine and power plant closures, and finds the best policies include retraining for workers and funding for environmental cleanup. The best policies to help coal towns weather the switch to renewables. A new report singles out Colorado, Illinois and New Mexico as trailblazers in just-transition laws. Could fossil strongholds Wyoming and West Virginia follow suit?
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/just-transition/the-best-policies-to-help-coal-towns-weather-the-switch-to-renewables?utm_medium=email
‘Their greed knows no bounds’: analysis shows ongoing price gouging by oil giants: “Big Oil is boasting record profits and dragging their feet to pass any lower costs onto consumers in order to keep padding investors’ pockets,” said Accountable.US.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/03/their-greed-knows-no-bounds-analysis-shows-ongoing-price-gouging-oil-giants
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals / Global
Ex-advisor to Pentagon Chief suggests US, UK might be behind Nord Stream Sabotage: “You have to look at who are the state actors that have the capability to do this. And that means the [UK’s] Royal Navy and the United States’ Navy <…> I think that’s pretty clear,” Macgregor said.
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/10/03/ex-advisor-to-pentagon-chief-suggests-us-uk-might-be-behind-nord-streams-sabotage/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Change” And Work With Google to Suppress Opposing Viewpoints: A United Nations official told the World Economic Forum on Thursday that they “own the science” on “climate change” and have partnered together with Google to suppress opposing viewpoints in search results.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63374
New study suggests coal ash pollution more widespread than previously thought: The study found large amounts of coal ash in the sediment, or sand, of five recreational lakes across North Carolina.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221003090559.htm
Empty ESG Pledges Ensure Bonds Benefit Companies, Not the Planet: Sustainability-linked bonds let companies borrow cheaply if they meet environmental, social, and governance targets. A Bloomberg News analysis found those goals are weak
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-04/greenwashing-enters-a-22-trillion-debt-market-derailing-climate-goals?srnd=green
The Minority Exploitation Game Called Environmental Justice: It should be no surprise that the monumentally misnamed Inflation Reduction Act is filled with provisions likely to accomplish something other than the advertised purpose.
https://dcjournal.com/the-minority-exploitation-game-called-environmental-justice/
New Air Monitors Among Major Impacts of ProPublica Toxic Air Pollution Reporting: Communities identified as “Sacrifice Zones” in a ProPublica analysis of toxic air pollution scored major wins this month. In one, the EPA will start monitoring the air. In another, a judge withdrew permits from a giant petrochemical complex.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-epa-air-monitors-louisiana-cancer-alley
# Environment / Climate / Global
‘Backed into a corner’: Duncan’s First Nation sues Alberta for cumulative impacts of industry: Lawsuit follows in the footsteps of B.C. Supreme Court’s precedent-setting Blueberry River decision, which could have profound impacts for oil and gas industry. A First Nation in northern Alberta is suing the Alberta government for infringement of Treaty Rights
https://thenarwhal.ca/duncans-first-nation-sues-alberta/
Biden to announce $60M to bolster flood protections in Puerto Rico: The funds will come from the recently enacted infrastructure law. The funding will aim to shore up levees, strengthen flood walls and create a new flood warning system to better prepare Puerto Rico for future storms
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/biden-flood-protections-puerto-rico-00059968
# General Information / Other News
Trump Worried After Ghislaine Arrest: ‘She Ask About Me?’: Trump raised Ghislaine Maxwell link with aides. The former president was reportedly concerned about an article saying Maxwell hoped Trump would protect her.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/04/trump-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-maggie-haberman-book-confidence-man
Trump Sues CNN for $475M and Warns of More Lawsuits to Come: The former president said “the time has finally come” for his battle with the network.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/donald-trump-sues-cnn-claiming-defamation-seeks-475m/
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, “Israel is really dangerous.”: “The power of the Israel Lobby and of AIPAC is not cost free for the American public. The current $3 billion plus that Israel, with a thriving first world economy, receives in military assistance is on top of the $130 billion that it has received since 1949.”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/03/former-cia-officer-philip-giraldi-israel-is-really-dangerous/
United States and Russia: Dangerous export of Democracy and dictatorship. The State Department wants our embassies to share this information widely as part of the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy and to ensure that governments are not complacent about the Russian threat. In calling attention to this study, the Washington Post editorialized that “democracies must stand guard.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/04/united-states-and-russia-dangerous-export-of-democracy-and-dictatorship/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian Lawyers Drowning in Requests for Help to Dodge Draft: Hundreds of thousands of people have already fled the country to avoid being sent to Ukraine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-lawyers-drowning-in-requests-for-help-to-dodge-putins-draft
Russian Journalist Escapes House Arrest After War Protest: Marina Ovsyannikova was placed on a Russian fugitive list after her ex-husband reported she’d taken their 11-year-old daughter and vanished.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/russian-marina-ovsyannikova-ukraine-war-protest-escape-house-arrest
Putin’s Right-Hand Men Publicly Mock ‘Garbage’ War Failures: Some of Vladimir Putin’s most important allies are now brazenly calling out the Russian president’s war strategy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-allies-ramzan-kadyrov-and-evgeniy-prigozhin-mock-vladimir-putins-war-failures
# Gov / Politics / US
Biden to Set New Guidelines to Protect Reproductive Rights: The president will also speak about new grants to protect reproductive healthcare. The directive equips the Heath and Human Services department to expand coverage for patients seeking out of state care
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/biden-executive-order-protect-abortion-access
Election workers in seven states are experiencing unprecedented threats ahead of next month’s midterm elections, an increase from the already heightened levels of harassment since the 2020 election. Seven states, in particular, are being targeted, the FBI says.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-worker-interference-midterms_n_633c45f9e4b0e376dbfafd52?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Fringe%2010/4/22&utm_term=us-fringe
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) made an outlandish claim on Saturday at a rally for former President Donald Trump’s political action committee, Save America: Democrats not only want to kill Republicans, but they have already begun doing so. “We’re all targets now, though, for daring to push back against the regime,” Greene said at the event in Warren, Michigan.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence_n_633c1e07e4b08e0e60718bdb?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Fringe%2010/4/22&utm_term=us-fringe
Six Supreme Court justices, both liberal and conservative, did not immediately buy the case made by the state of Alabama that the court should overturn 40 years of precedent and gut the Voting Rights Act during arguments in the case of Merrill v. Milligan on Tuesday, instead effectively gut it by making it even harder to prove that a racial minority constitutes a geographically compact community.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/library-smears-lawsuit_n_63371f46e4b03e8038be31fb
Groups Pushing Right-Wing State Policy Are Raking In $152 Million Each Year: The revenue doesn’t include millions more in contributions to advocacy or litigation arms of the State Policy Network.
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/09/30/state-policy-network-and-affiliates-raises-152-million-annually-to-push-right-wing-policies/
Rubio vows to vote against Hurricane relief bill if it includes ‘pork’: U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., pledged to oppose efforts to add additional spending measures to a potential Hurricane Ian relief bill, saying he would vote against that kind of bill
https://newspress.com/rubio-vows-to-vote-against-hurricane-relief-bill-if-it-includes-pork/
# Law Enforcement
Mississippi’s Missing Search Warrants Prevent Scrutiny of No-Knock Raids: No-knock warrants authorize police to burst into someone’s home unannounced. Search warrants are supposed to be filed at the courthouse, but they’re missing from many of Mississippi’s justice courts. Some of those courts violate state rules by failing to require law enforcement to return search warrants and related documents. Other courts do keep search warrant records but won’t let the public see them, defying well-established jurisprudence about the availability of court records.
https://www.propublica.org/article/no-knock-warrants-missing-mississippi
Cop Who Died During Training Was Probing LAPD Gang Rape: The family’s attorney Bradley Gage is arguing that the death wasn’t an accident at all. “We have uncovered evidence that Houston Tipping may have been harmed and later died as the result of retaliation against a whistleblower,” the lawyer said in a press conference on Monday.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/6367300/cop-killed-training-exercise-gang-rape/
2 More Shootings Tied to Suspected California Serial Killer: Stockton police do not believe the seven attacks are hate crimes or gang related activity. Ballistic evidence connects last year’s unsolved shootings of a man and woman in Stockton and Oakland to the recent killings of five men, police said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stockton-serial-killer-more-shootings-connected_n_633c5a35e4b03e8038c2bbda
# Legal / DOJ
‘Armed Rebellion’: Oath Keepers Trial Is Off to Fiery Start: Stewart Rhodes is accused of plotting to overthrow the government after his cronies showed up in force on Jan. 6. His lawyer says he plans to testify.
https://news.yahoo.com/far-militia-boss-thinks-woo-171545011.html
Supreme Court May Soon Roll Back Affirmative Action and Voting Rights: As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first Black woman to hear a SCOTUS case, civil rights are under attack.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/4/elie_mystal_new_supreme_court_term
# Media
A Bill Intended to Protect Journalists Could End Up Boosting Far Right Media: A bill crafted to give local news leverage over Big Tech has drawn fierce criticism despite bipartisan support.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-bill-intended-to-protect-journalists-could-end-up-boosting-far-right-media/
# Medical / Health
NIH to award over $200 million to support potentially transformative biomedical research projects: The 2022 NIH Director’s Awards enable exceptionally creative scientists to push the boundaries of biomedical science.
https://www.nccu.edu/news/nih-awards-high-risk-high-reward-research-grant-nccu
Key Alzheimer’s Test May Limit Treatment for People of Color: Getting access to a certain Alzhiemer’s drug requires a positive result on PET scans, which happens less frequently for Black, Hispanic, and Asian patients.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-key-alzheimers-test-may-actually-limit-treatment-options-for-people-of-color
Advocates Urge FDA to Ease Access to Abortion Pill for Miscarriage Management: Regulations around mifepristone make it hard for miscarrying patients to access it, especially in the current climate.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/doctors-urge-us-fda-add-miscarriage-management-abortion-pill-label-2022-10-04/
Acetaminophen Use for Fever in Children Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Recent studies have found an association between acetaminophen and immune system alterations like asthma and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes.
https://www.cureus.com/articles/84979-a-systematic-review-of-the-link-between-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-acetaminophen-a-mystery-to-resolve
Study Finds Aluminum in Vaccines May Raise Asthma Risks: New study sees possible link between aluminum in childhood vaccines and risk of asthma, but caveats abound
https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/27/possible-link-aluminum-childhood-vaccines-asthma-risk-caveats/
# Military / DOD
Pentagon shipping 4 more HIMARS, 32 howitzers to Ukraine: The Pentagon will soon ship four more of the US rocket artillery systems to Ukraine that officials have labeled as critical to that country’s battlefield success against invading Russian troops, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/10/04/pentagon-sending-excalibur-guided-artillery-more-himars-to-ukraine/
# Pharmas / Drugs
Many Antidepressant Studies Found Tainted by Pharma Company Influence: A review of studies that assess clinical antidepressants shows hidden conflicts of interest and financial ties to corporate drugmakers. After many lawsuits and a 2012 U.S. Department of Justice settlement, last month an independent review found that antidepressant drug Paxil (paroxetine) is not safe for teenagers. The finding contradicts the conclusions of the initial 2001 drug trial, which the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline had funded, then used its results to market Paxil as safe for adolescents.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/many-antidepressant-studies-found-tainted-by-pharma-company-influence/
# Security
Trusting Iran Compromises Our National Security: Last month, the Department of Justice unsealed a case against an Iranian agent charged with plotting the assassination of former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton.
https://dcjournal.com/trusting-iran-compromises-our-national-security/
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