Voices, The Peoples News
October 6, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration
The Number Of Desperate Immigrants Who Die While Trying To Get Into The US Keeps Rising, “There’s no hope on the horizon,” one nonprofit director told BuzzFeed News. There have been 748 immigrant deaths at the border, CNN reported. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has not officially released the numbers and declined to provide them.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/immigrants-us-border-deaths-rising
# Children / Youth
Researchers find elevated lead levels at child care facilities across N.C: Aging buildings and plumbing fixtures are the main culprits, according to a study that included data from thousands of facilities.
https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2022/10/06/researchers-find-elevated-lead-levels-in-n-c/
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
‘Breathless’ explores COVID-19’s origins and other pandemic science: Echoes of what had happened nearly 20 years earlier, thousands were infected and at least 774 people died before the SARS outbreak was brought under control, sent ripples of anxiety throughout the virology world. Scientists of all backgrounds rushed to understand the new scourge, dubbed SARS-CoV-2. Hospitals around the world were soon overwhelmed, and daily life for billions of people was thrown into disarray.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/breathless-book-covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus
CDC V-safe Data: Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Sought Medical Care After COVID Vaccination: The reports were made to the CDC’s V-safe program, a new vaccine safety monitoring system to which users can report issues through smartphones. The CDC released the data to the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) after being sued over not producing the data when asked by the nonprofit.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vsafe-data-americans-medical-care-covid-vaccination-et/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=44f7bd60-be97-4484-958f-eb5df2a187cd
New study reveals possible brain mechanisms behind COVID-19 delirium: Researchers from King’s College London have shown that when brain cells are directly exposed to blood taken from COVID-19 patients with delirium, there is an increase in cell death and a decrease in the generation of new brain cells. Delirium represents a state of confusion indicating that, in these patients, the COVID-19 infection had impacted the brain.
https://neurosciencenews.com/covid-delirium-neurogenesis-21579/
Why is monkeypox losing chunks of genes? In some samples of the monkeypox virus, large chunks of the genome seem to have disappeared or moved to entirely different spots in the sequence. It’s too early to tell whether the mutations are beneficial, neutral or harmful to the virus. Scientists are monitoring the situation carefully to understand why the alterations have appeared, and what they might mean for the global monkeypox outbreak.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03171-z
# Education / Schools
Affirmative action bans make selective colleges less diverse – a national ban will do the same: America’s selective colleges and universities become less diverse if the Supreme Court shoots down affirmative action in higher education, an expert on the subject warns.
https://theconversation.com/affirmative-action-bans-make-selective-colleges-less-diverse-a-national-ban-will-do-the-same-189214
Student Debt Cancellation Plan Is Flatly Unconstitutional: When President Biden was asked at a 2021 town hall event about canceling student debt, he doubted it could be done without working through Congress: “I don’t think I have the authority to do it by signing with a pen,” the president said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/27/bidens-student-debt-relief-faces-first-major-legal-challenge-00059050
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
More than three-quarters of American households should have smart meters installed by the end of the year, but almost none of the devices are fulfilling promises of saving customers money, a study finds. 97% of smart meters fail to provide promised customer benefits. Can $3B in new funding change that? Less than 3% of 2009’s taxpayer- and ratepayer-funded smart meters now deliver full customer benefits, a recent study shows.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/97-of-smart-meters-fail-to-provide-promised-customer-benefits-can-3b-in/632662/
‘Utility redlining’: Detroit power outages disproportionally hit minority and low-income areas: A recent report finds that DTE Energy has generally disinvested in its distribution grid in low-income and minority neighborhoods while spending more resources in wealthier, predominantly White areas.
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2022/oct/06/detroit-power-outages-impact-minority-low-income-neighborhoods
White House officials say they’re disappointed with an OPEC+ decision to cut oil production, saying the U.S. will release more fuel from its stockpiles to keep prices from spiking.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3674878-biden-disappointed-by-opec-decision-to-cut-oil-production/
Mississippi regulators adopt a new rule to incentivize rooftop solar for residents and schools, despite the objections from the state’s Republican governor and large utilities. Some lower-income customers who pay most of the cost of installing a system such as rooftop solar panels could receive a $3,000 rebate from their power company. Incentives are also available to 85 of the state’s 142 public school districts.
https://apnews.com/article/business-mississippi-tate-reeves-climate-and-environment-government-politics-abe293ac2671db8de45ee12f6db88b0a
A secretive legal system lets fossil fuel investors sue countries over policies to keep oil and gas in the ground: Experts are concerned that a legal mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement could affect countries’ moves to cut fossil fuel emissions. A new barrier to climate action is opening up in an obscure and secretive part of international trade law, which fossil fuel investors are using to sue countries if policy decisions go against them.
https://theconversation.com/a-secretive-legal-system-lets-fossil-fuel-investors-sue-countries-over-policies-to-keep-oil-and-gas-in-the-ground-podcast-191804
Gas flares are leaking five times as much methane than previously thought: The flares burn off methane at 91 percent efficiency. Achieving 98 percent efficiency would be like taking nearly 3 million cars off the road.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gas-flare-leak-methane-burning-climate
The Political Impacts of Rising Gas Prices: Unexplained refinery shutdowns and snap decisions by oil-producing nations can reverberate in the midterm elections.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/political-impacts-of-rising-gas-prices/
New analysis shows Big Oil’s continued and future price gouging: Oil prices dipped below $80 a barrel for the first time since January 2022, but consumers are paying 13 percent higher than the last time oil was this low.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/10/06/new-analysis-shows-big-oils-continued-and-future-price-gouging/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
In Rebuke to West, OPEC and Russia Aim To Raise Oil Prices With Big Supply Cut: Saudi Arabia and Russia, acting as leaders of the OPEC+ energy cartel, agreed on Wednesday to their first large production cut in more than two years in a bid to raise prices, countering efforts by the United States and Europe to choke off the enormous revenue that Moscow reaps from the sale of crude.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/oct/05/opec-and-its-allies-move-to-slash-oil-production-b/
The response from the Biden administration and the domestic oil and gas industry was swift after OPEC+ ministers announced on Wednesday an agreement to further reduce the cartel’s oil exports by two million barrels of oil per day (bopd). “OPEC says no, SPR options all but gone. The White House has one option left and it is the one option they should have never turned away from in the first place, the US-based oil and gas industry. Life comes at you pretty fast…”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2022/10/05/big-opec-oil-production-cut-provokes-pointed-responses/?sh=4f6b9d3d1643
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
EPA’s chemical safety rule tests the Biden administration’s commitment to environmental justice: “Cure never happens, prevention never happens in a community where people are sacrificed for others’ gain.”
https://www.ehn.org/epa-environmental-justice-2658403944.html
EPA is ‘falling behind’ on power plant rules, report says: If the rules are issued in the waning days of Biden’s first term, a future Republican-controlled Congress could overturn them using the Congressional Review Act.
https://ground.news/article/analysis-epa-is-falling-behind-on-power-plant-rules-report-says
Florida’s waterways contaminated post-Ian, posing environmental and health risks: After a Category 4 hurricane the scale states that, ‘most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.’ Experts warn significant and varying health concerns will also arise in the wake of a hurricane’s devastation.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/hurricane-ian-impact-the-unexpected-health-effects
Climate change could turn some blue lakes to green or brown: As temperatures rise, more than 1 in 10 of the world’s blue lakes could change color, reflecting holistic shifts in lake ecosystems.
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate/climate-change-could-turn-once-picturesque-blue-lakes-into-murky-green-or-brown/
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
This is the Great Reset: USDA Now Asking People to Register Their Vegetable Gardens for National Database: In a move that has many folks scratching their heads, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its push for the People’s Garden Initiative which now includes registering vegetable gardens nationwide.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/usda-now-asking-people-to-register-their-vegetable-gardens-for-national-database
# General Information / Other News
Q&A: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Growing Inequality: Recovery gets complicated by uneven insurance coverage, haphazard emergency programs, and a reluctance to admit that rebuilding in vulnerable places is too risky.
https://prospect.org/environment/climate-change-natural-disasters-growing-inequality/
Trump’s Latest Revenge Fantasy: Purge the National Archives: The former president is telling confidants that the nonpartisan agency is full of “woke” operatives, and promising vengeance if he retakes the White House in 2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-national-archives-maralago-fbi-1234606476/
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mess just got 10 times messier and 20 times stupider
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-s-mar-a-lago-mess-just-got-10-times-messier-and-20-times-stupider/ar-AA12G6sX?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=579c9f0d9d4845fa8ad863819257bb97
# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian forces launched a missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, killing at least one person and destroying residential buildings. Zaporizhzhia has faced an uptick in civilian attacks in recent weeks, with experts fearing this will only escalate now that President Vladimir Putin has signed his annexation plans into law.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/06/russia-ukraine-war-ukraine-retakes-more-settlements-in-kherson-zelenskiy-says-un-nuclear-chief-heads-to-kyiv-live
Putin’s ‘Victorious’ Land Theft Is Already a Confusing Mess: Top Russian officials are beginning to admit that the Kremlin doesn’t even know where the borders of its newly illegally annexed land are.
https://realnewshub.com/putins-victorious-land-theft-is-already-a-confusing-mess/
Russia’s Elites Are Starting to Admit the Possibility of Defeat: The longer the conflict rages and the more resources the Russian regime throws into the furnace of war, the more isolated Putin may become in his bid for nuclear escalation. Troops melting away and Russians fleeing abroad to avoid mobilisation doesn’t augur well for Putin’s latest gamble
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88072
# Gov / Politics / US
With midterm elections weeks away and control of Congress and statehouses across the country on the line, a key question hangs in the balance: Who gets a say in the outcome? Despite the promise of “one person, one vote,” the answer to that question differs dramatically from state to state.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/who-counts/who-counts-in-voting/?utm_source=Watchdog&utm_campaign=c8cd0bbf55-Public%20Integrity%20Who%20Counts%20Email%2001%2010_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffd1d0160d-c8cd0bbf55-100375721&mc_cid=c8cd0bbf55&mc_eid=dc62c7adba
Blake Masters Is the Most Dangerous Candidate in America: What makes Arizona’s GOP Senate hopeful such a threat is that unlike a lot of other far-right politicians, he really believes what he’s saying. He needs to convince skeptical voters that he’s not actually as extreme as they think, and that all the crazy things they heard him say over the past year were just misrepresentations made up by Democrats and the media. But Masters is just as far outside the ideological mainstream as he let on during the primary.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blake-masters-most-dangerous-candidate-000107726.html
A progressive nonprofit group is suing Bexar County over its decision to close more than 40 polling places ahead of November elections. The group, the Texas Organizing Project, claims the county has approved about 130 fewer polling places than is required by Texas law.
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/civil-rights-group-sues-bexar-county-over-closed-san-antonio-polling-places-30017732
Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020: Biden administration gave millions in tax dollars to groups after election, records show. Election Integrity Partnership says it had 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove or restrict content.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-rewarded-private-entities-got-2020-election
Insane in the membrane: Biden to fork over $625 million more from U.S. taxpayers to Ukraine; mobile rocker launchers included in aid package. The package is the first aid package since Russia’s most recent declared annexation of Ukrainian territory and the second Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) since Ukraine made large battlefield gains in mid-September.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-send-mobile-rocket-launchers-ukraine-625-mln-aid-package-officials-2022-10-03/
Nearly 300 Republican Midterm Candidates Embrace Trump’s Big Lie, Analysis Finds: The sheer number of candidates who doubt the election is a dire show of the Republican Party’s embrace of fascism.
https://truthout.org/articles/nearly-300-republican-midterm-candidates-embrace-trumps-big-lie-analysis-finds/
Feds Think They Have Evidence to Charge Hunter Biden: Federal agents believe they can charge Biden with tax crimes and lying about a gun purchase, but it’s unclear if Delaware prosecutors will do so.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-prosecutors-believe-enough-evidence-184109402.html
# Law Enforcement
2 die at Harris County jail as critics blame unsafe conditions for highest death toll in years: The Harris County jail is facing its highest capacity in more than 10 years, leading activists to blast unsafe conditions. Two recent deaths have brought the total number of people who have died in custody this year to 21, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
https://www.reformaustin.org/public-safety/harris-county-jail-death-toll-rises-to-21-just-this-year/
# Medical / Health
Toxic air pollution particles found in lungs and brains of unborn babies: Particles breathed by mothers pass to their vulnerable fetuses, with potentially lifelong consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/05/toxic-air-pollution-particles-found-in-lungs-and-brains-of-unborn-babies
Losing amphibians may be tied to spikes in human malaria cases: Missing frogs, toads and salamanders may have led to more mosquitoes and potentially more malaria transmission. In the 1990s and 2000s, Costa Rica and Panama experienced spikes in malaria cases. The spread of the fungal disease chytridiomycosis was a slow-motion disaster, leading to a decades-long wave of amphibian declines globally may have contributed to the uptick of this human disease.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/amphibian-loss-human-malaria-cases-mosquitoes#:~:text=In%20the%201990s%20and%202000s,uptick%20of%20this%20human%20disease
Norovirus link to Crohn’s disease may point to new therapies: A new study may have solved a mystery surrounding Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel illness where immune defenses, meant to attack invading microbes, instead mistakenly target the body’s own digestive tract. Norovirus, a common infection that causes vomiting
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221005111916.htm
Novel treatment effective for bladder cancer, study in mice shows: An epigenetics drug currently being used for the treatment of blood cancers and rare sarcomas can stop the growth of bladder cancer by activating the immune system, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study done in mice.
file:///C:/Users/19364/Downloads/2022-10-treatment-effective-bladder-cancer-mice%20(1).pdf
Large study of thoracic aortic aneurysm backs guidelines: A large, new Kaiser Permanente study provides high-quality evidence that most of the 33,000 patients diagnosed each year in the U.S. with a thoracic aortic aneurysm, a bulge in the part of the main artery that runs through the chest, are not likely to experience an aortic dissection and may not need open-heart surgery.
https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/our-story/health-research/news/large-study-of-thoracic-aortic-aneurysm-backs-guidelines
Peering into single cells reveals key processes in acute kidney injury: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication associated with various diseases and particularly affects patients on intensive care units. However, the mechanisms underlying AKI are incompletely understood.
file:///C:/Users/19364/Downloads/2022-10-peering-cells-reveals-key-acute.pdf
22 Common Medications That Can Be Bad Long-Term: [As a note, never stop taking medication without speaking to a doctor first. Stopping certain medications suddenly can have serious side-effects.]
https://discover.alot.com/article/vertical/slideshow/22-common-medications-that-can-be-bad-long-term/15624?camp_id=163682&utm_campaign=163682&utm_content=two+top+pics&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=Cloned+Ad+Set+1
# Science
There are type O, type A, and type B, but what if scientists have yet to discover a rare blood combination or compound? Doctors recently found a new blood type in a UK hospital after operating on a woman who unexpectedly lost her newborn child. Unidentified antibodies were found in the mother’s blood, leading scientists to investigate the unfamiliar cells more deeply. It’s led to the discovery of a new blood type, labeled Er.
https://www.sciencealert.com/discovery-of-a-new-rare-blood-type-could-save-the-lives-of-future-newborns
A way to snap molecules together like Legos wins 2022 chemistry Nobel: Click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry allow scientists to build complex molecules in the lab and in living cells.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bioorthogonal-chemists-bertozzi-meldal-sharpless-win-2022-chemistry-nobel
Quantum experiments with entangled photons win the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics: Three pioneers in quantum information science share this year’s Nobel Prize in physics. Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work using entangled photons to test the quantum foundations of reality
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/explorers-of-quantum-entanglement-win-2022-nobel-prize-in-physics1/
Dogs and people treated side-by-side: At a cancer research centre in Virginia, veterinarians and physicians work together to develop therapies for canine and human use. For example, researchers are testing brain-cancer treatments in dogs and then will test the same approach in humans. “It just so happens that the molecular, genetic, clinical similarities of canine and human brain tumours is pretty remarkable,” says veterinary neurologist John Rossmeisl.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02025-5?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=bb8b4e597f-briefing-dy-20221006&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-bb8b4e597f-43812897
Chladni figures: the mysterious patterns in ‘The Rings of Power’ title sequence have some serious science behind them: Some of the shapes have a special meaning in the saga, but believe it or not, the shapes are not restricted to the Lord of the Rings universe, the ‘raw’ shapes can actually show up in the real world as well, and there’s no magic here, just science. They’re called Chladni figures.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/chladni-figures-the-mysterious-patterns-in-the-rings-of-power-title-sequence-have-some-serious-science-behind-them/
# Security
Amazon Wants Surveillance Robot In Every Home: Amazon has a new plan for snooping into your private life and it’s much cuter than the Alexa. This week Lee Camp introduces you to Amazon’s robot home assistant, the Astro. Unlike the Alexa, you can’t just stick the Astro in a corner because it can follow you around the home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_mYtxqzOZg
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