Voices, The Peoples News
October 11, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Governor voids territorial orders targeting Native Americans: New Mexico’s governor has voided four pre-statehood proclamations that targeted Native Americans during what was a tumultuous time across the western frontier. About two dozen advocates for Native American communities gather in downtown Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, when most government offices were closed in commemoration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a state holiday. Protesters left paint splashed across a monument to 19th century trapper-turned-soldier Kit Carson, outside a federal courthouse. Carson is revered and reviled as a pivotal figure in the settlement of the American West and deadly military campaigns against Native Americans including the Navajo. Demonstrators chanted, “This is Native land,” and “1680,” in reference to the year of the Pueblo Indian Revolt that drove Spanish settlers out of the region for a dozen years. Signs and banners also called for justice concerning missing and murdered Indigenous women
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-10-10/governor-voids-territorial-orders-targeting-native-americans
My Childhood Was Stolen, Says Linda Raye Cobe, Indian Boarding School Survivor: Linda Raye Cobe discusses the growing movement of survivors seeking to heal from the “Indian boarding school” system.
https://truthout.org/articles/my-childhood-was-stolen-says-linda-raye-cobe-indian-boarding-school-survivor/
# Border / Immigration
Texas GOP leadership declares Texas being invaded: The executive leadership of the Republican Party of Texas has declared an invasion at the Texas southern border. It’s also calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to do what no governor of Texas has ever done before: declare an invasion and protect Texas and Americans from what it says are transnational criminal organizations creating an imminent threat to their lives. [Good grief, these people won’t be happy until we in a full blown civil war. js]
https://highlandcountypress.com/Content/In-The-News/In-The-News/Article/Texas-GOP-leadership-formally-declares-Texas-is-being-invaded/2/20/83938
5th Circuit hands Texas another win on immigration, ruling DACA is unconstitutional: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas federal judge’s ruling that the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unconstitutional
https://tennesseeconservativenews.com/5th-circuit-hands-texas-another-win-on-immigration-ruling-daca-is-unconstitutional/
“A failure on all our parts.” Thousands of Imigrant children wait in government shelters. A system intended to protect young immigrants while they wait for new homes has instead been overused, leading to prolonged stays in federal custody.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-children-shelters-office-refugee-resettlement
# Economy / Finance / Trade
America’s gross national debt has now exceeded $31 trillion; “We’re on the edge of the first ‘OK. were, and we are now past ‘OK’. The deficit path is certainly too high.” As interest rates rise, the administration is less inclined to buck its negligence.
https://biz.crast.net/opinion-americans-are-foolishly-ignoring-the-threat-of-a-debt-crisis/
# Education / Schools
Uvalde School District Supt Resigns at Board Meeting: The resignation was met with mixed emotions, as many community members are still calling for accountability in the wake of the Robb Elementary mass shooting.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/uvalde-school-chief-plans-to-resign-after-community-outrage
# Employment / Labor
‘A Huge Deal’: Major Rail Union Rejects White House-Brokered Contract Proposal: Maintenance workers voted against the tentative agreement reached last month and said without a fair contract, a work stoppage could begin as early at November 19.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/10/huge-deal-major-rail-union-rejects-white-house-brokered-contract-proposal
One More Pro-Worker Move From Biden: The Labor Department says if you make your living driving for Uber, Lyft, or FedEx, you’re an employee, not an ‘independent contractor.’ Notoriously, the federal minimum wage doesn’t amount to very much. It’s been stuck at a pathetically low $7.25 an hour for well over a decade, though many states have set their own minimum considerably higher. (In California this year, it’s at $15.50.)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/one-more-pro-worker-move-from-biden-labor-department-rule/
Biden’s personal recovery plan: Pump up unions, squeeze Big Business: The president is hoping his political fate, and the Democrats’ standing among the white working class, can be saved by lifting up organized labor.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/11/biden-working-class-unions-00031759
The Conservative Astroturf Organization Rolling Back Child Labor Protections: The National Federation of Independent Business has been active in passing new laws allowing teenagers to work long and late hours in three states.
https://prospect.org/labor/conservative-astroturf-organization-rolling-back-child-labor-protections/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
How fossil fuel firms use Black leaders to ‘deceive’ their communities: Black community members have been asked to rubber-stamp harmful projects for decades, activists say. The Virginia Reliability Project (VRP) is a proposal by the Canadian fossil fuel company behind the Keystone XL pipeline to expand and upgrade gas infrastructure through tribal lands, fragile waterways and underserved neighbourhoods in south-east Virginia. Almost 50% of the population along the VRP route live below the poverty line and more than half are people of colour.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/10/i-feel-used-how-fossil-fuel-firms-court-black-leaders-to-support-pipelines
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Will the Farm Bill be the next big climate package? Midterm elections might decide the fate of the next Farm Bill as Republicans vow to block any “climate buzzwords.” Republicans have already vowed to strip climate funding from the bill.
https://grist.org/agriculture/midterm-elections-future-farm-bill/
Climate change means all cities are in the water-rescue business now: Floods are growing more frequent and intense due to global warming. Experts say rising to the challenge won’t be easy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-10/climate-change-means-all-cities-are-in-the-water-rescue-business-now
# General Information / Other News
The Globetrotting Con Man and Suspected Spy Who Met With President Trump: Tao Liu’s criminal odyssey took him from money laundering in Mexico to a massive scam in China to Trump’s exclusive New Jersey golf club. Investigators believed he may have infiltrated U.S. politics as part of a Chinese intelligence operation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/liu-tao-trump-meeting-china-investigation
Trump’s PAC spends big on paying his legal bills,- while leaving GOP candidates in the cold: According to the Post’s analysis of financial disclosures, the PAC “has spent more money since he left office on lawyers representing the former president and a pair of nonprofits staffed by former Cabinet members than it has on Republican congressional campaigns.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pac/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Sides Playing With Fire in the Northern Pacific: It’s getting harder to think that Kim Jong-un is just play-acting when he rams through a law saying North Korea can unleash a nuclear warhead whenever he feels threatened. And it’s also getting harder to assume the Americans and South Koreans will never translate the lessons of their war games into real live action.
https://dcjournal.com/sides-playing-with-fire-in-the-northern-pacific/
Top Russian Judge Killed in Crimea Bridge Explosion: Crimea Mystery Shock twist in Crimea bridge blast as top Russian judge involved in sensitive Gazprom case is killed in explosion
https://www.the-sun.com/news/6416394/crimea-bridge-shock-twist-top-russian-judge-dead/
# Gov / Politics / US
Humanity’s leading voices in the fields of science, healthcare, law and journalism are warning us about the greatest threat our world ever faced. ‘We have evidence the pandemic is a crime against humanity’, say hundreds of lawyers & scientists. During pandemics the WHO becomes a one world government, overruling the constitutions and laws of all the nations in the world.
Video: https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/
What happens to weapons sent to Ukraine? The US doesn’t really know
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/index.html
Is the U.S. giving Ukraine some weapons secretly? A senior Pentagon official said the U.S. had been quietly supplying the Ukrainians with High-speed Anti-Radiation missiles used for targeting radar systems for some time. But the risk, both current US officials and defense analysts say, is that in the long term, some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm. “It drops into a big black hole.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/08/22/is-the-u-s-giving-ukraine-some-weapons-secretly-00053079
How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law: DeSantis’ move, secretly aided by GOP-linked national operatives, came over the objections of the Republican-controlled state legislature.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/563143-how-ron-desantis-blew-up-black-held-congressional-districts-may-have-broken-florida-law/
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is being roundly condemned for racist rhetoric, including calling the descendants of enslaved people criminals. The crowd at the rally greeted Tuberville’s hateful misinformation with applause.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2022/10/10/tommy-tuberville–marjorie-taylor-greene-push-racist-rhetoric-at-trump-rallies
It’s no secret that the West is trying to overthrow the Russian government – John Bolton was just saying it out loud. In Ukraine in 2004, National Endowment for Democracy’s programs radicalized local youth and funded protest movements, bussed paid demonstrators into Kiev, created opposition media outlets to agitate for upheaval, provided offshore training to activists, and paid local pollsters to publish surveys indicating significant anti-government sentiment.
https://www.rt.com/news/564214-its-no-secret-that-west/
GOP planning ‘catastrophic default’ if Democrats refuse to cut Social Security and Medicare: Top House Republicans are planning to threaten to shut down the U.S. Government by refusing to raise the debt ceiling next year in a scheme to force Democrats to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, should they win the House in November critics warn, pointing to a Bloomberg report. U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), chair of the Joint Economic Committee Democrats, an advisory committee created by law, blasted House Republicans, warning they “plan to hold the U.S. economy hostage with the threat of a catastrophic default to try to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare.”
https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/gop-plans-catastrophic-default-democrats/
Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas, said Tuesday that he is “open” to “compromise” with Republicans on abortion rights legislation that would undo the current, total ban on the practice, even if that compromise restricts abortion more than he would like.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beto-orourke-open-to-abortion-rights-compromise_n_6345ac83e4b0e376dc0699e6
Ukraine Isn’t the Only Place Nuclear War Could Threaten to Erupt: The U.S. and China must initiate diplomatic talks focused on preventing nuclear escalation over Taiwan.
https://truthout.org/articles/ukraine-isnt-the-only-place-nuclear-war-could-threaten-to-erupt/
# Law Enforcement
Racially Charged, America’s Misdemeanor Problem: Released in 2021, America’s Misdemeanor Problem exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal justice power. 13 million people a year—most of them poor and people of color, are abused by this system.
https://theurbannews.com/arts-entertainment/2022/racially-charged/
Free on Youtube. [after the ads] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm2PxE0HMr4
Whistleblower: 665 People Have Left FBI Over Misconduct in 20 Years: The review found 665 FBI employees, including 45 senior-level officials, resigned or retired between 2004 and 2020 following a misconduct probe
https://apnews.com/article/business-personnel-sexual-misconduct-chuck-grassley-merrick-garland-9ca9ea18036814bdf12e8c62a20e08d9
‘New Information’ Leads Cops to Missing Teenage Girl: Chloe Campbell, 14, had been missing for 10 days when cops revealed she had been found alive.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-information-leads-boulder-police-to-missing-teenage-girl-chloe-campbell-found-alive?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition
Man, 21, ‘shoots homeless family of five including pregnant mom sleeping in car’: Stamat allegedly fired at a vehicle as a father and a pregnant mother were sleeping inside with their three children, ages nine, four and three. The mother was struck in the head but suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was recovering at a hospital. The father and children were unharmed.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/09/florida-man-arrested-after-homeless-family-shot-at-pregnant-mom-struck/
Commercial Bail Industry ‘Exploits’ U.S. Legal System: Bail bond companies earn billions in profits while providing little benefit to the public, charges a new policy paper released by the Prison Policy Initiative
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/10/07/commercial-bail-industry-exploits-u-s-legal-system-paper/
Texas Shooting Spree Suspect Tied to More Dead Bodies: Texas police say they believe two dead bodies found in an oil field are linked to a Baytown crime spree. A crime spree body count pinned on a Baytown man whom police shot and killed grew by two more victims, investigators said on Monday.
https://abc13.com/baytown-shooting-spree-ron-welch-related-crimes-bodies-found-oil-field/12312637/
# LGBTQ
# Marijuana / Hemp / CBD Oil
Greg Abbott Rejects Biden’s Plea to Pardon Texans With Marijuana Convictions: More than half of Texas voters support legalizing marijuana in the state, a recent poll found.
https://truthout.org/articles/greg-abbott-rejects-bidens-plea-to-pardon-texans-with-marijuana-convictions/
# Media
The Puppets and the Puppet Masters: The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/10/puppets-and-puppet-masters
# Medical / Health
Chilling Audio Provides Rare Glimpse Into Abuse at Troubled Illinois Residential Facility: No one was charged when staff were caught on a 911 tape threatening violence against a Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center resident who has developmental disabilities. New reporting shows a culture of cover-ups at the facility.
https://www.rawstory.com/chilling-audio-provides-rare-glimpse-into-abuse-at-troubled-illinois-residential-facility/
American Oncology Network to be publicly traded On NASDAQ. It will be the second U.S. provider to go public, following the Oncology Institute. Separately, The New York Times covers researchers’ efforts to produce anti-cancer vaccines
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/american-oncology-network-to-be-publicly-traded-on-nasdaq/#:~:text=It%20will%20be%20the%20second,cancer%20vaccines%2C%20among%20other%20news
The “Problem” Isn’t Disabled Bodies, it’s the Violent Structure of Our Society: Medical conceptions of disability are fueling interlocking systems of oppression, theorist Christine Wieseler argues.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-problem-isnt-disabled-bodies-its-the-violent-structure-of-our-society/
# Military / DOD
Transgender women who were born male are still required to sign up for the Selective Service in the event of a military draft. The policy, which has already been in effect for some time, gained new attention after the Selective Service System issued a reminder for men between the ages of 18 and 25 to register for the service. “Parents, if your son is an only son and the last male in your family to carry the family name, he is still required to register with SSS,” the SSS said in a now-viral tweet sent on Friday.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trans-women-born-male-military-draft
Parents up in arms over transgender policy for US military draft: US policy states that transgender women who were registered as males when they were born must register for the military draft with the Selective Service, while transgender men who were recorded as female when they were born don’t have to sign up for the draft.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/parents-arms-over-transgender-policy-195205858.html
# Science
Genetically engineered bacteria make living materials for self-repairing walls and cleaning up pollution: The walls of your house could someday be built with living bacteria. Synthetic biologists are engineering microbes into living materials that are cheap and sustainable. With just an incubator and some broth, researchers can grow reusable filters made of bacteria to clean up polluted water, detect chemicals in the environment and protect surfaces from rust and mold.
https://theconversation.com/genetically-engineered-bacteria-make-living-materials-for-self-repairing-walls-and-cleaning-up-pollution-191411
What’s next for ancient DNA studies after Nobel Prize honors groundbreaking field of paleogenomics
https://theconversation.com/whats-next-for-ancient-dna-studies-after-nobel-prize-honors-groundbreaking-field-of-paleogenomics-191899
# Security
How a Chinese American Gangster Transformed Money Laundering for Drug Cartels: Xizhi Li pioneered a new method that enriched Latin American drug lords and China’s elite. A DEA investigation found the Chinese government may have been involved. As the agents tracked Li’s activity across the Americas and Asia, they realized he wasn’t just another money launderer. He was a pioneer. Operating with the acumen of a financier and the tradecraft of a spy, he had helped devise an innovative system that revolutionized the drug underworld and fortified the cartels.
https://www.propublica.org/article/china-cartels-xizhi-li-money-laundering
Regarding UFOs:
‘Science needs to investigate the unknown,’ says prominent Pentagon scientist: “If you’re supposed to be a trained scientist or engineer, you’re supposed to be asking these questions, you know, instead of running away and hiding from these questions. I think the perception has changed,” Travis Taylor has a doctorate in aerospace systems engineering, a doctorate in optical science and engineering, a master’s degree in physics, a master’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and a master’s degree in astronomy. He has a 20-year career supporting NASA, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and other customers.
https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/ive-seen-more-ufos-than-i-can-count-dod-scientist-says/
# Water
The Supreme Court is poised to redefine protected waters: The justices could remove federal protection from 80 percent of the Southwest’s streams, gutting the Clean Water Act.
https://undark.org/2022/10/11/supreme-court-clean-water-act/
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