Voices, The Peoples News
October 12, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Biden’s promise to tribes faces test in Great Lakes: As many tribal lands face mounting pollution threats and the blunt force of climate change. The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa has for millennia used its own knowledge and practices to protect the Kakagon River and the internationally recognized wetland it feeds, the largest remaining natural bed of wild rice or “manoomin” in the Great Lakes.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/bidens-promise-to-tribes-faces-test-in-great-lakes/
# Economy / Finance / Trade
‘The Worst Is Yet to Come,’ IMF Warns: The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday reduced its outlook for global economic growth and warned that there are still challenges ahead, including high inflation, central bank tightening, the war in Ukraine and the lingering Covid-19 pandemic. “As storm clouds gather, policymakers need to keep a steady hand,” the IMF said in its World Economic Outlook report.
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2022/10/11/world-economic-outlook-october-2022
Medicare Advantage Has a Fraud Problem: Most of the large insurers involved in Medicare Advantage have been accused of various kinds of fraud, according to an analysis published by The New York Times, raising serious questions about the ability of the program to reduce costs and provide services more efficiently than the conventional Medicare system.
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2022/10/11/Medicare-Advantage-Has-Fraud-Problem
The big reason Florida insurance companies are failing isn’t just hurricane risk – it’s fraud and lawsuits
https://news.fiu.edu/2022/the-big-reason-florida-insurance-companies-are-failing-isnt-just-hurricane-risk-its-fraud-and-lawsuits
Republicans Plan Debt Crisis to Force Cuts to Medicare, Social Security: The debt limit, the maximum amount the government may legally borrow, is currently at about $31.4 trillion and will likely be reached in 2023. Congress will have to vote to raise, suspend, or eliminate that cap to avoid what economists say would be catastrophic default on obligations.
https://americanindependent.com/house-republicans-budget-control-act-debt-ceiling-social-security-medicare-medicaid/
Treasury department probing DeSantis’ migrant stunts: The probe is reportedly part of an audit into how states used federal COVID relief funds. The Treasury letter marks the first time authorities have acknowledged they’re looking into the transports.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/12/desantis-migrant-flights-markey-00061370
# Education / Schools
The recent Uvalde school board meeting was divided; “I am disgusted by this community”: Monday night’s school board meeting saw a divide among residents. Some were outside supporting and cheering on Uvalde School District Superintendent Hal Harrell, while the families of the victims of the May 24 mass shooting were inside demanding accountability from him.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/recent-uvalde-school-board-meeting-183647960.html
# Employment / Labor
“Dubious At Best”: Contract Rejection Revives Railroad Strike Fears: The threat alone carries hefty political ramifications for Democrats also grappling with inflation and a possible recession.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/11/railroad-workers-rejection-contracts-strike-00061285
Workers Make $1.3 Million More Through Their Careers When They’re in a Union: This is more than the lifetime salary premium that typically comes with a college degree, researchers found.
https://truthout.org/articles/workers-make-1-3-million-more-through-their-careers-when-theyre-in-a-union/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
The Titans of Plastic: Pennsylvania becomes the newest sacrifice zone for America’s plastic addiction. In the months that followed, the construction project would require remediating a brownfield, rerouting a highway, and constructing an office building, a laboratory, a fracked-gas power plant, and a rail system for more than 3,000 freight cars. The purpose of Shell’s massive complex wasn’t simply to refine gas. It was to make plastic. Shell ranks in the top 10 among the 90 companies that are responsible for two-thirds of historic greenhouse gas emissions. Its Potter Township cracker plant is expected to emit up to 2.25 million tons of climate-warming gases annually, equivalent to approximately 430,000 extra cars on the road.
https://www.ehn.org/the-titans-of-plastic-2657986993.html
Nuclear Power Isn’t Clean — It Creates Hellish Wastelands of Radioactive Sewage: Nuclear power carries with it an unbearable price tag: nightmarish contamination and the threat to survival itself.
https://truthout.org/articles/nuclear-power-isnt-clean-it-creates-hellish-wastelands-of-radioactive-sewage/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Big Pharma flooding Puerto Rico with toxic waste: Dead livestock, cancer, arsenic in your water. The report, released Tuesday, paints a disturbing picture, holding US pharmaceutical corporations at least partially responsible for Puerto Rico’s disproportionately high rates of asthma and cancer. The sum of its findings: a pattern of environmental racism resulting in more than a dozen Big Pharma related Superfund sites, with the complicity of federal and local authorities.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/big-pharma-is-flooding-puerto-rico-with-toxic-waste/
Extreme heat + air pollution can be deadly, with the health risk together worse than either alone: High heat and air pollution are each problematic for human health, particularly for vulnerable populations such as older adults. But what happens when they hit at the same time? https://www.fastcompany.com/90783202/heat-waves-air-pollution-combine-health-impacts-worse
Biden Designates Camp Hale in Colorado as His First National Monument: Camp Hale, a former military training site during World War II, is joining the nations list of National Monuments and is President Joe Biden’s first National Monument designation. The new Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument protects more than 50,000 acres of land in Colorado
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/12/biden-creates-camp-hale-continental-divide-national-monument-colorado/10472453002/
# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
How To Eat A Pine Tree (And Other Conifers) Most conifers are not only edible, they’re also medicinal. Every part is useful including the bark, needles, resin, nuts, and cones.
https://practicalselfreliance.com/edible-pine/?4788116719
# General Information / Other News
66 Countries at the UN General Assembly Urge Ukraine-Russia Negotiations: As the war in Ukraine appears to be escalating, there are growing calls for the U.S. to push for diplomacy.
https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/europe/end-war-in-ukraine-say-66-nations-at-un-general-assembly/
The Washington Post is reporting the Biden administration has ruled out the idea of pushing Ukraine to negotiate with Russia to end the war, even though many U.S. officials believe neither side is, quote, “capable of winning the war outright.”
Video and Transcript: https://truthout.org/video/66-countries-at-the-un-general-assembly-urge-ukraine-russia-negotiations/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=35054481-f75d-48ed-b27d-14f137987e8d
Trump uses donations to Save America PAC to pay legal bills: Trump donors think they’re giving to “save America,” but they’re paying Trump’s legal bills. More than 60% of spending by Trump’s Save America PAC is going to his legal battle over stolen classified documents
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/21/donors-think-theyre-giving-to-save-america-but-theyre-paying-legal-bills/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Russian intelligence has arrested eight people allegedly in connection to the Kerch bridge explosion: No one has formally taken responsibility for the bridge blast, but high-level Ukrainian officials have cheered on news of its destruction.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/12/russia-detains-eight-suspects-over-crimea-bridge-blasts
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has lost power for the second time in five days: Nuclear experts from around the world are raising concerns about the threat of nearby shelling on the power plant’s safety.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/12/ukraine-nuclear-power-cut
Kremlin TV Exposes the Real Goal of Putin’s ‘Revenge-Bombs’: Putin’s top cheerleaders have unwittingly revealed that the latest Russian atrocities were not just about vengeance after all.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-exposes-the-real-goal-of-vladimir-putins-revenge-bombs-in-ukraine
# Gov / Politics / US
Noted Republican Tulsi Gabbard Has Left The Democratic Party: Tulsi Gabbard, the former lawmaker from Hawaii whose total flameout in the 2020 presidential primary led her to look for any shreds of political relevance she could find in right-wing culture wars, announced she was leaving the Democratic Party on Tuesday.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democrats
Washington State GOP Pays White Nationalist Pro-Nazi Blogger: Add it to the list of ways in which Washington has a far-right problem. It’s no secret that Washington State has The problem of white nationalism, but there is one group that has become increasingly and alarmingly associated with these extremists: the Republican Party of Washington State.
https://unlimitedd-ttech.com/2022/10/12/washington-state-republican-party-pays-white-patriot-pro-nazi-blogger-grayson-arnold/
Senate Races Reach New Heights of Nastiness In Final Campaign Stretch: Democratic and Republican strategists as well as nonpartisan experts say the vitriol on the campaign trail has been remarkable, observing that while negative campaign tactics are nothing new, the 2022 battle for the Senate has taken it to a new level.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3681963-senate-races-reach-new-heights-of-nastiness-in-final-campaign-stretch/
Americans actually agree on something, they want products free of harmful chemicals: As we near midterm elections, a new poll has done the unthinkable: found an issue that doesn’t divide us.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-11/most-u-s-voters-want-products-free-of-harmful-chemicals-poll
Challenges to voters are growing before the midterms – and have a long history as a way of keeping down the Black vote: On Nov. 8, the US may experience a surge of voters intimidated by Election Day challenges to their right to cast a ballot.
https://theconversation.com/challenges-to-voters-are-growing-before-the-midterms-and-have-a-long-history-as-a-way-of-keeping-down-the-black-vote-192217
What will the US do if Putin goes nuclear on Ukraine? Threats give question growing urgency: If Russia drops a nuclear bomb of any size on Ukraine, the dilemma facing the U.S. will be imposing costs severe enough to meet the magnitude of the moment while averting the kind of nuclear showdown feared during the Cold War.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3674322-how-the-us-might-respond-to-a-russian-nuclear-attack-in-ukraine/
Nevada GOP Candidate Vows to “Fix” Elections to Reinstate Trump as President: Nevada’s Jim Marchant pushed election-denial conspiracy theories in his own congressional election loss two years ago.
https://truthout.org/articles/nevada-gop-candidate-vows-to-fix-elections-to-reinstate-trump-as-president/
Racism, Lies and Hypocrisy Are Now Seen as Electable Qualities in GOP Candidates: From Trump’s racist attacks to Herschel Walker’s lies, the GOP is remaking itself as a party where truly anything goes.
https://truthout.org/articles/racism-lies-and-hypocrisy-are-now-seen-as-electable-qualities-in-gop-candidates/
The Most Important Midterm Elections Have Nothing To Do With Congress: Hundreds of races in state legislatures that have fueled the GOP’s hard-right turn could determine the future of abortion rights, and U.S. democracy itself.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-legislative-races-2022-midterms-democrats-democracy_n_63458fa5e4b0e376dc06640d
# Legal / DOJ
Far Right Supreme Court Justices Reject Appeal of Man Condemned by Racist Jurors: Three of the jurors in Andre Thomas’s murder trial expressed opposition to the idea of interracial marriages.
https://truthout.org/articles/far-right-supreme-court-justices-reject-appeal-of-man-condemned-by-racist-jurors/
A Connecticut jury has found that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $965 million to several family members of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting for spreading lies that the shooting was fake. Multimillion-dollar verdicts keep stacking up against the Infowars host, who used his platform to falsely claim the Sandy Hook shooting never happened.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-jones-sandy-hook-verdict-connecticut_n_633ddfd6e4b03e8038c52b11?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Politics%2010/12/22&utm_term=us-politics
Trump Must Sit For Deposition In Defamation Lawsuit, Judge Rules: Former President Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition next week in a lawsuit filed by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/12/judge-trump-deposition-defamation-lawsuit-00061471
Judge sentences entire Texas family that participated in the Capitol riot: A Texas mom who took her family into the Capitol riot doubled-down on Trump’s election fraud lies as she asked a federal judge for leniency
https://www.businessinsider.com/munn-family-capitol-riot-sentencing-federal-court-2022-10
# LGBTQ
U.S. State Department pushes ‘gender transition’ for kids as states consider bans: The U.S. State Department’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan has sparked controversy for including taxpayer-funded “gender transition care” for employees and their children
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/u-s-state-department-pushes-gender-transition-for-kids-as-states-consider-bans/article_c7cae25c-48ab-11ed-82bc-d753e28c7232.html
Speaker Wishes Death on LGBTQ People at School Board Meeting: A man was caught on camera telling the board that members of the LGBTQ community “deserve death.” According to the person who posted the video of the speaker on TikTok, the man spoke just before a trans sophomore and despite his grim words, “the school board sat there and did NOTHING.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/speaker-says-lgbtq-students-deserve-death-school-board-meeting/
# Media
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Faces Outrage Over New Postal Service Price Hikes: DeJoy told consumers to expect USPS prices to continue rising “at an uncomfortable rate” for the foreseeable future. “We can’t let the Postal Service sabotage itself by driving industries out of business and driving consumers away from using the mail,” said one critic.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/12/dejoy-faces-outrage-over-new-postal-service-price-hikes
# Medical / Health
Male birth control options are in development, but a number of barriers still stand in the way: There hasn’t been a new form of male birth control since the 1980s. More contraception options for all partners could help reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies.
https://theconversation.com/male-birth-control-options-are-in-development-but-a-number-of-barriers-still-stand-in-the-way-186537
# Military / DOD
Army prepares for dispersed warfare with high casualties: Fighting in Ukraine continues to show senior Army leaders and thinkers the value of two things that the service hasn’t been doing at scale for a long, long time, reconstitution and long-range, large-unit dispersion.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/2022/10/11/army-prepares-for-dispersed-warfare-with-high-casualties/
# Science
Mindbending Experiment Fused Rat Brains With Human Neurons: After eight months, the human cells had been fully incorporated into the rat’s brain.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mindbending-experiment-fused-rat-brains-with-human-neurons
# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Scientists Shocked As Black Hole Spews Out Something They’ve Never Seen Before: The new study opens the opportunity to study the effects of magnetic fields in black hole feeding.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/nasa-sees-for-the-first-time-ever-something-coming-out-of-a-black-hole-while-it-feeds
# Technology / Medical
Big Tech’s Cars Could Help Gov’t Spy on Abortion Patients: Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook are getting into the auto game, which means law enforcement will have more tools to spy on vulnerable people.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/big-techs-cars-could-help-the-government-spy-on-abortion-patients
# Veterans / VA
President Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan bill that will direct more than $442 million in upgrades to Veteran Affairs health care facilities in Texas. The improvements will include a 30-bed long-term care facility for spinal cord injuries in Dallas and a new health care facility in El Paso.
https://accuratenewsinfo.com/dallas-el-paso-veterans-facilities-will-get-442-million-in-upgrades/
# Water
As Rio Grande shrinks, El Paso plans for uncertain water future: With a megadrought persisting in the Southwest, El Paso and other cities on the Rio Grande are scrambling to find alternative sources of water
https://e360.yale.edu/features/el-paso-texas-rio-grande-water-drought
California’s opening bid won’t solve the Colorado River crisis alone: California’s offer to conserve some of its share of Colorado River water over the next few years won’t solve the looming water and power crisis in the West — but it might be enough to kickstart negotiations among the states on a deal that could.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/11/californias-opening-bid-wont-solve-the-colorado-river-crisis-alone-00060851
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