Voices, The Peoples News
October 20, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Chemicals
The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price: As other countries outlawed asbestos, workers in a New York plant were “swimming” in it. Now, in a fight against the chemical industry, the United States may finally ban the potent carcinogen. But help may come too late.
https://www.propublica.org/article/asbestos-poisoning-chemical-plant-niagara-falls
# Economy / Finance / Trade
Republicans Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare: Whatever choice they make, Democrats would be well advised to defuse the debt ceiling forever, before this session of Congress ends. So long as it exists, there is a live chance that Republicans will use it to do something appalling or insane. All four GOP representatives running to head the House Budget Committee have promised that they are going to take the debt ceiling hostage to get big cuts. “Our main focus has got to be on nondiscretionary, it’s got to be on entitlements,” said Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA).
https://prospect.org/economy/republicans-coming-for-your-social-security-medicare/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
How Oil Lobbyists Use a Rigged System to Hamstring Biden’s Climate Agenda
The oil lobby is undermining climate action and stand to benefit from the largest oil and gas lease sale to date.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/oil-lobbyists-use-rigged-system-hamstring-bidens-climate-agenda/
President Biden announced the release of another 15 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Wednesday, before denying that it’s a desperate ploy to drive down gas prices temporarily right before next month’s midterm elections.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/biden-releases-15-million-barrels-from-oil-reserve/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
EPA calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley: In a “remarkable” letter, the EPA accused Louisiana regulators of neglecting Black residents’ concerns about toxic air pollution and urged the state to move kids out of a school where monitors found extreme levels of a cancer-causing chemical.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cancer-alley-louisiana-epa-environmental-racism
Environmental racism is poisoning America’s waters: Thousands of people in U.S. cities have been left without access to clean water. Communities say institutional racism is to blame.
https://www.pressenza.com/2022/10/environmental-racism-is-poisoning-americas-waters/
# Environment / Climate / Global
How the beef industry conceals its destruction of the Amazon rainforest: The beef industry is flattening the Amazon, even when companies tell you it’s not. Between August 1, 2018, and July 31, 2021, more than 34,000 square km (8.4 million acres) disappeared from the Brazilian Amazon. That’s an area larger than the nation of Belgium, and a 52 percent increase compared to the previous three years. It doesn’t add up. Assuming satellites don’t lie, someone is hiding deforestation.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2022/10/19/23403330/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-cattle-laundering
# Gov / Politics / Global
Inside the Aggressive Legal War to Shield the Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group: Hacked emails from a Russian law firm reveal Yevgeny Prigozhin’s approach to fighting sanctions, and journalists.
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/19/russia-hack-wagner-group-yevgeny-prigozhin/
Shadow Government in Putin’s Own Backyard Plots Against Him: The rivals of Putin’s most trusted neighbor are pursuing an alliance aimed at hampering Russia’s designs on the West.
https://news.yahoo.com/shadow-government-putin-own-backyard-032152167.html
Liz Truss Resigns, Becoming U.K.’s Shortest-Serving Prime Minister
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/20/shortest-prime-ministers-term-uk
The Ukraine situation continues to be concerning with Russian losses mounting and Russia poised to lose even more captured territory. Analysts believe options for Russia are limited, more so due to the Russian President who will not accept a loss. This heightens the possibility of nuclear use by Russia as conditions continue to deteriorate. In the near term, however, there does not appear to be an imminent threat of nuclear attack. This can change based on battlefield conditions.
https://defconwarningsystem.com/2022/10/19/addressing-putins-nuclear-threat-thinking-like-the-cold-war-kgb-officer-that-he-was/
# Gov / Politics / US
Biden’s Former Haitian Envoy Slams White House Plan for Armed Intervention: “We’re going to have a civil uprising in Haiti similar to 1915,” said former Ambassador Dan Foote. The Biden administration scuttled Haiti’s plans for free elections and backed a de facto dictator in exchange for his willingness to accept deportees, America’s former envoy to the country says.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/biden-sold-out-haitian-democracy-for-a-migrant-deal-ex-envoy/
Leaked Texts Reveal Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Private Push to Overturn 2020 Election: Newly unearthed texts reveal Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed attempt to recruit Kelly Loeffler on Jan. 6 plan
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-texts/
Concerned over lack of “working-class” energy for midterms, Sanders plans 8-state blitz: “Democrats need to clearly say what more we’ll do to fix the economy for working people if we hold on to Congress.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/19/concerned-over-lack-working-class-energy-midterms-sanders-plans-8-state-blitz
Following Supreme Court decision, self-funding candidates are using campaign funds to pay themselves back: A rule change after the Supreme Court’s FEC v. Ted Cruz decision is helping put campaign money back in self-funding candidates’ pockets.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/10/following-supreme-court-decision-self-funding-candidates-are-using-campaign-funds-to-pay-themselves-back
# Law Enforcement
Oakland Cops Hope to Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns: While official language condoning killer robots is shelved for now, Oakland police are still pursuing the option. The back-and-forth between the Oakland Police Department and a civilian oversight body concluded with the police relinquishing their push for official language that would have allowed them to kill humans with robots under certain circumstances.
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/17/police-robot-gun-oakland/
Video appears to show Los Angeles deputies bashing a man’s head into the pavement during a violent arrest. The man’s family say he will lose his eye as a result.
https://www.insider.com/video-shows-la-deputies-bashing-mans-head-during-violent-arrest-2022-10
# Legal / DOJ
Former president Donald Trump signed and filed court documents that he knew contained false information as part of his scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge wrote Wednesday. US District Judge David Carter wrote. “The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.” Carter was referring to figures Trump and his attorneys had put in a Dec. 4, 2020, court filing in Georgia in which they had alleged authorities in Fulton County had improperly counted the votes of 10,315 dead people, 2,560 felons, and 2,423 unregistered voters.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/trump-court-documents-false-information-judge
‘Nasty, wrong, ill-informed’: Trump erupts at judge after being implicated in potential criminal offenses: Trump, in a post on his social media platform Truth Social, lambasted U.S. District Judge David Carter as a “partisan hack” and repeated his false claim that his loss to President Joe Biden was the result of a “rigged and stolen” election.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/trump-slams-judge-who-said-he-knowingly-pushed-false-voter-fraud-case.html?__source=google%7Ceditorspicks%7C&par=google
J6 Panel Can’t Find a Legit Lawyer to Accept Trump Subpoena: The committee formally voted to subpoena the former president last Thursday.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-committee-cant-find-an-actual-lawyer-to-accept-trumps-subpoena-to-testify
# Medical / Health Global
Uganda is struggling to contain outbreak of untreatable Ebola strain. Two vaccine candidates to be deployed: We don’t know if these vaccine formulations will work, it’s worth a shot.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/uganda-ebola-outbreak-vaccines-94624523/
# Medical / Health
Critics Say Insurance Companies Deny Medical Claims to Make Billions in Profit: Sen. Bernie Sanders, patients and advocates are calling out insurers as analysts forecast premiums to spike. Elevance Health, the largest for-profit company within the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, surpassed Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and reported nearly $40 billion in revenue during the third quarter of 2022.
https://truthout.org/articles/critics-say-insurance-companies-deny-medical-claims-to-make-billions-in-profit/
# Military / DOD
American Military Equipment Caught en Route to Russia: The machinery was intercepted in Latvia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut announced. European Nationals and Entities Indicted on Charges of Violating U.S. Laws for Their Attempt to Export a Dual-Use High-Precision Jig Grinder to Russia
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/european-nationals-and-entities-indicted-charges-violating-us-laws-their-attempt-export
# Military / Global
North Korea Fires Artillery Barrage into Sea Amid Joint U.S.-South Korea War Games: South Korea’s military detected the artillery being fired from a western North Korean coastal town, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. On Tuesday night, North Korea fired about 100 shells off its west coast and 150 rounds off its east coast, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said earlier.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/north-korea-fires-more-artillery-shells-toward-korean-sea-buffer-zone
# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
US Congress makes UFO evidence public: The UFO phenomenon is an incessant source of fascination. The latest occurrence: a series of images and videos of “unexplained aerial phenomena” that were shown in the United States Congress, of all places.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/new-territory-americas-top-aerospace-sleuths-join-ufo-hunt-00062588
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