Voices, The Peoples News
October 21, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous / Global
Told ‘no’ 37 times, this Indigenous-owned company brought electricity to James Bay anyway: Twenty-five years ago, five First Nations brought power to their remote, underserved communities, defying skepticism, scorn and swampy terrain.
https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-indigenous-owned-energy/
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Neurological Issues Found In Nearly 1 In 10 Kids Hospitalized With Covid: A team of researchers found 7% of young covid patients hospitalized from covid had neurological issues.
https://web.musc.edu/about/news-center/2021/08/18/misc-neurology
‘Obscene’: Pfizer Expects Their COVID Shot Will Cost $110: Julia Kosgei, policy adviser to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, accused Pfizer of “shamelessly fleecing the public.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2022-10-20/pfizer-expects-to-price-covid-vaccine-at-110-130-per-dose
New study blames COVID on NIH. University of North Carolina finds Fauci and Baric’s fingerprints on pandemic bug:
Critics have long questioned why the National Institutes of Health would fund experiments by University of North Carolina professor Ralph Baric to develop a technique for hiding evidence of human tampering in laboratory-created super viruses.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-pandemic-nih-unc-fauci-baric/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=84cfc378-168f-4950-b1ba-671f4546a6b0
# Economy / Finance / Trade
Elizabeth Warren Condemns All-Trump Court for Ruling Against Consumer Protection Agency: If allowed to stand, the ruling will essentially sideline the agency unless Congress changes how it is funded
https://truthout.org/articles/warren-condemns-all-trump-court-for-ruling-against-consumer-protection-agency/
# Education / Schools
Texas revamps ‘active-shooter’ drills at K-12 schools: School lockdown drills are designed to prepare students for violent threats. For some students, especially those with special needs, drills can trigger or exacerbate mental health problems. Texas is taking a step toward balancing safety and mental health with regulations around how the drills are conducted.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/active-shooter-drills-texas-schools-to-minimize-trauma/
# Employment / Labor
Want to Know What’s Going On in Our Economy? Talk to Workers. We don’t survey how workers feel about their jobs. We’d learn a lot if we did.
https://prospect.org/labor/want-to-know-whats-going-on-in-our-economy-talk-to-workers/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
U.S. to Hold First Pacific Offshore Wind Sale: This will be the first-ever offshore wind lease sale on America’s west coast and the first-ever U.S. sale to support potential commercial-scale floating offshore wind energy development. This sale is needed to achieve the Biden-Harris administration’s deployment goals of 30 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030 and 15 GW of floating offshore wind energy by 2035.
https://www.rigzone.com/news/us_to_hold_firstever_pacific_offshore_wind_lease_sale-19-oct-2022-170769-article/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
EPA tells South Memphis residents little recourse exists to deal with toxic emissions: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told South Memphis residents of the hazard risk posed by nearby Sterilization Services of Tennessee.
https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/10/20/epa-tells-south-memphis-residents-little-recourse-exists-to-deal-with-toxic-emissions/
Bacteria outbreak after Ian tells a scary story about Florida’s broken sewage systems: Spills happen all the time from overloaded plants and pipes, not just after a hurricane.
https://floridaphoenix.com/2022/10/20/bacteria-outbreak-after-ian-tells-a-scary-story-about-floridas-broken-sewage-systems/
# General Information / Other News
Murder at Sea: When a grainy video of a grisly mass shooting on the high seas surfaced, one determined detective and a host of NGOs went on a quest for justice. Were it not for 10 minutes and 26 seconds of grainy footage uncovered in 2014, this violent attack and an earlier one that took the lives of as many as 38 fishermen would likely never have come to light.
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/murder-at-sea/
What if as a counterbalance to the power elite, there are millions of people worldwide committed to revealing the deeper levels of deception and to empowering us all to open our eyes and do the right thing?
https://www.wanttoknow.info/
Creating a New Paradigm: “All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of a single candle.” Together, we are creating a new paradigm on Earth. Yet in order to give meaningful suggestions to further support this, we first need to speak candidly about the old paradigm. It appears that there are factions within the world’s power elite which still desire to exert as much control as possible over the world.
https://www.wanttoknow.info/070707newparadigm
Inside Trumpworld’s Dark Obsession With the GOP Whip Race: A single NRCC email has gotten the attention of Trump’s orbit, and it could be a big problem for NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer.
https://news7h.com/inside-trumpworlds-dark-obsession-with-the-gop-whip-race/
January 6 Committee Can’t Send Trump His Subpoena Because He Lacks Lawyers Who Can Accept It: Part of the difficulty in identifying the proper lawyer is that Trump has had a hard time hiring and retaining legal counsel as of late. According to some media reports, his problems stem from his not paying lawyers in the past.
https://truthout.org/articles/jan-6-panel-cant-send-trump-subpoena-because-he-lacks-lawyers-who-can-take-it/
It’s Official: Jan. 6 Committee Slaps Trump With Subpoena: Former President Donald Trump was formally hit with a subpoena for testimony and documents by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol. The nine-member panel issued a letter to Trump’s lawyers saying he must testify, either at the Capitol or by videoconference, “beginning on or about” Nov. 14 and continuing for multiple days if necessary. The letter also outlined a request for a series of corresponding documents, including personal communications between Trump and members of Congress as well as extremist groups.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-trump-subpoena-january-6-committee-20221021-lohlyrbjonacld3wbcevqnhcpi-story.html
Trump Kept Super Secret Intel on China and Iran at His Golf Club: Highly classified documents retrieved from Mar-a-Lago contained sensitive info related to two of America’s foreign adversaries. The insecure storage of the materials could also open up the United States to retaliation by states targeted in the operations.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-kept-super-secret-intel-170601527.html
Trump Warns Pence and Other Cabinet Members It Would Be ‘Very Disloyal’ to Run Against Him: Donald Trump warned members of his former administration that it would be “very disloyal” for any of them to run against him in 2024.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-warns-pence-and-other-cabinet-members-it-would-be-very-disloyal-to-run-against-him/ar-AA13eqfD?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=6d482a61504d43c889fd0d668c9b88a9
# Gov / Politics / Global
EXPOSED: Before Ukraine blew up Kerch Bridge, British spies plotted it – The secret British intelligence plot to blow up Crimea’s Kerch Bridge is revealed in internal documents and correspondence obtained exclusively by The Grayzone.
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/10/10/ukrainian-kerch-bridge/
A Russian defense advisor accidentally revealed on air that the Kremlin is using Iranian drones to attack Ukraine, “We all know the drones are Iranian, but the government has not admitted to it,” Ruslan Pukhov said on a hot mic.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-defense-advisor-caught-admitting-russia-iranian-suicide-drones-ukraine-2022-10
Kim Jong Un’s Batsh*t Threats Just Got a Lot Scarier: The real danger isn’t North Korea’s nuclear weapons.
https://news.yahoo.com/kim-jong-un-batshit-threats-000456529.html
# Gov / Politics / US
It’s Time To Cut Zelensky and Ing-wen From the US Dole: Not only is the American taxpayer supporting much of the Ukrainian military, it is also supporting the Ukrainian government. The same working class Americans who were deemed “nonessential” in 2020, who saw their businesses shuttered and burned downl now have to pay entitlement programs both at home and in Ukraine.
https://original.antiwar.com/Patrick_MacFarlane/2022/10/18/its-time-to-cut-zelensky-and-ing-wen-from-the-us-dole/
Time Is Running Out for Democrats to Combat GOP Threat to Social Security and Medicare: House Democrats urge Pelosi and Schumer to permanently undo the threat posed by the debt limit. Democratic leaders are facing growing pressure from progressives and rank-and-file lawmakers to head off the GOP ploy by significantly raising or eliminating the arbitrary federal borrowing limit.
https://truthout.org/articles/time-is-running-out-for-dems-to-combat-gop-threat-to-social-security-medicare/
Penn. County Accused of Breaching Voting System Yet Again: The state’s top election official said Fulton County violated an injunction by allowing a forensics company to look at its voting machines.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-pennsylvania-breach/pennsylvania-alleges-fulton-county-breached-security-of-voting-machines-for-second-time-idUKL4N31L402
Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. Copies of confidential voting software available for download. Ballot-counting machines inspected by people not supposed to have access. The list of suspected security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations underway in at least three states, Colorado, Georgia and Michigan.
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-colorado-donald-trump-voting-95b862c0cb66aac446a213aace504776
# Law Enforcement
Flynn Group Recruiting Cops, Vets to Stand at Election Sites: Despite its nonpartisan claims, One More Mission is funded by a group led by some of the most prominent pro-Trump election deniers in the country.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-flynn-group-recruits-cops-and-military-veterans-for-one-more-mission-to-watch-election-sites
Police Chief Arrested After Overdose Death Close to Home: One of his girlfriend’s brothers died after overdosing, while another was discovered in “respiratory distress” but was revived with Narcan.
https://www.kktv.com/2022/10/20/police-chief-girlfriend-charged-with-drug-trafficking-after-her-brother-dies-officials-say/
# Legal / DOJ
She Was Burned Alive, and Testified in Her Own Murder Trial: There are abusers, there are killers, after which there are heinous monsters like Michael Slager, who on Aug. 2, 2015, set his girlfriend, 31-year-old Judy Malinowski, on fireplace. The resident of Franklin County, Ohio suffered burns on greater than 95 p.c of her physique and but, astonishingly, survived.
https://realnewshub.com/she-was-burned-alive-and-testified-in-her-own-murder-trial/
Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia Grand Jury Probe of Trump Election Meddling
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/appeals-court-says-sen-lindsey-graham-must-testify-in-georgia-election-probe
# LGBTQ
The GOP Voter Suppression Machine Has a New Target: Trans People: Between voter ID laws and state rules about trans IDs, Republicans have made it a nightmare to be trans and vote
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/transgender-rights-voter-id-republicans-voting-1234615400/
# Medical / Health
CDC Vaccine Advisers Vote To Add Covid Shot To Pediatric Schedule: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unanimously voted in favor of including the covid vaccine on the list of routine immunizations that doctors follow when recommending vaccinations and that schools consult when setting requirements.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/20/cdc-advisers-recommend-adding-covid-shots-to-routine-schedules-for-kids-adults-00062739
ACA Is MIA From Campaign Fights For First Time In More Than A Decade: The Affordable Care Act, a trigger point in political campaigns for more than a decade, has been conspicuously absent from debates and campaign rhetoric this year.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/21/aca-missing-from-campaign-fights
Secret files suggest chemical giant feared weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease: Cache of documents seen by Guardian detail effort to refute scientific research into paraquat and derail nomination of key EPA adviser
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/20/syngenta-weedkiller-pesticide-parkinsons-disease-paraquat-documents
Health Insurance Whistleblower: Medicare Advantage Is “Heist” by Private Firms to Defraud the Public
Many of the nation’s largest health insurance companies have made billions of dollars in profits by overbilling the U.S.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/12/medicare_advantage_program_healthcare_providers_unitedhealth
A common respiratory virus is spreading at unusually high levels, overwhelming children’s hospitals. Here’s what parents need to know
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/a-common-respiratory-virus-is-spreading-at-unusually-high-levels-overwhelming-children-s-hospitals-here-s-what-parents-need-to-know/ar-AA13duFv?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=6d482a61504d43c889fd0d668c9b88a9
# Military / Global
The Kremlin’s Missile Strikes Had No Strategic Aim: Now the apathetic Russian majority has to expend more and more energy to ignore what is happening. What Does Russia Hope to Achieve by Bombing Ukrainian Cities?
The bombings look like an attempt by the Russian establishment to convince itself and others that Russia still has enough determination and resources to regain the military initiative.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88188
# Science
Science Has a Communication Problem, and a Connection Problem: Scientists face barriers when trying to effectively communicate their work. How can they make sure the public understands, and doesn’t misinterpret, important research?
The public needs to see scientists as people, rather than simply sources of information. What barriers stand in the way?
https://undark.org/2022/10/20/science-has-a-communication-problem-and-a-connection-problem/
# Social
Black Voters Mobilize for Midterms Amid GOP-Led Voter Suppression: The “Arc of Voter Justice” bus tour is visiting 26 cities to increase Black voter turnout at critical midterm elections. “African American voters are key to all these races,” says Arnwine. “They’re going to vote what’s in the best interests not only of their community, but the entire nation.” Crenshaw says she is handing out banned books and education to voters because “when racism is unspeakable, then democracy, a full multiracial democracy, is unachievable.”
https://truthout.org/video/black-voters-mobilize-for-midterms-amid-gop-led-voter-suppression/
# Water
EPA opens civil right probe of Mississippi after Jackson water crisis: The agency will also investigate whether the two state departments have procedural safeguards in place to prevent discrimination
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/20/epa-civil-rights-mississippi-naacp-00062820
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