Voices, The Peoples News
October 25, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration
Abbott, sheriffs address fentanyl crisis stemming from southern border:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott met with scores of law enforcement officers in Corpus Christi to discuss measures being taken to secure the border and combat the fentanyl crisis
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/abbott-sheriffs-address-fentanyl-crisis-stemming-from-southern-border/article_77769c8c-514e-11ed-bac3-63998c555c5d.html
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Severe Reactions Minutes After COVID Vaccination Usually Written Off as Coincidental
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2022/10/severe-reactions-minutes-after-covid-vaccination-usually-written-off-as-coincidental/
COVID-19 Vaccine-associated Anaphylaxis and Allergic : However, anaphylactic reactions are potentially life-threatening and can occur immediately, usually within minutes, after exposure to a vaccine. Confirmed allergic reactions to vaccines may be caused by residual non-human protein, preservatives, or stabilizers in the vaccine formulation (also known as excipients).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8255352/
CDC Advisory Panel Recommends Adding COVID Shots to Child Vaccination Schedule Without FDA License for Use in Children Under 12: States Mandate Vaccines, Not the CDC. Neither the recommendation by the ACIP nor whatever decision the CDC ultimately takes regarding adding COVID vaccine to the recommended childhood vaccine schedule would require that students receive COVID shots before enrolling in school.
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2022/10/cdc-advisory-panel-recommends-adding-covid-shots-to-child-vaccination-schedule-without-fda-license-for-use-in-children-under-12/
# Education / Schools
With months still to go, 2022 has already seen a record number of school shootings: On Oct. 24, while a teenage gunman was pleading guilty for a deadly school incident in Michigan, another school shooting was taking place in St. Louis.
https://theconversation.com/school-shootings-are-already-at-a-record-in-2022-with-months-still-to-go-192494
# Employment / Labor
It’s a Clean Sweep. Pete Dolack: Not one country guarantees workers’ rights.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/22/its-a-clean-sweep-not-one-country-guarantees-workers-rights/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Garbage dumps across the US could be turned into solar farms: Toxic landfills are emblems of environmental injustice across the US. Clean energy can remake them.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23377770/garbage-dump-landfill-solar-climate-justice-sunnyside-ira
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Researchers call for action on lead-contaminated meat due to EHN reporting: The reporting showed this lack of oversight could result in potentially hundreds of thousands of lead-contaminated meals each year, with fetuses, children and pregnant people most at risk.
https://www.ehn.org/remove-lead-ammunition-wildlife-2658496175.html
West Tennessee farmers struggle to get crops to market as drought drains Mississippi River: Historically-low water levels on the Mississippi River mean West Tennessee farmers can’t get crops to market, while barges run aground.
https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/10/24/west-tennessee-farmers-struggle-to-get-crops-to-market-as-drought-drains-mississippi-river/
# General Information / Other News
Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator says Russian forces have performed secret work at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-10-25/ukraine-nuclear-agency-thickens-alleged-dirty-bomb-plot
Ukraine nuclear workers recount abuse, threats from Russians: Six Russian soldiers broke down his door and opened fire, which he returned. Wounded in the hand, thigh, ear and stomach, Shvets began to lose consciousness. Before he did, he heard the commander of the group tell his men to cease fire and call an ambulance.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-153cc4ffe3a9eede8f852d22abd5ed01
# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin’s War Has Its First Victim in a New Country: The trail of misery from the invasion of Ukraine now stretches into Moldova, where a Putin critic has been jailed for years just for criticizing the war.
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-war-first-victim-country-084720647.html
Death of Another Journalist: Arshad Sharif Assassinated: Arshad Sharif, 50, left Pakistan in July to avoid arrest over criticizing the South Asian country’s powerful military. He was also a critic of the government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who has repeatedly said he believes in freedom of the media.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131007311/arshad-sharif-pakistani-journalist-killed-by-police-kenya
# Gov / Politics / US
During an appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Monday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz refused to acknowledge President Joe Biden had been legitimately elected despite there being no widespread evidence of electoral fraud in the 2020 election. On the show, the Texas Republican repeatedly redirected attention to Democrats who had previously bemoaned their own electoral losses.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/24/ted-cruz-2020-election-january-6/
Inside a QAnon Kingpin’s Plan to Clinch 2024 for Trump: Juan O. Savin runs a coalition of candidates who could control future elections. He promotes a “Fallujah”-like attack on D.C: Then he set off on a meandering narrative about election fraud, his plan to wage a “Fallujah”-like navy operation on D.C., and his claims to “even have extra Trump Factors than some other residing individual on the planet.” Savin, actual title Wayne Willott, is a longtime conspiracy theorist who rebranded as his present moniker (a QAnon reference) with the rise of the QAnon conspiracy idea. Some followers of the speculation falsely imagine Savin to be JFK Jr.
https://realnewshub.com/inside-a-qanon-kingpins-plan-to-clinch-2024-for-trump/
Kari Lake Is Dangerous Enough to Get Elected President: The Arizona upstart is an election-denying MAGA culture warrior, but without Trump’s baggage or DeSantis’ prickly demeanor. Lake — a 2020 election denier — could easily win the state’s gubernatorial race and threaten its 2024 election processes. And with the talent she’s already displayed even as a political novice, they see her potential to soar to a vice presidential spot or a post-Trump presidential candidacy.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/15/kari-lake-arizona-trump-midterm-elections-maga
Saudi Arabia sentences U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets: The Saudi government has sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets he posted while inside the United States, some of which were critical of the Saudi regime. His son, speaking publicly for the first time, alleges that the Saudi government has tortured his father in prison and says that the State Department mishandled the case.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/saudi-arabia-us-citizen-prison-critical-tweets-regime
How gender, race, age and voter ID laws affect whether a voter actually casts a ballot: Every citizen has the right to vote. But various characteristics and legal requirements affect how likely any one person is to actually cast a ballot.
https://theconversation.com/how-gender-race-age-and-voter-id-laws-affect-whether-a-voter-actually-casts-a-ballot-192559
Armed Vigilantes, Foreign Hackers Fuel Election Fears: As the midterm elections near, President Joe Biden’s top security officials are bracing for cyber meddling from China and Russia, while local authorities worry about armed intimidation at ballot drop boxes from domestic vigilantes
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/10/25/armed-vigilantes-foreign-hackers-fuel-election-fears/
Support for Political Violence Adds to Growing U.S. Tension: A new report published as a preprint on medRXiv.org from researchers at the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) reveals alarming trends in attitudes toward violence, including political violence, in the United States. The survey is the first of its kind to explore the participants’ personal willingness to engage in specific political violence scenarios.
https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/survey-finds-alarming-trend-toward-political-violence/2022/07
The Rise of Political Violence in the United States: This essay describes the history of such forces in the U.S., shares the risk factors for election violence globally and how they are trending in the U.S., and concludes with some potential paths to mitigate the problem.
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-rise-of-political-violence-in-the-united-states/
Biden’s Obsessions With China: Melvin Goodman: Biden’s exaggeration of the threat.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/25/bidens-obsession-with-china/
How Tucker Carlson Is Making MAGA World Turn on Each Other: In this episode of The New Abnormal podcast, Tucker Carlson throws fuel on a GOP fire and Dr. Peter Hotez warns that the next COVID wave will be unlike ones we’ve seen before.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-tucker-carlson-is-making-the-maga-world-turn-on-each-other
# Law Enforcement
Caregiver Charged After 83-Year-Old Found Buried in Garden: Greg Tanner faces five felony charges for using Rebecca Seay’s banking accounts for online gambling during her disappearance.
https://wreg.com/news/local/man-charged-after-83-year-old-woman-found-buried-in-garden/
# Medical / Health
How the threat of ‘taxpayer-funded abortion’ is being used to mobilize conservative religious voters: In the midterms, some religious voters may be motivated by the argument that if abortion is funded with tax dollars, it makes them personally complicit in sin.
https://theconversation.com/how-the-threat-of-taxpayer-funded-abortion-is-being-used-to-mobilize-conservative-religious-voters-191247
Nurse Accused of Killing Patients With Lethal Insulin Doses: Jonathan Hayes, who worked at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder
https://www.wral.com/rogue-nurse-charged-with-murder-patients-were-given-lethal-doses-of-insulin-at-nc-hospital/20538120/
# Pharmas / Drugs
Paxlovid May Interact With Common Heart Drugs and Cause Blood Clots, Bleeding, Arrhythmia and Muscle Weakness: Heart disease patients with symptomatic COVID-19 are often treated with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) to prevent progression to severe disease; however, it can interact with some previously prescribed medications. A review paper published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology examines the potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) between Paxlovid and commonly used cardiovascular medications, as well as potential options to mitigate severe adverse effects.
https://www.acc.org/About-ACC/Press-Releases/2022/10/12/17/14/COVID19-Drug-Paxlovid-May-Interact-with-Common-Heart-Medications
# Technology / Medical
Neurotechnologies for Human Cognitive Augmentation: Current State of the Art and Future Prospects
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00013/full
How Can the Use of Human Enhancement (HE) Technologies in the Military Be Ethically Assessed? [PDF]
https://dsc.duq.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1147&context=etd
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