Voices, The Peoples News
October 31, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Emperor penguins get Endangered Species Act protection – with 98% of colonies at risk of extinction by 2100. Emperor penguins survive in a ‘Goldilocks zone’ between too much sea ice and too little. Climate change is having an impact.
https://theconversation.com/emperor-penguins-get-endangered-species-act-protection-with-98-of-colonies-at-risk-of-extinction-by-2100-can-it-save-them-193439
# Border / Immigration
Pentagon’s US-Mexico border mission extends for another year: Federally-activated National Guard troops are expected to continue to deploy along the U.S. southern border through summer 2023, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed on Friday.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/10/28/pentagons-us-mexico-border-mission-extends-for-another-year/#:~:text=Federally%2Dactivated%20National%20Guard%20troops,to%20Military%20Times%20on%20Friday
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Defies Biden With Border Wall Made of Shipping Containers: The Biden administration remains silent as the Republican governor brazenly builds an ad hoc wall on protected lands.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/us/border-arizona-shipping-containers-cec
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab: The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-origin-wuhan-lab
New Hybrid Virus Discovered as Flu And RSV Fuse Into Single Pathogen: Researchers have witnessed two viruses, influenza A and respiratory syncytial virus, fuse together to form a single, hybrid virus.
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-hybrid-virus-discovered-as-flu-and-rsv-fuse-into-single-pathogen
The Truth about the COVID Vaccine and Stroke, Key Studies:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-truth-about-the-covid-vaccine-and-stroke-key-studies/ar-AA13zPSU?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=486e8fee052747f991c3cf1e9ca86fcc
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Chairman Turning SEC from Protection to Business-Crushing Bully: The crypto industry threatens Democrats in charge at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under Chairman Gary Gensler, the SEC has been on the warpath to pull all cryptocurrencies under the securities umbrella.
https://dcjournal.com/gensler-turning-sec-from-protector-to-business-crushing-bully/
Consumers Stand to Lose From Swipe Card Regulations: Politicians and a coalition of powerful retail giants are pushing bills intended to limit the fees that businesses pay when a customer buys things with a credit or debit card.
https://dcjournal.com/consumers-stand-to-lose-from-swipe-card-regulations/
# Education / Schools
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Handcuff Universities: US court poised to ban affirmative action: The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week in two cases that will determine whether Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are allowed to use race as a factor in deciding which students they admit.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/10/31/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ban-00064058
EPA gives school districts across U.S. nearly $1 billion to buy clean school buses: “It doesn’t make sense to send our kids to school on buses that create brain-harming, lung-harming, cancer-causing, climate-harming pollution.″
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/28/ro-khanna-unveils-bill-ban-us-gas-exports-big-oil-rakes-record-profits
Teacher Exodus Proves We Are Willfully Destroying US Public Education: Republicans are literally running a political platform on weakening teachers, schools and education because they need the poorly educated to make up their voting base.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/31/teacher-exodus-proves-we-are-willfully-destroying-us-public-education
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Oil companies resist calls to cut prices amid record profits, as ExxonMobil’s CEO insists they’re “returning some of our profits directly to the American people” in the form of dividends to investors.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/30b-of-profits-renews-big-oils-clash-with-white-house/
Ro Khanna unveils bill to ban US gas exports as big oil rakes in record profits: The California Democrat’s bill would temporarily bar U.S. gas exports when prices at the pump are high, like they are right now.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/28/ro-khanna-unveils-bill-ban-us-gas-exports-big-oil-rakes-record-profits
# Gov / Politics / Global
80% of Kyiv residents are without water after Russian missiles severely damaged city infrastructure. Power outages also swept parts of the city, as Moscow repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s capital .
https://wnyt.com/us-news/russian-strikes-hit-ukraine-most-of-kyiv-without-water/
Russia halted the UN-brokered grain deal after accusing Ukraine of attacking one of their ships. Ukraine denied responsibility for this attack.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-government-and-politics-3b563bd6f79f815c7e9f33505dd25334
Iran’s Secret Manual for Tracking and Controlling Protesters’ Mobile Phones: The documents provide an inside look at an Iranian government program that lets authorities monitor and manipulate people’s phones.
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/28/iran-protests-phone-surveillance/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
What Brazil Teaches America: Actually delivering for working people matters. It also matters whether elites support democratic institutions. The two-point victory of progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over neofascist incumbent Jair Bolsonaro prompts comparisons with the containment of neofascism in the U.S. But let’s draw the right lessons.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/what-brazil-teaches-america-lula-da-silva/
# Gov / Politics / US
A County Elections Director Stood Up to Locals Who Believe the Voting System Is Rigged. They Pushed Back Harder. Even in a county where Trump won more than 70% of the 2020 vote, local election deniers have mounted a campaign to access voting machines and slash the elections director’s pay.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-election-denial-voting-surry
Churches Are Breaking the Law by Endorsing in Elections, Experts Say. The IRS Looks the Other Way: For nearly 70 years, federal law has barred churches from directly involving themselves in political campaigns, but the IRS has largely abdicated its enforcement responsibilities as churches have become more brazen about publicly backing candidates.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/30/johnson-amendment-elections-irs/
Greg Abbott’s Executive Power Play: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has consolidated power like none before him, at times circumventing the GOP-controlled Legislature and overriding local officials. A flurry of executive measures has solidified his base and raised his national profile.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbotts-executive-power-play
Republicans Have a Symbiotic Relationship With Crime: You can’t whip up a hysterical meltdown about crime without lots of crime happening.
https://prospect.org/politics/republicans-have-symbiotic-relationship-with-crime/
The Crime Wave That Republicans Defend: Corporate theft and fraud is not only tolerated by the GOP, it’s shielded. Yet Democrats rarely use this to attack Republican messaging on crime.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3688971-republicans-ride-crime-wave-worries-in-midterms-home-stretch/
Biden Lost His Temper With Zelensky During Aid Call: The Ukrainian president allegedly annoyed Biden by asking for more help after he’d just been told another billion dollars-worth of assistance was on the way. The phone call in June, one of many between the two leaders, turned testy when Zelensky began listing what else Kyiv needed and wasn’t getting shortly after Biden announced the aid package
https://nypost.com/2022/10/31/biden-lost-his-temper-with-zelensky-over-more-aid-report/
Covid Scam, NATO Wars, Green Extremism: The Tyrannical Trifecta From Hell: I have no confidence in politicians from either party having the courage to make the hard decisions that would help correct the direction of our ship of state from the path of destruction that it’s currently on.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/30/covid-scam-nato-wars-green-extremism-the-tyrannical-trifecta-from-hell/
Armed Vigilantes in Arizona Are Just the Tip of the Voter-Intimidation Iceberg: It’s not just happening in Arizona. GOP vigilantes are working to intimidate voters across the U.S.
https://truthout.org/articles/armed-vigilantes-in-arizona-are-just-the-tip-of-the-voter-intimidation-iceberg/
Hand count halted in Nevada county as court rips pro-Trump official: Voters in Nye County, near Las Vegas, could tip the balance in close state and federal contests.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/hand-count-halted-in-nevada/
Armed Vigilantes in Arizona Are Just the Tip of the Voter-Intimidation Iceberg: It’s not just happening in Arizona. GOP vigilantes are working to intimidate voters across the U.S.
https://truthout.org/articles/armed-vigilantes-in-arizona-are-just-the-tip-of-the-voter-intimidation-iceberg/
Florida officials quietly tweak probation system to make it easier to arrest people for ‘voter fraud’: Miami Herald reported that Florida officials have made a change to the criminal probation process that would make it easier to arrest and charge people for fraud when they sign up to vote while ineligible to do so.
https://www.rawstory.com/florida-voter-fraud-arrests/
# Law Enforcement
We’re Putting Kids in Maximum-Security Prisons… in America. Louisiana is relocating minors to Angola, the nation’s largest adult maximum-security prison. An infamous adult prison is no place for incarcerated kids. Get it together, Louisiana. Children are locked away from their families, facing shackles, pepper spray and solitary confinement. While these horrors persist nationwide, nowhere are they more apparent than in Louisiana.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2022/10/02/louisiana-criminal-justice-system-sending-teens-angola-prisons/8075127001/
Children in Adult Prison: Children threatened by abuse, neglect, violence, racial bias, and poverty are usually ignored—unless they do something violent.
https://eji.org/issues/children-in-prison/
# Legal / DOJ
Conservative Supreme Court justices are dragging the court deeper into a ‘crisis of legitimacy’: In a blunt-talking editorial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the editors took two of the most conservative members of the Supreme Court to task for doing little to halt the slide in the court’s credibility that has been in freefall after it became a 6-3 conservative majority.
https://www.rawstory.com/dconservative-supreme-court/
# LGBTQ
Fla. Medical Board Becomes First In US To Seek Ban On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/28/florida-gender-affirming-treatments-kids-ban-00064039
# Medical / Health
Podcast, racism in health: In the United States, COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Black, Hispanic and Native American people, compared with white people, and this disparity has appeared across the world. This episode of the Nature Podcast explores the complex tale behind this inequality, including a reading list of sources that illustrate the myriad issues.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03325-z
NYC Doc vanishes in alleged boat accident after fed charges: Marvin Moy accused in a $100 million healthcare fraud scheme.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/30/manhattan-md-charged-by-feds-vanishes-in-li-boat-accident/
A blood test that screens for multiple cancers at once promises to boost early detection: Multicancer early detection tests are among the priorities of the Biden administration’s Cancer Moonshot. The tests show promise, but questions remain about when and how to use them.
https://theconversation.com/a-blood-test-that-screens-for-multiple-cancers-at-once-promises-to-boost-early-detection-191728
# Military / DOD
U.S. to Send Nuke-Ready B-52s to Australia Amid China Unease: The Pentagon could deploy up to six of the heavy bombers to the region.
https://wacotrib.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/china-slams-reported-plan-for-us-b-52-bombers-in-australia/article_ad95f974-f7ee-568f-8ade-234e16e50efb.html
# Technology
How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World: The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable.
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-alphabet-ads-fund-disinformation-covid-elections
Musk Set to Axe 25% of Twitter Staff in First Round: The purge is said to affect a wide swathe of departments.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-set-to-axe-a-quarter-of-twitter-staff-in-first-round-of-layoffs-report-says
Twitter to Start Charging Per-Month for Verification: “The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk tweeted after the news was first reported. And if the employees building it don’t meet their deadline, they’ll be fired.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23431931/twitter-paid-verification-elon-musk-blue-monthly-subscription
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