Voices, The Peoples News
November 1, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Putting Native America Back On The Map To Re-Discover Ourselves: Mapping a New Geography of Hope With Native America shows that our Foundational Stories shape our minds and our relationship to the Earth. The map is available online and via the Native Land app (for both iOS and Android). Just type in your address, and you’ll be able to see what indigenous group(s) once lived there or nearby. It’s even possible members of that community still live in that area, though of course many native people were displaced, thanks to, uh, centuries of shitty federal policy.
https://mashable.com/article/indigenous-map-america
# Border / Immigration
Greg Abbott Is Still Prosecuting Migrants Under a Bogus Disaster Declaration: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ‘Operation Lone Star’ sets a dangerous precedent for authoritarian attacks on migrants.
https://truthout.org/articles/greg-abbott-is-still-prosecuting-migrants-under-a-bogus-disaster-declaration/
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Vaccine Passports Are Here to Stay. Why Worry? The digital Covid vaccination certification, or “passport,” is a mobile app that instantaneously affirms the vaccinated status, Covid test results, birth date, gender, and/or other identifiers of its holder. “Spoiler alert,” tweeted British DJ, Lange. “They are not planning on removing vax passports once introduced. This is just the first step to get you conditioned to accepting government restrictions in your daily life via your mobile phone. This digital ID is going to expand to all aspects of your life.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/01/01/covid-vaccine-passports-surveillance/
Pfizer COVID vaccine price hike to boost revenue for years, rivals may follow: Pfizer’s plan to as much as quadruple U.S. prices for its COVID-19 vaccine next year is beyond Wall Street’s expectations and will spur its revenue for years despite weaker than anticipated demand for the new booster shot so far, analysts said. The price range announced by Pfizer represented a more than 10,000% markup over what experts have estimated it costs the vaccine makers to produce the shots.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-covid-vaccine-price-hike-seen-giving-revenue-boost-years-2022-10-21/
Exclusive: 14-Year-Old Leads ‘Miserable Life’ After Being Injured by Vaccines as an Infant: Laura Chicos, now 14, leads “a miserable life,” according to her mother, with allergic reactions to “almost everything,” including but not limited to food, dust and environmental contaminants.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/laura-chicos-allergic-reactions-vaccines-injuries/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Why inflation will likely stay sky-high regardless of which party wins the midterms: Many voters say inflation is the issue that matters to them most as they head to the polls. The problem is, the people they choose can’t do much about it.
https://theconversation.com/why-inflation-will-likely-stay-sky-high-regardless-of-which-party-wins-the-midterms-193416
# Education / Schools
Safety concerns prompts Election Day school closings: Safety concerns have prompted Election Day school closings for Austin Independent School District as schools navigate their roles as polling sites in the wake of threats to poll workers and possible security challenges.
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2022/10/31/safety-school-election-day-closings
US Schools Have Two Years to Use or Lose Once-in-a-Lifetime Relief Funds: Without adequate planning now, states and districts may be left scrambling to allocate funding efficiently and effectively.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3712504-us-schools-have-two-years-to-use-or-lose-once-in-a-lifetime-relief-funds/
Supremes Give Icy Reception to Affirmative Action in College: The Supreme Court heard two cases on Monday about the consideration of race in college admissions. The consequences could be massive.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-indicated-it-might-head-toward-ending-affirmative-action-in-harvard-unc-cases
# Employment / Labor
US Unemployment System ‘Wholly Unprepared’ as Fed Risks Throwing Millions Out of Work: “If another wave of job losses does indeed hit, the unemployment safety net isn’t ready to cushion the blow without significant improvements,” warns the co-author of a new study. “If another wave of job losses does indeed hit, the unemployment safety net isn’t ready to cushion the blow without significant improvements,” warns the co-author of a new study.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/01/us-unemployment-system-wholly-unprepared-fed-risks-throwing-millions-out-work
Lawmakers to Powell: ‘How Many Millions Will Be Thrown Out of Their Jobs’ Due to Fed Policy?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/01/lawmakers-powell-how-many-millions-will-be-thrown-out-their-jobs-due-fed-policy
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
In Nevada, a tribe and a toad halt a geothermal plant: The rugged, remote corner of Nevada’s Great Basin region found itself at the epicenter of a confrontation between some of President Biden’s, and the nation’s, most pressing priorities: renewable energy, wildlife conservation and Indigenous rights.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/31/nevada-toad-geothermal-paiute/
Biden Threatens Big Oil With Windfall Profits Tax: President Joe Biden on Monday stepped up his pressure on major oil companies, accusing them of racking up record earnings by profiteering off the war in Ukraine.
https://www.thestreet.com/markets/president-biden-threatens-big-oil-windfall-tax-as-profits-surge
President Biden threatens oil companies with higher taxes if they don’t use recent windfall profits to increase production and lower prices. “They have a responsibility to act in the interest of their consumers, their community and their country, to invest in America by increasing production and refining capacity,” Biden said
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3713013-biden-threatens-oil-companies-with-higher-tax-if-they-dont-increase-production/?utm_medium=email
# General Information / Other News
Watch 9/11: Press For Truth, one of the most well-documented and revealing documentaries on 9/11 that traces the passionate journey of a small group of grieving families who waged a tenacious battle against those who sought to bury the truth of the events surrounding that fateful day. Both a 15-minute summary of key excerpts and the full 84-minute 9/11 video documentary can be viewed for free
https://www.wanttoknow.info/911video
UN General Assembly says Israel must get rid of its nuclear arsenal: Five countries; Canada, Israel, Micronesia, Palau and the United States – opposed the resolution. Israel never admitted to possess nuclear weapons, but nevertheless, the UNGA resolution was aimed at Israel, not Iran.
https://apa.az/en/america/un-general-assembly-says-israel-must-get-rid-of-its-nuclear-arsenal-388359
# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Lackey Urges Russians to Choose Death Over War Defeat: An unsettling speech given by Vladimir Putin has prompted the Kremlin’s most prominent mouthpieces to promote martyrdom on Russian airwaves.
https://news.yahoo.com/top-putin-lackey-urges-russians-091047778.html
Fed up with invasion of Ukraine, a billionaire gives up his citizenship: Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov renounced his citizenship to protest the war in Ukraine, becoming one of the first Russian business tycoons to publicly criticize the Kremlin’s actions.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/11/billionaire-yuri-milner-renounces-russian-citizenship
Go deeper: What about Yuri? https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-e3bd2d0e-8c7d-4f3e-8a18-978a9c6176cd.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0
# Gov / Politics / US
Why the Fate of Medicare and Social Security Is a Midterm Issue: “They [Republicans] would put us in default unless we yield to their demands to cut Social Security and Medicare. They’re so determined to cut Social Security and Medicare, they’re willing to take down the economy over it,” Biden told supporters in Syracuse, N.Y., on Thursday.
https://thehill.com/reliable-voters/3709839-why-the-fate-of-medicare-and-social-security-is-a-midterm-issue/
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. Bracketed by Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra, President Biden took aim at “junk fees.” They are “surprise charges that companies sneak into bills because they can,” Biden said. “They benefit big corporations, not consumers, not working families.”
https://prospect.org/power/corporate-crime-wave-that-republicans-defend/
The US, not China, is the aggressor: Christopher Black, a respected international lawyer, tells Finian Cunningham why the United States is actually the aggressor over Taiwan, not China.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57321.htm
New Senate Report Spotlights ‘Barbaric Consequences’ of GOP Abortion Bans: “Republicans’ crusade against women’s reproductive freedoms has created national chaos that is a mortal threat to women’s health.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/01/new-senate-report-spotlights-barbaric-consequences-gop-abortion-bans?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter
# Law Enforcement
‘Slavery by any name is wrong’; the push to end forced labor in prisons: about 800,000 prisoners out of the 1.2 million in state and federal prisons are forced to work, generating a conservative estimate of $11bn annually in goods and services while average wages range from 13 cents to 52 cents per hour. Five states, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, force prisoners to work without pay
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loophole-unpaid-labor-in-prisons
One Dead, 20 Wounded in Halloween Shootings, Police Say: A single drive-by shooting in Chicago left 14 hurt, including two children and a teenager.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/separate-mass-shootings-in-chicago-kansas-injures-20-people-halloween-night/
Off-Duty Pentagon Cop Caught Dealing Cocaine, Police Say: Eric Welch, an officer with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, has allegedly been engaged in a decidedly sketchy side hustle.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pentagon-police-officer-arrested-cocaine
The Fashionable Police Strategy That Is Just Mass Incarceration By Another Name
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/focused-deterrence-police-strategy-just-like-mass-incarceration.html
‘Alarm bells’ ring in red states where election deniers are set to lead election offices: Wyoming’s secretary of state came out forcefully against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s effort to spread lies about the 2020 election. Then-Secretary of State Ed Buchanan (R) said Lindell was “Not the purveyor of election integrity truth” but rather a “peddler of pillows and promises.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/alarm-bells-ring-red-states-094505646.html
# Legal / DOJ
How a 2013 US Supreme Court ruling enabled states to enact election laws without federal approval: In the Shelby v. Holder decision, a key section of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act was eliminated, thus enabling states with histories of racial discrimination to enact new voting laws.
https://theconversation.com/how-a-2013-us-supreme-court-ruling-enabled-states-to-enact-election-laws-without-federal-approval-193064
Bite mark forensic analysis is junk science, but U.S. courts are still convicting innocent people over it: At least two dozen people have been wrongfully convicted for crimes they never committed because of bogus bite mark analysis.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/bite-mark-forensic-analysis-is-junk-science-but-u-s-courts-are-still-convicting-innocent-people-over-it/
# Medical / Health
I’m A Doctor. Here’s Why We Need Universal Healthcare: From each vantage point, as a patient, a provider, and a small business owner, I see everyday how for-profit corporations fail to provide adequate access and coverage for vital health care services. Corporations are about profits. We need a national single payer health insurance program. It is time to join the growing wave of support for passage of the Medicare for All Act of 2021.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/01/im-doctor-heres-why-we-need-universal-healthcare
Five popular tampon brands — including two advertised as organic — have detectable levels of fluorine, an indicator of the group of chemicals known as PFAS, according to a new report from Mamavation.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/tampons-toxic-pfas-forever-chemicals-ehn/
# Military / DOD
Crossing the Border into Ukraine: The U.S. “Screaming Eagles” have been deployed three miles from Ukraine and are ready to fight the Russians. World War III beckons. God help us.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57316.htm
# Military / Global
Putin Parades New Missile Nightmare in Latest Threat to West: A new intelligence report reveals that Vladimir Putin has now deployed nuclear-capable missiles to Russia’s neighbor, Belarus.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/putin-parades-missile-nightmare-latest-182410020.html
# Science
The CIA Just Invested in Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology: The embrace of this technology will allow U.S. agencies to read, write, and edit genetic material. The embrace of this technology, according to In-Q-Tel’s blog post, will help allow U.S. government agencies to read, write, and edit genetic material, and, importantly, to steer global biological phenomena that impact “nation-to-nation competition.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/28/cia-extinction-woolly-mammoth-dna/
# Security
DHS began meeting monthly with Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, and others to coordinate ‘content moderation’ efforts starting in 2020 | 31 Oct 2022 | The Department of Homeland Security has been working to influence big tech platforms. This became originally evident when the Biden administration launched the ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board early in 2022, but has been a focus of their efforts even beyond that now-defunct unit, and before.
https://thepostmillennial.com/dhs-leaks-starting-in-2020-dhs-began-meeting-with-twitter-facebook-wikipedia-and-more-monthly-to-coordinate-content-moderation-efforts
# Technology
Elon Musk fires Twitter’s top brass after closing $44 billion deal – reports
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-fires-twitters-top-brass-closing-44-billion-deal-reports
Entire Twitter Data Engineer Team Let Go – Reports
https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Twitter-s-Entire-Data-Engineer-Team-Let-Go-CNBC–42126215/
Michael Rectenwald’s Appeal to Twitter After the Musk Takeover
https://www.legitgov.org/michael-rectenwalds-appeal-twitter-after-musk-takeover-0
Elon Musk’s Twitter Gambit and What It Means to the ‘Clique in Power’
https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/essays/elon-musks-twitter-gambit-and-what-it-means-to-the-clique-in-power
# Technology / Global
US sending satellite antennas to Ukraine after Musk’s Starlink U-turn: The U.S. said it will send Ukraine satellite communications antennas that can work without Elon Musk’s Starlink network to assist the battered country in its fight against Russia. The four antennas, to be taken from the Department of Defense’s own shelves, were included in a $275 million aid package announced Oct. 28. It’s the Biden administration’s twenty-fourth drawdown of equipment for Ukraine since August 2021.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/c2-comms/2022/10/31/us-sending-satellite-antennas-to-ukraine-after-musks-starlink-u-turn/
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