Voices, The Peoples News
November 10, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
The Story of Baby O: Rebecca Nagle on the Supreme Court Case That Could Gut Native Sovereignty: Baby O’s case is at the center of a lawsuit to bring down the Indian Child Welfare Act. But far from proving ICWA should be overturned, it shows why the law is necessary. Octavia’s paternal grandmother was a citizen of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, a federally recognized tribe in El Paso, Tex. This meant Octavia was eligible for citizenship in the tribe and that her case would likely fall under a 1978 federal law known as the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which was created to prevent family separation in Native communities. Among other things, the law gave Octavia’s tribe the right to intervene in her case and required social workers to prioritize placing Octavia with extended family or another member of her tribe.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/icwa-supreme-court-libretti-custody-case/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Point: Social Security’s Future Is a Question of Values, Not Affordability: As a result of its inadequately low benefits, together with the disappearance of private-sector pensions, the nation is facing a retirement income crisis. Cutting Social Security’s already low benefits would exacerbate that crisis.
https://dcjournal.com/point-social-securitys-future-is-a-question-of-values-not-affordability/
Counterpoint: No to Eliminating (or Raising) the Social Security Tax: While there is some redistribution from higher-wage to lower-wage workers so that proportionately lower-wage workers get more from their taxes paid, Social Security is decidedly not a welfare program in design and in its official description
https://insidesources.com/counterpoint-strengthen-social-security-as-key-protection-against-rising-economic-risks/
# Education / Schools
Several Republican State Board of Education candidates who ran in opposition of so-called critical race theory in public schools won their races Tuesday night, giving Republicans one more seat on the board.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/08/texas-state-board-education-election-results/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
US mega-banks behind 1/3 of climate-destroying oil and gas expansion: “Global banks’ top fossil fuel clients amount to a rogues’ gallery of bad actors.” Wall Street’s Dirtiest Secret: How Fossil Fuel Expansion Depends on Big Bank Finance, states. “To meet this goal, the vast majority of oil, gas, and coal must stay in the ground,” the publication continues. “We must phase out production of some oil and gas reserves before they are fully exploited. We must stop building new infrastructure that relies on fossil fuels.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/09/us-mega-banks-behind-13-climate-destroying-oil-and-gas-expansion-report
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Bighorn-lovers butt heads with Vail Resorts’ affordable housing: Bighorn-lovers butt heads with Vail Resorts’ affordable housing: The ski industry giant wants to build workforce housing in wild sheep habitat. The latest Living Planet Index shows that over the last couple of decades the number of North American vertebrate species and their populations are in decline.
https://www.adventure-journal.com/2022/10/colorado-town-seizing-ski-resorts-land-to-stop-it-building-employee-housing/
Uncertainty for Alaskan salmon as mining companies dig in: Active mines, proposed mines, and exploratory projects in Alaska and British Columbia could affect key salmon watersheds.
https://undark.org/2022/11/09/mining-is-booming-will-alaskan-salmon-survive/
# Environment / Climate / Global
The world’s much-maligned climate treaty, known as COP27, has produced some stunning results. The treaty, which is voluntary and nonbinding, has never been particularly revered: Many climate activists believe it doesn’t go far enough—its text doesn’t even mention fossil fuels, which cause climate change, by name—while climate-change-doubting politicians have demonized it. Yet its apparent mediocrity has hidden an important story that has played out slowly over the past few years. The Paris Agreement process seems to be working … at least for now.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/11/paris-agreement-cop27-climate-change-international-collaboration/672052/
A new report from the World Wildlife Fund, called the Living Amazon Report, warns that threats to the Amazon have gotten worse in recent years, and could result in the disappearance of the biome if more drastic action isn’t taken. Around 18% of Amazon forests are lost and another 17% are highly degraded, if more drastic action isn’t taken, the biome could transition from forest to savanna and push global warming above the safe threshold of 1.5°C.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/deforestation-is-pushing-amazon-to-point-of-no-return-wwf-report/
COP27: Sharp rise in fossil fuel industry delegates at climate summit: Data shared exclusively with the BBC show large numbers of oil and gas lobbyists attending COP27. Oil and gas industries have 636 representatives at Egypt conference – a rise of more than 25% on previous year
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/10/big-rise-in-number-of-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-at-cop27-climate-summit
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
31 Kids Found Working Graveyard Shifts on Meat Plant ‘Kill Floors,’ Feds Say: In a complaint filed Wednesday that reads straight out the Great Depression, the feds requested a temporary injunction on a massive sanitation company that’s accused of employing children as young as 13 in “dangerous” overnight shifts at food processing plants. At least two of the child workers suffered caustic chemical burns and other injuries while working on the “kill floor”—where cattle are butchered—at a plant operated by JBS Foods in Grand Island, Nebraska, the complaint said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/31-kids-found-working-graveyard-shifts-on-meat-plant-kill-floors-feds-say/ar-AA13YDlS?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a0da12b05a34470593ae0d9a72dd0df9
# General Recalls / Alerts
Unilever Issues Voluntary U.S. Recall of Select Dry Shampoos Due to Potential Presence of Benzene: Unilever United States today issued a voluntary product recall to the consumer level of select lot codes of dry shampoo aerosol products produced prior to October 2021 from Dove, Nexxus, Suave, TIGI (Rockaholic and Bed Head), and TRESemmé due to potentially elevated levels of benzene. Benzene is classified as a human carcinogen.
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/unilever-issues-voluntary-us-recall-select-dry-shampoos-due-potential-presence-benzene
# General Information / Other News
How Donald Trump Sabotaged the Republican Midterms: After three straight national tallies in which either he or his party or both were hammered by the national electorate, it’s time for even his stans to accept the truth: Toxic Trump is the political equivalent of a can of Raid. Liberal fundraisers actually put money behind Trump-endorsed candidates in GOP primaries all over the place to help them prevail so that Democrats could face them in the general election. It was transparently cynical and an abuse of our political process. But it worked like gangbusters.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/heres-how-donald-trump-sabotaged-the-republican-midterms/amp/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Hit With Humiliating Retreat & Mystery Death of Crony: The Russian defense minister ordered the withdrawal from Kherson despite mounting outrage from hardliners–though the sudden death of a leader provided a convenient distraction.
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-hit-humiliating-retreat-mystery-154034220.html
Chinese President warns of war ahead of the G20 summit: President Xi cited an unstable and uncertain security situation as he ordered the Chinese military to make immediate preparation.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/chinese-president-warns-of-war-ahead-of-the-g20-summit/ar-AA13WhrW?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=a0da12b05a34470593ae0d9a72dd0df9
Zelensky: If Russia blows up Kakhovka dam, it will be war declaration to whole world. Any attempt by Russian forces to blow up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, flooding Ukrainian territory and dewatering the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant would mean that Russia is “declaring war on the whole world,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/zelensky-if-russia-blows-up-kakhovka-dam-it-will-be-war-declaration-to-whole-world
# Gov / Politics / US
Republican dominance continues for the two highest courts in Texas: Three seats were up for election in the Texas Supreme Court, which handles civil cases, and three in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Democrats haven’t been elected to either court since the late 1990s.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/09/texas-supreme-court-criminal-election/
Pennsylvania’s first Black woman in Congress, a new wave of trans legislators, and other historic firsts from the midterms. New records that will make you go, “Huh, what took so long?”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/historic-firsts-2022-midterms-elections
Corporations have given $40 million to the Sedition Caucus: Corporate funding of sedition keeps growing
Since the January 6th insurrection, more than two thirds of the corporations who announced they would no longer support members of Congress who refused to certify Trump’s loss have abandoned their commitment. And many others have continued to fund sedition without batting an eye.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/corporations-have-given-40-million-to-the-sedition-caucus/
After election wins, the number of vets in Congress is going up: The number of veterans elected to Congress will increase next session, only the third time that has happened in the past five decades. 79 veterans had won House or Senate races in the congressional midterm elections. Another 12 veterans currently serving in the Senate were not up for reelection this year. One undecided race, the New York 22nd congressional district, features two veterans running against each other.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/election-2022/2022/11/09/after-election-wins-the-number-of-vets-in-congress-is-going-up/
Control of U.S. Senate Hangs on Three Undetermined Races:
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/11/10/headlines/control_of_us_senate_hangs_on_three_undetermined_races
Spend big, win big: 96% of U.S. House races won by the biggest spender: As it has for the past two decades, money performed well this election cycle, helping candidates from both sides of the aisle win. Across the board, 88 percent of congressional races were won by the candidate who spent the most.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/11/top-spenders-won-88-percent-of-2020-races/
‘Dark money’ groups aligned with party leadership steer hundreds of millions of dollars into 2022 federal elections:
Party-aligned “dark money” groups have funneled more than $295 million from secret donors into 2022 federal elections.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/11/dark-money-groups-aligned-with-party-leadership-steer-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-2022-federal-elections/
The US is quietly extracting concessions from Saudi Arabia after Mohammed bin Salman humiliated Biden
* Saudi Arabia has made moves to placate the US after a recent feud over oil.
* The kingdom has increased its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia.
* But tensions between the US and Saudi Arabia are unlikely to ease, one analyst said.
Diplomatic ties between the Biden White House and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are being tested like never before in a series of high-stakes diplomatic encounters.
https://news.yahoo.com/us-quietly-extracting-concessions-saudi-101619894.html
# Law Enforcement
Deputy Charged With Shooting Suicidal Man Already on Ground: LASD Dep. Remin Pineda faces two felony counts over the on-duty shooting death of 34-year-old David Ordaz Jr. last year. The case prompted national headlines, as well as a federal civil rights lawsuit by the Ordaz family, which accused Pineda and three other deputies of using “unnecessary and lethal force to unjustifiably kill” the father of three on March 14, 2021.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/los-angeles-deputy-charged-shooting-201323062.html
Some U.S. cities want to change how police respond to 911 calls: Sparked by the murder of George Floyd in June 2020 by Minneapolis Police officers, some cities are working to find ways to have less civilian interaction with their police departments. David Muhammad, executive director of The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, has been at the forefront of this reassessment and to review their emergency calls. He estimates that between 40% to 60% of 911 calls don’t require a police response. “We don’t need an armed officer to respond to a noise complaint call,” Muhammad told The Center Square.
Muhammad said that, generally, police agree with that.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/some-u-s-cities-want-to-change-how-police-respond-to-911-calls/article_eb6ddaf8-5f43-11ed-aff5-47884526d0f6.html
# Legal / DOJ
The Case Proving ‘Stand Your Ground’ Is for White Men Only: The new Netflix documentary “State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith” uses one tragic case to reveal the misogynistic and racist double standards of the legal system.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brittany-smith-case-proves-stand-155951259.html
# LGBTQ
A Trans Influencer Was Arrested in Miami. They Put Her in a Men’s Unit, “The situation with Nikita, who is legally female, being placed in a men’s unit of a Florida jail is extremely disturbing and dangerous,” Dragun’s rep said. “This decision made by the Miami-Dade County corrections department directly violates their protocol, which mandates that transgender inmates are classified and housed based on safety needs and gender identity. Nikita has been released and is now safe.”
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/10/1135666239/transgender-beauty-influencer-nikita-dragun-held-miami-mens-jail
# Media
New York Post Plunges the Knife Into Trump After Midterms: The paper backed him in 2020. Now it considers him “the most profound vote repellant in modern American history.”
https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/heres-how-donald-trump-sabotaged-the-republican-midterms/
# Medical / Health
Planned Parenthood revenue trending up as taxpayer funding increases: Planned Parenthood’s revenues increased 16% nationwide over the past four years as private contributions and government reimbursements and grants have risen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/planned-parenthood-revenue-trending-up-as-taxpayer-funding-increases/article_6aa5abec-5e55-11ed-831b-171d6daa8885.html
# Military / DOD
American veterans race to train Ukrainian soldiers as war with Russia sweeps more troops into battle: The Mozart Group, a U.S. veteran-led private security company, has provided a crash-course training program for Ukrainian troops. Its staff has grown to nearly 30 highly experienced trainers made up of mostly former American service members.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-ukraine-war-american-veterans-volunteers-training-11660743714
Troops from Fort Carson, Fort Hood and Hunter AAF tapped for deployments to Europe: The deployments will keep American troops levels at about 100,000, up about 20,000 American service members since Russian began amassing forces along Ukraine’s borders.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-11-09/army-deployments-europe-russia-ukraine-7993573.html
# Military / Global
Mad Dash to Flee Town Swarming With Putin’s Drunken Troops: Efforts are underway to evacuate citizens who are being terrorized by angry Russian soldiers in Southern Ukraine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukrainians-make-mad-dash-to-flee-dudchany-village-swarming-with-putins-drunken-troops
# Social
12 Things You Should Know Before Calling The 988 Suicide Hotline: Now that 988 is here, it’s easier for people in crisis to get support. So far, it seems to successfully be reaching more people. When you call 988, you’ll hear an automated greeting that lists different options, including a connection to the Veterans Crisis Line (press 1), Spanish-language services (press 2), or a service for LGBTQ people under 25 (press 3). If you press one of those three numbers, you will be transferred to a specific crisis line that caters to that group of people; all other calls will be routed to the nearest crisis center based on your area code.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/denisemann/what-to-know-before-calling-988
# Technology
Elon Musk Bans Remote Work in First Email to Twitter Staff: The new CEO said there would be no exceptions unless he personally approved them.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-bans-remote-work-twitter-1849766493
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