Voices, The Peoples News
December 12, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous / Global
# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Meet the largest spider in the world: a tarantula the size of a puppy: It doesn’t cast a web, but the goliath frogeater has plenty of tricks up its eight sleeves.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/meet-the-biggest-spider-in-the-world-a-tarantula-the-size-of-a-puppy/
Bees can count, and they do so left to right, just like most of us: These crafty little fellows are not bad at math.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/biology/bees-can-count-and-they-do-so-left-to-right-just-like-most-of-us/
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Top Oncologist: Cancer in patients exploding after COVID shots: The well-established link between the Covid-19 mRNA shots and blood clots, myocarditis, heart attacks and strokes is reason enough to stop the vaccine, argues a London oncologist.
https://www.therighting.com/daily-news-stream/2022/11/29/top-oncologist-says-cancer-in-patients-exploding-after-covid-shots
COVID Trend That Spelled Big Trouble in 2020 Is Back: We could be looking at a new surge of COVID deaths with over-65s now more vulnerable to infection with waning immunity and a low uptake on booster jabs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-trend-spelled-big-trouble-095436788.html
NYC Health Officials Urge Residents To Mask Up Amid ‘Tridemic’: A ‘tridemic‘ of flu, RSV, and Covid-19 cases have led New York City health officials to ‘strongly’ recommend that people wear ‘a high-quality mask, such as a KN95 or KF94, or an N95 respirator’ indoors and in crowded outdoor settings.
https://headtopics.com/us/nyc-health-officials-urge-new-yorkers-to-wear-masks-amid-rise-in-tridemic-cases-32696008
# Education / Schools
Segregating Disabled Children From Their Peers Doesn’t Help Them, Advocates Say: Classrooms that include students with diverse physical and intellectual capacities improve learning outcomes for all. They said the case could have implications for children with disabilities everywhere. But nearly a year later, the state of Georgia has done nothing to change or abolish the GNETS system. Also, the DOJ has not sued, as threatened in its initial letter, although the state has retained outside counsel.
https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/2016/07/13/georgias-system-segregating-children-disabilities-resists-calls-reform
# Employment / Labor
How a federal agency’s funding crisis imperils workers’ rights: Workers need a robustly funded and staffed NLRB now more than ever as employers invent new ways to subvert union drives and deny workers a voice on the job.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/12/12/how-a-federal-agencys-funding-crisis-imperils-workers-rights/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Fusion energy, the ‘holy grail’ of clean power, a step closer to reality: Scientists hit a key milestone in the quest to create abundant zero-carbon power through nuclear fusion. But they still have a long way to go. Nuclear fusion has been seen as the unattainable holy grail of clean energy for decades, but just in the last year it’s been seeming more and more within reach
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/The-Holy-Grail-Of-Clean-Energy-Is-Closer-Than-Ever.html
Keystone Pipeline Dumps 14,000 Barrels of Oil Into Kansas Creek: The Keystone Pipeline dumped at least 14,000 barrels (588,000 gallons) of oil into a creek in Washington County, Kansas, forcing the shutdown of the pipeline. The full impact of the spill is still unknown, and cleanup efforts will likely be complicated by the fact that the spill impacted a waterway and because the sludgy tar sands transported by the pipeline is both extremely toxic and heavier than water, causing it to sink.
https://www.ecowatch.com/keystone-pipeline-dumps-14000-barrels-of-oil-into-kansas-creek.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
UK Approves First New Coal Mine in 30 Years: The UK has approved its first new coal mine in 30 years, against the counsel of the government’s own climate advisors. Michael Gove greenlights £165m project that will produce estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Pesticide industry ‘helped write’ disinformation playbook used by Big Oil and Big Tobacco: New analysis sheds light on key tactics Monsanto used to distort science and spin the narrative in defense of its herbicide product.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/09/pesticide-industry-science-denial-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer/
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Plant-based Meat Substitutes Lack Nutritional Quality of the Real Thing, Study Reveals: Meat alternatives like “impossible” burgers and other plant-based substitutes lack the nutritional value of the foods they’re replacing, according to researchers in Sweden. Their study found that meat substitutes contain proteins and nutrients which the human body can’t absorb
https://studyfinds.org/meat-substitutes-lack-nutrition/
# General Information / Other News
Donald Trump Is Out of Power, and Out of Luck: The ex-president is finally fair game for an entire legion of lawyers. In professional football slang, being a JAG means that a player is average, nothing special. A JAG lacks game-changing talent and unique status. A JAG is not a star. If a JAG makes too many demands, he’ll be kicked off the team and thrown out on the street. Trump is finally finding out that being a former president is not the same thing as being president.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/08/trump-legal-investigations/
10 years after the Sandy Hook shooting, Alex Jones is being held accountable for spreading conspiracy theories – but those sorts of lies now plague the US: Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the U.S. They have damaged public health amid a global pandemic, shaken faith in the democratic process and helped spark a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.
https://www.goskagit.com/opinion/conversation/10-years-after-the-sandy-hook-shooting-alex-jones-is-being-held-accountable-for-spreading/article_4257199f-7ea5-5d8a-9a67-21ab47131fcc.html
Leaked files: private spying firm targets global population with illegal spyware: A Washington DC-area Anomaly 6 firm is marketing illegal spy tech that can scrape an individual’s most sensitive personal data by tracking their smartphone. The British Ministry of Defence and GCHQ are potential buyers.
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/06/files-anomaly-6-firm-spyware/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Several U.S. Cities Have Increased Policing of Palestine Solidarity: Multiple U.S. cities have adopted a definition of antisemitism that silences Palestinians and expands surveillance.
https://truthout.org/articles/several-us-cities-have-increased-policing-of-palestine-solidarity/
# Gov / Politics / US
McCarthy Faces Debt-Limit Dilemma as House GOP Ratchets Up Demands Amid Speaker Bid: A group of seven hard-line conservative House Republicans who have withheld support from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) bid for Speaker laid out a list of demands for the House they expect from a Speaker.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3768571-seven-hardline-house-republicans-lay-out-speaker-demands-amid-mccarthy-opposition/
The secretive US Embassy-backed group cultivating the British left: The British-American Project (BAP), set up in the 1980s with US embassy funding amid CIA concern about ‘anti-American’ drift in the Labour Party, recently added senior Labour politicians to its secret membership rolls, Declassified can reveal.
https://declassifieduk.org/the-secretive-us-embassy-backed-group-cultivating-the-british-left/
Weaponising Antisemitism; How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Corbyn, and the recent victories of Palestine Action with Huda Ammori: The flag of Israel has been spotted in white nationalist displays of violence such as the insurgency of January 6, 2021. The Star of David was there. There were also white men wearing shirts that read “Camp Auschwitz,” “Arbeit macht frei,” and “6MWE” (a neo-Nazi slogan meaning “6 million wasn’t enough”). These are obvious expressions of antisemitism that reveal a strange and explosive interweaving with Zionism, or rather Israelism.
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/weaponizing-antisemitism/
Sanders Vows to Vote Against $858B Defense Bill, Calls for Medicare for All: “We have got to start protecting the needs of working families,” Sen. Bernie Sanders emphasized
https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-vows-to-vote-against-858b-defense-bill-calls-for-medicare-for-all/
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Jan. 6 Attack Would Have Been “Won” Had She Led It: The White House condemned Greene’s comment for going “against our fundamental values as a country.”
https://truthout.org/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-jan-6-attack-would-have-been-won-had-she-led-it/
# Legal / DOJ
2 Ga. Men Exonerated by Podcast After 25 Years in Prison: Darrell Clark and Cain Storey were teenagers when they were convicted of their friend’s murder, despite circumstances indicating the victim had accidentally shot himself.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/10/us/georgia-men-exonerated-wrongful-imprisonment/index.html
# LGBTQ
After Club Q, we must build a movement for Queer and Trans Liberation: The Club Q shooting is part of a wave of fascist violence. Now’s time for a mass movement for LGBTQ liberation. After Club Q, how do we stop the system from taking more trans lives? Queer activist and movement lawyer Z Williams discusses what needs to be done to achieve liberation.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/12/club-q-how-do-we-stop-system-from-taking-more-trans-lives/
This ‘Sneaky’ DeSantis Power Grab Might Be His Cruelest Yet: Republicans are going after trans people across America. But the potential 2024 contender from Florida is targeting people more efficiently than anyone else.
Along the way, DeSantis has been employing a power grab some fear will be adopted by other Republican governors, with disastrous results.
https://upstract.com/x/2fc60332d73a3d10
# Medical / Health
Strep A is surging: An unseasonal rise in group A Streptococcus (strep A) infections has killed 13 children in England and made many more ill. Strep A infections usually cause just a mild sore throat, but occasionally they can lead to scarlet fever and, rarely, to even more serious conditions, such as meningitis. Some researchers theorize that the off-season outbreaks are a result of past surges that spawned new strep strains, which happened before the pandemic.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04403-y
# Military / Global
Christians Persecuted by NeoNazi Kiev Regime: Another Ukraine Security Service SBU’s Raids in Orthodox Churches: Ukraine’s domestic security agency, the SBU, conducted a new series of raids on Orthodox Christian churches in northeastern Kharkov Region on Saturday (10 December 2022). The operation, which targeted 14 religious institutions, comes amid Kiev’s crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the largest denomination in the country, over its alleged links to Russia.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/12/christians-persecuted-by-neonazi-kiev-regime-another-ukraine-security-service-sbus-raid-in-orthodox-churches/
# Nuclear
How a Nuclear site was allowed to poison its own workers: Over the years, hundreds of Hanford contractors have breathed in foul invisible fumes. For years, workers at Hanford, which turned out unfathomable amounts of plutonium for the US’s atomic weaponry, and is now home to the most expensive environmental clean-up ever, received mixed messages about whether or not they should wear respirators while working in areas that could potentially expose them to noxious, even radioactive fumes.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/09/how-a-nuclear-site-was-allowed-to-poison-its-own-workers/
# Security
Leaked List Shows Over 300 Oath Keepers Have Worked for Homeland Security: The Department of Homeland Security is theoretically tasked with protecting the public against threats like the far right militia group. 309 listed members of the extremist group reported having worked for various DHS agencies, including the Secret Service and Border Patrol
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/oath-keepers-worked-department-homeland-security-1234646005/
# Water
Indignation as Michigan judge drops Flint water charges against GOP ex-Gov Snyder: “The people of Flint deserve justice, and it’s unacceptable that the people responsible for Flint’s water crisis aren’t being held accountable,” said Food & Water Watch in response to the development.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/indignation-michigan-judge-drops-flint-water-charges-against-gop-ex-gov-snyder
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