Voices, The Peoples News
December 14, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
The federal government has a long history of stealing land from tribes. Co-management is a step in the right direction,
we’re witnessing a monumental shift in federal land management. This national monument, unlike many others, sits entirely within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation on reservation trust land. In 2018, this park embraced a new structure: being managed cooperatively between the tribe, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs, a rarity in park management. This type of partnership is a model for U.S. agencies that are beginning to embrace tribal co-management of public lands.
https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/news-analysis/government-tribes-co-management/
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
In El Paso, migrants are sleeping on the streets after thousands crossed the border last weekend
A Nicaraguan fisherman planned to spend the night in a parking garage with other migrants, then a good Samaritan offered him a place to sleep. The city is struggling to handle a sudden influx of migrants that has overwhelmed local resources.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/13/hundreds-of-migrants-forced-to-sleep-on-streets-of-el-paso/
# Chemicals
Why the U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals: From a powerful chemical industry that helped write the toxic substances law to an underfunded EPA lacking in resolve, the flaws in the American chemical regulatory apparatus run deep.
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxic-chemicals-epa-regulation-failures
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Injury Compensation Implications of Adding Covid-19 Vaccines to CDC Vaccination Schedule: The addition of COVID-19 vaccines to the CDC’s recommended childhood vaccination schedule may signal the beginning of a federal effort to include these vaccines in the federal vaccine injury compensation program’s (VICP) vaccine injury table (VIT).
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/20/cdc-advisers-recommend-adding-covid-shots-to-routine-schedules-for-kids-adults-00062739
DeSantis’ Death Squad Is Pushing Vaccine BS to Win Over GOP: The Florida governor is so determined to take Donald Trump’s place that he is selling COVID misinformation and putting his own supporters at risk.
https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-latest-anti-covid-vaccine-action-draws-contrasts-with-trump-2022-12
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Walmart Will Charge You for Bags at Over 200 Stores, as of Jan. 1. Customers who don’t bring their own reusable bags will have to pay 10 cents per paper or plastic bag at the register
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/walmart-charge-bags-over-200-191200649.html
Hedge Fund Manager Ken Griffin Sues IRS Over “Unlawful Disclosure” of His Tax Information to ProPublica: The Citadel founder was among dozens of ultrawealthy Americans spotlighted in our Secret IRS Files series, which used a trove of agency data to reveal how billionaires avoid paying taxes and use their money to influence tax policy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/12/13/billionaire-ken-griffin-sues-irs-over-leak-exposing-taxes-paid-by-25-richest-americans/?sh=597556394565
America’s Highest Earners and Their Taxes Revealed: Secret IRS files reveal the top US income earners and how their tax rates vary more than their incomes. Tech titans, hedge fund managers and heirs dominate the list, while the likes of Taylor Swift and LeBron James didn’t even make the top 400.
https://projects.propublica.org/americas-highest-incomes-and-taxes-revealed/
The Fed Keeps Throttling the Economy: Powell’s astonishingly ignorant response to easing inflation pressures
The Federal Reserve Board’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee, as expected, raised short-term interest rates another half-point.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/federal-reserve-recession-inflation-financial-crisis-tooze.html
# Education / Schools
Washington State Proposes Reforms for Special Education Schools: Education officials investigation showed state failed to address complaints about abuse, lack of academics.
https://www.propublica.org/article/therapeutic-schools-northwest-soil-washington-reforms
An 11-year-old graduated from university with a bachelor’s in physics. He wants to make humans immortal. He even had time to drop out of one university and enroll in another.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/an-11-year-old-graduated-with-a-bachelors-in-physics-he-wants-to-make-humans-immortal/
# Employment / Labor
Union Leader: Stellantis Will Send Electric-Vehicle Jobs to Mexico: 1,350 union workers are losing their jobs at an Illinois plant, an early signal about the staying power of green manufacturing jobs in the United States.
https://prospect.org/labor/stellantis-will-send-electric-vehicle-jobs-to-mexico/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s incentive structure keeps residents hooked on fossil fuels: The federally owned utility company could be leading the clean energy transition. Instead, it’s poisoning the countryside.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169464/tennessee-valley-authority-jeff-lyash
A recent, almost two-week-long gas leak in Pennsylvania created enough methane emissions to cancel out the emissions reductions associated with about half the electric vehicles sold in the U.S. last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/28/nord-stream-methane-gas-leaks-may-be-biggest-ever-with-warning-large-climate-risk
Republican officials in West Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Florida and other states have withdrawn billions of dollars from global asset manager BlackRock because of its support for reaching net-zero emissions.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2022/12/10/23496712/esg-gop-climate-corporate-responsibility
House Committee report shows how Big Oil has been gaslighting us all along: The fossil fuel industry has done everything it can to gaslight the public into believing that we are all equally responsible for causing the climate crisis and that the industry was working hard to solve it.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/12/house-committee-report-shows-how-big-oil-has-been-gaslighting-us-all-along/
Internal Documents Reveal Big Oil’s Plan for Profiting Amid Climate Pressures: The largest oil and gas companies are leveraging the climate crisis to further entrench their domination of energy markets.
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-committee-releases-new-documents-showing-big-oil-s-greenwashing
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
As salt coats snowy roadways in winter, freshwater ecosystems pay a heavy price: Keeping paved surfaces clear of snow and ice comes at an accumulating cost to lakes, streams, and drinking water supplies.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2022/as-salt-coats-snowy-roadways-winter-freshwater
Florida ag commissioner wants to ban land sales to foreign entitities: Florida’s new Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson wants to restrict the sale of The Sunshine State’s farmland to foreign countries after increasing concerns about what foreign buyers, namely Chinese companies closely affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are doing with the agricultural land once they purchase it.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/florida/florida-ag-commissioner-wants-to-ban-land-sales-to-foreign-entitities/article_c649fce8-7b09-11ed-8be2-4b1091fa8b6a.html
# Environment / Climate / Global
The Arctic is becoming wetter and stormier, scientists warn: In their annual assessment of the region and its climate, researchers highlighted new signs of a huge transformation underway. The NOAA report determined the past year has been the region’s sixth-warmest year on record, and the Greenland ice sheet lost ice for the 25th consecutive year.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3773938-climate-change-driving-warmer-wetter-stormier-arctic-conditions-noaa/
# Gov / Politics / Global
China’s War Against Taiwan Has Already Started: How Beijing tries to make a democracy submit without putting up a fight
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/taiwan-china-disinformation-propaganda-russian-influence/672453/
# Gov / Politics / US
At a donor conference in Paris, countries and international groups pledged over $1 billion in aid to Ukraine, AP reports. Additionally, the US is considering sending a small number of troops to Ukraine, according to senior US officials.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-government-france-b25c89ae62e715531a7470fdc8e489d2
US poised to approve Patriot missile battery for Ukraine: U.S. officials say the Biden administration is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-government-and-politics-ba8468e34e3c7eb78bdc47393c417ecb
Rev. Barber Tells Senate Dems to Bring Voting Rights, Minimum Wage, Abortion Bills to Floor: “You can’t say the rules keep you from doing something when you have the power to change the rules,” says Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/13/rev-barber-tells-senate-dems-bring-voting-rights-minimum-wage-abortion-bills-floor
Conservative Activist Poured Millions Into Groups Seeking to Influence Supreme Court on Elections and Discrimination: Newly obtained records show how Leonard Leo, an architect of the right-wing takeover of the courts, has been funding groups pushing to change elections and anti-discrimination laws.
https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-scotus-elections-nonprofits-discrimination
State Lawmakers Considered Over 70 Bills to Give Politicians More Power in 2022: Conservatives are trying to make it so that their abortion bans, among other things, aren’t subject to court rulings. These bills all appear to be related to the right’s current quest to hand total power to politicians while stripping away other officials’ ability to keep them in check, representing an attack on the concept of checks and balances in state government.
https://truthout.org/articles/state-lawmakers-considered-over-70-bills-to-give-politicians-more-power-in-2022/
# Law Enforcement
“The Death Penalty Is Immoral”: Oregon Governor Commutes All Death Row Sentences: “Justice is not advanced by taking a life,” Democratic Gov. Kate Brown said.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-death-penalty-is-immoral-oregon-governor-commutes-all-death-row-sentences/
# Legal / DOJ
The Special Counsel Investigating Trump Is Wasting No Time: A new subpoena is the latest step showing that the DOJ’s man in charge is aggressively pursuing his target.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/12/trump-investigations-subpoena-special-counsel-jack-smith-doj.html
Inside the Jury Room for the Trump Org Criminal Trial: Jurors thought a Trump Organization lawyer was insulting. They knew the employees were liars. And the defense team’s jingle fell flat.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-jury-room-for-the-trump-organization-criminal-trial
Trump Organization convicted in executive tax dodge scheme: A jury found two corporate entities at the Trump Organization guilty on all 17 counts, including charges of conspiracy and falsifying business records. Trump himself was not on trial. The verdict in state court in New York came after about 10 hours of deliberations over two days.
https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2022/12/06/trump-org-jury-seeks-clarity-deliberations-continue/
# LGBTQ
Texas’ Republican AG Wanted License Info of Trans Residents: “This is another brick building toward targeting these individuals,” Austin attorney Ian Pittman said.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/12/14/report-texas-ag-ken-paxton-sought-data-on-transgender-texans/
# Media
Publishing is not a crime: Twelve years after WikiLeaks exposed the dirty secrets of U.S. diplomacy in a massive publication of State Department cables, co-founder Julian Assange remains in a high-security British prison awaiting extradition to the United States. He faces espionage charges that could add up to 175 years in U.S. prison.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has the power to drop the case against Assange immediately. Instead, the Biden administration has continued the effort at prosecution begun under former President Donald Trump.
https://truthout.org/articles/publishing-is-not-a-crime-the-new-york-times-joins-the-fight-to-free-assange/
# Medical / Health
Maternal, Infant Death Rates Were Already Higher In States That Now Ban Abortion: “Making abortion illegal makes pregnancy and childbirth more dangerous and threatens the health and lives of all women of reproductive age,” said report coauthor Laurie Zephyrin, M.D.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/states-abortion-bans-maternal-and-infant-death-rates-are-dramatically-higher-study-finds?itm_source=parsely-api
# Military / Global
New Commander, New Goals for Russia in Ukraine: The new state-of-emergency laws introduced by the Kremlin in October are aimed at being able to provide a strategic defense of the “captured objectives” rather than all-out warfare to the bitter end.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88301
Dangerous ‘situation in Kosovo resembles Ukraine Donbass crisis’ before the conflict. Russian Envoy, Pristina’s attitude towards Serbs seems to be similar to that of Kiev towards Donbass, Moscow’s ambassador to Belgrade believes
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/12/13/dangerous-situation-in-kosovo-resembles-ukraine-donbass-crisis-before-conflict-russian-envoy-said-on-rt/
Putin makes real Nuclear threat; US yawns: Such a change would align Russia’s nuclear posture with Washington’s own strategic doctrine and, at one stroke, make the world far more dangerous.
https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2022/12/11/putin-makes-real-nuclear-threat-us-yawns/
Russia Primes Nuclear Bomb 12 Times More Powerful Than Dropped on Hiroshima: The mass circulation paper’s report outlined some of the missile’s specifications, which include a launch weight of 46,000 tons, an operational range of up to 12,000 kilometers (7,456 miles) that can strike the U.S. or anywhere in Europe, and a payload of up to 500 kilotons.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-missile-yars-icbm-hiroshima-bomb-1766933
# Nuclear
What to know about DOE’s fusion milestone: Experiments at a U.S. government lab may have provided “proof that the physics work.” But future fusion reactors might turn to a different technology for replicating the energy that powers the sun.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/13/fusion-breakthrough-doe-energy-00073631
Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: Scientists at the world’s largest nuclear-fusion facility have for the first time achieved the phenomenon known as ignition, creating a nuclear reaction that generates more energy than it consumes. The breakthrough at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) has excited the global fusion-research community
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nuclear-fusion-lab-achieves-ignition
The One Thing Everyone’s Ignoring About the Fusion Discovery: One of the year’s most monumental scientific achievements is indebted to decades of research into weapons of mass destruction.
https://news.yahoo.com/one-thing-everyone-ignoring-fusion-095819172.html
# Pharmas / Drugs
States Challenge Biden to Lower Drug Prices by Allowing Imports From Canada: Buyers in the United States pay among the highest prices in the world for brand-name pharmaceuticals. Drugs are generally less expensive in neighboring Canada, where the government controls prices.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/states-challenge-biden-lower-drug-prices-allowing-imports-canada
# Science
Protein-folding AI tackles next big challenge: Researchers are repurposing AlphaFold, an artificial-intelligence (AI) system that predicts protein structures, to tackle ever-more-complex challenges in the field. Two years ago, the deep-learning algorithm, developed by DeepMind, swept a competition in which amino-acid sequences were used to predict proteins’ 3D shapes, which are important for determining their function. This year’s competition added harder problems, such as protein–drug interactions and multi-protein complexes. AlphaFold methods aced most tests, but still struggled to predict complexes containing antibodies.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04438-1
The best science images of 2022: An almighty eruption, the cosmos remastered, swirling cells and more.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-04372-2/index.html?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=b0206d83a8-briefing-dy-20221214&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-b0206d83a8-43812897
# Social
The Federal Program to Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina Shortchanged the Poor. New Data Proves It. For years, low-income residents of New Orleans have said the state’s Road Home program paid them less to rebuild their homes compared to wealthier residents. They were right.
https://www.route-fifty.com/public-safety/2022/12/federal-program-rebuild-after-hurricane-katrina-shortchanged-poor-new-data-proves-it/380785/
Katrina Survivors Were Told They Could Use Grant Money to Rebuild. Now They’re Being Sued for It. After Hurricane Katrina, struggling homeowners said, they were told not to worry about the fine print when they received grants to elevate their homes. Now the state is going after them because they did exactly that
https://www.propublica.org/article/katrina-survivors-grant-money-lawsuits?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river
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