Voices, The Peoples News
December 16, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Forest equity, What Indigenous people want from carbon credits: In a world where carbon credit markets are taking advantage of Indigenous people and their forests, the United Nation is losing its leadership on combating climate change, says Indigenous leader Levi Sucre Romero.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/110883299
# Indigenous / Global
The promise and peril of Canada’s approach to Indigenous protected areas: Canada needs to protect more land. There’s 500,000 square kilometres in proposed Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas. So what’s the holdup?
https://thenarwhal.ca/indigenous-protected-areas-ipca-hurdles/
# Archaeology
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
What the Left and Right Get Wrong About Texas Migrant Crisis: The right throws around the word “invasion” so much that it has lost its meaning. To them, it means anytime a migrant steps across the line without permission to enter the United States. By that definition, our country has been in a constant state of “invasion” since 1848 when it stole half of Mexico at the barrel of a gun and converted the seized territory into eight U.S. states.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/left-wrong-texas-migrant-crisis-093256485.html
Abbott calls for investigation into groups assisting with illegal entry into US: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called for an investigation into the role non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are playing in helping foreign nationals illegally enter Texas from Mexico
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/abbott-calls-for-investigation-into-groups-assisting-with-illegal-entry-into-us/article_6b9f4952-7be4-11ed-9b35-3b422552ae8d.html
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
The Biden administration is again making free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as coronavirus cases are up across 90% of the country.
https://apnews.com/article/white-house-reveals-winter-covid-plans-test-kits-2b015ef4e3c97520a3981c47d00467c3
As it prepares to disband, Michigan task force on COVID racial disparities leaves a healthy legacy: Task force members are looking back on the work they’ve accomplished and the groundwork they’ve laid for continued progress. This dramatic reduction in disparities involved creating more opportunities for testing within communities, connecting people of color with primary care providers, improving contact tracing and isolation strategies, promoting safe reengagement, and utilizing trusted community leaders in the broadcast of reliable COVID-19 information.
https://www.flintside.com/features/task-force-covid-racial-disparities.aspx
# Education / Schools
Video of college student arrest raises questions about use of police on campus: Arrest of student who got in dispute with professor raises questions about the role of campus police.
https://theconversation.com/video-of-college-student-arrest-raises-questions-about-use-of-police-on-campus-196699
# Employment / Labor
Feds settle with Colorado trucking firm in discrimination case: The U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with a nationwide trucking company based in Colorado for discriminating against non-U.S. citizen workers. The department began an investigation of Navajo Express after a non-U.S. citizen filed a complaint alleging the company refused to accept valid documentation proving permission to work. The company also allegedly demanded a different document from the applicant.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/feds-settle-with-colorado-trucking-firm-in-discrimination-case/article_fe554cdc-7ca8-11ed-b06f-efaeae528380.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Will the Senate ban uranium mining in the Grand Canyon? Before the legislative slate is wiped clean on Jan. 3, senators needs to pass the Grand Canyon Protection Act. The Senate has only a few weeks left to pass the Grand Canyon Protection Act, which would permanently ban new uranium mines on more than 1 million acres of federal public lands near the Grand Canyon. The bill has already passed the House twice.
https://www.sierraclub.org/arizona/blog/2022/12/uranium-mine-gears-near-grand-canyon-national-park
# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
Are strawberries berries? Uhm, not really. But bananas are berries, and it gets weirder: The discrepancy in berry nomenclature arose because people called certain fruits “berries” thousands of years before scientists came up with a precise definition for the word, said Judy Jernstedt. Usually, people think of berries as small, squishy fruit that can be picked off plants, but the scientific classification is far more complex, Jernstedt said.
https://www.livescience.com/57477-why-are-bananas-considered-berries.html
These Easy Tricks Will Make Anyone An Expert In The Kitchen: We’ll show you different tricks to make your meals tasty and beautiful. These hacks will save you time and energy in the kitchen, so why not give them a try?
https://toptiphacks.com/en/trick-guide-to-be-a-kitchen-expert/
# General Information / Other News
Trump Family Legal Woes Are Now an International Problem: Although Trump resigned as the director of the Irish company after saying he “couldn’t care less,” Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, remain as directors of TIGL. The Trump family and the former president’s company are already at the center of a number of ongoing lawsuits in the United States.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-family-legal-woes-ireland-golf-course-1767801
# Gov / Politics / Global
Kremlin TV Stars Combust as Russians Admit War Is Aimless: Putin’s media darlings are promptly melting down as more Russians realize they “don’t understand what they’re doing” in Ukraine.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kremlin-tv-stars-combust-russians-094351911.html
Is Japan Getting Ready for a War with China? It Looks Like It: The threat of Chinese aggression is producing a quiet revolution in Tokyo’s statecraft, and officials are pushing the nation to get ready for a fight.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2022-11-06/why-japan-is-gearing-up-for-possible-war-with-china-over-taiwan
# Gov / Politics / US
Lifting the Veil, an Investigative History of the United States Pathocracy: “The United States and its allies had been deliberately proliferating radical Islam for decades, only to later spend trillions fighting the enemy they created, thus generating huge war profits for Wall Street moguls.”
https://www.wanttoknow.info/mk/liftingtheveil
The waste and fraud of the “war on terror,” the most obvious evidence for the waning influence of the United States is the current economic crisis: The United States ruling class has enjoyed lone superpower status since the collapse for the Soviet Union in 1991, although it has done everything possible to ensure it replicates the mistakes that ran the Soviets into the ground.
https://isreview.org/issue/82/waste-and-fraud-war-terror/index.html
Ron DeSantis Is a Case Study in the Threat of Fascism in the U.S: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pursued white supremacist policies with deep roots in the Jim Crow era.
https://truthout.org/articles/ron-desantis-is-a-case-study-in-the-threat-of-fascism-in-the-us/
House Committee wraps up historic investigation into oil industry: The latest tranche of documents caps off a nearly two-year investigation that appears set to come to an end with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives in January.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/14/house-oversight-historic-investigation-oil-industry/
# Medical / Health
Help is coming for RSV: The vaccine makers Pfizer and GSK are racing to get approval for the first-ever jabs against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which has been hospitalizing young children in the United States and Europe at an alarming rate. This week, both companies moved closer to regulatory approvals, and they could each see the first-ever approvals for an RSV vaccine in 2023. Pfizer isn’t far behind, with an early stop for the trial of its vaccine given to pregnant women to protect infants and eyeing an approval filing by year-end.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/pfizer-gsk-prep-battle-they-look-create-worlds-first-ever-rsv-vaccine-market
# Medical Technology
Anti-cancer CAR-T therapy reengineers T cells to kill tumors, and researchers are expanding the limited types of cancer it can target: Immunotherapy has the potential to eliminate tumors, but works best for select patients. Engineering T cells to bypass cancer’s defenses could help expand treatment eligibility to more patients.
https://theconversation.com/anti-cancer-car-t-therapy-reengineers-t-cells-to-kill-tumors-and-researchers-are-expanding-the-limited-types-of-cancer-it-can-target-196471
# Military / DOD
US to begin training hundreds of Ukrainian troops every month: Starting in January, 500 Ukrainian troops a month will travel to Germany to train with the U.S. Army, the Pentagon announced Thursday.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/12/15/us-to-begin-training-hundreds-of-ukrainian-troops-every-month/
Senate backs big land transfer for Nevada military complex: The U.S. Senate has voted for a massive expansion of a northern Nevada naval air training complex that will transfer of a huge swath of public land to the military.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/dec/16/senate-backs-big-land-transfer-for-nevada-military/
# Military / Global
Russian Strikes Hit Power Plants, Forcing Freezing Blackouts: At least two civilian deaths were also reported in the missile blasts, Ukrainian officials reported.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-business-power-outages-cb6c8c74e39fb6ff2f51a9579ef401c4
Russia Claims It’s Being Attacked by Drones Made in the U.S: State media says the drones were used to target energy infrastructure deep inside Russian borders.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/30/russia-ukraine-war-live-us-accuses-russia-of-weaponising-food-after-moscow-suspends-grain-deal
# Social
Science built up the idea of race. Can it ever be torn down? On first hearing, in May of this year, that a gunman had murdered 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket, most Americans likely registered it as another tragic installment in a serial epidemic of gun violence — and it was that. But when the motives of the shooter later surfaced in a bigoted manifesto, the crime took on the aspect of a different incurable disease. That his victims were all Black was not happenstance; it was the point.
https://race.undark.org/
# Sports
# Technology
Developers Found Graves in the Virginia Woods, Authorities Then Helped Erase the Historic Black Cemetery:
The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-authorities-erased-historic-black-cemetery-virginia
# Water
The nation’s largest water supplier has declared a drought emergency for all of Southern California, clearing the way for potential mandatory water restrictions early next year that could impact 19 million people.
https://napavalleyregister.com/news/state-and-regional/nations-largest-water-supplier-declares-drought-emergency/article_c1d60dc6-e757-5b48-ab86-aa75b670c922.html
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