Voices, The Peoples News
December 19, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
New York Bans Puppy Mills and Sale of Cosmetics Tested on Animals:
The law, sponsored by state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan), is aimed at cracking down on so-called notorious “puppy mill” breeders who mistreat animals that are sold to stores for resale. State lawmakers approved the puppy mill ban by huge bipartisan margins last spring despite efforts by pet stores and their political allies to bury the proposal. Pet store owners argued the ban would put them out of business, though they will now be able to charge animal rescue shelters rent to use their space for adoptions.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-signs-law-banning-puppy-mills-sales/
# Archaeology
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
‘They’ve Gotta Have Something in Place’: Critics Circle as Biden Admin. Prepares for End of Title 42. The imminent expiration of the immigration policy on Wednesday has prompted concern of a surge of arrivals at the southern border.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/18/immigration-border-biden-title-42-00074482
Community-Based Programs Offer Alternative to Detention for Asylum Seekers: Community-based programs for asylum seekers are grossly underfunded, while detention and surveillance are expanding.
https://immigrantjustice.org/research-items/report-better-way-community-based-programming-alternative-immigrant-incarceration
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Pfizer mRNA Vaccines; Risks of Pulmonary Embolism, Myocarditis, Blood Clots. FDA Disturbing Surveillance Data Finally Released: 4 serious adverse reactions sometimes lethal: pulmonary embolism, acute myocardial infarction, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and immune thrombocytopenia. These are the same side effects denounced by Gospa News in many scientific articles based on clinical researches or literary study.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/12/18/vital-pfizer-mrna-vaccines-risks-of-pulmonary-embolism-myocarditis-blood-clots-fda-disturbing-surveillance-data-finally-released/?mc_cid=63f1207a33&mc_eid=3f7488d454
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
McCarthy Faces Debt-Limit Dilemma as House GOP Ratchets Up Demands Amid Speaker Bid: A growing number of Republicans have signaled a willingness to force the country to default and set off a global economic crisis unless Democrats and President Biden accept changes to earned benefit programs including Social Security and Medicare.
https://retiredamericans.org/thank-you-for-signing-up/
What’s the Fed Doing to Fight “She-Flation?”: “Inflation is generally thought to impose a greater burden on people with lower wealth and incomes, leading some to declare it ‘the most regressive tax.’” Among the groups that inflation has hit particularly hard has been women.
https://dcjournal.com/whats-the-fed-doing-to-fight-she-flation/
# Employment / Labor
For Many Workers, the Holiday Season Is the Most Exploitative Time of the Year: As delivery workers support others’ holiday dreams, they urgently need support in their 2023 contract fights.
https://truthout.org/articles/for-many-workers-the-holiday-season-is-the-most-exploitative-time-of-the-year/
It’s Long Past Time for the U.S. to Implement Paid Family and Medical Leave: We must see low-income parents, caregivers and child care providers as human beings with essential needs.
https://truthout.org/articles/its-long-past-time-for-the-us-to-implement-paid-family-and-medical-leave/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
The Scorched-Earth Legal Strategy Corporations Are Using to Silence Their Critics: Energy and extractive industry giants are targeting environmentalists with racketeering charges.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/16/corporate-rico-environmental-advocate/
‘Firmageddon’: Oregon conifers suffer record die-off as climate crisis hits hard: More than a million acres of state forest contain trees that have succumbed to stressors exacerbated by a multi-year drought.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/15/oregon-dead-fir-trees-conifers-climate-crisis
# Environment / Climate / Global
COP15: Nations reach ‘historic’ deal to protect nature. The plan will put 30% of the planet under protection by the end of the decade. Nations have agreed to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030 in a landmark deal aimed at safeguarding biodiversity. There will also be targets for protecting vital ecosystems such as rainforests and wetlands and the rights of indigenous peoples.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64019324
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
Part I: Analysis, Secret alliance: How Kenyan anti-GMO activists are scrambling to block President’s decision authorizing GM corn imports and local cultivation. The East African-wide famine and supply chain issues exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have reenergized the anti-GMO movement in Kenya.
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/12/13/part-1-analysis-secret-alliance-how-kenyan-anti-gmo-activists-are-scrambling-to-block-presidents-decision-authorizing-gm-corn-imports-and-local-cultivation/
Part II: Viewpoint, Kenyan protestors aggressively promote disinformation in campaign to scuttle GM crop imports and cultivation: Are anti-biotechnology advocacy groups honestly engaging in science in their attacks on genetically modified crops?
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/12/14/part-ii-viewpoint-kenyan-protestors-aggressively-promote-disinformation-in-campaign-to-scuttle-gm-crop-imports-and-cultivation/
U.S. Announces $2.5 Billion in Food Assistance for Africa: U.S. President Joe Biden announced billions of dollars in additional humanitarian assistance to address acute food insecurity in Africa, which is facing a bigger and more complex food crisis than ever before.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-12-15/u-s-announces-2-5-billion-in-food-assistance-for-africa
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
One of the most common food allergies people in the United States suffer from is being allergic to shellfish. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a Class 1 recall alert for a product called InnovAsian Crispy Chicken with Almonds entrée because it has been discovered that this product is not labeled correctly. The Walmart recall is affecting stores across 28 states, and it is imperative that if you or someone you know has a shellfish allergy, they do not consume this product.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/a-health-related-walmart-recall-is-affecting-shoppers-in-nearly-30-states/ar-AA15swNw?ocid=HPCDHP&li=BBnb7Kz
# Foodie Tips, Tricks and How To’s
Things We Never Knew Our Microwave Is Capable Of Doing: Our microwaves have so many uses, many of us don’t know half of them. So in this article, we bring you some of the best uses for that wonderful appliance!
https://www.theecofeed.com/en/microwave-never-things-capable?ly=native_one
# Gov / Politics / Global
UK sending 1,200 troops to fill in as ambulance crews strike: Ambulance crews are due to strike on Wednesday, joining nurses, railway staff, passport officers and postal workers, who are all staging a series of walkouts in the coming weeks. The U.K.’s most intense strike wave for decades is a response to a cost-of-living crisis driven by soaring food and energy prices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/britain-strikes/2022/12/18/id/1100956/
Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive: Xi Jinping has made an offer difficult for the Arabian Peninsula to ignore. China will be guaranteed buyers of your oil and gas, but we will pay in yuan.
https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/19565
Israel’s far-right government removes the mask that enabled western complacency: No other country can thumb its nose at international law as Israel does and not pay a price. Maybe the West will have to accept that there is no legal or moral difference between the occupation in Ukraine and the occupation in Palestine
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-far-right-government-mask-removed-western-complacency
# Gov / Politics / US
GOP Blocks Funding to Cut Child Poverty After Approving $858 Billion for Defense: The GOP is refusing to negotiate on reviving the expanded Child Tax Credit, which cut child poverty by over 40 percent. Republican House and Senate Budgets Would Harm Children and the Nation. The Republican-led House and Senate recently passed their respective FY16 budget resolutions with only Republicans votes. Both would cut spending on crucial programs for poor and low-income children to unprecedented levels while increasing defense spending and giving
tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans
https://www.childrensdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fy2016-house-and-senate.pdf
Biden Moves Ahead on Trump Plan to Build Israel Embassy on Stolen Palestinian Land: Objections from the land’s rightful owners, including U.S. citizens, are going unacknowledged by the administration. The organizations argued that continuing with Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem violates international law, specifically given Jerusalem’s special status as a city whose sovereignty is undetermined.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-plans-to-build-jerusalem-us-embassy-on-palestinian-land/282852/
# Law Enforcement
Over 25,000 People in Prison Await Decisions on Their Clemency Applications: Across the U.S., people in prison are hoping for compassion, and clemency, allowing them to rejoin their loved ones.
https://action.aclu.org/petition/biden-bring-25000-people-home-through-clemency
# Legal / DOJ
What to watch as Jan. 6 committee wraps up its investigation: The committee has called the Capitol riot an “attempted coup” that warrants criminal prosecution from the Justice Department. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said the referrals may include criminal, ethics violations, legal misconduct and campaign finance violations. Lawmakers have suggested in particular that their recommended charges against Trump could include conspiracy to defraud the United State, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress and insurrection.
https://apnews.com/article/january-6-final-hearing-trump-what-to-watch-a9d0eb77311df5d0391735cd64afa8fb
Jan. 6 Panel Unanimously Refers Trump to DOJ for Criminal Charges: “The Justice Department must apply the same standard of law to Donald Trump as they would to any citizen,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, a committee member. “That’s what Attorney General Garland promised to do. And the country will hold the department to it.”
https://www.axios.com/2022/12/19/january-6-committee-trump-criminal-charges
Trump’s Giving Prosecutors Evidence to Use Against Him in Court: Former President Donald Trump may have provided evidence that could be used against him as House Democrats will soon decide whether to make his tax return documents public.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tax-return-documents-social-media-comments-giving-prosecutors-evidence-use-court-1768211
# Media
DOJ Preps Charges Against Former ABC News Producer: The FBI had been tracking Meek for suspected criminal activity unrelated to his work as a journalist long before the April 27 raid, according to those sources as well as two others. Additionally, new details have emerged surrounding the matter.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/doj-preps-charges-against-former-130251924.html
# Media / Global
Attacks on Press Freedom Are an Attack on Democracy: The murder of 13 reporters this year has made Mexico the most dangerous country for journalists.
https://dcjournal.com/attacks-on-press-freedom-are-an-attack-on-democracy/
# Military / DOD
Not a Joke, the Pentagon Wants to Name a Warship the USS Fallujah: Why is the U.S. choosing to celebrate its most murderous and merciless battles in Iraq?
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/17/uss-fallujah-iraq-warship/
US Sends Infantry Unit To Base Just Miles Away From Russian Border: US Embassy in Lithuania announced the Pentagon plans to step up troop deployments in the Baltic states, taking what was previously categorized as “episodic” troop deployments and turning toward a “persistent rotational presence” across the Baltics, including in Estonia – which shares two small stretches of land-border with Russia.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-bolsters-troop-presence-just-kilometers-russian-border-estonia
For the 1st time, a Black female Marine is set to be a 2-star general: Brig. Gen. Lorna Mahlock is on her way to becoming a major general. President Joe Biden appointed Brig. Gen. Lorna Mahlock to the grade of major general, the Pentagon announced on Dec. 6, and the Senate confirmed her Thursday. Mahlock is the deputy director of cybersecurity for combat support at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland.
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2022/12/16/for-the-1st-time-a-black-female-marine-is-set-to-be-a-2-star-general/
# Military / Global
North Korea fires first ballistic missiles in a month, South’s military says: North Korea on Sunday fired a pair of medium-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, South Korean military officials said.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-12-17/north-korea-ballistic%C2%A0missile-launch-8457348.html?utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines&utm_medium=email
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