Voices, The Peoples News
December 21, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
This School District Is Ground Zero for Harsh Discipline of Native Students in New Mexico: In Gallup-McKinley County Schools, wearing the wrong color shirt can get you written up for “gang-related activity.” Banging on a window is bullying. The district is responsible for most of New Mexico’s disproportionate expulsions of Native students.
https://www.propublica.org/article/gallup-mckinley-schools-native-student-discipline#:~:text=Gallup%2DMcKinley’s%20Discipline%20Rates%20Tower,to%202019%2D20%20school%20years.
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Human Rights Stain, Public Health Farce: Title 42 Tied to 13,000 Murders, Rapes, Kidnappings in Mexico: The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to temporarily keep in place Title 42 until after December 27. According to Human Rights First, over 13,400 accounts of murder, torture, kidnapping, rape and other violent attacks on migrants and asylum seekers blocked in or expelled to Mexico under Title 42 have been reported since President Biden took office.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/21/frustration_among_migrants_at_us_mexico
# Children / Youth
The “Death Penalty” of Child Welfare: In Six Months or Less, Some Parents Lose Their Kids Forever: Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed a law aimed at speeding up adoptions of children languishing in foster care. In the process, it destroyed hundreds of thousands of families through the termination of parental rights.
https://www.propublica.org/article/six-months-or-less-parents-lose-kids-forever
# Chemicals / Drugs
Researchers develop a fentanyl vaccine that could tackle overdoses and addiction: Fentanyl Vaccine Potential ‘Game Changer’ for Opioid Epidemic . Study Suggests New Vaccine Could Prevent Deadly Opioid from Entering the Brain
https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2022-news-articles/november-2022/11142022-fentanyl-vaccine-haile-kosten.php
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
U.S. Multimillionaires’ Wages Rose in 2021, While Bottom 90 Percent Got Pay Cut: The bottom 90 percent got a wage cut in 2021, but the top 0.1 percent got a wage raise of 18.5 percent.
https://www.businessinsider.com/lowest-earning-americans-got-pay-cut-while-richest-made-more-2022-12
# Education / Schools
A Texas superintendent ordered librarians to remove LGBTQ-themed books. Now the federal government is investigating. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into the Granbury Independent School District after it banned school library books dealing with sexuality and gender.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/20/granbury-books-investigation-civil-rights/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Russian Gas Pipeline to Europe Explodes: Three repair workers were killed yesterday when a section of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod natural gas pipeline in western Russia exploded.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/12/20/three-killed-in-mysterious-explosion-at-russian-gas-pipeline-supplying-europe
Puerto Rican towns take big oil to court for fraud, racketeering, and damages: Big oil is accused of spreading conspiracy theories and many other things.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/puerto-rican-towns-take-big-oil-to-court-for-fraud-racketeering-and-damages/
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
California Governor Declares Emergency in County Hit by Deadly Earthquake that unleashed a wave of destruction and left at least two people dead. Around 71,000 people were also left without power after the 6.4 magnitude quake struck the county early Tuesday
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-20/magnitude-6-4-earthquake-near-fortuna-calif
# Environment / Climate / Global
COP15 reaches ambitious plan for nature, now countries must accelerate action
https://www.conservation.org/blog/cop15-reaches-ambitious-plan-for-nature-now-countries-must-accelerate-action
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
New 3D printing ‘ink’ could make lab-grown meat even cheaper: 3D-printed meat is close to becoming cost-competitive.
https://www.zmescience.com/future/new-3d-printing-ink-could-make-lab-grown-meat-even-cheaper/
# General Information / Other News
Donald Trump Demands Reinstatement, Suggests Overthrowing Government
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demands-reinstatement-suggests-overthrowing-government-1768621
# Gov / Politics / Global
The 5 Countries Lining Up To Take On America And The West: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have lofty aspirations to expand the group’s membership and shake up the America-led world order. Read on to find out what the BRICS group is doing to counter Western dominance, and how much of a threat it might be.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/the-5-countries-lining-up-to-take-on-the-west/ss-AA15u3y0?li=AAnZ9Ug
Peru Gives Mexican Ambassador 3 Days to Get Out Amid Crisis: Peru has responded with fury after Mexico offered asylum to the family of the ousted Peruvian president.
https://www.voanews.com/a/peru-orders-mexico-s-ambassador-out-as-diplomatic-spat-deepens/6885268.html
Officials Say Russia May Not Be Behind Pipeline Bombing: Despite months of analysis, a new report finds no concrete evidence has emerged pinning the attack on Moscow. An attack on gas lines under the Baltic Sea exposes the vulnerability of an already jittery Europe. Some officials suggested Moscow was to blame, but with little evidence, others urge caution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/world/europe/pipeline-sabotage-mystery-russia.html
Taliban Bans Women From All Afghan Universities: The move follows an earlier order, issued in March, barring girls from returning to secondary school.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144419844/taliban-bans-afghanistan-women-universities
Zelensky Expected to Visit Washington on Wednesday. Trip would be his first visit outside of Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-expected-to-visit-washington-on-wednesday-11671577431
Why Russia Is Terrified of This New U.S. Weapons Delivery: The PATRIOT air defense missile could target Putin’s Achilles’ heel. The visit is to announce another tranche of aid to his country, but overwhelming focus from American and Russian commentators alike is the announcement that the U.S. will supply PATRIOT air defense missiles to Ukraine.
https://news.yahoo.com/why-russia-terrified-u-weapons-173013612.html
# Gov / Politics / US
Big changes to the retirement system are included in Congress’s end-of-year bill: What the bill would do
In a note Tuesday morning, Stifel Chief Washington Policy Strategist Brian Gardner explained how “the bill would expand retirement saving options by allowing a deferral on mandatory withdrawals, an increased catch-up contribution to 401(k) plans, and provide new options for small businesses to offer retirement plans to employees.”
https://news.yahoo.com/big-changes-to-the-retirement-system-are-included-in-congresss-end-of-year-bill-182514621.html
Is this winning? Western leaders can no longer hide the truth about Ukraine: The mainstream media and the Biden administration insist ad nauseam that Ukraine is winning against Russia. But the facts on the ground do not fit the narrative and the administration and media know it.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-this-winning/
Joe Biden Inches Toward War with Iran, Makes Israel Full Military Partner: Israel’s changed status comes as the U.S. military refocuses from the ‘war on terror’ to potential combat with the big four—China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-inches-toward-war-iran-makes-israel-full-military-partner-1768600
# Medical / Health
Millions to lose Medicaid coverage under Congress’ plan: Millions of people who enrolled in Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic could start to lose their coverage on April 1 if Congress passes the $1.7 trillion spending package leaders unveiled Tuesday. The legislation will sunset a requirement of the COVID-19 public health emergency that prohibited states from booting people off Medicaid.
https://apnews.com/article/health-covid-304d921beee43d29f1862cd4d6ab5297
Why Eric Adams’ Most Popular Policies Are His Most Hated: Somehow, it’s become a scandal among activists and media that New York City’s mayor wants more severely mentally ill people living on the street to get evaluated for care.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-most-popular-policies-are-his-most-hated
Why Hundreds of Hospitals Are Suddenly Suing Their Patients: But one of the most shocking policies KHN found was that many hospitals began suing patients. During the investigation, KHN examined various documents, policies, interviews, and email and telephone inquiries from 528. Over two-thirds of the policies examined approved of hospitals suing patients or pursuing additional legal actions.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/why-hundreds-of-hospitals-are-suddenly-suing-their-patients/ar-AA15xnpl?li=BBnba9O
# Military / Global
‘We’re Just Meat’: Russian Military Keeps Killing Own Troops: We have “more losses from our own” than from the Ukrainians, a Russian soldier admits to his mother. Russian soldiers sent next door to kill Ukrainians are increasingly getting killed by their own military instead.
https://news.yahoo.com/just-meat-russian-military-keeps-191349406.html
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