Voices, The Peoples News
January 4, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
The omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 has rapidly spread to become the dominant COVID-19 mutation in the U.S., now accounting for 40.5 percent of all cases. The XBB subvariant, from which XBB.1.5 descends, is a recombinant of two subvariants that descended from the BA.2 omicron subvariant.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3793446-covid-variant-xbb-1-5-now-accounts-for-40-percent-of-cases-in-the-us-cdc/
# Environment / Climate / Global
Has the Amazon reached its tipping point? Some Brazilian scientists fear that the Amazon may become a grassy savanna, with profound effects on the climate worldwide. About 26 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost or badly degraded and without intervention the rest could transform into savannah, says a report on its status
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2336521-the-amazon-rainforest-has-already-reached-a-crucial-tipping-point/
# Gov / Politics / Global
In Search of Big Bucks: Zelensky Zips Over to Washington: Russia has stabilized the situation on the battlefield and is preparing to seize the initiative, a reality that obviates the tens of billions of dollars of military assistance that has been dispatched to Ukraine. The current package, except for a single Patriot missile battery, is simply more of the same, virtually guaranteeing that Ukraine will continue to lose this conflict going forward.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/01/03/in-search-of-big-bucks-zelensky-zips-over-to-washington/
Putin’s Top Propagandist Urges Russians to Embrace Death: Vladimir Solovyov’s bizarre tirade comes amid fears of a new military call-up—and after Ukraine said it killed hundreds of Russian draftees left like sitting ducks.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-putin-propagandist-vladimir-solovyov-urges-russians-to-embrace-death
# Gov / Politics / US
U.S. House adjourns without electing new speaker. Kevin McCarthy can’t secure majority after 3 votes
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/u-s-house-adjourns-without-electing-new-speaker/article_3f31f6ba-8b9f-11ed-ab74-374cab653e68.html
# Media
Project Censored: Billionaire Press Domination
* Part 1: Fossil fuel subsidies, wage theft, EPA risk reports, congressional conflicts of interest, and dark, dark money: Concentration of corporate wealth and power distorts everything we see—and don’t see—in the world around us every day.
https://prospect.org/power/project-censored-part-1-billionaire-press-domination/
* Part 2: The real causes of inflation, Gates Foundation media investments, the CIA and Julian Assange, ALEC’s push to preserve its influence networks in state legislation, and surveillance advertising are the next five stories on the list.
https://prospect.org/power/project-censored-part-2-billionaire-press-domination/
# Medical / Health
Abortion pills: Under a regulatory change made by the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. retail pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens will now be allowed to offer abortion pills to patients with a prescription from a certified health provider
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fda-says-abortion-pills-can-be-sold-retail-pharmacies-new-york-times-reports-2023-01-03/
Texas now bans medical abortions after seven weeks of pregnancy: Beginning today, a new law restricts abortion-inducing medication, the most common abortion method in Texas.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/02/texas-ban-medical-abortion/
She didn’t get shoulder surgery but was billed anyway and sent to collections
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kaiser-health-news-cbs-news-investigation-grace-elizabeth-elliott/
# Nuclear
Joint nuclear exercise with South Korea not on the table, US official says: Biden denies US in talks on nuclear exercises with South Korea. S Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said Seoul and Washington were in talks on exercises involving US nuclear assets
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/3/biden-denies-us-in-talks-on-nuclear-exercises-with-south-korea
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