Voices, The Peoples News
January 8, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Nearly 200 Countries Approve a Biodiversity Accord Enshrining Human Rights and the ‘Rights of Nature’: The nonbinding agreement nods to a growing understanding that future conservation efforts must promote the well-being of Indigenous peoples, and that forests, mountains and rivers have rights of their own.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02012023/cop15-biodiversity-agreement/
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Covid Cases, Hospitalizations Spike as New Variant Gains Foothold: The latest surge, likely worsened by holiday gatherings, comes as the number of vaccines administered hits a three-month lull despite ongoing pleas from public health officials.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/06/covid-cases-hospitalizations-spike-as-new-variant-gains-foothold-00076747
America’s spy agencies failed to protect us from China’s bio-warfare program: The US has nearly 20 intelligence agencies tasked with protecting its citizens from global bio-terror, none of which has yet to determine exactly how the coronavirus originated. American taxpayers shell out billions each year to our 18 spy agencies, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) and NSA (National Security Agency) the best-known of them, so they can protect us from foreign threats. And these threats include COVID-19, which originated in China. At minimum, these agencies must use their incredible human spy-power and powerful technology to collect (or even steal) secrets to determine where threats originate so we can neutralize them. Because if we don’t, we will be dealing with these threats again and again.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/07/americas-spy-agencies-failed-to-protect-us-from-chinas-bio-warfare/
# Education / Schools
Teacher Showed Islamic Art Depicting Muhammad, Lost Her Job: Despite numerous content warnings, an art history instructor at Hamline University was fired for sharing images of the prophet. Academic freedom and labor rights are at stake.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/professor-terminated-art-history-paintings-muhammad-2238922
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
US government approves use of world’s first vaccine for honeybees: Hopes of a new weapon against diseases that routinely ravage colonies that are relied upon for food pollination.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/04/honeybee-vaccine-first-approved
Researchers identify potential climate havens for vulnerable plants and animals: As the climate warms, many ecosystems are changing, and plant and animal species are at risk. Researchers identify potential climate havens for vulnerable plants and animals Known as ‘climate refugia,’ these places are better buffered from severe impacts of global warming.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/01/researchers-identify-potential-climate-havens-for-vulnerable-plants-and-animals/
# Environment / Climate / Global
Proposed EU Nature Restoration Law Could be the First Big Step Toward Achieving COP15’s Ambitious Plan to Staunch Biodiversity Loss: The law making its way through the European Parliament aims to ease the accelerating extinction crisis and slow climate change, but has a long road to passage and some formidable adversaries.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02012023/europe-nature-restoration-cop15-biodiversity/
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.
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/the-amazon-will-reach-tipping-point-if-current-trend-of-deforestation-continues/
# Gov / Politics / Global
What Israel’s New Far-Right Government Means for Palestinians: The coalition agreements, released a day before the government is to be sworn into office, included language endorsing discrimination against LGBTQ people on religious grounds, contentious judicial reforms. The package laid the groundwork for what is expected to be a stormy beginning for the country’s most religious and right-wing government in history, putting it at odds with large parts of the Israeli public, rankling Israel’s closest allies and escalating tensions with the Palestinians.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1145952664/benjamin-netanyahus-new-israeli-government-will-make-west-bank-expansion-a-prior
Netanyahu’s ‘Big Lie’ Will End Rule of Law in Israel: Critics of Benjamin Netanyahu say reforms to limit the authority of the supreme court will grant his coalition absolute power and overturn Israel’s constitutional rule.
Former prime minister Ehud Barak, an opponent of Netanyahu, told The Daily Beast that the judicial reform was “a big lie covering up régime change, he’s trying to blackmail the country with threats to save himself from trial,” Barak said, adding that “it’s a straight line from [Al] Capone to where we are today.”
https://news.knowledia.com/CA/en/articles/netanyahu-s-big-lie-will-end-rule-of-law-in-israel-5edd4d66cadd4c71eee96a0b8db38d909249a941
Why a New Israeli Minister’s Temple Mount Visit May Signal a Shift in the Status Quo: The country has had right-wing governments before, but none has been this extreme, with a prime minister so beholden to the extremists.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-visit-ben-gvir-refuses-to-say-if-hell-seek-to-change-temple-mount-status-quo/
# Gov / Politics / US
McCarthy Wins the Speakership After Incredible Floor Drama: McCarthy’s path to the speakership wasn’t always clear, but he got the gavel by giving away everything he could.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/kevin-mccarthy-republican-wins-house-speaker
McCarthy struggled through 15 ballots, the highest figure since the Civil War, and offered several concessions to secure the support of several of the holdout Republicans. Five Key Concessions Kevin McCarthy Gave Up to Win House Speakership
https://www.newsweek.com/five-key-concessions-kevin-mccarthy-gave-win-house-speakership-1772105
# Legal / DOJ
According to Emails, Donald Trump’s Call To March on Capitol Wasn’t a Secret: The House Ways and Means Committee recently released its findings of the investigation into the January 6th march and Trump’s involvement. A screenshotted email revealed that it was well-known information that Trump would call for a march on the U.S. Capitol. The email reveals a clear plan to have protestors march on the Capitol. Whether or not the rally was intended to turn violent remains to be seen.
https://wealthynickel.com/according-to-emails-donald-trumps-call-to-march-on-capitol-wasnt-a-secret/
# LGBTQ / Gender
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ matters now more than ever: The premiere of “Drag Race” was fun, but it’s impossible to separate the entertainment from protests and hate happening around the country. “This highly orchestrated and openly hateful campaign might make any TV show seem trivial. Yet pop culture is deeply bound up with the politics of acceptance.” “This highly orchestrated and openly hateful campaign might make any TV show seem trivial,” says Spencer Kornhaber. In recent years, it’s become easy to roll one’s eyes at the progressive notion that visibility will end the oppression of marginalized people,” says Kornhaber.
Yet pop culture is deeply bound up with the politics of acceptance.”
https://www.primetimer.com/item/RuPauls-Drag-Race-matters-now-more-than-ever-amid-a-wave-of-anti-LGBTQ-legislation-gASRx8
# Medical Alternatives / Herbology
Here are 10 risky supplements that CR, with the help of a panel of doctors and researchers, says you should steer clear of. In general, risk increases the larger the dosage and the longer the supplement is taken. Also beware of illegal or unapproved drug ingredients, such as tianeptine, methylsynephrine, and phenibut. Chaparral, Coltsfoot, Comfrey. (More on site)
https://www.consumerreports.org/vitamins-supplements/supplements-to-always-avoid-a1185290021/
# Military / DOD
Pentagon says $3B in new Ukraine aid will ‘change dynamic’ in fight with Russia: Pentagon officials said it is the first time that U.S. military aid to Ukraine will include Bradleys, known as a “tank killer.” The new shipment of arms also includes 500 missiles for the armored personnel and attack vehicles to fire.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-01-06/bradleys-ukraine-russia-pentagon-8671721.html
# Space / UFO Disclosure / Other
Scientists Discovered A Strange ‘Mini Moon’ Asteroid Orbiting Earth: Newly Discovered Asteroid Is a Weird ‘Mini Moon’ on a 200-Year Visit to Earth. The space rock looks to have been captured by our planet’s gravity over 60 years ago.
https://www.cnet.com/science/space/newly-discovered-asteroid-is-a-weird-mini-moon-on-a-200-year-visit-to-earth/
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