Voices, The Peoples News
January 14, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing
evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through
violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In
fact, violence merely increases hate. Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr., quote from his 1967 book
Where Do We Go From Here?
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
XBB.1.5 spreading rapidly through the US: Why the coronavirus continues to confound scientists and public health officials
https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/01/10/xbb15-spreading-rapidly-through-us-why-coronavirus-continues-confound-scientists-and-public-health-16794
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals / Global
Germany orders Russian Holocaust Survivor Institutionalized because she Refused the Covid-19 shot: Soviet-born composer Inna Zhvanetskaya is reportedly in hiding from German authorities after they attempted to have the 85-year-old committed to a mental institution and inoculated against her will with a Covid-19 shot. As a child, she survived the nazi holocaust.
https://www.rt.com/news/569879-germany-institutionalizes-holocaust-survivor-vaccine/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Why America has a debt ceiling: 5 questions answered: Treasury Secretary Yellen announced the US will hit its $31 trillion debt ceiling on Jan. 19. Economists and markets are worried Congress won’t act in time, which could trigger a financial crisis. Republicans and Democrats are preparing to play chicken over the U.S. debt ceiling, with the nation’s financial stability at stake.
https://thecurrentga.org/2023/01/13/why-america-has-a-debt-ceiling-5-questions-answered/
House GOP Says Pentagon Budget Is Safe, But Social Security and Medicare Aren’t: “House Republicans are openly plotting to hold the full faith and credit of the United States hostage—threatening to blow up our entire economy, because they want to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare,” said one House Democrat.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-pentagon-social-security-medicare
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Critic of fossil fuels to lead key off-shore oil agency for Biden: “The administration plans to name Elizabeth Klein the new director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which also oversees offshore-wind development”.
“The Biden administration is using a new opening at a powerful offshore energy agency to elevate a critic of fossil fuels who previously was blocked from a top Interior Department job because of opposition from oil industry allies in the Senate.
https://www.sej.org/headlines/critic-fossil-fuels-lead-key-offshore-oil-agency-biden
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Craig Pittman: Touting his environmental ‘success,’ DeSantis is more con man than conservationist: Pollution woes continue despite his attempts to paint a happy picture. He really puts the ‘artist’ in the term ‘con artist.’ And I say that in all admiration!
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/580825-touting-his-environmental-success-desantis-is-more-con-man-than-conservationist/
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Unlike most of the rest of the world, the European Union uses 30-year old ‘precautionary principle’ to regulate GMOs and gene editing, effectively banning them. Here is a primer
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/01/13/unlike-most-of-the-rest-of-the-world-the-european-union-uses-the-30-year-old-precautionary-principle-to-regulate-gmos-and-gene-editing-effectively-banning-them-here-is-a-primer/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia sets ultimatum to formally pull 3rd country into war: A Kremlin official has announced conditions that would plunge Russia’s closest ally into all-out warfare. Russia’s ally, Belarus, could formally join the war in Ukraine if Moscow concludes that Ukraine has “used force” against either Russia or Belarus, a senior Russian foreign ministry official warned Friday.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-sets-ultimatum-for-top-ally-belarus-to-formally-join-vladimir-putins-war-in-ukraine
The Militarization of Mexico: Militarization, now institutionalized in the Constitution and in practice, extended for the next six years and quite possibly forever, is not just the latest bone of contention between political parties. It is an issue that has profound implications for Mexican society, democracy, security, gender equality and human rights.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/13/the-militarization-of-mexico/
Why 2023 Could Be a Dramatic Year for Russia: The resolution of three internal questions could shape the country’s development for decades to come.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88753
# Gov / Politics / US
The Epic Arsenal of Western Guns Coming for Putin This Year: Russia, it seems, may soon be in for a knock-out blow, courtesy of Ukraine’s friends in the U.S. and Europe.
https://news.yahoo.com/epic-arsenal-western-guns-coming-010759481.html
Why New Nebraska Senator’s China Ties Are Causing Concern: Newly-minted Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts is headed for Washington, D.C., and straying toward a minefield of potential conflicts of interest, experts warn, thanks to his business entanglements with foreign governments.
https://upstract.com/x/34de184390e77909
# Legal / DOJ
Trump Companies Fined $1.6 Million for Tax Fraud Scheme: Donald Trump’s eponymous company the Trump Organization was already found guilty of illegally avoiding taxes. Now it has to pay up. Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday for a scheme in which the former president’s top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks, a symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an enterprise boasting billions of dollars in assets.
https://apnews.com/article/politics-legal-proceedings-new-york-city-donald-trump-manhattan-e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085
Biden Admin’s Best Defense May Be a Good Special Counsel: It may seem counterintuitive, but Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision will only serve to frustrate Republican efforts to weaponize Congressional oversight hearings.
https://news.yahoo.com/special-counsel-may-end-protecting-004442146.html
An AI Lawyer Is About to Defend a Human in a U.S. Courtroom: In February, an AI from DoNotPay is set to tell a defendant exactly what to say and when during an entire court case. It is likely to be the first ever case defended by an artificial intelligence
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2351893-ai-legal-assistant-will-help-defendant-fight-a-speeding-case-in-court/
# Medical / Health
NIH spends millions on equity, LGBT issues instead of researching cures: Congress’ recent $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill increased the budget for medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health to nearly $50 billion in 2023 alone. A closer look at the agency reveals that NIH is increasingly spending its time, and funds, on equity and LGBT issues as well as “systemic racism and inequities.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/nih-spends-millions-on-equity-lgbt-issues-instead-of-researching-cures/article_7f169ef6-91db-11ed-8832-93d0829883ef.html
Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage: Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-pentagon-social-security-medicare
Profits or patients? The choice should be clear: As the largest hospital system in America, with nearly $60 billion in annual revenue and 180+ hospitals across the country, you’d think HCA Healthcare would know what they’re doing, right? You’d think staffing would be adequate, workers properly trained and paid, and patient safety would be put first? A union study found HCA’s staffing levels were below the average for other hospitals in 19 of the 20 states where it provided care in 2020.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/workers-us-hospital-giant-hca-say-puts-profits-patient-care-rcna64122
# Military / Global
Zelensky: Ukraine takes threat of possible Russian chemical weapon use ‘very seriously’: Officials in his nation are closely watching the potential threat of chemical weapons use by Russia. “One of the Russian occupiers’ speakers said that they might use chemical weapons against our defenders in Mariupol,” Zelensky said.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/3264652-zelensky-ukraine-takes-threat-of-possible-russian-chemical-weapon-use-very-seriously/
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