Voices, The Peoples News
February 3, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
NotInvisible: Why are Native American women vanishing? Ashley’s disappearance is one small chapter in the unsettling story of missing and murdered Native American women and girls. No one knows precisely how many there are because some cases go unreported, others aren’t documented thoroughly and there isn’t a specific government database tracking these cases. But one U.S. senator with victims in her home state calls this an epidemic, a long-standing problem linked to inadequate resources, outright indifference and a confusing jurisdictional maze. Now, in the era of #MeToo, this issue is gaining political traction as an expanding activist movement focuses on Native women, a population known to experience some of the nation’s highest rates of murder, sexual violence and domestic abuse.
https://apnews.com/article/missing-in-indian-country-north-america-mountains-mo-state-wire-sd-state-wire-cb6efc4ec93e4e92900ec99ccbcb7e05
Native American Women Keep Turning Up Dead. Why Is Nothing Being Done? Showtime’s docuseries Murder in Big Horn is an urgent examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) epidemic plaguing America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4EVtS_77ps
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Merck’s Taxpayer-Subsidized COVID Pill Linked to New Virus Mutations, Study Finds: Merck’s oral antiviral pill for COVID-19, molnupiravir, marketed under the name Lagevrio, may be fueling the development of new and potentially deadly variants of COVID-19, according to the authors of a new preprint study.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/merck-covid-pill-virus-mutations/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Biden’s Top Economic Adviser to Leave White House: Why it matters: Deese’s departure from his role as director of the National Economic Council will create a high-profile opening in the Biden administration ahead of a high-stakes debt ceiling fight. Biden did not offer a timetable for Deese’s departure or provide details on a successor.
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/02/president-biden-nec-director-brian-deese
North America Faces Challenges With Decoupling Mineral Supply Chains: With 44 million tons of rare earths reserves, China is the largest producer of them. But shifting dependence from China is challenging.
https://gritdaily.com/decoupling-rare-earth-supply-chains-from-china/
# Employment / Labor
How corporations hope to eviscerate workers’ right to strike: Corporations so fear this kind of worker power that they’re asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rig the scales and help them kill future strikes before they even begin.
https://www.alternet.org/commentary/workers-strike/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
The Department of Energy’s loan programs office was ‘essentially dormant’, says Jigar Shah, its head – but now it’s ready to bankroll clean energy projects
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/03/us-clean-energy-transition-jigar-shah-interview
PG&E to stand trial over deadly California wildfire: Pacific Gas & Electric will face trial for manslaughter over its role in a deadly Californian wildfire.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64505596
Long-dormant geothermal energy: Archaeological evidence shows that the first human use of geothermal resources in North America occurred more than 10,000 years ago with the settlement of Paleo-Indians at hot springs. The springs served as a source of warmth and cleansing, their minerals as a source of healing. While people still soak in shallow pools heated by the earth, engineers are developing technologies that will allow us to probe more than 10 miles below the earth’s surface in search of geothermal energy. We invite you to study the timeline of the recent history of geothermal energy in the United States.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/history-geothermal-energy-america
New project seeks to develop dormant volcano into power source: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently approved a project to tap into a volcano in the Cascade mountain range in Oregon. The company, Alta Rock Energy, will drill into Newberry volcano, which which has been dormant for some 1600 years.
https://theworld.org/stories/2012-10-15/new-project-seeks-develop-dormant-volcano-power-source
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Nearly 14,000 Nigerian farmers and fishers sue Shell for destroying their livelihoods with oil pollution: Individuals and institutions from two communities have filed claims against Shell, calling on the company to clean up the devastating pollution and compensate them for its effects.
https://www.ecowatch.com/shell-lawsuit-nigeria-farmers-fishers.html
Supercharging Green Public Power: The president’s signature climate bill is a huge deal for publicly owned electricity. But it will take work to unlock its potential. One of its most significant parts is an innocuous-sounding provision called “direct pay.” This refers to a change in how renewable-energy tax credits are administered.
https://prospect.org/environment/2023-02-03-supercharging-green-public-power/
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Wall Street Scooping Up Colorado River Rights in Bid to Profit From Historic Drought: Financial speculators are buying and selling rights to the Colorado River’s dwindling water resources in a bid to profit as historic drought conditions intensified by the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis lead to worsening scarcity.
https://www.commondreams.org/wall-street-drought-profiteers-colorado-river-water
In polluted cities, reducing air pollution could lower cancer rates as much as eliminating smoking would: Exposure to air pollution has a significant impact on rates of cancers typically associated with smoking, according to a recent study.
https://www.ehn.org/air-pollution-cancer-2659365270.html#:~:text=The%20study%2C%20published%20in%20the,with%20smoking%2C%20including%20lung%20cancer%2C
# Gov / Politics / Global
Sweden’s NATO problem is a
Also Turkey’s NATO problem; How Stockholm and Ankara can move past their turbulent month.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/02/01/sweden-s-nato-problem-is-also-turkey-s-nato-problem-pub-88929
Russia is beginning to tear at the fabric of New START. It allowed Washington and Moscow to behave predictably, but that most valuable feature is now in jeopardy. The US has just declared Russia to be in non-compliance with the New Start treaty, the last remaining legally binding measure between the two countries to control nuclear arms. The issues are straightforward: Washington has asked to restore on-site inspections, which both sides suspended during the pandemic, and requested a meeting of the treaty’s implementation body. Moscow has refused on both counts.
https://www.ft.com/content/98b638b9-bb13-4e24-9035-0e03624be95a
Top Russian Official Teases ‘the Next Ukraine’ in New Threat: The remarks come after months of warnings that Moscow is singling out a small European country. Russia’s top diplomat said the actions of Western nations could soon turn Moldova into the “next Ukraine,” according to TASS.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/top-russian-official-teases-next-192835625.html
# Gov / Politics / US
‘Death sentence for women and families’: US court blocks domestic violence gun ban: The court ruled that the law prohibiting people with domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns “fails to pass constitutional muster,” and that the ban is an outlier “that our ancestors never would have accepted.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/domestic-violence-gun-laws
# Legal / DOJ
FBI to Search Pence’s Home for Classified Documents: Justice Department is in talks with former vice president’s legal team about scheduling search
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-to-search-mike-pences-home-for-additional-classified-materials-11675356965
House Oversight Committee announces investigation into John Kerry negotiations with Chinese: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is demanding President Biden’s special climate envoy, turn over documents related to secret negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party that the Republican says “undermine the United States’ interests.”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/house-gop-launches-probe-into-john-kerrys-secret-negotiations-with-china/
# Medical / Health
Plastics a Big Factor in Rapidly Declining Sperm Counts: Sperm counts are declining worldwide, and at a rate more than double that since the turn of the century, according to one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists, who says endocrine-disrupting chemicals are likely to blame.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sperm-counts-reproductive-development-plastics/
# Military / DOD
“US Don’t Have the Missiles to Stop China”: Warning by the Pentagon’s Warmonger Friend “Defense One.” The war in Ukraine made plain several well-known challenges with precision weapons: they are expensive, rely on complicated supply chains, and take time to build. With Russia’s invasion stretching into its second year and military leaders warning of a looming war with China, analysts, Congress, and defense officials are all arguing for dramatically increased spending on the sophisticated long-range missiles needed for war in the Indo-Pacific. Ramping up production of key missiles will take two years or more.
https://www.gospanews.net/en/2023/02/02/us-dont-have-the-missiles-to-stop-china-warning-by-the-pentagons-warmonger-friend-defense-one/
Arab and Israeli Positions on Ukraine War Continue to Frustrate the US: The refusal by US regional partners to do more to help Ukraine—aside from providing limited humanitarian aid—amounts to de facto political support for Russia and threatens to strain relationships with some of America’s key partners in the region, most notably Saudi Arabia and Israel.
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/arab-and-israeli-positions-on-ukraine-war-continue-to-frustrate-the-us/
Pentagon Tracking Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Over the U.S., Chinese spy balloon, live: China claims strong winds blew ‘research’ airship over Montana by accident. Beijing has claimed the giant airship spotted over the northern United States is conducting meteorological research
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chinese-spy-balloon-montana-canada-latest-news-b2274997.html
Chinese Spy Balloon Is Not a Spy Balloon, China Says: Beijing says the whole thing is just a big misunderstanding.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-spy-balloon-china-montana-pentagon-today-2023-02-02/
US to send Ukraine longer-range bombs in latest turnaround: The U.S. will provide ground-launched small diameter bombs as part of a $2.17 billion aid package the U.S. is expected to announce Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-politics-military-and-defense-0f550a262fb6178a7d91b8be6e2c601b
U.S. Secures Four More Military Bases Surrounding China: The deal allows U.S. to hold China’s influence at bay and monitor the Chinese in the South China Sea and around Taiwan.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/us-seeks-deal-philippines-bases-220642010.html
# Military / Global
Russia issues warning to Israel: Any attempts – implemented or even unrealized but announced, for the supply of additional, new or some other weapons, have led and will lead to an escalation of this crisis. And everyone should be aware of this.” Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov condemned the decision of the Israeli regime to send military equipment to Ukraine amid the special military operation launched by Russia on February 24. “We are carefully reviewing this information and will respond, accordingly, if it is confirmed,” Viktorov said.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Warns-Israel-Over-Providing-Military-Aid-to-Ukraine-20220422-0020.html
Russia’s War in Ukraine Shifts Dynamics in the Israel-Iran-Azerbaijan Triangle: From the start, the Russian invasion of Ukraine instantly went beyond the level of subregional clashes to a restructuring of relations among the major world powers—the United States, the EU, Russia, and China. It has also greatly influenced relations among Middle Eastern countries, where it has triggered the strengthening of various geopolitical and strategic alliances.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/russias-war-ukraine-shifts-dynamics-israel-iran-azerbaijan-triangle
# Pharmas / Drugs
Fentanyl Found in Prescription Drugs From Mexico Pharmacies: A survey of pharmacies in northwestern Mexico found that the dangerous drugs were pressed into counterfeit pills and sold under the guise of legitimate labels. The Times investigation found that 71% of the 17 pills tested came up positive for more powerful drugs. A team led by UCLA researchers recorded similar results in a study last week, but this phenomenon has otherwise gone largely unnoticed. The new findings could represent a dangerous shift in the fentanyl crisis.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-02/mexico-pharmacy-fentanyl-laced-pills-meth
# Science
Researchers Successfully Split Seawater to Produce Green Hydrogen Without Pre-Treatment: Researchers have produced green hydrogen by splitting seawater, without the use of pre-treatments like reverse osmosis desolation, purification or alkalisation, in a new study. The team used an inexpensive catalyst to split seawater into oxygen and hydrogen, with nearly 100% efficiency.
https://www.ecowatch.com/seawater-split-green-hydrogen.html
# Veterans / VA
White House initiative leaves deported veterans in limbo: Critics say Biden’s initiative fails to stop veterans from being deported and bring back those living in exile behind enemy lines. Marcelino Ramos said he joined the U.S. Marines Corps at 17 because he felt a duty to serve and because a recruiter in a pressed-blue uniform promised him citizenship. Ramos, now 54, had no idea that the country he swore to protect would deport him.
https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/immigration/white-house-initiative-leaves-deported-veterans-in-limbo/
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