Voices, The Peoples News
February 11, 2023
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# Indigenous
Montana’s anti-Indigenous politics aren’t going away: The now-dead proposal to ‘investigate’ reservations was neither the beginning or the end of combative attitudes towards tribal nations in the state. In early January, the Montana State Legislature’s 2023 session started with a bang. That first week, Sen. Keith Regier, R-Kalispell, brought a draft resolution calling on the U.S. Congress to “investigate alternatives to the reservation system,” using language rife with misinformation and the stereotypes typical of anti-Indigenous groups. After pushback from the state’s bipartisan American Indian Caucus, tribal nations and his own constituents, Regier said he would not introduce the legislation, adding that it had been written by a local constituent
https://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-s-anti-indigenous-politics-aren-t-going-away/article_53833ea5-38e4-55ad-90a5-68b30611b4ca.html
# Indigenous / Global
Nearly 80% of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest has been deforested, but researchers have found a way to safeguard what’s left: Give Indigenous communities legal title to their territories. Land rights granted by the government make a difference, allowing forests to slowly begin healing, researchers find.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06022023/brazil-atlantic-forest-indigenous-communities-deforestation/
# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Ropen: A Living Dinosaur or a Figment of Faith? After numerous expeditions into the wilds of Papua New Guinea, Paul Nation believed he finally made the discovery of a lifetime in 2006. The Texas-born cryptozoologist, explorer, and “living-pterosaurs investigator” came to the South Pacific Island nation to coordinate a search for a nocturnal flying creature known as Ropen. And on this fateful expedition, he believed he finally caught them on videotape.
https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Ropen-a-Living-Dinosaur-or-a-Figment-of-Faith
Has the mythical dragon finally caught on camera? As much as we would all love it to be true, it’s almost certainly CGI – but that hasn’t stopped the video from spreading virally around the internet and social media with plenty of even stranger theories connected to it. Alleged dragon video claims footage is from China, it’s probably CGI but everybody wants it to be real.
https://exemplore.com/news/dragon-flying-china
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Senators want border wall finished: South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds is one of seven senators sponsoring the WALL Act, which eliminates illegal immigrant tax subsidies and uses the funds to finish the wall at the Mexican border
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/senators-want-border-wall-finished/article_dd496d54-a98d-11ed-bcf8-23afd1261756.html
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
CDC Data Reveal Multiple COVID Jabs Can Knock Up to 24 Years off a Person’s Expected Lifespan: The latest health data from the government of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia confirms something we have been warning you about for quite some time now: covid “vaccines” produce vaccine-induced AIDS (VAIDS), which in turn sheds many years off a person’s life – and progressively more so with the passage of time.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-09-cdc-data-covid-vaccines-24-years-aging.html
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The Twilight of the Deficit Hawks: President Biden’s willingness during the State of the Union to hold Republicans accountable for wanting to cut social spending is indicative of one optimistic trend: The era of bipartisan deficit hawkery is coming to a close. Read David Dayen on how the paradigm on social programs in Washington has shifted. Democrats have stopped being the willing partner in a great conspiracy to slash social insurance.
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-02-10-democrats-budget-deficit-hawks/
Republicans Have Wanted To Cut Medicare And Social Security For Decades: “Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years,” President Joe Biden said at Tuesday’s State of the Union. President Biden drew a raucous response from Republicans during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night when he said some GOP lawmakers want to cut Social Security and Medicare. “Anybody who doubts it, contact my office. I’ll give you a copy of the proposal,” he said as Republican lawmakers jeered.
https://thehill.com/finance/3850036-republicans-social-security-medicare-debt-ceiling/
# Education / Schools
Will the Education Culture War Backfire on Republicans? The GOP’s culture war on K-12 education is a false pretext for the same old agenda of undermining public schools. But according to new polling, parents have vastly different priorities. Conservative screaming about wokeness is a substitute for the old priorities of school vouchers and weakening of public education. Polls show that parents don’t agree.
https://prospect.org/education/2023-02-08-republican-public-school-culture-war/
9-year-old Black prodigy has already begun college, but schools often fail to recognize highly talented Black students: Anti-Black bias and lack of teacher referrals are keeping Black students out of gifted school programs, a scholar suggests. The latest example is David Balogun, a 9-year-old Pennsylvania boy who recently became the second-youngest person to graduate from high school, which he did after taking classes remotely. David, whose parents own and run a psychiatric clinic, has also already begun taking courses at a community college.
https://theconversation.com/9-year-old-black-prodigy-has-already-begun-college-but-schools-often-fail-to-recognize-highly-talented-black-students-154330
School Voucher Programs Are Hurting Special Needs Students They Claim to Help: Arizona’s school vouchers have stripped millions from public school budgets. Now Texas legislators want to follow suit. Advocacy Groups File U.S. Supreme Court Brief Warning That School Vouchers Harm Students With Disabilities
https://thearc.org/blog/advocacy-groups-file-u-s-supreme-court-brief-warning-that-school-vouchers-harm-students-with-disabilities/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
A Bus-Sized Robot Will Soon Be Mining the Ocean Floor: Miners plan to use massive, robotic machines that operate like super-charged vacuum cleaners. Once lowered thousands of feet to the ocean floor, they begin sucking up precious minerals, as well as the top 5-30 centimeters of the seafloor and any marine life that gets in the way. The process has been likened to clearcutting a forest and then siphoning off all the nutrient-rich soil. Even worse, the thick layer of ocean floor that the mining machines would suck up and pump out would create a massive plume of debris, similar to an underwater sandstorm, that could harm life for hundreds of miles in every direction.
https://singularityhub.com/2019/03/29/a-bus-sized-robot-will-soon-be-mining-the-ocean-floor/
In recent years, the climate impact of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, has gotten increasing attention. It’s the main component of fracked gas and a byproduct of oil, and can leak into the atmosphere at various points in the production and transportation of these fossil fuels. Growing body of research suggests offshore oil’s methane pollution is underestimated. Previous efforts to regulate offshore methane emissions stalled, despite role in helicopter crashes.
https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/07/gulf-mexico-offshore-oil-methane-pollution-helicopter-crashes/
Leaked video footage of ocean pollution shines light on deep-sea mining: Company rebuts claims by scientists that ‘uncontrolled and unscientific’ practices highlight dangers of going ahead with seabed. Video footage from a deep-sea mining test, showing sediment discharging into the ocean, has raised fresh questions about the largely untested nature of the industry, and the possible harms it could do to ecosystems as companies push to begin full-scale exploration of the ocean floor as early as this year.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/06/leaked-video-footage-of-ocean-pollution-shines-light-on-deep-sea-mining
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyvetFS-rls
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
Russia to Cut Oil Output in Response to Western Sanctions, Pushing Up Prices: Moscow plans to lower production by about 5% in rare move outside of alliance with OPEC: U.S. gas prices have been up and down throughout the year and now more uncertainty is on the horizon as a European Union embargo on Russian oil imports kicks in along with a price cap on crude out of Russia. WSJ explains how these moves could impact prices at the pump for Americans.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-to-cut-oil-production-sending-prices-higher-5697a8e8
Lawsuit Targets Shell’s Board of Directors Over Energy Transition Plans: Shell’s board of directors officially has been served with a world-first lawsuit aiming to hold its corporate directors personally liable for alleged mismanagement of climate risk. The lawsuit, filed Thursday by UK-based environmental law organization ClientEarth, contends that Shell’s strategy to address climate change and manage the energy transition fails to align with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and leaves the company in a vulnerable position as society shifts away from fossil fuels.
https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/09/clientearth-lawsuit-uk-shell-board-directors-energy-transition/
Canada’s New Oil And Gas Strategy: Green Promises at Home and More Exports Abroad: Top Canadian oil and gas companies are moving “aggressively” to cut their greenhouse gas emissions domestically so that they can sell more of their climate-warming products abroad.
https://www.desmog.com/2023/01/30/canadas-new-oil-and-gas-strategy-green-promises-at-home-and-more-exports-abroad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canadas-new-oil-and-gas-strategy-green-promises-at-home-and-more-exports-abroad
Flightradar24 confirmed Hersh Investigation on Nord Stream Sabotage: NATO Planes over Sites During Baltops Exercise
On the cover image the US P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft by Sputnik International ITALIAN VERSION During the NATO Baltops 22 exercise last summer, US and German navy aircraft regularly circled over the sites of future explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines, according to Sputnik’s analysis of Flightradar24 data.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/02/11/2851765/nato-planes-regularly-circled-sites-of-nord-stream-blasts-during-baltops-exercise-analysis-finds
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global
China key player in U.S. farm exports while facing ban on buying land: China played a big role in a record-setting year for U.S. farm exports in 2022 as the United States’ largest importer. U.S. agricultural exports reached $196 billion in 2022 with China importing a record $36.4 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
China’s role as a key importer of U.S. agricultural goods comes at a time some states are proposing banning its citizens, companies and the government of China from being able to buy any land in the U.S.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/china-key-player-in-u-s-farm-exports-while-facing-ban-on-buying-land/article_27bc0200-a95e-11ed-9fd2-4f06bbde2cbc.html
Climate change makes its presence felt in the Amazon’s shrinking fish: Studies show that the effects of climate change can already be seen in Amazonian fish, which are growing smaller and less abundant in wetlands and streams; female fish are also reproducing at a younger age. A project by the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) is documenting these impacts through the perspective of Indigenous communities, and has found that they match what the scientific data already show.
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/climate-change-makes-its-presence-felt-in-the-amazons-shrinking-fish/
# Food Recalls / Alerts
How Worried Should You Be About Mercury in Your Tuna? CR tested popular canned tuna like Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, and StarKist. Here’s how much tuna is safe to eat. CR’s food safety experts caution that our current tests, along with our previous work and research from other groups, suggest that pregnant people may be best off avoiding tuna altogether.
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/how-worried-should-you-be-about-mercury-in-your-tuna-a5041903086/
400 Types of Prepared Foods Recalled: The products, sold under dozens of brand names, may pose a listeria risk. The Food and Drug Administration just announced a substantial recall of over 400 types of ready-to-eat sandwiches, salads, wraps, snacks, yogurt and related products. This is due to a possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
https://www.eatingwell.com/article/8028330/ready-to-eat-salad-sandwich-recall-possible-listeria-contamination/#:~:text=The%20Food%20and%20Drug%20Administration,a%20possible%20Listeria%20monocytogenes%20contamination.
# Gov / Politics / Global
The Side of Russian News No American Hears Of: Russia is carrying on as the world turns and not pouring trillions into arming the Taliban, and desperate Yemenis, sending Syria more tanks to attack Israel or Turkey, and certainly not asking Russians to pay for wars in countries no Russian can pinpoint on a map.
https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/03/the-side-of-russian-news-no-american-hears-of/
Russia’s Second, Silent War Against Its Human Capital: One of the key sociopolitical problems of Russian society is that seventy-year-old political leaders are deciding for young people how they will live and what they will die for. Moscow Is Waging a Second War at Home. The country’s militarization creates all of the conditions for a long-term demographic crisis.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88983
# Gov / Politics / US
What the First Amendment really says; 4 basic principles of free speech in the US: Not many people educated in American schools, whether public or private, including lawyers, teachers, talking heads and school board members, appear to have a working knowledge about the right to free speech embedded in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
https://theconversation.com/what-the-first-amendment-really-says-4-basic-principles-of-free-speech-in-the-us-197604
First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
First Amendment Fundamental Freedoms: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-1/
Biden Forges a New Democratic Paradigm: During this week’s State of the Union address, President Biden exhibited empathy, strength, and mastery of political improvisation as he prioritized economic relief to America’s working class, the kind of rhetoric that just might get him re-elected
https://prospect.org/politics/2023-02-08-biden-state-of-the-union-democratic-party-economy/
There is a dirty little secret Democrats don’t want to admit to: It was old-school Reagan Democrats that made Donald Trump president in 2016 – On Election Night 2016, the “Blue Wall” was surprisingly breached. It shocked political pundits and cost former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the election when Donald Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It shouldn’t have come as a complete surprise, actually.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-dirty-little-secret-that-made-donald-trump-president/ar-AA17mHKN?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=3ed77182fba942a7b07c5f3e87b06918
Texas Councilwoman Started Asking Questions, and Got Arrested: A blue folder left by an outgoing police chief set off mass resignations. And that was just the beginning. Godley has grown into a municipality of about 2,000 that was outwardly much like many others—until late last year, when the resignation of the police chief was followed by the departure en masse of the city administrator, the city attorney and the city secretary. City Hall itself shut down and remains closed due to a staffing shortage.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/godley-texas-became-a-twisted-version-of-parks-and-recreation
Second Republican Council Member Shot Dead a Week After Unsolved Murder of Colleague: A New Jersey council member was shot and killed in his car Wednesday, according to local authorities, just a week after a state councilwoman was murdered in a similar fashion.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/09/new-jersey-republican-councilmember-shot-killed-russ-heller-eunice-dwumfour/
11 House Republicans Led by Matt Gaetz Introduce ‘Ukraine Fatigue’ Resolution to Halt U.S. Military and Financial Aid to Ukraine | 9 Feb 2023 | Over the past year, the United States has spent over 110 billion to secure the Ukrainian border from the Russian invasion special operation.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/11-house-republicans-led-matt-gaetz-introduce-ukraine-fatigue-resolution-halt-us-military-financial-aid-ukraine/
# Law Enforcement
1 dead, 2 injured in shooting at Southern California agricultural nursery: Three people were shot, including one fatally, at an agricultural nursery in Southern California, authorities said. A motive is under investigation. Investigators working to determine the relationship between Gutierrez and the victims, though they believe he is the father of the female victim, the sheriff said. ”
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/multiple-people-injured-shooting-southern-011339465.html
Jury finds dad guilty of capital murder for driving son away from Garland store after allegedly shooting, killing 3 teens: Richard Acosta Jr. was accused of being the getaway driver for his son, Abel Acosta, after Abel allegedly shot and killed three teenagers at a Texaco. The jury deliberated for about four hours in the murder trial for Richard Acosta Jr., who was accused of being the getaway driver for his son, Abel Acosta, after Abel allegedly shot and killed three teenagers at a Texaco convenience store in December of 2021.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/richard-acosta-capital-murder-trial-jury-deliberating/287-558070f5-6b43-4b9c-bc10-d582adac9346
Will Ukraine Fatigue Among US Lawmakers Bring Kiev Militarization to End? “President Joe Biden must have forgotten his prediction from March 2022 suggesting that arming Ukraine with military equipment will escalate the conflict to ‘World War III.’ America is in a state of managed decline, and it will exacerbate if we continue to hemorrhage taxpayer dollars toward a foreign war.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3511525-the-west-cannot-allow-ukraine-fatigue-to-overcome-us/
# Medical
What is REACH? In the waning days of the Trump Administration, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) launched a pilot program called Medicare Direct Contracting. This under-the-radar program invited third-party middlemen to “manage” the care of Traditional Medicare beneficiaries. It also created a financial incentive for these middlemen to frustrate patients and deny medically necessary care. Thanks to the efforts of thousands of activists, Direct Contracting became thoroughly discredited and the Biden Administration was pressured to address the program. Unfortunately, their response was to simply rebrand Direct Contracting as Medicare REACH, a program that retains the worst elements of its predecessor and in some cases is even more generous to industry. Dr. Ed Weisbart explains the dangers of REACH
https://protectmedicare.net/what-are-dces/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d7c83238-639f-412c-90af-15ea22177fa2&utm_source=phpList&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MPEN+e-Newsletter+No.+2023-02-11&utm_content=HTML
Rep. Schrier proposes bill to strengthen Medicaid for improved health care for children: U.S. Representatives have introduced the Kids’ Access to Primary Care Act that will expand access to Medicaid by increasing reimbursement rates for doctors and expand eligibility for enhanced rates to additional providers.
https://auburnexaminer.com/rep-schrier-introduces-bipartisan-bill-to-expand-access-to-primary-care/
Extent of fraud in pandemic unemployment insurance still not clear: U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pennsylvania, said the cost lands squarely on American taxpayers. “We wait too long to look into what’s happening with hard-working American taxpayers’ money,” he said during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing. “All this fraud lands on the same shoulders that it always lands on and that’s our taxpayers.”
https://660amtheanswer.com/news/national/extent-of-fraud-in-pandemic-unemployment-insurance-still-not-clear
# Medical Science
German Doctors Are Attempting to Reverse Death and Resurrect Humans: Ten dead people are the lucky test subjects. The waiting list for Tomorrow Biostasis, a cryopreservation startup based in Germany, is in the hundreds. And the company already has about 10 cases with some bodies preserved in a lab. What comes next is the real issue.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a42789703/german-doctors-attempting-reverse-death-resurrect-humans/
# Military / DOD
NORAD monitoring another ‘high-altitude’ object over Canada – report –Military aircraft “currently operating” in the area. The incident marks the third time in eight days the U.S. has shot down an object over North America.
https://justthenews.com/government/norad-monitoring-another-high-altitude-object-over-canada-report
‘Object’ shot down over Alaska penetrated US airspace before being detected – U.S. official –Shoot-down of ‘object’ over Alaska follows similar incident involving a Chinese surveillance aircraft over continental US last week
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/object-shot-down-alaska-penetrated-us-airspace-before-being-detected-us-official
Claims of U.S. Involvement in Nord Stream Attack Draw Scrutiny: American journalist Seymour Hersh has self-published a bombshell report suggesting that the Nord Stream pipeline attacks were carried out by the U.S. government, using a NATO minehunting exercise as cover. Russia and China have embraced the allegations and called for a closer investigation, while the Biden administration and U.S. security services have denied involvement.
https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/claims-of-u-s-involvement-in-nord-stream-attack-draw-scrutiny
# Military / Global
Russian army massively hit energy facilities in Ukraine: All the assigned tasks were carried out by the Russian military. The assigned objects were hit. The impact helped to stop the work of a number of energy-intensive industries of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine. The Russian military was able to block the transfer of weapons, shells and manpower reserves to the NVO front line.
https://apnews.com/article/kyiv-russia-ukraine-war-government-0a206ad866d5e19899c752d988a1a3be
# Pharmas / Drugs
Dan Cohen Exposes Dr. Peter Hotez’s Big Pharma Connections: WATCH Dan Cohen’s SHOCKING Investigation into Fauci Underling Peter Hotez. For Redacted, Dan Cohen examines how Peter Hotez came to prominence thanks to Fauci, Bill Gates and the Clintons, and how he has served as a deceptive political creature throughout the COVID era.
https://uncaptured.substack.com/p/watch-dan-cohens-shocking-investigation
# Technology
Has artificial intelligence developed consciousness? Artificial consciousness: what is it and what are the issues? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is pervasive today. Across all aspects of technology, AI is increasingly playing a part. But, arguably, most AI is essentially just sophisticated automation rather than true “intelligence.” In this “explainer” article we look to the distant future of artificial intelligence: artificial consciousness. What is artificial consciousness and when can we expect it?
https://www.futureofworkhub.info/explainers/2021/4/14/artificial-consciousness-what-is-it-and-what-are-the-issues
Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad: Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) lost $100 billion in market value on Wednesday after its new chatbot shared inaccurate information in a promotional video and a company event failed to dazzle, feeding worries that the Google parent is losing ground to rival Microsoft Corp
https://www.communicationstoday.co.in/google-shares-lose-more-than-100-billion-after-bard-flubs-answer-in-ad/
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