Voices, The Peoples News
February 21, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
In push to mine for minerals, clean energy advocates ask what going green really means: For local tribal members, the land they call Peehee Mu’huh, or “Rotten Moon,” is a hallowed place of remembrance and sacred burial site. In 1865, US cavalrymen massacred their ancestors at the site, including children and elders. Members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe visit often, praying and sharing food together in the windswept wilderness. Now, a contingent of forces that includes the US government and a large Canada-based mining corporation are pushing to make Thacker Pass a gateway to the future, they seek to carve into the landscape
https://www.thenewlede.org/
After Centuries Of Stealing Land, The U.S. Govt Is Actually Inviting Tribes To Help Manage It: Last April, in a farm field in eastern Virginia, Ann Richardson gathered with a few hundred people for a celebration. It wasn’t a party, though. Several people were crying. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was there. She was crying, too. Biden is laying the groundwork for a seismic shift in public land management, one that treats tribes as partners instead of an afterthought.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-administration-deb-haaland-interior-department-land-costewardship-tribes_n_63b86e01e4b0d6f0b9face1a
# Children / Youth
Juvenile Crime Surges, Reversing Long Decline. ‘It’s Just Kids Killing Kids: Violence among children has soared across the country since 2020, a stark reversal of a decades long decline in juvenile crime. In the U.S., homicides committed by juveniles acting alone rose 30% in 2020 from a year earlier, while those committed by multiple juveniles increased 66%. The number of killings committed by children under 14 was the highest in two decades, according to the most recent federal data.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/violent-crime-rate-juvenile-11674485556
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
GOP Taking Budget Advice From Trump Official Who Wants to Cut $2 Trillion From Medicaid: “The Republican playbook is always to drive more people deeper into poverty, while giving kickbacks and tax breaks to their super-rich friends.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-trump-aide-cut-medicaid
Biden’s Social Security Pledge Will Likely Mean Huge Middle Class Tax Hikes, Expert Warns: Biden pledged to block Medicare and and Social Security cuts in his recent State of the Union address, in which he also promised not to hike taxes for families earning less than $400,000. But the two systems are slated to run $48 trillion and $21 trillion shortfalls, respectively, over the next 30 years, making it nearly impossible to avoid significant tax raises without cutting benefits, Riedl wrote.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/21/joe-biden-social-security-medicare-middle-class-tax/
# Education / Schools
The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school: An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 230,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. In short, they’re missing.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-pandemic-missing-the-kids-who-didnt-go-back-to-school/
# Employment / Labor
Walmart is closing a batch of stores in 2023:
* Walmart will close five stores in four states: Illinois, Wisconsin, New Mexico, and Florida.
* The company is also winding down its two remaining pickup locations in Illinois and Arkansas.
* Each year, the company typically closes a handful of stores it considers to be “underperforming.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/walmart-is-closing-a-batch-of-stores-in-2023-here-s-the-full-list/ar-AA17wvko?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=7f997b3bd48a4d1c95e90ef576c8fd35
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemical
Energy prices have risen dramatically since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and could push as many as 141 million people into extreme poverty, a new study has shown. The costs of goods and services have also gone up due to higher energy prices.
https://www.ecowatch.com/soaring-energy-prices-extreme-poverty.html
# Environment / Climate / Interior
Why people are so concerned about the Ohio train derailment’s long-term effects: Vinyl chloride, a volatile organic compound, or VOC, and the most toxic chemical involved in the derailment, is known to cause cancer, attacking the liver, and can also affect the brain. For now, people are most concerned about the vinyl chloride. As of Feb. 16, 3,150 cubic yards of contaminated soil and 942,000 gallons of contaminants and contaminated liquid have been removed from the site, according to the Ohio EPA.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amandagardner/health-effects-vinyl-chloride-ohio-derailment
Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species: Exposing water fleas, a critical link in the aquatic food chain, to fracking wastewater reduces their survival and ability to reproduce, with potentially far-ranging consequences, new research shows. Extracting fossil fuels from underground reservoirs requires so much water a Chevron scientist once referred to its operations in California’s Kern River Oilfield “as a water company that skims oil.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21022023/fracking-wastewater-water-mites-food-web/
Biden’s EPA Restores Rule Protecting Vulnerable Communities From Mercury and Other Toxic Power Plant Emissions: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reaffirmed the legal, scientific and economic bases of the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) that require coal and oil-fired power plants to implement “significant reductions” in emissions of mercury, acid gases and other toxic pollutants
https://www.ecowatch.com/power-plant-emissions-mercury-biden.html
# General News
Residents react to base camp set up in Florida Keys: A tent city, as Upper Florida Keys locals call it, has arrived along U.S. 1. While everyone knows it’s there, most people didn’t know exactly what it was. The popup facility is a “base camp,” and “is NOT a migrant holding area,” according to a statement released by the Islamorada village government. The makeshift complex was built to house the influx of state law enforcement officers who were sent to the Florida Keys last month as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order to deal with the increase of migrant landings in the Keys. “It’s got to be helpful because they’ve got people coming ashore quite a bit,” said Gary, a Florida Keys resident.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southeast/residents-react-to-base-camp-set-up-in-florida-keys/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Over 7.5 million Ukranians are estimated to be displaced since the invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022. The numbers of Ukrainian casualties have not been fully reported but the most recent figures from the Biden administration estimated last November that over 100,000 people had been killed on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides.
https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/forced-displacement-and-within-ukraine
Biden’s Ukraine Visit Upstages Putin And Leaves Moscow’s Military Pundits Raging: Russian state television covered the visit extensively, with anchors saying that it was clear that Biden “runs things” in Ukraine, which fits into the Kremlin’s narrative that Zelesnkyy’s government is a stooge of the U.S. administration.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/moscow-downplays-significance-of-bidens-surprise-visit-to-ukraine
Putin Halts Nuke Pact With US, Vows to Push War in Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin gave no sign Tuesday he would change strategy in the Kremlin’s bloody war in Ukraine, and ratcheted up tensions with the West by suspending Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the U.S.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/putin-not-backing-down-on-ukraine-suspends-start-nuke-pact/
Putin issues nuclear warning to US, threatens to resume weapons tests:
* Putin tells West that Russia cannot be defeated
* Russia suspends participation in New START nuclear arms treaty
* Putin puts new strategic nuclear weapons on ‘combat duty’
* President says Russia will resume nuclear tests if U.S. does
* Blinken: move is deeply unfortunate and irresponsible
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/putin-suspends-russian-involvement-in-nuclear-arms-pact-over-ukraine-tensions
Putin put the last major nuclear arms treaty with the US on ‘life support,’ risking pulling the world back to a ‘dangerous’ time of uncontrolled arsenals, experts say: Without the New START pact and nuclear arms control, the US and Russia could expand their nuclear arsenals. The situation is “bad and could and probably will get worse,” one UN researcher said in response.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-put-the-last-major-nuclear-arms-treaty-with-the-us-on-life-support-risking-pulling-the-world-back-to-a-dangerous-time-of-uncontrolled-arsenals-nuke-experts-say/ar-AA17LDLp?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=7f997b3bd48a4d1c95e90ef576c8fd35
# Gov / Politics / US
Biden’s Kyiv Trip is Humiliating for Putin, and Trump: Periodically during the past sixty years, American presidents have stood up at the Eastern edge of Europe and looked to Russia to say, “We stand with our allies. Our resolve is unshakeable.”
https://www.allsides.com/news/2023-02-20-1421/joe-biden-biden-s-trip-kyiv-ultimate-humiliation-putin-and-trump
DeSantis says Biden ‘neglecting’ domestic problems with Ukraine trip: The president said the trip was meant to showcase the strength of Ukraine and solidarity of the U.S., while announcing an additional $500 million in American support to Ukraine.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3866482-desantis-says-biden-neglecting-domestic-problems-with-ukraine-trip/
Why Do Politicians Weaponize Medicare? Because It Works: The Medicare wars are back, and almost no one in Washington is surprised. The reality is that Medicare’s value as a political weapon also sabotages any effort to come together to solve the program’s financing problems. The last two times the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund was this close to insolvency — in the early 1980s and late 1990s — Congress passed bipartisan bills to keep the program afloat.
https://khn.org/news/article/healthbent-politicians-weaponize-medicare-federal-entitlements/
# Law Enforcement
Police said a 13-year-old boy was killed by an officer because he rammed a police cruiser. Video tells a different story. Officials described the incident as a low-speed, minor collision. Andre “AJ” Hernandez was fatally shot by San Antonio police on June 3, 2022, and a grand jury on declined to indict the officer on criminal charges.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/aj-hernandez-shooting-police-videos
A suspect is in custody after allegedly killing six people in a rural Mississippi shooting rampage. Authorities have not yet determined a motive for the incident.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/17/1158003226/mississippi-shooting-deaths-arkabutla
# Legal / DOJ
How Shaky Evidence Could Send This Man to Prison for Life: Christopher Howard’s case has caught the attention of researchers who say it is emblematic of disturbing problems with the expanded use of the RICO Act
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-shaky-evidence-could-send-bronx-man-christopher-howard-to-prison-for-life
A Law Was Meant to Free Sick or Aging Inmates. Instead, Some Are Left to Die in Prison: Why the law hasn’t made a difference, so far. Judges made rulings without guidance from the sentencing commission, an independent agency that develops sentencing policies for the courts. The commission was delayed for more than three years because Congress did not confirm Trump’s nominees and President Joe Biden’s appointees were not confirmed until August. As a result, academic researchers, attorneys, and advocates for prison reform said the law has been applied unevenly across the country.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/21/1157058152/sick-elderly-people-left-to-die-federal-prison-law-judges
# Medical
5th Cured HIV Case Confirmed Following Stem Cell Transplant: Researchers from Germany say a man has been cured of HIV following a stem cell transplant that was performed after several rounds of chemotherapy, making him the fifth known case of the virus being cured in an individual.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3866819-fifth-person-cured-of-hiv-after-stem-cell-transplant-researchers-say/
This ‘Terrifying’ Court Case Could Change Abortion Access Again: The court could issue a ruling as soon as Feb. 10. Timmaraju warned the courts are “packed by extremists thanks to Trump” and that “these are young judges” who “are going to be there for a very long time.”
https://news.yahoo.com/terrifying-court-case-could-change-094006333.html
Now for sale: Data on your mental health: A study published Monday, outlines how expansive the market for people’s health data has become. After contacting data brokers to ask what kinds of mental health information she could buy, researcher Joanne Kim reported that she ultimately found 11 companies willing to sell bundles of data that included information on what antidepressants people were taking, whether they struggled with insomnia or attention issues, and details on other medical ailments, including Alzheimer’s disease or bladder-control difficulties.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/
# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
GSK Scientists Knew About Zantac’s Cancer Risks For Forty Years: A new report in Bloomberg Businessweek says GSK’s own scientists have long known about the drug’s risks. The publication reported that over the span of multiple decades, GSK was warned by its own scientists and independent researchers about a potential cancer-causing impurity in the drug. The FDA considered the risks when it reviewed the drug, but the agency ultimately approved Zantac, or ranitidine, in 1983.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/gsk-was-warned-repeatedly-about-zantac-risks-didnt-act-warnings-bloomberg
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