Voices, The Peoples News
October 31, 2024
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# Indigenous / Global
In the nation of Colombia, in recent years, local indigenous organizations, the international community, and the government have joined forces to achieve significant advances in territorial land rights of indigenous peoples.
https://www.amazonteam.org/maps/colombia-land-rights/en/index.html
# Border / Immigration / Migrants
A new migrant surge at the border is overwhelming some communities, with thousands crossing into the U.S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2RtFTtaM14
Desperation over gang violence fuels a surge of migration from Ecuador to the US
https://news.net/centralamerica/news/desperation-over-gang-violence-fuels-a-surge-of-migration-from-ecuador-to-the-us/
Texas’ border takeover a factor in migrant, US citizen deaths, activists say: Groups allege razor wire, hostile state troops, highway pursuits contributing to serious injuries, fatalities along Mexican border
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/texas-border-takeover-a-factor-in-migrant-us-citizen-deaths-activists-say/
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Global
Tren De Aragua Extorting Migrant Caravans Headed for US
https://www.newsweek.com/tren-de-aragua-extortion-migrant-caravans-heading-america-drugs-sex-trafficking-1976450
DHS identifies hundreds of migrant with possible ties to Tren de Aragua: Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfaCBqhCco
How Mexican cartels manage the flow of migrants on their way to the US border
https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/international/2024/10/30/fgn21-mexico-immigration.html
# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Study of 1.7 million Kids and Teens Found Heart Inflammation Only in Those Who Got Pfizer’s COVID Shots
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/study-1-7-million-kids-teens-heart-inflammation-pfizer-covid-shots-cola/
The real risk of heart inflammation to kids is from COVID-19—not the vaccine Pediatric experts agree that an infection causes more severe heart issues—and carries higher risk for long-term or permanent damage.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-real-risk-of-heart-inflammation-to-kids-is-from-covid-19not-the-vaccine
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The true cost of Biden-Harris economics
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3206984/true-cost-biden-harris-economics/
Put simply, tariffs are a tax on American consumers. A tariff is nothing more than a tax imposed on imported goods and services. Any tax can be levied on either the consumer or the producer.
https://agecon.unl.edu/why-tariffs-are-tax-american-consumers
UN General Assembly condemns the US economic embargo of Cuba for a 32nd year
https://www.thederrick.com/ap/world/un-general-assembly-condemns-the-us-economic-embargo-of-cuba-for-a-32nd-year/article_582db66f-c39e-545b-b48b-8e9659d46fc2.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Nuclear
Governments fund fossil fuels despite massive health risks, Lancet report says
https://www.ehn.org/governments-fund-fossil-fuels-2669544013.html
See also: Lancet’s Climate and Health Report Card: Governments, Oil and Gas Companies ‘Fuelling the Fire’ of Cascading Impacts
https://healthpolicy-watch.news/lancets-climate-and-health-report-card-governments-oil-gas-companies-fuelling-the-fire-of-cascading-impacts/
Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island plant, site of the 1979 nuclear meltdown, is set to resume
https://www.ehn.org/three-mile-island-restart-2669544023.html
See also: Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html
Federal Government Chooses Winning Bids in First Commercial Sale for Floating Offshore Atlantic Wind: Two firms cast winning bids this week in an auction for four offshore wind lease areas in the Gulf of Maine
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-chooses-winning-bids-first-194113926.html
Judge Blocks Texas Restrictions on Who Can Build Transmission Lines: A federal judge has struck down a Texas law that limits who can build new transmission lines in the state
https://www.aol.com/judge-partially-blocks-texas-transmission-181549147.html
US district court rules Texas transmission law favoring incumbent utilities unconstitutional: The ruling is a win for NextEra Energy and LS Power transmission subsidiaries as well as the East Texas Electric Cooperative
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-transmission-rofr-law-court-nextera-ls-power/731311/
How Will the Presidential and Senate Election Outcomes Affect FERC and Its Policies? Even if Donald Trump wins the presidential election, Democrats would likely maintain their majority on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for at least 18 months
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-2024-president-senate-elections-transmission-gas-policy-trump-harris-project-2025/730954/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / Water
U.S. Supreme Court blocks the state’s Rio Grande water deal with New Mexico
https://elpasomatters.org/2024/06/24/texas-new-mexico-rio-grande-water-deal-supreme-court/
Texas Sued New Mexico Over Rio Grande Water. Now the States are Fighting the Federal Government
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31102024/texas-new-mexico-rio-grande-water/
The crust between North America and Europe—ostensibly two separate continents—is lengthening without ever cleanly breaking apart. Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/science/earth-continents-geology-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE4.uliT.q-6xNIe9drDa&smid=url-share&utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter
See also: Continental drift describes one of the earliest ways geologists thought continents moved over time. The theory of continental drift has been replaced by the science of plate tectonics.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/continental-drift/
# Environment / Global
Proposal to recognize Antarctica as a legal entity could change climate negotiations: Advocates argue the continent’s unique role in Earth’s stability justifies legal protection, allowing representation at events like UN climate talks.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/antarctica-climate-change-negotiations-2669548601.html
How American Sanctions Fuel Terrible Climate Policy Around the World: Reducing foreign governments’ revenue means reducing the money they have to implement climate adaptation and mitigation policies.
https://newrepublic.com/article/187580/sanctions-iran-us-oil-climate
# Food / Alerts / Recalls
Ingredient behind McDonald’s ‘deadly’ virus outbreak identified and recalled
https://www.sciencealert.com/key-ingredient-behind-deadly-mcdonalds-outbreak-identified
# Food / Farming / Global
Canadian officials conclude investigation into outbreak traced to Silk, Great Value products
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_g_fQzyYG4
# General Recalls / Alerts
Tesla With No Driver Suddenly Smashes Into Car: Today, a tale of two Teslas. Up first, one without a driver, that smashed into this lady’s car. (For the record: This is not how they’re supposed to work.)
https://futurism.com/the-byte/driver-annoyed-tesla-smashes-car
Dynacare Baby Powder products recalled due to potential asbestos contamination. Sold on or after Jan. 18, 2024, in 35 states and online from Amazon.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/recalls/baby-powder-recall-asbestos-contamination/
# General News
An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted: Politicians have always courted the wealthy, but Elon Musk and co represent a new kind of donor, and an unprecedented danger to democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/31/elon-musk-an-excess-of-billionaires-is-destabilising-politics-just-as-academics-predicted
Donald Trump Sues Pennsylvania County for ‘Turning Away Our Voters’
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-sues-pennsylvania-county-turning-away-voters-1977074
RFK Jr. Says Trump Promised Him ‘Control’ Of CDC And Other Health Agencies
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-cdc-donald-trump-b2638265.html
Trump ‘considering withholding funds’ for police who refuse to carry out his mass deportation plans
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-police-mass-deportation-funding-b2638423.html
Trump Ally Begs Supreme Court to Let Him Keep Blocking Voting Rights: Virginia governor and Donald Trump ally Glenn Youngkin wants to keep purging voter records.
https://newrepublic.com/post/187609/maga-governor-glenn-youngkin-donald-trump-supreme-court-voting
Trump Has a Plan to Win Without the Votes—and the Fight Is On to Stop Him. As the 2024 election enters its last weeks, a years long-effort to protect it will be tested.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/2024-election-chaos-lawsuits/
Trump Reportedly Told Netanyahu Israel Needs To Finish Gaza War By Time He Takes Office: Former President Donald Trump has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel’s war in Gaza needs to be finished by the time he takes office in January.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/30/world-news/trump-told-netanyahu-to-end-the-war-by-january-if-he-wins-report/
Trump Fully Embraces Nazi Status With Speakers at Latest Event. Donald Trump’s rally was rife with Nazi and Nazi-adjacent language and imagery.
https://newrepublic.com/post/187591/donald-trump-embraces-nazi-madison-square-garden
Trump’s Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women: He and his MAGA allies are ramping up the sexism and misogyny as part of a closing message that they will restore men to their rightful place—of total control over women.
https://theconversation.com/gender-is-playing-a-crucial-role-in-this-us-election-and-its-not-just-about-kamala-harris-242113
# Gov / Politics / Global
Chinese government is calling women, asking when their last period was, and urging them to get pregnant
https://www.the-independent.com/asia/china/china-women-pregnancy-period-population-birth-rate-b2638734.html
Taliban bans women ‘hearing other women’s voices’ in latest decree
https://nypost.com/2024/10/30/world-news/taliban-bans-women-from-speaking-to-each-other-system-of-gender-apartheid/
With Israel’s Move to Ban UNRWA, ‘A New Way Has Been Found to Kill Children’: “It’ll likely see the collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza,” warned a spokesperson for the U.N. Children’s Fund.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-bans-unrwa
# Gov / Politics
GOP plot to steal election for Trump ‘could be even worse than you think’: expert
https://www.rawstory.com/2024-electoral-college-2669544079/
Bipartisan House members push Biden to allow Poland to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine
https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/uncategorized/bipartisan-house-members-push-biden-to-allow-poland-to-shoot-down-russian-missiles-over-ukraine/
Six Ways This Election Is Already a Garbage Fire
https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0wTjniSq?s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzAzNzY3MTAwNjg=&pd=0H1Na41Y&hl=en_US
U.S. sanctions third-party countries for helping Russia avoid sanctions
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/10/30/Treasury-sanctions-evasion-networks-Russia/2671730303005/
RNC is leading the legal charge for Trump amid echoes of 2020 election chaos. The Republican legal operation is more aggressive and organized than four years ago, but some lawyers involved in efforts to overturn Trump’s loss are still active.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rnc-leading-legal-charge-trump-echoes-2020-election-chaos-rcna175487
Republicans look to turn out pro-Trump Jewish voters in swing states to whittle down Democrats’ edge
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-look-turn-pro-trump-145615314.html
The Lawsuits That Could Decide the 2024 Election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8LXmF2zJtA
‘Invites fraud’: Key swing state could see repeat of 2020’s ballot-counting chaos thanks to mail ballot court ruling. Nevada’s mail-in voting rules mean final results in close races may not be available on election night.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/10/30/nevada-repeat-2020-ballot-counting-chaos-court-ruling/
Colorado Secretary Of State Website Posts ‘Partial Passwords’ To Voting Systems, Assures Public ‘No Security Breach.’ Democratic Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold admitted that “partial passwords” to state voting systems were posted on her office’s website for months.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/colorado-voting-system-partial-passwords-accidentally-posted-government-website-2024-10-30/
Why So Much Hate? Trump has tapped into an undercurrent of crude hatred and encouraged his supporters to express it. Where does all this hate come from?
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-10-30-why-so-much-hate/
Pesticide-related PAC money surges into state legislatures as companies seek to limit damage awards in court
https://usrtk.org/pesticides/pesticide-related-pac-money-surges-into-state-legislatures/?mc_cid=5abbd7c959&mc_eid=485b9951ab
‘We’re a Fortress Now’: The Militarization of US Elections Is Here: From bulletproof glass, drones, and snipers to boulders blocking election offices, the US democratic system is bracing for violent attacks in 2024.
https://www.wired.com/story/2024-us-election-polling-location-militarized-security/
Elon Musk wants to cut $2 trillion in US spending. Can he do it? Elon Musk to help lead Government Efficiency Commission if Trump wins. At rally, Tesla CEO said he wants to cut a third of federal spending. Some concerned this might mean slashing government services
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/elon-musk-2-trillion-federal-spending-plan/
# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
‘Virtual prisons’: how tech could let offenders serve time at home. New technology offers opportunities to address the jails crisis but does it ‘miss the point’?
https://theweek.com/crime/virtual-prisons-how-tech-could-let-offenders-serve-time-at-home
Retribution? IRS agent who blew whistle on Biden family given ultimatum: accept demotion or leave The IRS portrayed the ultimatum as part of a diversity program for “development of future leaders” but Gary Shapley’s lawyer alleges it is retaliation.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/retribution-irs-agent-who-blew-whistle-biden-family-given-ultimatum
Police Crack Down on Street Takeovers With High-Tech Surveillance as 4th Amendment Battles Loom.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/high-tech-surveillance-tools-and-fourth-amendment-reasonable
See also: 4th Amendment: https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment4.html
# Medical / Health News
Some states are turning miscarriages and stillbirths into criminal cases against women: How a person handles a pregnancy loss — and where it occurs — can be the difference between a private medical issue and facing criminal charges.
https://19thnews.org/2024/10/stillbirth-oklahoma-arkansas-women-investigated/
Mike Johnson promises ‘massive’ healthcare changes if Trump wins
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/speaker-johnson-promises-massive-reform-224240850.html
Medicare rates, prescription drug costs surge under Inflation Reduction Act Caused A Surge in Taxpayer Subsidies for Medicare Part D
https://paragoninstitute.org/paragon-pic/the-inflation-reduction-act-caused-a-surge-in-taxpayer-subsidies-for-medicare-part-d/
Inflation Reduction Act sent seniors’ health care costs surging: In an op-ed for the Atlanta Journal Consitution, Merritt wrote that “rates for Medicare Prescription Drug Plans have risen four times more than the national rate of inflation since the IRA was enacted. In some battlegrounds, it’s risen eight or nine times higher.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_b0b100ea-957c-11ef-ad2c-eba8b2be1119.html
Deep sleep helps recovery from heart attacks, researchers discover; immune cells that stimulate sleep neurons are released following heart attacks, which in turn reduces inflammation in the heart
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20241031/The-crucial-role-of-sleep-in-heart-healing.aspx
A Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a ‘Crime’ to Intervene in Her Miscarriage: The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. Three days after she delivered, Barnica died of an infection.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/healthcare/2024/10/30/504607/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban/
# Medical Bio-Engineering / Bio-Science
Researchers create ultra-precise 3D tumor maps of kidney, colon, breast, and other types of cancers; “tumor atlases” reveal of the cancers evolve with single-cell resolution
https://www.the-scientist.com/data-by-the-dozen-consortium-cancer-maps-provide-a-3d-view-of-tumor-evolution-72291?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
AI is supercharging gene editing, slingshotting us into a future of creating new life
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2024/10/31/ai-is-supercharging-gene-editing-slingshotting-us-into-a-future-of-creating-new-life/?mc_cid=67b85c37ce&mc_eid=c87bac2a19
AI and genome engineering: new directions in biology
https://sangerinstitute.blog/2024/10/24/ai-and-genome-engineering-new-directions-in-biology/
Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
https://bakarlabs.berkeley.edu/generative-a-i-arrives-in-the-gene-editing-world-of-crispr/
The Role of AI in Advancing Gene Therapy Techniques
https://www.formbio.com/blog/ai-gene-therapy
New AI generates CRISPR proteins unlike any seen in nature. Profluent’s new platform is like ChatGPT for genetic technology.
https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/ai-designed-crispr
Beyond CRISPR, gene-editing advances are stacking up: From AI-based CRISPR tools to alternatives that promise greater precision, there’s lots of good news for life-saving medical advancements.
https://www.cognizant.com/us/en/insights/insights-blog/beyond-crispr-gene-editing-advances-are-stacking-up-wf2782151
# Medical / Health News / Global
‘Big Red Flag’: Gates Foundation Gets Diplomatic Immunity in Kenya
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gates-foundation-diplomatic-immunity-kenya/
# Military / DOD / Militia
US Army buys long-flying solar drones to watch over Pacific units: Kraus Hamdani Aerospace has won a Pentagon contract to provide K1000ULE solar-powered unmanned aircraft to the Army and Joint Special Operations Command.
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2024/10/30/us-army-buys-long-flying-solar-drones-to-watch-over-pacific-units/
Emerging technologies have radically reshaped the arms control landscape and pose a set of major challenges, though also some opportunities in curbing the spread of weapons of mass destruction, said representatives of five major UN-adjacent disarmament agencies
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/10/30/leaders-wrestle-with-a-potent-mix-ai-and-weapons-of-mass-destruction/
# Military / Global
North Korean Defectors Ready To Join Ukraine’s Fight Against Putin
https://www.newsweek.com/north-korean-defectors-ukraine-russia-vladimir-putin-1976630
North Korea’s long-range missile test signals its improved, potential capability to attack US
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/31/north-koreas-long-range-missile-test-signals-its-improved-potential-capability-attack-us.html
October Surprise: North Korea Tests New Missile Revealing Country’s Latest ICBM Capabilities
https://thedebrief.org/october-surprise-north-korea-tests-new-missile-revealing-countrys-latest-icbm-capabilities/
# Other Interesting Things
“When you stumble upon something that leaves you speechless. [Best viewed at full screen.]
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/1geld5e/what_on_earth_could_this_be/
# Science / Bio-sciences
12-Year-Old Leaves Washington DC Hospital As The First Patient To Receive Approved Gene Therapy For Sickle Cell Disease. Staff members were overjoyed as 12-year-old Kendric Cromer left Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, in a wheelchair on Oct. 16, 2024.
https://afrotech.com/12-year-old-first-patient-to-receive-gene-therapy-sickle-cell
# Social
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Google CEO Says 25 Percent of Its Code Is Now AI-Generated
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/google-ceo-says-over-25-of-new-google-code-is-generated-by-ai/
Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight: Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. Meta isn’t shutting their groups down and is even auto-generating pages.
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-militia-organizing-election/
AI Slop Is Flooding Medium: The blogging platform Medium is facing an influx of AI-generated content. CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it.
https://slashdot.org/story/24/10/29/1733220/ai-slop-is-flooding-medium
Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results: The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are genetically superior to other races.
https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/google-microsoft-perplexity-ai-search-results-promote-debunked-racist-research/
# Technology / Global
Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face U.S. ban
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-passes-bill-forcing-tiktoks-parent-company-to-sell-or-face-u-s-ban
The 95 billion foreign aid package that passed the House on Saturday included legislation to force a sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent company
https://www.newsbreakapp.com/videos/0wShbr1G?ctype=native_video&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3MzAzNzY4MTc2NDE=&pd=0H1Na41Y&hl=en_US
# Transportation / Travel
California regulator to quietly make flying, shipping, driving more expensive
https://www.mydailyrecord.com/news/national/california-regulator-to-quietly-make-flying-shipping-driving-more-expensive/article_7fefb9c0-ef26-5140-b96c-c479c4f0de26.html
# Veterans / VA
Trump’s Cronies Threw the VA Into Chaos. Millions of Veterans’ Lives Are on the Line Again. Former VA officials warn that another Trump term could irreparably damage the health care system for millions of veterans.
https://theintercept.com/2024/10/28/trump-veterans-va-darin-selnick-peter-orourke/
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