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U.S. Offshore Wind Industry Has Electrifying Future
U.S. Energy Information Administration Staff, - U.S. Energy Information Administration
_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news about our moving out of the carbon energy era. In spite of the corruption and lobbyists, it is happening._
Offshore wind holds great promise as ... ⌘ Read more
Anxious About Climate, 4 in 10 Young People Are Wary of Having Kids
FIONA HARVEY, - Mother Jones
_Stephan: When I look at the current social outcome data I see several alarming trends in the younger generations that hold major implications for America's future. Our corrupted politicians and the corporate rich don't yet understand that the failure to properly address climate change, added to our obscene wealth inequality, and the male dominant ... ⌘ Read more_
Evangelical theology is what made the Texas abortion outrage possible
NATHANIEL MANDERSON, - Salon
_Stephan: I don't really see a lot of difference between the Taliban or Isis and the White Supremacy Male Dominance Christian evangelicals. They are not really Christians any more than the Taliban are really Muslims. They talk the words, but their actions would leave Jesus or Mohammed appalled. Both have an obsession with controlling women an ... ⌘ Read more_
Architect of Texas Abortion Ban Takes Aim at LGBTQ+ Rights While Urging Reversal of Roe
JESSICA CORBETT, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Personally, I have always found it very weird and more than a little creepy to listen to people obsessing over what other people are doing sexually. As long as it is two consenting adults and neither of them is you why do you care? But all male-dominant religions obsess constantly over this iss ... ⌘ Read more_
Centrist Democrats Won’t Even Let Biden Crack Down on Tax Cheats
Jonathan Chait, - New York Magazine
_Stephan: In this report, you can see clearly the corruption that pervades the U.S. Congress and perverts both parties. This is why you don't see obvious policies that foster wellbeing passing into law. Lobbyists and corporatists have buckets of money and other priorities, and bribery is legal in the United States. You can't call it that, of co ... ⌘ Read more_
How Much Exercise Do We Need to Live Longer?**
Gretchen Reynolds, - New York Times
_Stephan: I hope my readers will take this very seriously. The two things I hope all of you do daily is meditate for 20 minutes, using whatever technique, religious or just mindful you like, and get out and walk. That and eat organic food, and cleanse your house of the chemical toxins found in most commercial cleansers, soaps, deodorants, and sprays. It will change your life for the be ... ⌘ Read more_
No SR Edition – 9/18/21**
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_Stephan:_
Stephan has no power or Internet access so he was unable to post today’s edition.… ⌘ Read more
One in 500 Americans have died of Covid – and some hospitals reach capacity
Eric Berger, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Several hundred thousand Americans have committed suicide by not getting vaccinated, If I hadn't witnessed this, if I had tried to write it in a novel, no one including me would have found it believable. Yet we all know it has happened. Each day's news and all those graves attest to this reality. Some of us may not ... ⌘ Read more_
COVID ravages the Republican Party as 21 out of 23 most infected states voted for Trump
Sarah K. Burris, - Raw Story
_Stephan: Covid has become a Republican disease of the unvaccinated, as these facts make irrefutable. I don't pretend to fully understand why this is so, but the manipulation of fear through disinformation for political purposes is a big part of it and, in my opinion, a truly evil activity. That millions ha ... ⌘ Read more_
‘The situation is dire’: Idaho activates crisis standards statewide over COVID-19
ACOB SCHOLL, - Idaho Statesman
_Stephan: People, it seems, are just seeming to become aware of a secondary crisis being created by the unvaccinated. The American hospital system, in the Republican states with low vaccination rates, is cracking. Nearly two years of Covid, has left the staffs exhausted, and the facilities worn out. People who have ... ⌘ Read more_
Covid-19 is crushing this corner of rural America. Getting the vaccine can still feel like an act of treason
Elle Reeve, - CNN
_Stephan: Imagine what it is like to live in a community where you are not comfortable availing yourself of something that can save your life? Read this, and imagine you live in Van Buren, Missouri._
_Stephan: This survey, which I think is very important, does not surprise me at all, but it gives us factual data. If I were in my 20s today, I would be both angry and scared because I would see my chance of having a family and a life anything like my parents or their friends as increasingly unlikely if not improbable. I consider anyone in a position of authority who is trying to ... ⌘ Read more_
The Supreme Court’s right-wing Catholics are destroying true religious freedom
PHIL ZUCKERMAN - ANDREW L. SEIDEL, Associate Dean of Pitzer College \\| Director of Strategic Response at the Freedom From Religion Foundation - Salon
_Stephan: The Founders disagree about a number of things, but one thing they mostly did agree on was they wanted religion and the state to be completely separate. Why did they feel so strongly about this? ... ⌘ Read more_
9/11 and the Saudi Connection
James Risen, - The Intercept
_Stephan: I went to Saudi Arabia in the early 1970s, and have never forgotten the short trip. It is the only country I have ever visited in which I wanted to leave as soon as I arrived. As I was driven into the city and saw some women walking, the man who came to pick me up referred to them as "black bags." By the time I departed, I realized I had been in a medieval religious autocracy funded by the world's addiction to ... ⌘ Read more_
The U.S. isn’t vaccinating most of the world — but China might
Bob Herman, - Axios
_Stephan: Because we are being torn asunder, and have so many priorities other than national wellbeing, we are being outplayed by the Chinese on several fronts, and a new one is vaccines and vaccinating the world._
_Illustration: Sarah Grill ... ⌘ Read more_
Up to Half of the $14 Trillion Spent by Pentagon Since 9/11 Has Gone to War Profiteers
Jake Johnson, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: The American spending on the military-industrial complex, as Eisenhower called it, dwarfs every other military budget in the world. Actually, in size, the next seven national budgets combined. Historically, military spending has been the single largest portion of the Federal budget since World War I ... ⌘ Read more_
Why America Goes to War
Andrew Cockburn, - The Nation
_Stephan: This is what I meant in my comments on the earlier story. If America is to prosper in the future we must change our priorities and clean up our government corruption._
_Money lost at sea: The US spent about $22.5 billion in R&D costs for just three Zumwalt-class ships, according to the US Na ... ⌘ Read more_
Everything Must Go! The American Car Dealership Is for Sale.
Nora Naughton, - The Wall Street Journal
_Stephan: For all of my life and yours, car dealerships have been a part of the American culture. Now like the carriage maker, and the whale oil industry, it looks like the traditional car dealer may be headed into history. It is an emerging trend occurring with very little notice._
_A nurse gives a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shot ... ⌘ Read more_
The inescapable overlap of pandemic and politics
Philip Bump, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: It is now irrefutably clear that the Covid pandemic has become principally a Republican disease, because it is also irrefutably clear that those who fail to get vaccinated, overwhelmingly Republicans, are both at much greater risk than those who have been vaccinated, and also are much more dangerous to those around them.
Maybe what we should do is stop interstate ... ⌘ Read more_
Least Vaccinated States Lead Spike in Children’s Cases, Leaving Some Hospitals Stretched
Lauren Leatherby and Amy Schoenfeld Walker, - The New York Times
_Stephan: Anyone who bothers to look at actual social outcome data knows that Republicans care nothing for American children, except their own. I have written about this on many occasions (see SR archive, search on "children"). It is one of the main reasons I loath the ... ⌘ Read more_
Why won’t Donald Trump go away? Because Americans can’t tell appearance from reality
Brian Karem, - Raw Story
_Stephan: The central problem that is tearing America apart is that about a third of us cannot tell the difference between facts and rightwing fantasies; you can see it play out in a spectrum of ways every day. Disinformation is tearing us apart, and nothing seems to be being done about it. In my opinion, to be cert ... ⌘ Read more_
Engineers Are Creating Concrete Pavement That Wirelessly Charges Electric Cars
Loukia Papadopoulos, - Interesting Engineering
_Stephan: I have been following this trend and sharing it with my readers since it began: using the highways to charge electric vehicles. This, I think, is the future._
_Cred ... ⌘ Read more_
Anti-Abortion Vigilantes Are Now Going Door-to-Door in Texas
Carter Sherman, - Vice News
_Stephan: The Texas anti-choicers are doing everything they can to turn the people of Texas into vigilantes spying on each other for a $10,000 bounty. Texas is being deliberately turned into a christofascist White supremacist state, and other states controlled by Republicans are following Texas. This is the America the Republican party seeks to create._
... ⌘ Read more
Jefferson County shuts down mobile vaccine sites after drivers repeatedly harass staff
Russell Haythorn, - ABC News - Denver
_Stephan: In Texas, the MAGAts are tyring to turn their fellow citizens into vigilantes. In other states they are trying to close down vaccination sites. I think it is time that we recognized that about a third of us no longer want to live in a democracy based on gender and racial equality. I think i ... ⌘ Read more_
With 38 Million Facing Food Insecurity, Hunger in US Soared by Nearly 9% in 2020
Kenny Stancil, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: What stands out for me at the moment about American culture is our capacity to inflict grievous wounds on ourselves. The anti-vaxxer, anti-masker, and anti-choice male-dominant nastiness are but three examples from a long list. Then there is the very basic issue of hunger. All of this comes from making wellbein ... ⌘ Read more_
Dr. Anthony Fauci Spells Out How Far Away U.S. Is From Ending COVID-19 Pandemic
Lee Moran, - Huff Post
_Stephan: Here is the fact-based view on where we stand with Covid-19 in all its variants. We're not close, because of the anti-vaxxers, and anti-maskers. This has become predominately a Republican disease; there is a strong correlation between political views and vaccination status. That linkage has never before happened in our h ... ⌘ Read more_
The Tragedy of America’s Rural Schools
Casey Parks, Reporter - The New York Times Magazine
_Stephan: About 15 years ago, while doing research on something else I came across the graduation exam given to 8th graders at a rural one-room schoolhouse in Saline County, Kansas in 1895. It has since become quite famous and several academic papers have been written about it because most college graduates today can't pass it.
Here’s the test, see how well you do.
... ⌘ Read more_
Big Oil’s ‘Wokewashing’ Is the New Climate Science Denialism
Amy Westervelt, - Reader Supported News
_Stephan: You didn't think the carbon industry was going into oblivion without resistance did you, giving up endless billions of profit, and unequalled corporate power? Here's something to make clear what they are really doing._
_Stephan: Our tax system, like our justice system, and our illness profit system, is completely rigged to favor the rich at the expense of everyone else. I don't think most Americans really comprehend how biased our society is in favor of the rich, and so there is very little social pressure on the political prostitutes of Congress to ... ⌘ Read more_
Animals ‘shapeshifting’ in response to climate crisis, research finds
Helena Horton, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Animals, birds, and insects are already evolving to accommodate the world that is coming._
_The gang-gang cockatoo is one of the species whose bills have been increasing in size as the climate grows hotter. Credit ... ⌘ Read more_
Joseph Stiglitz: Ending Unemployment Benefits as Pandemic Rages Is Cruel & Hurts Economic Recovery
Joseph Stiglitz interview with Amy Goodman, Nobel Laureate Economist - Democracy Now!
_Stephan: Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, both Nobel Laureates, are the two economists with the best track records over decades for predicting economic trends. Here is what Stiglitz has to say about the Republican push to end unemployment ben ... ⌘ Read more_
The world’s biggest plant to capture CO2 from the air just opened in Iceland
Michael Birnbaum, Climate Solutions Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is some wonderfully good news. We are going to need dozens of plants like this, and one might reasonably ask, why aren't we building such facilities in the U.S.?**_
_The ... ⌘ Read more
Millions of electric car batteries will retire in the next decade. What happens to them?**
XiaoZhi Lim, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: As we exit the carbon era, what do we do with failed batteries is going to become a major issue. Here is some early information on how this is going to be addressed._
_Batteries at a fac ... ⌘ Read more_
New Tesla Battery Recycling Process Reportedly Produces No Waste
Andrei Nedelea, - Inside EVs
_Stephan: Part of the solution to the battery problem will be new technology. And here is an early report on that aspect of the trend._
_Tesla battery_
The recycling solution has been in the works for at least two yea ... ⌘ Read more
Sea-level rise becoming a hazard for South Florida neighborhoods miles from ocean
David Fleshler, - Phys.org
_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for a decade that Florida is largely doomed, and it continues to amaze me that people are still moving to Florida seemingly unaware of what is coming. Here is the latest._
_The scene , in Helmetta, New J ... ⌘ Read more_
At Least Seven GOP-Controlled States Look to Mimic Texas Anti-Abortion Law
DANIEL POLITI, - Slate
_Stephan: For the Republicans, Texas is just the beginning. This is part of the White male freak-out over women seeking equality, in which weirdly, a surprising number of women are participating._
_Debra Sweet, wears a mask ins ... ⌘ Read more_
A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’**
Douglas Belkin, - The Wall Street Journal
_Stephan: Here is another data point on the emerging trend I see concerning higher education in the U.S. First, for schools ranked in the National Universities category the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2020–2021 school year was $41,411 at private colleges, $11,171 for state residents at public colleges and $26,809 for out-of-stat ... ⌘ Read more_
Opioids have killed 600,000 Americans. The Sacklers just got off basically scot-free
Chris McGreal, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Here is the latest on how the Sackler family is literally getting away with mass murder. This disgusting story illustrates as clearly as anything I know that doesn't involve a politician, just how rotten the American justice system is. If you are rich enough, well connected enough, in the United States, you ... ⌘ Read more_
More Than 38,000 Species Are Now at Risk of Extinction, New Report Says
Common Dreams Editorial Staff, - truthout/Common Dreams
_Stephan: Humans are destroying life on earth at a horrifying rate. We just don't seem capable of getting past our greed and stupidity. This, plus climate change, foretells an earth radically different than the one we know today._
_A woman wears a mask at the Sadarghat launch t ... ⌘ Read more_
Most pro-Trump counties have three times the COVID death toll as the most pro-Biden counties: report
BOB BRIGHAM, - Raw Story
_Stephan: And here is some more data on the social dynamics of this pandemic. These social choices must be learnt. It is not the disease, it is the human choices about reacting to it that matter._
From the t ... ⌘ Read more
Beyond Abortion, Texas GOP Quietly Rolled Back Other Rights on September 1
Sharon Zhang, News Report - truthout
_Stephan: As a result of the Republicans in the Texas legislature, the state's ghastly Republican governor Greg Abbott, and the fascist Supreme Court, thanks to Trump, if you are a female in a Republican-controlled state in America you are now or about to be by law a second-class citizen. You will no longer have control over your body ev ... ⌘ Read more_
Roe v Wade died with barely a whimper. But that’s not all
Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard University - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I agree with Laurence Tribe's careful analysis of what has happened with this extraordinary midnight decision of the Supreme Court._
_Co ... ⌘ Read more_
The Sacklers, Who Made Billions From OxyContin, Win Immunity From Opioid Lawsuits
BRIAN MANN, - npr
_Stephan: As this report demonstrates in the United States, if you are rich enough you are essentially above the law, even if you are responsible for the death of thousands of people. This is one of the reasons the American justice system is ranked a shameful 21st in the world._
_Stephan: Our inability to recognize that we do not have dominion over the earth, and are in fact just one species in earth's interconnected interdeppendent matrix of life is destroying our environment, and our environment is destroying us._
_Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2021 Edition_
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The ... ⌘ Read more
When Military Contractors Fund Their Own Pro-War Think Tanks
Sarah Lazare, Web Editor at In These Times. - Common Dreams
_Stephan: This is why the Afghanistan War went on for two decades, and cost two trillion dollars? Think tanks created for ideological reasons instead of honorable research are viper's nests for unethical misinformation. It is one of the ways corporations create public opinion favorable to their interests._
_Robert Reich_ _Credit: Getty_
You may have heard ... ⌘ Read more
COVID misinformation is destroying the mental health of those who believe it: Harvard study
Bob Brigham, - Raw Story
_Stephan: An important aspect of the pandemic misinformation movement that is not usually discussed, but should be, is what is the effect on wellbeing for individuals who embrace misinformation. Here is some real data, and it is alarming. We have an immediate social crisis going on because we have uncontrolled misi ... ⌘ Read more_
‘A combination of failures:’ why 3.6m pounds of nuclear waste is buried on a popular California beach
Kate Mishkin, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know I have been warning about the ongoing crisis of nuclear waste since SR began. Hyman Rickover, the father of the American Navy's nuclear-powered ships and submarines, warned me about this driving back from Andrews Air Force base, and testif ... ⌘ Read more_
The Devil You Don’t Know
Graham Vyse, - The Signal
_Stephan: Here is an update on a story I have been following for the last six years, White supremacists, and neo-nazis personnel in the armed services. It is clear to me that we are not on top of this issue, but it is clear that this is an issue._
The U.S. Department of Defense said it was “** ... ⌘ Read more
Hillary Clinton paid for charter flights for at-risk Afghan women while Erik Prince charged $6,500**
Aysha Qamar, - Daily Kos
_Stephan: You want to know the difference between a Democrat and a Republican, based on actions not words? Read this. Erik Prince, brother of Betsy DeVos is a classic example of the scumbag exploiter._
_Stephan: This article is spot on but not complete in its analysis. It is not just corporate power; it is also the utterly corrupt nature of most politicians, and yes, in the U.S. the stupidity of the voters who put people like Manchin, Gosar, Gohmert, Green, and others like them, into office. And it is never going to change u ... ⌘ Read more_
Science quietly wins one of the right’s longstanding culture wars
MATTHEW ROZSA, Staff Writer - Salon
_Stephan: Here is some good news for those who live in a fact-based world. The evangelical nonsense about "intelligent design" and creationism has faded into the past. The bad news is that the same moronic anti-science has been transformed into anti-vaxxerism, and anti-masker hysteria._
 Oh, of course, you love your children, but do you care about American children in general? Certainly, the anti-choice crowd who don't want women to have control of their bodies, have made it clear they care not a whit about chil ... ⌘ Read more_
I Will Build A Great Wall That Will Be Impenetrable, Except For Saws, Wind, Breaches, Ladders and Now Monsoons
Abby Zimet, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Like everything else done by Trump, the wall that Mexico was going to pay for was a grift, and an incompetent scam, just like his university, and faux-philanthropy, We haven't heard much about the Trump wall for months now, so here is an updated fact-based report. The ... ⌘ Read more_
Portland gunfight fuels alarm over growing use of weapons at rallies
Jason Wilson, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have been warning about civil violence involving guns for years as I have watched this trend develop. And I think it is going to get worse. This is a direct assault on our democracy._
_A Proud Boys rally desce ... ⌘ Read more_
Ron DeSantis and the for-profit medical death trap
Thom Hartmann, - Independent Media Institute/AlterNet
_Stephan: Thom Hartmann, and I, apparently, share the same view. We don't have a universal healthcare system, we have an illness-profit system, and the pandemic has brought its failures into focus. Here is his take on that._
_Florida Republican Go ... ⌘ Read more_
‘The Worst Thing I Can Ever Remember’: How Drought is Crushing Ranchers
Henry Fountain, - The New York Times
_Stephan: Here is another report on the effects of climate change that gives a further idea of the world that is emerging. We are not taking this seriously enough. We need national policies that foster wellbeing on a national level, the bills Biden and Pelosi are proposing move us in that direction. . But we are running out of time to wake ... ⌘ Read more_
Diabetes surges among American youth, study shows
Robin Respaut and Chad Terhune, Reporters - Thomson Reuters Foundation
_Stephan: This is alarming health news, and evidence that the American diet is, well, unhealthful, and this has long-term consequences for those individuals and their life expectancy. If you know a young person help them understand the importance of a good diet._
![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/insulin-bott ... ⌘ Read more
America’s Anti-Vaxxers Are Getting More Dangerous
Nathalie Baptiste , Reporter - Mother Jones
_Stephan: I got an email this morning from a reader who wrote to tell me how angry she was with Fox because her father who would only listen to Fox and NewsMax, and who would not get vaccinated, was in the hospital and may not make it. I think the anti-vaxxer, anti-masker crowd, and the media who spew out disinformation about covid, are dangerous to the good health of others. T ... ⌘ Read more_
Mississippi health officials say 70% of recent calls relate to people using livestock drug to treat COVID
Meaghan Ellis, - Raw Story/AlterNet
_Stephan: I am gobsmacked by the number of Americans who basically have joined a death cult instead of following medical science. It is Jim Jones and the Jonestown Peoples Temple writ large. It tells one a lot about how easy it is to manipulate Americans when you speak to thei ... ⌘ Read more_