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Pro-Trump Virginia candidate believes sea level rise can be fixed with bathtub physics
Walter Einenkel, - AlterNet
_Stephan: Do you think you have to be an incompetent ill-educated Trumpian moron to become a Republican candidate for any position today? It would seem so on the basis of the candidacy the party supports. Consider this just a recent example, one of many,_
_Credit: The Atlantic_
Is it just me, or does it f ... ⌘ Read more
Joe Manchin, America’s Climate Decider-in-Chief, Is a Coal Baron
Mark Hertsgaard, - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Joe Manchin is far from a singleton. He is,in fact a sterotype. He is also one man who can influence the fate of the earth and all the beings on it. It is not a happy combination._
_Senator Joe Manchin ( ... ⌘ Read more_
How Dumb Can a Nation Get and Still Survive?**
Eugene Robinson, Columnist - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Tonight I watched Rachel Maddow, as I usually do, and saw a film clip of Arizona Republican Representative Paul Gosar, a man so obviously mentally disturbed and moronic I thought I was looking at something filmed in a psych ward. I thought how how could the voters of Arizona elect such a person as their representative? That question made me think about Louie Gohme ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden to Restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante Monuments
Guardian staff and agencies, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Not all news is bad. President Biden has just reversed Donald Trump's horrific desecration of land considered as sacred as a church by thousands of Native Americans in tribes throughout the American Southwest. Good news, indeed._
_President Joe Biden del ... ⌘ Read more_
Chemicals Are Slowly Killing Us
Carolyn Fortuna, - CleanTechnica
_Stephan: I have been telling you for years that it is important to your health to create a bubble around yourself that is free of the toxic chemicals that pervade our lives. All the soaps and cleaning products, and bug sprays, air fresheners, all of it. Replace what you actually need with organic products. You can even get exterminator services that use green products. I know, because we do. Do it, and encourage ... ⌘ Read more_
Number of states with residents facing obesity rises from 9 to 16
Linda Searing, - Yahoo! News
_Stephan: Obesity has become a feature of the American culture. This becomes clear whenever one travels outside the U.S. I think it is because the food industry puts profit above wellbeing, as do the chemical corporations, and the agriculture corporations. It is the society a country gets when it puts profit above wellbeing. It also comes with a shor ... ⌘ Read more_
14% of world’s coral lost in less than a decade, study shows
Miranda Bryant, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Humans are destroying the balance of earth's ecosystem, and the change we are creating is going to exact a fearsome price._
_A shark swims on a reef in the Ailinginae atoll in the Marshall Islands. Re ... ⌘ Read more_
Brazen China Steadily Ramps Up Warplane Flights in Taiwan’s Airspace
Paul D. Shinkman, - US News & World Report
_Stephan: This isn't getting a lot of media attention outside of the the geopolitical world, but it may turn out to be very important. My own read is that the Chinese are testing Biden to see whether he would tolerate their taking over Taiwan.This is just their extension of the same policies that led to the Chinese taking over Ho ... ⌘ Read more_
Massive Document Leak Reveals How Global Political Leaders Hide Their Riches
Peter Wade, - Rollingstone
_Stephan: Wealth inequality has become so great, not only in the United States, but throughout the world, that independent of nationality an economic nobility has been birthed with its own networks and class interests. A new version of the authoritarian feudal. We only see it made explicit when there are leaks such as this one._ ... ⌘ Read more
Top Bernie Sanders Aide Details Just How Popular the $3.5 Trillion Package Truly Is
Common Dreams Staff, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Biden's bills to anyone who can think rationally should be passed. In all the Congressional blathering, and the media reporting, what I find interesting is the the $3.5 trillion over 10 years Biden is proposing to foster wellbeing, and encourage an educated future, is less than half of what we taxp ... ⌘ Read more_
A neuroscientist explains how religious fundamentalism hijacks the brain
Bobby Azarian, Neuroscientist - George Mason University - Raw Story
_Stephan: Several years ago I published a paper, The Psychophysiology of Politics, about how brain function correlates with with political and religious beliefs, and continued this research in my book The 8 Laws of Change. Here is a further essay on this important subject. Knowing that people are wi ... ⌘ Read more_
Corporations Are Spending Millions to Stop Key Parts of Biden’s Spending Plan
Sondra Youdelman, - truthout/Otherwords
_Stephan: This is the economic nobility buying what they want. This is why we should have publicly funded elections, and it should be illegal for a Congress member to accept any money._
_Demonstrat ... ⌘ Read more_
Apple and Disney Among Companies Backing Groups Against US Climate Bill
Oliver Millman, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Because the United States has only one primary social priority and that is greed for profit, a situation like this has been allowed to develop. Major corporations publicize their support for climate change remediation, while privately supporting the continuation of the carbon energy. And, because of Citizens United whic ... ⌘ Read more_
How Sen. Joe Manchin’s support for natural gas could derail Biden’s climate plan
Michael Oppenheimer Interview, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs - Princeton University - AlterNet
_Stephan: In his answers to four questions Princeton professor Michael Oppenheimer lays out both the small-mindedness and corruption of multi-millionaire Joe Manchin, whose fortune is closely tied to carbon energy. It is people like th ... ⌘ Read more_
Norway’s EVs Break Through The 90% Barrier — Tesla Takes Top Two Trophies
Maximilian Holland , - Clean Technica
_Stephan: Here is some excellent news from Norway about how that nation is taking ending the carbon era seriously. Americans live in the fantasy that we lead the world in good things, the shiny city on a hill, as Reagan styled us. In fact the only thing we lead the world in is the amount of money we spend on the military-indu ... ⌘ Read more_
USPS is about to charge you more for slower mail. Here’s why.
Jacob Bogage, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Here is the best exegetic report I have seen on what is happening to the U.S. Postal Service. We are actually going backwards, and here is why. Once again, of course, it is a story of corruption and always making profit the first priority, rather than public wellbeing._
_Students walk through the hallway wearing masks as they return to clas ... ⌘ Read more_
In an Era of Record Wildfires, Insurers Have Made Fire Coverage Unaffordable
Sasha Abramsky, truthout - truthout
_Stephan: I have published a number of reports on the effect of sea rise on the insurance industry, and people who hold insurance on coastal real estate. To be honest, I hadn't even considered the effect of wildfires on insurance, and I should have because this aspect of climate change is also going to be a major factor in ... ⌘ Read more_
Multigenerational living is making a comeback
, \\- Vox
_Stephan: I got an email from a reader today who told me that her 35-year-old son has moved back in with her. She said she had two other friends whose adult single kids move back in with them, and she asked me if this was a trend or just an odd coincidence in her life? I did some research and discovered that this is indeed a trend. As America has increasingly become an oligarchic kleptocracy the economics tha ... ⌘ Read more_
Desalination can make saltwater drinkable — but it won’t solve the U.S. water crisis
Michael Birnbaum, Climate Change Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Water is Destiny. I have said it over and over. Whether it is too much water or not enough, water is changing American society, and this is one aspect that hasn't gotten much attention. Keep this in mind if you are thinking about moving into and area where water shortag ... ⌘ Read more_
Red Covid
David Leonhardt, - The New York Times
_Stephan: I have been telling you, based on the research data I have seen that the Covid pandemic has become a majority unvaccinated Republican disease. I can find no historical precedent for this, but the data cannot be denied. Here it is._
During the early months of Covid-19 vaccinations, severa ... ⌘ Read more
Network of Right-Wing Health Care Providers is Making Millions Off Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, Hacked Data Reveals
Micah Lee, - The Intercept
_Stephan: The Republican MAGAt base once again is being played for suckers. The MAGAt leaders are using the pandemic for an enormous grift. To quote this report citing just one aspect of this scam, "The data... reveals that 72,000 people paid ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Vigilante treatments’: Anti-vaccine groups push people to leave ICUs
Ben Collins, -
_Stephan: The anti-vaxxer death cult has become increasingly aggressive. We now have a situation where the anti-vaxxers not only are threatening the wellbeing of others, even as their own numbers sicken and die -- 2,000 people a day. Today, 95% of Covid hospital patients are unvaccinated and they are filling hospitals to a point of threatening their collaps ... ⌘ Read more_
Inside the Nation’s Largest Guaranteed Income Experiment
ABBY VESOULIS/COMPTON, CA and ABIGAIL ABRAMS, - Time Magazine
_Stephan: Republicans become hysterical when anyone talks about the government providing a guaranteed income for the poor. But what actually happens when a city provides a modest guaranteed income for its citizens? Compton, California asked that question and decided to find out. Here's what happened._
_A coal-fired power plant in Tianjin, China. Credit: [Asian Development Bank/Flickrr](https://www.flickr.com ... ⌘ Read more_
75 Percent of Young People Are Frightened by the Future. That’s the Only Sane Reaction to Climate Change.
Liza Featherstone, - The New Republic
_Stephan: The failure of the Boomer generation, and those even older, to deal properly with climate change is having a massive effect on how the young view the government and America's future, and the same is true around the globe, as the recent German election ma ... ⌘ Read more_
Crowdfunded, climate-smart farming is rebuilding soil and savings
, \\- Grist
_Stephan: Here is some good news about an emerging trend offering an alternative to industrial chemical monoculture agriculture which, it now is clear, destroys the land that is farmed using that process. I am following this closely and hope it catches on in a major way._
_Stephan: One very negative but almost never discussed aspect of the anti-vaxxer, anti-masker movement is the impact these people are having on the nation's healthcare system. American hospitals, particularly in Red value states where vaccination rates are low, are on the verge of collapse because 95% of the people crowding those hosp ... ⌘ Read more_
Dems Who Opposed Pentagon Cuts Received Nearly 4x More Donations From Weapons Makers
KENNY STANCIL, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Corruption is not partisan, and this is a very important point to always keep in mind. Corrupters will rent Congressmembers of whatever party willing to whore for them so they can get what they want. It is my opinion that all elections should be publicly financed, and it should be a felony to give an ... ⌘ Read more_
The Illusion of Independence
John B. Alexander, - Daily Kos
_Stephan: One of the things that the Covid pandemic has brought into sharp focus is the illusion of independence that informs so much of right-wing thinking. It is central to the MAGAt worldview and, as the pandemic has shown us, it is horribly selfish, rather stupid, and wrong. John Alexander makes this point very well._
_Malaysia coast ... ⌘ Read more_
New Evidence of Corruption at EPA Chemicals Division
Sharon Lerner, - The Intercept
_Stephan: As I predicted it is going to take years to undo the corruption of Trump. He very deliberately gutted all the regulatory agencies to bias them to favor the corporate rich. The fact that his corruption would harm thousands, perhaps millions of people was of no consequence. That is one of the strangest things about MAGAt world. The people harmed the most are often h ... ⌘ Read more_
How climate inaction is driving a mental health crisis in children
Laurie Goering, - Thomas Reuters Foundation
_Stephan: Here is yet another story reporting on what our failure to deal with climate change is leading to. The failure of the Democrats to get their act together, coupled with the corruption and incompetence of Manchin, Sinema, and a few others, and the just plain nasty jerkiness of the Republican Party are producing crises like th ... ⌘ Read more_
GOP lawmakers will appear alongside white nationalists, Nazi apologists, at rally to support insurrectionists
JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY , - Arizona Mirror
_Stephan: The Republican Party has become a White Supremacist authoritarian christofascist cult working to destroy American democracy. Republicans don't try to hide this, in fact, as this report shows, they flaunt it._
![](https://i1.wp.com/www.sch ... ⌘ Read more
Babies Are Already Pooping Plastic, Study Finds
Olivia Rosane, - EcoWatch
_Stephan: If you read SR regularly you know I have been tracking the plastic pollution trend for several years now, watching it get worse and worse. Micro plastics showing up in fish, birds, and now, human babies. If you know someone who has a new baby, please pass this along to them._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/changing-baby-diaper.jpeg? ... ⌘ Read more
Melting of polar ice shifting Earth itself, not just sea levels
Clea Simon, Harvard University Faculty - Phys.org
_Stephan: Here is a consequence of the polar ice melting as a result of human-mediated climate change that few if any in government are even thinking about. We are like children playing with matches having no concept what is coming.
Citation upon which this report is based: "So much ice is melting that Earth's crust is moving, Nat ... ⌘ Read more_
Far-right pastor says there are more gays than ever thanks to a ‘demonic spirit’**
David Badash, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: Unless you spend time doing research on the evangelical christofascist world it is hard to appreciate how sex-obsessed and deranged these people are. This report gives you a hint._
. Adults with some college education or high school gr ... ⌘ Read more_
Gun Manufactures Quietly Target Young Boys Using Social Media
Jon Skolnik, Staff Writer - truthout/Salon
_Stephan: The weapons death merchants to stay prosperous require America's psychotic gun obsession to be passed on from generation to generation. I was part of an earlier generation seduced in this way. At 11 I became a Boy Scout, at 12 I got a 22, as did many of my friends, and that summer went to the NRA -- then a very different nonpolitical o ... ⌘ Read more_
Cry macho: Why scared white guys are so dangerous
Joe Hayden, Professor of Journalism at the University of Memphis - Salon
_Stephan: One of the several evil manifestations of America's gun psychosis is that frightened men, particularly frightened White men, see guns as the solution to relieve their fears. As a result, the only real terrorism issue we face in the United States is frightened White men who organize into clubs and gangs they wrongly style militias. ... ⌘ Read more_