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Oklahoma Guard goes rogue, rejects COVID vaccine mandate after sudden change of command
Davis Winkie, Reporter - Air Forces Times
_Stephan: This probably won't get any attention from major media because they won't understand what this represents, but people in the military will certainly recognize failing to follow a direct order. This national guard commander is saying he can choose to follow orders or not, as he wishes. Sup ... ⌘ Read more_
Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream
Lisa Lerer and Astead W. Herndon, National Political Reporters - The New York Times
_Stephan: The Trump Party is flirting with civil war; they like the idea of violence; they seek to provoke violence; threatening others is the Trumpers' new normal. This is all going to come down to voters. If the Trumpers gain control of the Congress in 2022, I predict all of this will get worse._
_One of the farms in Indiana that wi ... ⌘ Read more_
Rivian goes public in one of the biggest IPOs ever
Sean O'Kane, - The Verge
_Stephan: Here is some more good news about the move out of the carbon era, and a datapoint on the economic trend describing this transition._
_Rivian electric truck_ _Credit: Rivian_
Electric vehicle startup Rivian is now a publicly traded c ... ⌘ Read more
Viewers of these news outlets are most likely to believe COVID-19 falsehoods
LLeslie Albrecht, - Market Watch
_Stephan: It used to be that media would have a political bias, but only within limits because everyone in media understood and was committed to factual accuracy. Those days are gone. Certainly some respected media still lives by those standards, but a growing percentage have become disinformation propaganda operations run sol ... ⌘ Read more_
New data from Texas suggests unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19
Shirin Ali, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: Here is yet more social outcome data showing what is happening with the anti-vaxxers. They are dying in droves. I feel very sorry for the families of these willfully ignorant individuals. But I am becoming resentful of the strain their stupidity is putting on an extremely over st ... ⌘ Read more_
COVID vaccines: Half of unvaccinated Americans say NOTHING will change their minds
Chris Melore, - Study Finds
_Stephan: There is a percentage of the American population who really are committed to the anti-vaxxer death cult, as this report describes. A year from now we will look back and see that their stupidity will have killed thousands of them.
The citation for the research paper upon which this article is based: COVID-1 ... ⌘ Read more_
‘He Should Be Expelled’: Republican Paul Gosar Shares Edited Video of Him Killing AOC
Jake Johnson, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: You have undoubtedly heard about Paul Gosar's latest psychopathic action. The man is obviously mentally ill, to the point that his brothers and sisters have gone public saying he should be removed from office. And I agree with that. But when I look at this what I see is that this is only part of the ... ⌘ Read more_
Supreme Court Sets Back the Public’s Rights to Record Police
Editorial Board, - USA Today
_Stephan: This is a preposterous decision by the christofascist majority on the Supreme Court. If you see the police doing something illegal be sure and video it, remember the role of video in the George Floyd murder by the police. But don't let them see you doing it, and immediately send the video to others so even if they do see you making a video they can't ... ⌘ Read more_
The Aristocrats Funding the Critical Race Theory ‘Backlash’**
Roger Sollenberger, - Daily Beast
_Stephan: The United States was founded with racism baked in. Blacks were considered only 3/5s of a human being, and most of the Founders, particularly the important ones -- Washington, Madison, Mason, Monroe, Jefferson -- were slave owners. We have never adequately recognized or discussed this and it always festers just below the surface. And the same is t ... ⌘ Read more_
U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder
David Leonhardt, - The New York Times
_Stephan: The MAGAt anti-vaccinate death cult continues to hold great sway particularly in Red states, and the social outcome data makes this very clear. How stupid do you have to be to choose not to do something that can protect you from dying?
And now the anti-vaxxers are turning on other vaccines, so in the Red states I predict you will see increases in things like Measles and other childhood illnes ... ⌘ Read more_
America can’t fix policing without fixing the country’s gun problem
German Lopez, -
_Stephan: American law enforcement is highly racist, murders way too many people, and has all manner of structure problems. But, as this report lays out it is going to be hard to fix any of it given the American obsessive gun psychosis. There are states in Texas where anyone can buy and carry a firearm wherever, whenever, they like. I will make this prediction, ... ⌘ Read more_
I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End
Ryan Johnson, Long-haul Trucker - Medium
_Stephan: A reader sent me this, and as I read it, I found it one of those hands on reports that tell one so much the media never covers, so I am running it in SR._
_Tr ... ⌘ Read more_
In New Jersey, Republicans are trying to discredit another free and fair election
Dana Millbank, Columnist - The Washington Post
_Stephan: The media aren't giving the Republican attempts to destroy American democracy much attention these days, but that doesn't mean the Republicans have stopped, as Dana Millbank points out. It is very difficult to maintain a healthy democracy when one of the two major parties is doing everything it ... ⌘ Read more_
Few willing to change lifestyle to save the planet, climate survey finds
Jon Henley, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: When I have said that I just didn't think people really understood what climate change was going to do to their lives and the earth itself, I realize that even though I track the social outcome research I had not fully appreciated how true that statement was. Here is the latest actual data, and it is worse than I imagined. A ... ⌘ Read more_
The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind
Ed Yong, Staff Writer - The Atlantic
_Stephan: Human greed, willful ignorance, and the persistent Abrahamic belief that the earth is an exploitable bank account that can be drained, by humans, with no consequences is literally killing the matrix of life on earth. And I will be honest. I don't think we are smart enough to change._
In the 20th century, the largest animals that have ever existed almost stopped existing. Bale ... ⌘ Read more
Why Everything is Suddenly Getting More Expensive — And Why It Won’t Stop
Umair Haque, - Eudaimonia
_Stephan: Several readers have written me to ask if I have any information as to why everything is getting more expensive? I found a number of reports but this one seemed the best._
It’s not just me. It’s probabl ... ⌘ Read more
China’s Generation of Only Children Wants the Same for Their Kids
Trever Lloyd, - Borgen Magazine
_Stephan: The China one child policy has had a range of unanticipated consequences, from men who can't find a wife because during those decades the cultural bias was to favor boys and it changed the population ratio to this, and greatly exaggerated only child syndrome. Now it seems to be built into the culture and I don't think anyone knows what ... ⌘ Read more_
What People Around the World Like – and Dislike – About American Society and Politics
Richard Wike, Laura Silver, Janell Fetterolf, Christine Huang and J.J. Moncus, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: Americans, particularly American politicians keep telling everyone the U.S. is the best and the world's leader in everything that matters. If you read me regularly you know, based on the social outcome data, that is is grossly untru ... ⌘ Read more_
Nearly 1 in 6 people have never traveled outside their own state!
Chris Melore, - StudyFinds
_Stephan: That one in six Americans have never been even beyond the border of their state explains why so many of us, are deeply provincial However, on balance I think this is actually good news, in that this survey shows a shift in the cultural matrix to favor greater awareness of the world._
_Stephan: A reader in Israel sent me this today, as did another reader in Slovenia. I knew the Dead Sea was in trouble but had not fully understood how bad the situation was. Let us hope the climate meeting in Glasgow, Scotland produces something more than words. I recently did a piece on the Marshall Islands where too much water is the problem. The Dead Sea issue, like Lake Mead and Lake Powell i ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s Native Grasslands are Disappearing
Katharine Gammon, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: The grasslands are a fabled part of American history, from Lewis and Clark to the present day. But they have also been a vast area of exploitation,with farmers choosing commodity profit over conservation. This, as this report explains, has a massive negative impact on climate change. We must change our culture. The earth can no longer be seen as exploitable without conseq ... ⌘ Read more_
In a First, the EPA Will Regulate Methane From Existing Oil and Gas Wells
Emily Pontecorvo & Naveena Sadasivam, - Grist
_Stephan: Here finally is a bit of good news about climate change remediation. Biden takes climate change seriously, and is trying to make a difference. Yet Americans don't seem to understand this as his declining ratings make clear._
![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-S ... ⌘ Read more
Babies Are Dying of Syphilis. It’s 100% Preventable.
Caroline Chen, - ProPublica
_Stephan: I haven't heard anyone mention Syphilis in years, nor read anything about it, and I find this investigative report by ProPublica yet another appalling condemnation of America's illness profit system. I had no idea, and I doubt you did either that, "The alarms are now clamoring. In the United States, more than 129,800 syphilis cases were recorded in 2019, double the case ... ⌘ Read more_
Most US fast food found to contain potentially harmful chemicals
Rich Haridy, - New Atlas
_Stephan: One of the reasons America's have such poor health is a large percentage of their diet is made up of prepared and fast foods, particularly low income individuals and families. The richest country in the world with 754 billionaires yet millions of Americans can't afford healthy food, and the corporations who sell them food don't give a damn whether ... ⌘ Read more_
Virginia pastor, accused of soliciting minor for sex, steps down
Elisha Fieldstadt, - NBC News
_Stephan: A friend in Virginia Beach where I lived before moving to the island sent me this because some years ago I met the Rev. John Blanchard reported on in this article. As I read it, I realized that over the past week or so I had read nearly a dozen other reports of evangelical pastors arrested for not just for sexual misbehavior inconsistent with th ... ⌘ Read more_
Why Don’t Societies See Their Own Collapse Coming?**
Umair Haque, - DC Report
_Stephan: I am always looking for good news that is not a minor isolated event but a defining trend, and I hate doing stories like this, but SR is, as it says: Trends affecting your future, so I have no choice to report those trends whether I like them or not. And, frankly, this one scares me, but the data has to be faced._
_President Joe Biden visited Mather Airport in Sacramento, California, in September to survey rece ... ⌘ Read more_
Marshall Islands pleads with world leaders to stop the 60,000-person nation from drowning
Ellen Francis, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: I have been warning you about this for almost a decade and now the time of climate change literally destroying whole countries is here. This is just the beginning._
_Stephan: The coherent fundamental unity upon which the United States has been based is under attack, and one man, Donald Trump, has provoked this. The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is a respected non-profit ... ⌘ Read more_
Poll: A Pretty Big Portion of Republicans Feel Violence May Be Necessary to ‘Save Our Country’**
Peter Wade, - Reader Supportd News/Rollingstone
_Stephan: I have been telling you since January that we are going through a slow motion civil war that is building up to violence driven by Trump, his orcs in the Congress, and the MAGAts. We have not had large scale civil violence since the 1860s, and I think that mot Americ ... ⌘ Read more_
How extremist Christian theology is driving the right-wing assault on democracy
Paul Rosenberg, - AlterNet/Salon
_Stephan: I frankly don't see any difference between Christian Fundamentalism, and Muslim Fundamentalism. Neither is a reflection of the actual teachings of the man they purport to follow. Both are authoritarian and obsessed with male dominance. The only difference I see is that they come out of different cultures so the ... ⌘ Read more_
Op-Ed: On the climate crisis, delay has become the new form of denial
Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University - Los Angeles Times
_Stephan: Climate change denialism like anti-vaxxerism, or anti-evolutionism, is a form of self-sabotaging inability to think rationally about facts. But there is something deeper that worries me more. All these responses ... ⌘ Read more_
Dr. Franklin’s Plan
Stephan A. Schwartz, - Smithsonian Magazine
_Stephan: I wrote this article for the Smithsonian Magazine and publish it here today because, in my view, Benjamin Franklin was the only conscious founder, and the only one to envision the nation he was helping to create as a country of immigrants from many backgrounds joining together to build an educated, middle-class based, technologically oriented society whose first priority was the fostering of wellbeing at every level ... ⌘ Read more_
Adam Schiff warns that Biden’s DOJ is letting Trump off the hook far too easily
Dean Obeidallah, - AlterNet/Salon
_Stephan: Have you realized that 10 months a sitting U.S. President instigated an attempt to overthrow the democracy of the United States, so he could stay in power and yet neither he, nor any of his minions have been held in anyway accountable? For me, this is the most notable aspect of what happened on 6 January. Whe ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Almost schizophrenic’: Judge rips DOJ approach to Jan. 6 prosecutions
YLE CHENEY and JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Writers - Politico
_Stephan: Even Judges are beginning to publicly comment on the bizarre behavior of the Justice Department under Merrick Garland, and I have never seen such occur before._
_Chief Judge Beryl Howell ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note — Thank You for Your Concern, and Healing Intentions
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: A few hours ago for the first time in a week I was able to get out of bed and go further than the six steps to my bathroom, and the first thing I wanted to do was to write all of you and thank you for your concern and healing intentions. I am not sick with an illness like Covid or the flu. About three weeks ago the specialist ... ⌘ Read more_
Today’s Edition of SR
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Stephan sends his apologies for not being able to post this week. ⌘ Read more
No 10/27 Edition Due to Illness
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Stephan continues to be unable to post due to illness. He asks that you hold him in healing intention. ⌘ Read more
No Edition Today Due to Illness
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Stephan is very sick with a negative reaction to a medication prescribed by one of his physicians. He is bed-bound and unable to work, and will not be able to do Tuesday’s SR. He asks that you hold him in healing intention. ⌘ Read more
The Married Will Soon Be the Minority
Charles M Blow, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: Culture is the product of the aggregate of large number of individual choices. An American culture is changing, as Charles Blow lays out. This what is driving the christofascist MAGAt world mad. The generation coming up have different priorities and aspirations._
_Citizens of Finland. Credit: The Nomad Today_
Finland has retained the famous title of the happiest country in the world for the fourth time, which is an unprecedented achievement.
For the fourth year in a row, [Finland](https://wikitravel.org/en/Fin ... ⌘ Read more
Don’t Believe Corporate America’s “Labor Shortage” Bullshit. This Is an Unofficial General Strike.
Robert Reich, The Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California - Reader Supported News
_Stephan: I think Robert Reich is correct in what he says. For instance, I learned tonight that the firefighters who fire the wildfires in the West are only ... ⌘ Read more_
How Chemical Companies Avoid Paying for Pollution
David Gelles and Emily Steel, Investigative Reporters - The New York Times
_Stephan: Because of the legal corruption built into the American federal government by Citizens United, and the moral depravity of so many members of Congress, the country's economic system has been deliberately rigged to always favor corporate interests and to lay off to taxpayers -- you and me -- as many corporate expenses as possible. ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump golf course took money ‘out of the pockets of local school meal programs’: former federal prosecutor
John Wright, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: What amazes me about this story is not that it is yet another story to go with Trump Steaks, Trump University, and the rest. Trump is a grifter; this is the way he always behaves. He believes himself to be above the law with justification. He has been ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Like It Never Happened’: Federal Judge Tosses Trump Attack on Clean Water Rule
Brett Wilkins, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: This is excellent good news about clean water and salmon, and the correction of a particularly malignant Trump decision. However, it also reports a compromised position on the part of the Biden administration. I think this probably occurred because there are still MAGAts in the federal ranks. Anyway, thanks to t ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden’s Support is Fading as Concerns Over The Economy and Covid Grow, CNBC Survey Finds
Steve Liesman, - CNBC
_Stephan: You would think that the Democrats would understand that coming together and passing the Biden bills was the necessary and essential step to retaining control of the House and Senate.But they, as a party, appear to be so feckless that this obvious truth evades them. We are going to have an election in a ... ⌘ Read more_
US Border Agents Engaged in ‘Shocking Abuses’ Against Asylum Seekers, Report Finds
Ed Pilkington, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I do not understand why the Biden administration is allowing the thuggish behavior of the federal agents from several agencies who handle the border to continue. This report is just one of several I have read, all making the point that things at the border have not changed all that much from the Trum ... ⌘ Read more_
India Intends To Install EV Chargers Every 50 Kilometers Of National Highway
Johnna Crider , - Clean Technica
_Stephan: There will be no transition out of the carbon power era, until charging one's vehicle is as easy as stopping to buy a tank of gas. I personally think it should be a combination of roads themselves that charge EVs and conveniently and regularly spaced charging stations. If India can do it, the Nordic countries, and th ... ⌘ Read more_
More Young Women Are Being Diagnosed With Aggressive Breast Cancer
Jennifer Hoff , - KARE
_Stephan: Very few people seem to realize this, except SR readers, but life expectancy in the United States is going down not up. There are many reasons, the toxins that prevade our environment the appallingly poor health habits of so many Americans that has resulted in a level of obesity that makes Americans travelling to other countries stand out from th ... ⌘ Read more_
Texas Republicans pass voting maps that entrench power of whites
Sam Levin, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Today the Demcrats in the Senate who, against their better judgment, allowed Senator Joe Manchin to redraft The Freedom to Vote Act, because he told them he would get 10 Republicans to vote for it if his fellow Democrats would let him do that came up for a vote -- and not a single Republican voted for it. How much clearer does it have to ge ... ⌘ Read more_
Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and the Proud Boys: How the fragility of the male ego fuels the far-right
Amanda Marcotte, Senior Politics Writer - Salon
_Stephan: This issue of the fragility of the American male ego has been weaponized by the christofascists who use it on propaganda operations like FOX, and in terrorist operations like the Proud Boys. The Dark money backers of the Republicans have spent millions of doll ... ⌘ Read more_
Manslaughter conviction of 21-year-old Oklahoma woman who suffered miscarriage sparks outcry
Li Cohen, - CBS News
_Stephan: I hope all my readers are very clear what all this anti-choice legislation is about. Republican men, particularly White Republican men, all too frequently seek to have a veru fragile sense of their own manhood, and want the state to back them in controlling women. I am surprised they are not advoc ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump Falsely Calls Thomas Jefferson ‘Principal Writer’ of Constitution, Slams Statue Removal
Andrerw Stanton, - Newsweek
_Stephan: Everyone who lives in the fact-based world must surely recognize how astonishingly ignorant Donald Trump is about the simplest facts of U.S. history and our democracy.. He couldn't pass a 8th grade history test, because he cannot distinguish the difference between the Declaration of Inde ... ⌘ Read more_
Medicine Must Sanction the COVID Quacks
Matthew K. Wynia, M.D., MPH, Professor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health, and Director of the University's Center for Bioethics and Humanities, - MedPage Today
_Stephan: An internationally recognized physician friend sent me this report, with which I completely concur. In the future I suspect historians and philosophers of science and medicine will write dozens of doctoral di ... ⌘ Read more_
Religion scholar explains how a specific strain of Christianity became a toxic political force
Chauncey DeVega, - AlterNet/Salon
_Stephan: While I was in government and watching what was happening as Nixon and Billy Graham were coming together I coined the terms crhistofascist and christofascism. All my readers are familiar with them, and I am beginning to see the terms pop up in the commentary of others. How did thi ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s Wealth More Unequal than Absolute Monarchies, Dictatorships
, \\- The Mountain
_Stephan: Several readers wrote me after I ran the piece about the latest data on wealth inequality to ask how the wealth inequality in America compares with wealth inequality between monarchs and dictators in the past. Interesting question, here is the answer. It certainly puts things in perspective._
![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp- ... ⌘ Read more
Federal grand jury indicts Nebraska GOP lawmaker
Cristina Marcos, - The Hill
_Stephan: Here is today's Republican Scum Award winner, Representative Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska who demonstrates once again, that apparently you have to be a corrupt grifter to get the backing of the Republican Party. It will be interesting to see how the voters of Nebraska vote in 2022 when Fortenberry is next up for election. Will they vote him back into office, unless he is alrea ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Indefensible’: US Billionaires Became $2.1 Trillion Richer in 19 Months of Pandemic
Jon Queally, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Elon Musk is now richer than some countries, his wealth is calculated at $230 Billion. And although he is richest man on the planet, he far from alone. There are 745 such men and women in America.. The only thing you share with them is that they are humans who live on the same planet, but not in the same ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s Next Great Migrations Are Driven by Climate Change
Parag Khanna, Susan Joy Hassol, - Scientific American
_Stephan: I have been writing about the coming mass climate change migrations that are going to occur in America for years, and now this is becoming an issue for others. Once again, I counsel that you check to see what climate change is likely to do where you live, and if the news is not good, move before real estate price collapse._
... ⌘ Read more
The $5 trillion insurance industry faces a reckoning. Blame climate change.
Umair Irfan , - VOX
_Stephan: Once again the insurance industry makes it clear they are taking climate change very seriously. I caution you also once again to look at the data on what climate change is going to do in you area and when, and plan accordingly before it is too late._
![](https://i2.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Scre ... ⌘ Read more
Here’s how right-wing media outlets kill people who take their advice
Thom Haartmann, - Independent Media Institute / Raw Story
_Stephan: Everyday I hear the fully vaccinated hosts of the Fox propaganda operation tell lie after lie about virtually everything they cover, particularly about Covid and vaccination. It amazes me that people being paid millions of dollars apiece each year seem to have no sense of integrity or honor. I know its fo ... ⌘ Read more_
Peter Thiel’s right-wing bet: Tech tycoon spending millions to bankroll ‘Trump wing’ of GOP
Igor Derysh, - AlterNet
_Stephan: If you want to know what is destroying American democracy this is it. The corruption of American politics stems from Citizen United. I will say again, what I have been saying for decades. Citizens United must be reversed, all elections should be publicly funded, and if a politician at any level ... ⌘ Read more_
Head of Koch-tied group urges Sinema to ‘stay strong’ as she opposes tax hikes on rich
Jake Johnson, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: The problem America faces is not that a couple of political streetwalkers like Manchin and Sinema are in office; they are the current members in the spotlight but far from the only or even worst corrupt politicians in Congress. The problem is the people of the United States who are now ... ⌘ Read more_
As Manchin Blocks Climate Plan, His State Can’t Hold Back Floods
Christopher Flavelle, - The New York Times
_Stephan: Do you think West Virginians will vote Joe Manchin back into office even though he is going to make their lives miserable? Will they even be able to process what he has done? To e honest I don't think so._
![](https://i1.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-17-at-6.09.56-PM.jpg?resize=8 ... ⌘ Read more
Synthetic chemical in consumer products linked to early death, study finds
Sandee LaMotte, - CNN Health
_Stephan: I have been warning you for years now about taking control of your environmental toxins because so much of what is sold in the form of what are called "household products" are, in fact, harmful to your wellbeing. Now the data shows using these things may even shorten your life._
_Microbiologist Kerry Pollard per ... ⌘ Read more_
Joe Manchin demands climate provisions stripped from budget bill
Jon Levine, - The New York Post
_Stephan: The fate of the earth hinges on the vote of one man whose wealth is tied to carbon-energy. Joe Manchin needs to be voted out of office, but are the voters of West Virginia are up to that level of rational thought?_
_Democratic Sen ... ⌘ Read more
Sexual Abuse Revelations Accelerate Sense of a French Church in Retreat
Norimitsu Onishi and Aurelien Breeden, - The New York Times
_Stephan: The hallmark of all patriarchally-based religions is sexual dysfunction, and the Roman Catholic Church with its supposedly, but not actually, celibate clergy is the worse of the lot. This report about the French RC church is gobsmacking, and it is easy to understand why once deeply catholic France is ... ⌘ Read more_
The Most Important Global Meeting You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Is Now
Catrin Einhorn, - The New York Times
_Stephan: I have been talking about the loss of biodiversity, whether Bees, butterflies, squirrels, or elephants. The decreasing biodiversity on earth has huge implications for the survival of humans, and we are completely failing to do what we need to do. If I were a young person today I would be furious with my boomer parents for ... ⌘ Read more_
A Secretive Hedge Fund is Gutting Newsrooms
McKay Coppins, Staff Writer - The Atlantic
_Stephan: A free press is essential for a healthy democracy.. But there are Rightwing forces trying to destroy America's free press. I see this as just another datapoint on the trend describing the attempt by Republicans to destroy America's democracy. I tell you yet again, if you believe in democracy, and I assume most, but not all, of my readers do, you better get involved and not ... ⌘ Read more_
The Shorter Work Week Really Worked in Iceland. Here’s How
Virginia Lau and Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir, - msn money/Bloomberg
_Stephan: American workers have poor working conditions, low pay, little vacation time, and almost no child support assistance. I think that is one of the reasons we are finally seeing so much labor unrest. Here is what more intelligently governed nations with policies designed to foster wellbeing are discovering._
Ocean Cleanup’s supersized system proves its worth with “massive” haul
Nick Lavars, - New Atlas
_Stephan:_
#### _The ocean pollution of plastics by humans is an espically stupid thing to do because it is destroying the ocean ecosystem, and the impact of that collapse on human civilization cannot be overstated. It is becoming catastrophic. It is my personal view that either the U.S. Navy or a newly created agency should have fleets of ... ⌘ Read more_
Plug-in Cars Are The Future. The Grid Isn’t Ready.
Will Englund, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Just as President Dwight Eisenhower made the creation of the interstate highway system, so President Joe Biden and the Congress need to make the creation of a power grid to recharge EV batteries a priority so that we have one grid that can be universally used. This also requires creating a common universally shared charging connector._
_Dying Covid patient Credit: AFP/Getty_