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First patient receives potentially cancer-stopping pill in new clinical trial
Shyla Cadogan, - Study Finds
_Stephan: In 2020, an estimated 1,806,590 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the United States and 606,520 people died from the disease. This story is the first major thing I have seen that offers a positive change in those numbers._
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Matt Ford, Staff Writer - The New Republic
_Stephan: The Republican-engineered judiciary just screwed ordinary folk yet again. I do not understand why American voters cannot seem to understand that Republicans don't like them, except as useful idiots to vote them into power. Everything Republicans do is designed to serve corporate and uber-rich interests._

_Stephan: A few years back conservatives on the Supreme Court legalized bribery with the Citizens United decision -- of course, they didn't call it that -- and made it possible for the uber-rich and corporations to buy election outcomes they wanted. The Koch brothers and Peter Thiel are leading ... ⌘ Read more_
GOP Plan on Threatening Recession If They Can’t Cut Medicare, Social Security
Sharon Zang, News Writer - truthout
_Stephan: If you depend in any way on Social Security or Medicare and you vote for Republicans, you are in essence cutting your own throat, a kind of indirect suicide and you have no one but yourself to blame for the misery that your vote will cause to befall you. The Magat Republicans aren't even hiding what they have in mind as this ... ⌘ Read more_
Texas Schools Are Sending DNA Kits Home to Parents. Why This Is a Communications Mess
Arianna Prothero, Reporter - Education Week
_Stephan: This is how Texas under Greg Abbott is choosing to deal with the Uvalde school massacre. Of course, you would want a DNA kit if your kid was killed in a school massacre like Uvalde, in a state that has virtually no gun control, so you could identify their body even if you couldn't recognize their da ... ⌘ Read more_
Rooftop wind energy innovation claims 50% more energy than solar at same cost**
Ryan Kennedy, - PV Magazine
_Stephan: The key to ending the carbon era is to invent new technologies that foster well-being, and this is a first example of this new path, so I think this is excellent good news._

A new bladeless wind energy unit, patente ... ⌘ Read more
Chart-armed Katie Porter proves that corporate greed is the primary cause of inflation
Brandon Gage, Staff Writer - ALterNet
_Stephan: Katie Porter, Democratic Representative from California is one of the smartest people in Congress, either house. And she deals in facts not the usual claptrap and BS one hears from most Congress members. Yesterday she presented the truth about inflation; it is almost entirely the result of corporate gre ... ⌘ Read more_
States with poor climate policy ‘overlap’ with those seeking to limit rights, Kamala Harris says
Anumita Kaur and Hayley Smith, Reporters - Los Angeles Times
_Stephan: Here are some more facts, as if more were needed. Based on objectively verifiable data there is no question that Republican governance is always inferior to Democratic governance, and less fostering of wellbeing. If you vote Republican you are voting to degrade yo ... ⌘ Read more_
As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, a Water Crisis Looms in South Asia
VAISHNAVI CHANDRASHEKHAR, Reporter and Editor - Yale 360 - Yale University
_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for more than a decade, based on my reading of various research reports, that this was coming. It is going to affect the lives of millions of people, as this report describes._
_Cre ... ⌘ Read more_
How the Clean Water Act Fixed the Delaware River’s Pollution Problem
Susan Phillips, Reporter - WHYY - PBS (Delaware)
_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news about how properly framed wellbeing fostering governmental policies pay off._

When former regional EPA manager Richard Pepino was studying biology in college in the 1960s, he remembers one of ... ⌘ Read more
Flow of Dark Money Has Led to Record Amount of Outside Spending This Election
Sharon Zhang, Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: The conservative supreme court cabal, 12 years ago basically made it possible for the uber-rich and corporations to buy elections. Here is the story. It has profoundly skewed our already deeply compromised electoral system._

Insulin Rationing Common Among Patients With Diabetes
Jeff Minerd, Medical and Science Writer - MedPage Today
_Stephan: If the Republicans take the House they are going to reverse a range of programs that make millions of people's lives better, and one is Biden's limitation on the cost of insulin, a drug that is essential for life itself. Already, at this moment, diabetics all over the country are rationing their use of insulin because of its cost._

_Stephan: I see these three lies in almost every right-wing publication and hear and see on almost every MAGAt cable media show one Republican MAGAt liar after another rep ... ⌘ Read more_
Do conservatives really have an empathy deficit? This is what social science says
MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, Senior Writer - Salon
_Stephan: Here is real science and real facts that explain the bizarre lack of empathy and inability to control their anger and fear that are so much a factor in the personalities of MAGAts. To read the research paper upon which this general audience report is based go to: Political ideology and pandemic lifestyles ... ⌘ Read more_
Why Do Blue States Keep Prioritizing Lawyers Over Low-Income Americans?**
DAVID FREEMAN ENGSTROM and NORA FREEMAN ENGSTROM, Law Professor at Stanford Law School and Co-director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession \\| Law Professor at Stanford Law School and Co-director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession. - Slate
_Stephan: The legal system in the United States is very unfair, racist, and an individual's ab ... ⌘ Read more_
FBI official says field office agents are whining about prosecuting Jan. 6 attackers: Nicolle Wallace**
Sarah K. Burris, - Raw Story
_Stephan: People are drawn to working in law enforcement not because of the money, but the authority a badge confers. As a result, a large percentage are inclined to authoritarianism and fascism. Not surprisingly, then, a significant percentage of the FBI are MAGAt Trumpers, and as a ... ⌘ Read more_
Did Saudi Arabia Just Hand the Midterms to the GOP?**
Jonah Shepp, - msn
_Stephan: I don't think there is any question that the Saudis very deliberately acted as they did to skew the mid-term election for the Republicans. Remember the billion-dollar deal with the Trump family? I think it is time for a complete reappraisal of the Saudi-U.S. relationship._
_Credit: Frede ... ⌘ Read more_
Saudi Arabia will face ‘consequences’, says Biden, amid anger at cuts in oil output
Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Julian Borger, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have felt for many years that the United States had the same relationship with Saudi Arabia that a dope addict has with their dope dealer. As we exit the carbon era I hope we wake up and treat the Saudis as what they are, as how they behave. I had to go there when I was in government ... ⌘ Read more_
DC tent cities stain the nation’s capital**
Mary Kay Linge, - New York Post
_Stephan: I am beginning to see more and more stories like this, and it is clear that as rents go up a great number of people are becoming homeless. What is clear to me is that the social well-being of American cities is being seriously degraded and that our social policies needed to be fundamentally reconsidered and reoriented. When you have this many thousands of people becoming homeless everyth ... ⌘ Read more_
The Industry Devouring the American Dream
Jason Linkins, Deputy Editor - The New Republic
_Stephan: Private equity is essentially the rich hoovering up everything they can for greater profit, a greed machine that, as this article lays out is disrupting American society, like cancer eating away at a body._
_Credit: Scott Olson / Getty_
Do newspaper endorsements matter? It’s a ... ⌘ Read more
As Hospitals Close Children’s Units, Where Does That Leave Lachlan?**
Emily Baumgaertner, Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: The American Illness Profit System, which passes so very poorly in the United States for healthcare, is morally disgusting because what isn't regulated by mediocre male politicians, is based on profit, not healthcare. I did several articles recently on this trend, and a reader sent me this disgusting article about what is happening ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s increasingly atrocious access to maternity care, explained in 3 charts
Dylan Scott, - Vox
_Stephan: Look at the map that heads this story. Maternity care deserts, which is a bureaucratic way of saying pregnant women cannot get the healthcare they need and, as equal citizens in the United States, deserve. What is it about the United States, and the mediocre cretins we seem to always elect to public office that women and children are ... ⌘ Read more_
Funding Social Security Is a Lot Cheaper Than Coddling Rich Retirees
MICHAEL MECHANIC, Senior Editor - Mother Jones
_Stephan: I hear MAGAt Republican politicians whining about the increase in Social Security benefits. What you don't hear from these mediocrities is what the rich cost the government each year. Here are some facts._
_Credit: Mark Felix ... ⌘ Read more_
Following Supreme Court’s Lead, Judge Finds Right to Remove Serial Numbers From Guns
MARK JOSEPH STERN, - Slate
_Stephan: 45,222 men women and children died by gun fire in 2020, and 39,707 died in 2019. And so it has gone on for decades. The American gun psychosis kills more people than most diseases. And nothing substantive ever happens to end this yearly massacre. Americans love guns more than their fellow citizens, or themselves since ... ⌘ Read more_
How Koch Industries, Fake Scientists, and Rush Limbaugh Invented Climate Denial
Geoff Dembicki, - Vice News
_Stephan: The Kochs, like the Murdochs, I believe will be seen as historically evil, putting their own interests ahead of the best interests of humanity. Here is a recapitulation of their role in creating climate change denial._
_Charl ... ⌘ Read more_
Corporate Media Mostly Ignoring GOP Ploy to Cut Social Security and Medicare
Brett Wilkins, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: I agree with this article that the mainstream media has completely underplayed what the Republicans are planning to do with Social Security and Medicare, and that American voters are too dim to fully comprehend what they intend. When I look at the polls, what I see is a White voter population that simply isn't very b ... ⌘ Read more_
How to fix America’s broken child-care industry
The Editorial Board, - The Washington Post
_Stephan: On the basis of hard data, and I have said this in a dozen papers and countless SR comments, it is clear that America as a society doesn't give a damn about the wellbeing of American children. From infant birth mortality to food, childcare, education, or health care the U.S. scores as far worse than the rest of the developed nations of the world. Here is the Washington Post' ... ⌘ Read more_
Joe Manchin Impoverished 4 Million Children When He Killed Child Tax Credit
Amy Hutchison, - truthout
_Stephan: West Virginia is one of the poorest least educated states in the nation, and West Virginians again and again vote for a man, Joe Manchin, who consistently votes to degrade the wellbeing of the people who vote for him. Here is a classic example of what I am saying._

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 60% in August 2022 compared to August 2021, reaching 847,000 units. This is the best result ever for a ... ⌘ Read more=
Teenagers Are Telling Us That Something Is Wrong With America
Jamieson Webster, Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst and Professor at the New School. - The New York Times
_Stephan: This essay is telling us something very important about American society. The question for me is our we as a society capable of hearing what it is saying. I'm not sure we are._
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_Stephan: "Earth’s wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% in just under 50 years, according to a leading scientific assessment, as humans continue to clear forests, consume beyond the limits of the planet and pollute on an industrial scale." Greed, it is all driven by greed. Humanity seems incapable of seeing past shor ... ⌘ Read more_
Inside the warped world of incel extremists
Charlie Tye , PHD Candidate, York Law School, University of York - Raw Story
_Stephan: Utterly self-referential and frightened by women, the incel movement, a product of social media is growing year by year. Overwhelmingly White, self-pitying and violent because they can't find a woman willing to have sex with them, this weird population is a growing threat to social wellbeing._

Much of the movement to reduce [ocean plastic](https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-plastic-guide-2653277768. ... ⌘ Read more
Undersea Cable to Funnel 3 Gigawatts of Solar Energy From Egypt to Power Millions of European Households
Andy Corbley, - Good News Network
_Stephan: Here is some more good news, a first report on a new trend, one that charts the replacement of petroleum with non-carbon energy. It is going to change the economy of Egypt._

_Stephan: In the United States the Republican MAGAts are trying to restrict access to contraceptives. In France, they are making contraceptives available for free. Do you think access to contraceptives reduces women having to use abortions? Which path do you think will produce greater wellbeing?_

_Stephan: If you look into the SR archives you will see that I have been following this trend for several years. It doesn't get a lot of attention, except in the medical literature, but it has enormous implications. Humanity is literally poisoning its ability to reproduce and it is a tossup whether we are oing to wakeup to what ... ⌘ Read more_
More Americans are joining the ‘cashless’ economy
MICHELLE FAVERIO, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: This is a very interesting trend that I have noticed in myself. I have two $20 bills in a clip that I carry around in my pocket and they have been there for months. Instead of cash, I use a debit card, not only because it is just as easy as cash, it also gives me a record in one place when it comes time to do our taxes. In my 2060 remote viewing experiment almost all the vie ... ⌘ Read more_
Can plants think? The burgeoning field of plant neurobiology has a lot to say on the matter
MATTHEW ROZSA, - Salon
_Stephan: If you read SR regularly you will remember earlier stories I have published about the consciousness of bees, birds, sea creatures, and animals. This sort of story gets lost in the news because these reports are rarely placed in their proper context. If they were perhaps people would recognize how important a ... ⌘ Read more_
The Inner Lives of Plants: Cognition, Sentience, and Ethics
Marc Bekoff Ph.D., - Psychology Today
_Stephan: Here is another take on the matrix of consciousness. I take these reports as very good and important news because they profoundly change our view on what constitutes reality._
_Credit: Pixabay Pexels_
Late last year ago I posted an [interview](https://www ... ⌘ Read more
Parents like their public schools, no matter how much the charter school movement tells them not to
Gail Sunderman , - AlterNet
_Stephan: Public education for centuries has been one of the proudest examples of democracy. Countless poor children have gone through this system and transformed their lives, becoming doctors, nurses, engineers, and entrepreneurs, in turn altering the lives of millions of other Americans for the ... ⌘ Read more_
Hundreds of Atlantic and Gulf Coast hospitals at risk of hurricane flooding, study reveals
John Anderer, - Study Finds
_Stephan: As we look at what Hurricane Ian has wrought, what I don't hear is anything about how Florida or the other coastal states are going to prepare for what is almost inevitably going to happen in the future in Florida. And here, let me just focus on healthcare and hospitals. If you live in Florida or another ... ⌘ Read more_
Election Workers Train for Battle Against Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation Before Midterms.
Arit John, - yahoo! news
_Stephan: If I were betting given what I see in the polls today about how Americans are likely to vote I would say there is a 65%-35% chance that the outcome of the election will lead to the end of American democracy. 65% being democracy will end. Americans just don't seem to get that voting for a Republ ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Shaken’ law professors revolt as hyper-partisan SCOTUS rulings ‘upend constitutional principles’**
Alex Henderson, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: As you can see I am not the only one who sees the Supreme Court conservative majority as a corrupt cult working to dismantle democracy._
_Associate Justice and MAGAt supporter Samu ... ⌘ Read more_
Gun Violence in Rural America
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_Stephan: When people think about gun violence and murder the conversation is almost always couched in terms about urban America. But the truth is that rural America is becoming ever more dangerous as a result of such violence. Here are the facts._

As gun violence continues to fuel violent crime across the nation, some conservative politicians are ... ⌘ Read more
Wealthiest 10% Responsible for Nearly 50% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Finds
: Olivia Rosane and Chris McDermott, - Ecowatch
_Stephan: The grotesque wealth inequality that is the hallmark of the present day has far more implications than most people realize. For instance, consider this correlation between uber wealth and destroying the wellbeing of the earth._
![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2 ... ⌘ Read more
The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear**
Ed Yong, Staff Writer - The Atlantic
_Stephan: As I recover from the particular Indian Covid variant I contracted I have thought a great deal about the failure of the American Illness Profit System to deal with this pandemic as well as the AIDS, SARS, and H5NI pandemics that preceded it. As I have read the research data about what climate change is going to do to viruses, it is clear to me this is just the latest in a series of pandemi ... ⌘ Read more_
Matt Gaetz Votes No On Relief Money As Florida Grapples With Hurricane Ian Aftermath
Ben Blanchet, - Huffington Post›
_Stephan: If you live in Florida, have been severely impacted by Hurricane Ian, don't get the help you desperately need, and you voted for Matt Gaetz, you have no one to blame but yourself. Indeed, if you voted for Republicans, even if you don't live in Gaetz's district, the same is true._
![](https://www.schwartzreport ... ⌘ Read more
Tucker Carlson says it’s “factually untrue” that climate change impacts hurricane season
Media Matters Staff, - Media Matters for America
_Stephan: Tucker Carlson, who I see as a kind of christofascist evil caricature of a preppy is utterly without ethics. He is one of the reasons that America is not prepared for what climate change is doing, and is going to do to the country. Each day, supported by the Murdoch family, and watched by m ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note – Thank you
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Thank you very much to all the readers who wrote to send me healing and good wishes. This has meant a great deal to me. The Indian variant of Covid I contracted has been a very nasty business, one stop short of hospitalization, but thanks to the care of my loving wife Ronlyn, my gifted primary care doc Fernando Vega, and a five-day course of Pfizer's Paxlovid, while still quite a ways from healthy, I am definitely on ... ⌘ Read more_
Confidence in U.S. Supreme Court Sinks to Historic Low
Jeffrey M. Jones, - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: Although the media is understandably consumed by stories about Hurricane Ian, and the Ukraine war, there is a third major story that is shaping our world but not getting anywhere near enough attention; the disastrous decline in the approval rating by Americans of their Supreme Court. This third branch of the government, whose authority is inextricably correlat ... ⌘ Read more_
Opinion: The Supreme Court’s Legitimacy is in Danger
Fareed Zakaria, - CNN
_Stephan: Fareed Zakaria lays out why I think this Supreme Court downward trend is such a big deal. I agree with the thinking expressed in this article and see it as a real threat to our democracy._
_The Supreme Court_
The power of the first branch of American government, Congress, comes from ... ⌘ Read more
Justices shield spouses’ work from potential conflict of interest disclosures
HAILEY FUCHS, JOSH GERSTEIN and PETER S. CANELLOS, - Politico
_Stephan: One of the peculiarities of the Supreme Court is that its members have no ethical standards but what it imposes on itself. Every other public official in the nation has them, but not the Supreme Court. As the court has been transformed into a political think tank, and not a court of justice the co ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note – Covid
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: I got back from India where I went at the invitation of the Indian equivalent of our National Institutes of Health to present a paper on my research on the nonlocality of consciousness, religions, and spiritual practices, and began to feel unwell. In spite of all my vaccinations and boosters, I tested positive for Covid, and am now flat on my back with an extremely sore throat and aching ears with what my doctor calls moderate ... ⌘ Read more_
Editor’s Note – 21-27 September
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: The Indian Government has asked me to come to Bangalore, India, and I have accepted, to present my research on Nonlocal Consciousness and the Anthropology of Religions and Spiritual Practices at a large conference the Indian government is sponsoring. So today's edition will be the last until the 27th of September when I return. I am not sure that while I am in India I will be able to spend the hours needed ... ⌘ Read more_