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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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New Woman Says Herschel Walker Drove Her to Abortion Clinic: Report**
David Edwards,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Here is yet another Herschel Walker cover-up and lies. I find it hard to believe that any rational person would vote for this creepy liar and cheat, but I suspect millions will. That isn't, however, the reason I am running this story. What I am noticing in story after story around the country is that Republican candidates, and I mean all of ... ⌘ Read more
_
Crime: Red Delusions About Purple Reality
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center., Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: I have told you over and over that I see the endless Republican rantings about Democrats being the reason crime has gone up as a political fraud. Paul Krugman explains this, and I agree with him._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-9.01.08-P ... ⌘ Read more
Republicans love to blame Democratic policies for violent crime. These studies debunk those claims
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The Republican bloviation on crime is not fact-based. Here are some facts. Why the Democrats can't seem to put together an effective response to the Republicans, I think, arises from their failure to understand what is motivating voters._

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Trudeau Orders an Immediate Freeze on the Sale of Handguns in Canada
Giulia Heyward,    -  Reader Supported News / npr

_Stephan: How interesting it is to contrast the differing cultural visions of Canada and the United States when it comes to guns. In both countries, so similar in so many ways, there are a lot of guns held by citizens. But as this act by Trudeau shows, where Canadians like guns, they also understand there are limits for a safe civil societ ... ⌘ Read more_
Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet’s traffic per second**
Michael Irving,    -  New Atlas

_Stephan: I see this report as the opening cord of a massive social transformation, and will follow this closely.

The research paper on which this report is based can be found in Nature Photonics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01082-z_

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-9.50.12- ... ⌘ Read more
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Menace: Armed Men in Tactical Gear Showing Up at AZ Ballot Boxes
Ryan Grenoble,    -  HuffPost

_Stephan: Welcome to America, where about a third of the country, the MAGAts are actively trying to destroy the nation's democracy. Armed vigilantes egged on by Republican politicians, are hovering around ballot boxes, trying to scare people away from voting. They remind me of little girls dressing up, or little boys in Superman costumes. This is exactly what the Nazi ... ⌘ Read more_
Homicide now a leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S.
Chris Melore,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: This is one of the most appalling research studies I have seen in a long time. To quote it, "Researchers with the Harvard School of Public Health found that pregnant women are more likely to be murdered than die from pregnancy-related complications, including high blood pressure disorders, hemorrhage, or sepsis." And two-thirds of those deaths are ... ⌘ Read more_
Why women’s freedom threatens men
Robert S. Mcelvaine,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Salon / Commentary

_Stephan: I see the MAGAt obsession with controlling women, and far-right authoritarian politics, as two intertwined trends. This is one of the few articles I have seen that sees that clearly._

_An anti-abortion protester Credit: Shutterstock_

Will America’s future be one of democracy a ... ⌘ Read more
A Young Victim Of Incest Was Denied An Abortion In Florida And Forced To Travel For Care, Planned Parenthood Said
Anna Betts,  Reporter  -  BuzzFeed

_Stephan: I see stories like this one, two or three a day, every day. So often the media has begun to treat this as the new normal. It was entirely predictable with the overturn of Roe by the Dobbs decision, and the immediate rush by Republicans to pass laws at the s ... ⌘ Read more_
Federal deficit was cut in half last year, Treasury Department says
Courtenay Brown,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: This is a big deal getting almost no media attention. I think the Democrats are doing a very poor job getting across to people the many wellbeing fostering policies they have gotten into place over the past two years._

_President Biden Cre ... ⌘ Read more_
The Fifth Circuit Just Defunded the (Consumer Protection) Police
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._

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Dark money groups have pumped $1 billion into GOP effort to retake the Senate
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet / Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I watch the various television channel news operations and listen to the interviews with ordinary Americans talking about how they will vote, I am stunned at how little people seem to understand about what is going on. beneath the surface. There seems to be no real conception of how corrupt the governme ... ⌘ Read more_
Right-Wing Populist Parties Are Bad for Climate Action, Study Finds
Olivia Rosane,  Staff Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Watching the BBC I listened to their report on how Sweden now ruled by a far-right populist party, has just scrapped its environmental agency working to prepare the country for climate change. In one stroke Sweden has gone from an environmental leader to a near climate denier, and this same process is going on all over the world, wherever ... ⌘ Read more_
Wonking Out: Facts, Feelings and Rural Politics
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Pprofessor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Columnist   -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Paul Krugman lays out the facts on a trend that is tearing America apart. The shift to the far-far-right on the part of aging rural Americans._

_Illustration by Sam Whitney/The Ne ... ⌘ Read more_
The hidden billion-dollar cost of repeatedpolice misconduct
Keith L. Alexander, Steven Rich and Hannah Thacker ,  Reporter \\| Database Editor \\| Copy Aide  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: I keep seeing story after story about police violence and misconduct. It is the defining characteristic of American law enforcement, no other developed democracy in the world has anything like this problem. Not even close. I began to wonder what does this cost us, that is we the ... ⌘ Read more_
Phantom Forests: Why Ambitious Tree Planting Projects Are Failing
Fred Pearce,  Contributing Writer  -  Yale 360

_Stephan: The changes that are being wrought by climate change are going to be far more complicated to deal with than governments around the world, and certainly, in the United States realize. This article describes just one aspect of the problems humanity will face, and you can see how that has worked out._

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Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Passes Resolution Affirming That Only Men Can Be Pastors
Milton Quintanilla ,  Contributing Writer  -  Christian Headlines

_Stephan: Whenever I go into the world of evangelical Baptists, the reality of christofascism, I am struck by the medievalism of their thinking. This is the largest group of Protestants in the United States and their sexism and racism in the second decade of the 21st centu ... ⌘ Read more_
How billionaires are building a right-wing online ecosystem
Rebecca Klar,    -  The Hill

_Stephan: The American wealth inequality crisis is fundamentally changing the country's political system and American culture. In 2022 there are 735 American billionaires; they constitute over a quarter of the world's billionaires. There are also nearly 22 million millionaires in the U.S. making up 8.8% of the country's adult population. Meanwhile, the median net worth of the A ... ⌘ Read more_
Saudis Sought Oil Production Cut So Deep It Surprised Even Russia
Ken Klippenstein,  Investigative Reporter  -  The Intercept.

_Stephan: The November election has been heavily manipulated by the Saudis who seek to skew it to the Republicans by cutting back production so that gas prices go up. Where we live regular gas is $5.60 a gallon. In my opinion, the American / Saudi relationship needs to be massively restructured. We have supported the Saudis for years ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Stand your ground’ laws linked to increased homicide rates, study finds
Kaanita Iyer,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Every day I listen to Republicans make crime a major factor in the election. What you almost never hear is that in Red states crime rates have gone up the most, particularly crimes involving guns._

_Florida was the first state to enact a “s ... ⌘ Read more_
Food Insufficiency Up 25% Since Manchin, GOP Killed Child Tax Credit Boost
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: This is a follow-up of an earlier report I ran about the utter uninterest the Republican Party has about nurturing healthy children. As I watch the election campaigns and how Americans are reacting I am amazed and disheartened that American voters don't even seem to be aware of what the Republicans are doing to gut socia ... ⌘ Read more_
Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy**
Andrew Gumbel,  Investigative Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_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._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-18-at-5.40.18- ... ⌘ Read more
How DeSantis and Florida Republicans are reshaping higher education
Andrew Atterbury,    -  Politico

_Stephan: The main thing that stands out for me about Ron DeSantis is the contempt in which he holds the citizens of his state. He obviously sees them as nothing but pawns to be manipulated. And MAGAts like De Santis particularly do not like opportunities for fact-based education. Why? Because study after study shows that the more educated the person the mor ... ⌘ Read more_
How LIberals Should Control a Right-Wing Supreme Court
Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath,    -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: I have been waiting to see some democracy supporting progressively minded person address how to treat the MAGAt cabal that dominates the Supreme Court, and surprised at how silent the response has been. But here is a well-argued case for how democracy oriented individuals, particularly those seeking public office, can respond._

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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._

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Republicans Are Trying to Win by Spreading Three False Talking Points. Here’s the Truth
Robert Reich,  Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center  -  Reader Supported News / The Guardian (U.K.)

_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._

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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._

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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._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-S ... ⌘ Read more
100% Electric Vehicles = 11% Of New Vehicle Sales Globally!
José Pontes,    -  Clean Technica

_Stephan: Here some good news giving you the hard data on the current status and coming end of the internal combustion engine._



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._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-13-at-9.15.39-PM.png ... ⌘ Read more
How Republicans conspire with churches for social and political control
Thom Hartmann,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is how christofascism works. Christianity in the United States has today largely become a white supremacy political action cult._

_Franklin Graham attends UN global call to protect religious freedom meeting at UN Headquarters in 2019.
... ⌘ Read more_
Conservatives Are the New Useful Idiots
Mona Charen,    -  The Bulwark

_Stephan: An amazing number of MAGAt Republican voting citizens support Putin and what he is doing and long for the kind of authoritarianism that rules Russia hoping it will be duplicated here in the United States. When I look at the polls and in spite of everything in the news see that the MAGAt Republicans, thanks to the voting by the millions of Americans, are still favored to take the House and maybe the Senate ... ⌘ Read more_
Almost 70% of animal populations wiped out since 1970, report reveals
Patrick Greenfield,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.).

_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._

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California Becomes First State to Ban Plastic Produce Bags in Grocery Stores
Olivia Rosane,    -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news about ending plastic pollution, and it comes from a state governed by Democrats, of course._



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._

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-12-at-9.21.01- ... ⌘ Read more
Election deniers infiltrate ranks of poll watchers and election judges ahead of November midterms, Colorado clerks warn
Conrad Swanson,  Denver Post  -

_Stephan: Those of us who care about the preservation of American democracy need to recognize that there is a large, albeit minority, cohort of mostly White Christians who do not support or like democracy and that they are infiltrating the infrastructure of ... ⌘ Read more_
CPAC backpedals on pro-Russia tweet as some U.S. conservatives back Putin
Isaac Arnsdorf,  Reporter  -  The Washington Post

_Stephan: Just as there was a large cohort of Republican christofascists who supported Hitler and Mussolini at the beginning of the Second World War so, today, we see the same thing happening again with Republican support for Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin. These people want to end democracy in the United States, replacing it wit ... ⌘ Read more_
Here’s the Brutal Truth: Republicans Have Given Up on Democracy
Mitchell Zimmerman,  Attorney  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I think this is an accurate assessment of the Republican Party._

_A supporter holds a ‘Trump Won’ sign at a rally by former President Donald Trump at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on January 15, 2022 in Florence, Arizona. Credit: Ma ... ⌘ Read more_
These Republicans condemned Biden’s infrastructure bill as ‘socialism’ — before requesting funds from it
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The hypocrisy of the MAGAt Republicans is breathtaking. Here is an example of why I think this._

_MAGAt Republican Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona in 2014 Credit: ... ⌘ Read more_
Patients face barriers to routine care as doctors warn of ripple effects from broad abortion bans
ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN and DANIEL PAYNE,    -  Politico

_Stephan: The overthrow of Roe has caused disruptions in an already second-rate healthcare system that go far beyond the issue of abortion. This and the next story will give you a sense of what is going on._

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Abortion Bans Are Making It Harder for Some Cancer Patients to Get Chemotherapy
Shefali Luthra,    -  truthout

_Stephan: I got an email from a physician in Cincinnati who told me his hospital has taken the position that any medication that might affect a pregnant woman's status can only be used after lawyers are consulted. Although her kids are in school, and she has lived in Ohio all her life, she told me she and her husband are talking about m ... ⌘ Read more_
A Study Finally Shows Just How Much Deadlier COVID Has Been for Republicans
DONALD MOYNIHAN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: To be a Republican I think you have to a) be of lower IQ and b) be easily manipulated by misinformation propaganda. Am I just being partisan? No. This is based on facts, and the proof of this is made clear in the Covid death statistics. Republicans were, and are, literally willing to die for their false beliefs. Here are the facts._

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For white evangelical Protestants, power is religion and Herschel Walker is their vessel
John Stoehr,    -  AlterNet

_Stephan: I am just gobsmacked by the hypocrisy of the MAGAt Republicans, and nowhere is this made clearer than with Herschel Walker. MAGAts are clearly only interested in one thing: power. Herschel Walker can't even speak proper standard English, and his capacity to think is obviously very limited. Yet this is the person ... ⌘ Read more_
Covid Inaction Leaves US Facing ‘Major Storm Without Even an Umbrella in Hand,’ Experts Warn
KENNY STANCIL,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As someone who is still recovering from a particularly nasty variant of Indian Covid contracted in spite of multiple vaccinations and boosters, I urge you to take this article seriously and take all precautions. You don't want to get this._

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Exclusive: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Used Covid Aid to Pay for a Border Wall
Barbara Koeppel,  Investigative Reporter  -  The Nation

_Stephan: Like all MAGAt Republicans, Greg Abbott is a dishonest grifter interested only in holding power and screw the people that elected me. This sad tale is so typical of these people it is almost a cliche´. What surprises me is that the people of Texas are incapable of understanding this or, do understand and do ... ⌘ Read more_
This 100% Solar-Powered Town in Florida Left Virtually Unscathed After Hurricane Ian
Kristina Zagame,  Solar and Energy Reporter  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I have been holding this story for a couple of days to see if anyone else covered it. They did not, until 60 Minutes briefly mentioned it tonight. Clearly, it is possible to construct a town in Florida that is capable of surviving hurricanes. What even this doesn't deal with, however, is mass ... ⌘ Read more_
The Supreme Court is Blowing Up Law School, Too
MARK JOSEPH STERN,    -  Slate

_Stephan: I doubt that many Americans have given much thought to the effect the transformation of the Supreme Court into a political MAGAt action committee has had on law schools. We all should be concerned because the effect is very nasty, and will affect our legal system for years. Here's the story._

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Pardons, descheduling and the DEA: Making sense of Biden’s weed actions
MONA ZHANG,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Hundreds of thousands of men and women, particularly Black men, have had their lives torn apart over using marijuana. It is a disgusting chapter of racism and sheer nastiness in American history. I live in a state where for some years now marijuana has been legal, and the main thing that stands out for me about this legality is that mari ... ⌘ Read more_
Wonking Out: A Jobs Survey Full of Good News
Paul Krugman,  Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Paul Krugman has one of the best track records for accurately describing the financial circumstances of the United States. Here is his take on where we are today, and it is better than you might think._

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Wealthier people live 4 years longer than those in poorer areas, longevity study says
John Anderer,    -

_Stephan: I see more and more research papers coming out showing the disparity between wealth and poverty, including this one based on research in Spain. What is clear, based on facts, not the usually political posturing, is that wealth inequality, and the United States has a notably extreme level of inequality, always sabotages social w ... ⌘ Read more_
France makes birth control free for women up to 25
,    \\-  Agence France-Presse (France)

_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?_

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The Mediterranean Sea Is So Hot, It’s Forming Carbonate Crystals
Marc Simon,  Science Journalist  -  Wired

_Stephan: It is a measure of how greed overcomes even self-protection that humanity is watching the earth's matrix of life morph into something that is going to radically change the world in which we live and not to our benefit. Here is an example of why I say this._

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The Supreme Court’s Environmental Report Card: Which Justices are Failing?**
,    \\-  ecowatch

_Stephan: The current Supreme Court is less a judicial institution and more a christofascist political action committee. And look at how the various justices are rated for their environmental choices. With this court America's ability to adequately deal with climate change looks very bleak._

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Ian will ‘financially ruin’ homeowners and insurers
THOMAS FRANK,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Like you perhaps, I watch cable news, and listen to the talk of rebuilding Florida after Hurricane Ian. It is a process as previous hurricanes have shown that will take years. But do they actually have those years? Every projection I can find showing Florida in say 2050 displays a map in which from Fort Myers down the state is underwater if the temperature only rises 2°C. If it goes to ... ⌘ Read more_
A majority of GOP nominees — 299 in all — deny the 2020 election results
Amy Gardner ,  Reporter  -  The Boston Globe / msn

_Stephan: Are you as surprised as I am, at how blatant the racist MAGAt christofascists have become in their program to end democracy in the United States and turn the country into an anocracy? I mean I knew that's what they were trying to do. What I hadn't fully comprehended until now is how cynical and open they have become about wh ... ⌘ Read more_
The United States of Confederate America**
David A. Graham,  Staff Writer  -  The Atlantic

_Stephan: Here is a very curious example of how racism is growing in the United States. Who could have imagined that people in Northern states, whose forebearers may have fought and even died in the Civil War are flying Confederate flags -- and yet they are. It is a trend that is telling us something very sad about what is happening in the United States._

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Yoga as powerful as medication for diabetics? Mind-body practices lower blood sugar levels significantly
Jocelyn Solis-Moreira,  Science Writer  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Twenty seven million Americans have Type II diabetes. If you are one of them, or know someone who is, you or they might consider the practice of yoga, as described.

To read the research paper upon which this report is based: https://www.liebertpub.com/do ... ⌘ Read more_
Study links in utero ‘forever chemical’ exposure to low sperm count and mobility
Tom Perkins,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_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_

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NIH to award over $200 million to support potentially transformative biomedical research projects
,    \\-  National Institutes of Health

_Stephan: Something very profound is happening in medical science, something that is going to fundamentally change in which we deal with illnesses. I think this is good news. Now we will have to see how America's hopelessly inferior illness profit system responds to this research._

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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._

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Gun Violence in Rural America
,    \\-  CAP

_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._

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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
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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._

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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_

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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_