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Why the U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals
Neil Bedi, Sharon Lerner and Kathleen McGrory, - ProPublica
_Stephan: In my view, the United States faces three major problems: the first and most defining one is the corruption that arises because we have only one social priority and that is profit and the encouragement of greed. This report is one example of what I mean, and what the blatant corruption in our government has wrought. Second, is the fear of the ... ⌘ Read more_
How to stop wealthy right-wing ‘Christians’ from bribing the Supreme Court
Thom Hartmann, - Raw Story
_Stephan: This is a very important exegetic essay on the corruption of the Supreme Court by Thom Hartmann, please read it, and call the Senate’s switchboard tel:202-225-3121, ask for your senator and tell them you want Congress to implement ethical standards for the Supreme Court._
_Baby was sic ... ⌘ Read more_
COVID Tragedy at Nursing Home Underscores the Deadly Risks of For-Profit Care
Lily Meyersohn , Researcher - Institute for Public Accuracy - truthout
_Stephan: The previous story was about how the American illness profit system fails to care for the very young. This report is about how this deeply inferior system fails to care properly for the very old. We need to create a universal birthright single-payer healthcare system -- the kind of healt ... ⌘ Read more_
Tom Cotton blocks Senate PRESS Act designed to protect journalists
Jessica Corbett, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: I have a number of problems with corporate media. For instance, treating politics like a horse race instead of getting into the substance of various candidates; having a programming formula with so many blocks so that a large number of important stories get little or no coverage; increasingly conservative media like Fox isn't really journ ... ⌘ Read more_
Kavanaugh attended a right-wing activist’s holiday party at ‘the worst possible time’: legal reporter
Alex Henderson, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: Further proof, if such were needed, showing that the U.S. Supreme Court is now controlled by a group of christofascist ideologues, which explains why the Court is held by Americans in the lowest esteem in over a hundred years. This is all the work of the Republican Party, par ... ⌘ Read more_
40+ Facts About Living in Sweden That Made Us Say, “Wait, What?”**
Scott Deeley, - Big Global Travel
_Stephan: A reader in Sweden wrote me today saying that he had been reading about what American culture was like and found it very off-putting, which surprised him. I wrote him back asking him to send me something that accurately presented what Swedish culture was like. This is what he sent me, and I must say it reflects my own experiences in Sweden. What really st ... ⌘ Read more_
U.S. Forest Service Aims For Fleet Of 17,000 Battery-Electric Vehicles, Piloting Ford F-150 Lightning
Cynthia Shahan, Contributing Writer - Clean Technica
_Stephan: In the hysterical fascist hate-filled politics of today, programs being implemented by the Biden administration to prepare us to exit the carbon era just get lost. Here is one example. This is good news._
_Credit: DNYUZ_
For nearly 100 years, drivers have been listening to AM radio, an American institution crackling with news, traffic, weather, sports and a ... ⌘ Read more
Opinion | What the Debate Over Guns Tells Us About America
HERYLL CASHIN, Law Professor - Georgetown University - Politico
_Stephan: If you read me you know my views on guns, and gun violence. Here is another take. I picked it because it also points put the important linkage between sensible gun laws and democracy._
_Gun safety advocates rally in front of the U.S ... ⌘ Read more_
Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
Tom Wilson, - Financial Times U.K.)
_Stephan: This potentially is a very big deal, but it is important to be clear that it will probably, as I analyse the data, another decade before fusion technology becomes a major power source._
US government scientists have made a breakthrough ... ⌘ Read more
A Fast-Growing Network of Conservative Groups Is Fueling a Surge in Book Bans
Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter, - The New York Times
_Stephan: The MAGATs don't want any view but their own taught to children in public school. They want indoctrination not education; it is straight out of the Nazis playbook, but most of the mainstream media can bring themselves to say what they know. The christofascists don't seem to realize that such a s ... ⌘ Read more_
White Nationalists, Other Republicans Brace for ‘Total War’**
Hannah Gais and Michael Edison Hayden, - Southern Poverty Law Center
_Stephan: Day by day it becomes clearer and more explicit that the Republican Party has become an anti-democratic christofascist racist cult. It is amazing to me that this sort of thing is going on and it has become normal. It gets reported like a sports event, then the news show breaks for commercials and it goes to some drug advertisem ... ⌘ Read more_
Donald Trump Poses For Photo With Conspiracy Theorist At Mar-A-Lago
Marita Vlachou, - Huff Post
_Stephan: Trump is the source of the magnification of racism in the United States, but again there is no outrage; quite the contrary, about a third of the country supports MAGAt world. That ought to be an alarm bell ringing in everyone's ear, producing awareness of a national crisis, but it doesn't. It's just the latest headline from Trump world. Ho Humm._
! ... ⌘ Read more
‘Stealth missionaries’: Former anti-abortion lobbyist gives bombshell testimony on Supreme Court campaign
Alex Henderson, - AlterNet
_Stephan: The U.s. Supreme Court uniquely compared with U.S. federal lower courts, and the equivalents to the Supreme Court in other countries has no official ethical standards. Think about that for a minute. Over the last several years it has become clear that the Supreme Court is as cor ... ⌘ Read more_
MAGA Republicans are obsessed with harassing drag shows — here’s why
Amanda Marcotte, - Raw Story / Salon
_Stephan: I had dinner tonight with a woman friend who is a physician with decades in a medical practice specializing in what I would call sexual wellbeing. I asked her what she thought of the MAGAt world's obsession over the LGBTQ community and particularly drag shows. She said something very interesting. She said she thought the MAGAt resistance and ... ⌘ Read more_
The search for abandoned oil and gas wells
Kathryn Krawczyk, - Energy News Network
_Stephan: As they phase out, petroleum technologies, and nuclear fission waste, are both leaving polluting cancers scattered across America that are going to take decades to heal. Abandoned oil wells. When did you last hear someone on cable news talking about that? You never have? Neither have I. Which is part of what is wrong with mainstream electronic media_
_Candidates backed by Peter Thiel lost in Arizona and Washington, calling into question his judgment and contributions’ value. Credit: Carolyn Kaster / AP_
With the power balance in Congress at stake in this year’s midterm elections, the GOP money machine kicked in ... ⌘ Read more
Revealed: group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry
Tom Perkins, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Nationally, 41.9 percent of American adults are obese. Black adults have the highest level of adult obesity at 49.9 percent. Hispanic adults had an obesity rate of 45.6 percent. Among the OECD-developed democracies, the United States is the most obese (36.2%).
Much of this obesity results from the American diet, and that w ... ⌘ Read more_
The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards
Alyssa Bowen , - truthout
_Stephan: The Republican Party is doing everything it can to destroy public education, and turn it into public indoctrination, just as they do in North Korea. Why are they doing this? Because multiple studies have shown that children who are educated on a factual basis, particularly if they go to college, tend to vote Democratic. Only the poorly ... ⌘ Read more_
House Report on Big Oil Greenwashing Shows ‘Big Tobacco Playbook All Over Again’**
Julia Conley, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Big tobacco spread disinformation for decades because profit was more important to them than killing tens of thousands of Americans, and others around the world. Not big oil is following the same playbook. Here's the story._
_Stephan: Here is further proof that respecting and fostering the wellbeing of the Matrix of Life benefits everyone. I don't understand why this is so hard for conservatives to understand, but then I don't understand why they would go out and shoot a wolf._
_Sea otters — such as this o ... ⌘ Read more_
Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Gobble Up Tons and Tons of Waste
, \\- Futurity
_Stephan: Here is another example of what I have been telling you is going to be essential in dealing with climate change -- the development of new technologies that foster wellbeing. This is good news._
_Plastic waste Credit: dreamtime_
Researchers have created an enzyme variant that can break down environmenta ... ⌘ Read more
Finally, Some Good Climate News: The Biggest Wins in Clean Energy in 2022
Dan Gearino, - Inside Climate News
_Stephan: As we come to the end of the year I think we should be aware of some good news about what has happened to advance clean non-carbon energy. We are not fully converted, but things are getting better._
_A large array of solar panels, ... ⌘ Read more_
Iranian forces shooting at faces and genitals of female protesters, medics say
Deepa Parent and Ghoncheh Habibiazad, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: All over the world there is a major trend underway; it is particularly intense and active in the Islamic world and in the United States. What is it? A militant attempt to keep women a subordinate gender. Nowhere is this clearer than in Iran where, as this article describes, the police are delibera ... ⌘ Read more_
Telling Americans to ‘eat better’ doesn’t work. We must make healthier food
Mark Bittman, Faculty of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: When I go to Costco on the mainland, as we do about every five or six weeks, and walk around, I am always struck by the fact that about 60% of the men and women I see are obese. When you travel in Europe or Asia the easiest way to identify Americans is their obesity. ... ⌘ Read more_
Global energy efficiency progress is accelerating, signalling a potential turning point after years of slow improvement
, \\- International Energy Agency
_Stephan: Here is some good news. In spite of all the resistance on the part of the carbon energy industries the world is making progress in exiting the carbon era. Here is the International Energy Agency's take on this._
_Stephan: CPAC invited fascist dictator Viktor Orban to speak at the largest Republican convention, Republican House members voted against add to Ukraine, and now this. If you have any political sense, sadly a large number of Americans have little or none, it is obvious that the Republican Party is trying to turn the United States into a christofas ... ⌘ Read more_
Why the Right Needs Hunter Biden – They think his story assuages their guilt, but it doesn’t.**
MONA CHAREN , Policy Editor - The Bulwark
_Stephan: When the House comes back in January under Republican control expect to see the party's christofascists go into an obsessive frenzy over Hunter Biden. Frankly, I could not understand what this was about, and the other day I spent a couple of hours reading MAGAt media, and actual fact-base ... ⌘ Read more_
Drug Shortages: Root Causes and Potential Solutions
, \\- U.S. Food & Drug Administration
_Stephan: I am seeing more and more stories describing how and increasing number of Americans either can't afford the drugs they need to maintain their health, even their lives, or have to wait because when they go to their drugstore they don't have the drug available. Why is this. The answer isn't that complicated. This is happening because the pharmaceutical industry is structured ... ⌘ Read more_
From flickering fireflies to lowly dung beetles, insects are vanishing
Gloria Dickie and Simon Scarr, - Reuters / Raw Story
_Stephan: As a species, we just don't get it. We do not understand, will not accept, and cannot overcome the besetting sin of humanity, Greed. And, as a result, we are wrecking the ecosystems of the earth upon which our own wellbeing depends. The evidence is irrefutable, and ignoring it will not save us._
. This idea is beginning to gain greater currency amongst political commentators because it has become so obvious. Here is an example of what I mean. My prediction is that we will remain one country, but that pow ... ⌘ Read more_
The Texas Group Waging a National Crusade Against Climate Action
David Gelles, - Reader Supported News / The New York Times
_Stephan: Anyone with an IQ larger than their waist size should understand by now that climate change is an existential threat to the wellbeing of all humans, and all the other beings on the earth. However, knowing that there are still individuals and the corporations they control who continue to place their greed above any concern ab ... ⌘ Read more_
Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia law
, \\- The Guardian (U.K.) / Agence France-Presse
_Stephan: In my view, something very important is going on in the Islamic world, and I do not see that it is being understood properly and in context. One of the hallmarks of all Islamic countries is the passionate, obsessive dedication, using religion as the justification, to keeping women second class and submissive. I think that is why Islamic so ... ⌘ Read more_
Google signs wind PPA to power its UK operations with 90% carbon-free energy by 2025
Oliver Gordon, - Energy Monitor
_Stephan:
Here is some good news from one of the corporations whose leadership understands that we must change our technologies so that they foster wellbeing. Europe is ahead of the U.S. and I think the difference is going to become more pronounced because the Republicans continue to block a sensible response to climate ch ... ⌘ Read more_
Twitter Is Regressing Into a Cesspool of Climate Misinformation
OLIVER MILMAN, Staff Writer - Mother Jones
_Stephan: As you may know shortly after Elon Musk revealed what is was going to allow on Twitter, we took down the Twitter version of SR, ending the connection with several thousand readers. I just did not feel it was ethically appropriate to continue to be associated with Twitter. Now it am seeing reports, this being one, that Twitter has become a cess ... ⌘ Read more_
Pentagon to Spend $200 Billion on New Nuclear Bomber as Millions Live in Poverty
Brett Wilkins , Staff Writer - truthout / Common Dreams
_Stephan: The United States spends more on its military-industrial complex than the next seven nations of the world combined. Few people in the United States seem to comprehend that. I understand why the military wants to stay ahead of the international curve of weapons development, but I also understand wha ... ⌘ Read more_
New Study Looks at Impact of Offshore Wind on Coastal Ecosystems
Olivia Rosane, Contributing Writer - Ecowatch
_Stephan: I consider this story good news because it shows consciousness on the part of governments in Europe that ocean wind turbine installations can and do impact the ecosystem where they are installed, and work must be done to minimize the negative impact. In my view every technology should be evaluated and regulated to make sure that wellbeing ... ⌘ Read more_
How antisemitism became an American crisis
Alexander Nazaryan, Senior White House Correspondent - yahoo! News
_Stephan: I have always found antisemitism a weird kind of hatred. Its origins trace back to the Roman Catholic Church, and the belief that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus, deicide it is called. But that is both historically untrue, and irrelevant 2,000 years later. Then there is the belief that Jews control the world's wealth, also untrue. Jews make up ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump calls for termination of Constitution to suit his needs
BRAD REED, - Salon
_Stephan: When I read this Saturday morning at first I thought it was a report on some comedian's satire. But no, it really happened, Trump really said this, and it tells us how truly mentally deranged and hate-filled Donald Trump, the Republican Party's leading candidate for president in 2024 has become. When you add in Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, ... ⌘ Read more_
The ‘Independent State Legislature Theory,’ Explained
Ethan Herenstein and Thomas Wolf, counsel with the Democracy Program’s Voting Rights and Elections team \\| Deputy Director with the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program. - Brennan Center for Justice
_Stephan: This is a good presentation of the Independent State Legislature Theory, which I consider to be both nonsense and, depending on an upcoming Supreme Court decision, potentially the biggest threat to the continuation ... ⌘ Read more_
Conservative states are blocking trans medical care. Families are fleeing.
, \\-
_Stephan: I have been friends, and have worked with a number of gay and lesbian individuals, and one trans-woman, and from all of them I have learned that the issue of gender is a complicated and painful one beginning with puberty for those who are in that world. Not a single friend in the LGBTQ community ever told me that their sexuality, let alone their gender presenta ... ⌘ Read more_
How one man quietly stitched the American safety net over four decades
Dylan Matthews, - Vox
_Stephan: America has, in my opinion, based on objectively verifiable data, a very poor social support structure. But had it not been for one man it would have been much worse. Here is a story of what one good person can do._
When it comes to poverty in Am ... ⌘ Read more
The Supreme Court is about to make it still easier for officials to profit personally and defraud the public
, \\-
_Stephan: There is almost no discussion of this trend in the media, particularly mainstream television media, so few in America simply to really appreciate how corrupt our political system has become. Here is an example of what I mean._
61% of U.S. counties now ‘Second Amendment sanctuaries’**
Bethany Blankley , - The Center Square
_Stephan: More and more counties controlled by Republicans are encouraging people to go around armed by making their counties "second amendment sanctuaries". As a result, we are sure to see an increasing number of mass murders. If you live in one of these counties I would be very alert to anyone you see who is armed, and pay close attention to the expression on their face. Sc ... ⌘ Read more_
Same-sex households in the U.S. surpass 1 million for the first time, data shows
Brooke Sopelsa, - NBC News
_Stephan: I think this is good news because I think marriage between people who love each other enough that they want to make their relationship a formal legal alliance fosters happiness and wellbeing. And three-quarters of Americans seem to agree. The other quarter though are hysterical, resentful, and filled with hate, MAGAt world and ... ⌘ Read more_
Experts Warn ‘Doomsday Scenario’ for Colorado River Basin Possible in 2023
JULIA CONLEY, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Seven states depend on the Colorado River, Lake Powell, and Lake Mead, for their water. As I have been reporting for more than a year the entire system is breaking down, and the implications go far beyond just those seven states because so much of the produce, nuts, and fruit that feeds Americans comes from those states, particularly C ... ⌘ Read more_
Meet the Mice Who Make the Forest
Brandon Keim, Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: Here is an important and charming story illustrating how all life is interconnected and interdependent in earth's matrix of life. We, humans, need to wake up to this reality if we are going to get through climate change as a functioning society._
It’s easy to look at a forest and think it’s inevita ... ⌘ Read more
US is failing to address ‘persistent and lethal threat’ of domestic terrorism, report finds
Adam Gabbatt, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: The American obsessive gun psychosis plus the frenzied, hysterical racism and hate in the White MAGAt community has made the U.S. an unsafe nation. And, as a society, we are not dealing with this properly. Here is a brief article that lays out some of the issues. It will be interesting to see whet ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s sudden change of heart on same-sex marriage
Margaret Talev and Sam Baker, Staff Writers - Axios
_Stephan: We saw some excellent good news with the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act. For the first time in American history, driven by the change in the culture this article describes, we are making wellbeing and love the principal definer of marriage. We have crossed a threshold. That said, I find it very interesting that 36 Republican members of the Senate ... ⌘ Read more_
Cigarette Smoking Rates Down Sharply Among U.S. Young Adults
JEFFREY M. JONES, - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: Here's some more good news. Far from perfect but a trend moving into increased wellbeing_
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Rate has fallen from 35% to 12% in the past two decades
- Young adults more likely to smoke e-cigarettes, marijuana than tobacco
- Smok ... ⌘ Read more
How Floating Wetlands Are Helping to Clean Up Urban Waters
SUSAN COSIER, - Yale Environment 360
_Stephan: This is the kind of new technology I am talking about. It fosters wellbeing and works with, not against, the matrix of consciousness -- life itself. This is the direction we have to go._
_Floating wetlands along the Chicago River’s Wild Mile. Credit: Dave ... ⌘ Read more_
Same-Sex Marriage Bill Passes Senate After Bipartisan Breakthrough
Annie Karni, Congressional Correspondent - The New York Times
_Stephan: I have never understood the Right's hysteria about same-sex marriage. Why shouldn't an individual have the right to enter into marriage with anyone they love who loves them. It supports wellbeing, and creates happiness, so what's the problem? But we all know that this simple right to pick the partner you love, regardle ... ⌘ Read more_
Moore v. Harper decision could ‘have catastrophic effects for democracy’**
Tiffany Terrell, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: This isn't getting much media coverage, but the Moore v. Harper case now before the Supreme Court, given the christofascist cabal that dominates the court today, could radically alter the whole structure of the American electoral process. It would basically move control of the Congress and presidency away from the voters and into ... ⌘ Read more_
Pandemic pushes U.S. doctor burnout to all-time high of 63%**
Sara Berg, MS, Senior News Writer - American Medical Association
_Stephan: Further evidence that America's illness profit system when stressed trends towards failure. Sixty three percent of physicians report they are verging on burnout. This is going to have a notably strong impact on rural areas, particularly in Red states which, because of the Dobbs decision, already have healthcare systems under stress ... ⌘ Read more_
Nearly 40 million children are dangerously susceptible to growing measles threat
, \\- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
_Stephan: The anti-vaxxer movement is playing a very negative role in diseases other than Covid. This movement is a form of willful stupidity that killed millions with Covid and now, as this CDC report describes, has become a factor with measles. You can't fix willful stupidity because it is a choice people make, ... ⌘ Read more_
How billionaire GOP megadonors are funding a major ‘hub for election denial’: report
Alex Henderson, - AlterNet
_Stephan: I am increasingly concerned by what a corrupt nation the United States has become. A small group of the uber-rich are openly and actively advocating a fascist authoritarian government. Here's proof of what I am saying._
_Stephan: Here is an excellent essay giving the timeline showing how we got to where we are today. well worth your time to click through and read all of it. The only way we are going to end this trend is by changing our cultural worldview, and making fostering wellbeing at every level the first priority. and we h ... ⌘ Read more_
Inequality is literally killing us: The most unequal societies suffer most in public health metrics
Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Health Systems & Population Health and of Global Health at the School of Public Health, University of Washington. - Salon
_Stephan: Here is evidence validating my assertion that wealth inequality is destructive of social wellbeing. Th ... ⌘ Read more_
At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking
Mike McIntire, Investigative Reporter - New York Times
_Stephan: The assault by the Republican Party on American democracy is so multi-faceted that is hard to keep all the pieces straight, and see them as oriented towards a single objective: Keep a shrinking racist White minority in power whatever it takes. You probably noticed for instance the deafening silence of Congressional Republicans who have nothing to say about criminal Trump's dinner ... ⌘ Read more_
29% say antisemitism acceptable in workplace, new survey finds
Editorial Staff, - Jerusalem Post (Israel)
_Stephan: I am not Jewish, but because of my last name -- a gift from the Ellis Island clerk who processed my paternal grandparents when they came to the U.S. in 1906 and found their surname had too many consonants, hence Schwartz -- it has given me the gift of learning about antisemitism. Given what a small community Jews constitute in the U.S., 2.4% of 3 ... ⌘ Read more_
The Tyranny of Inertia
Bill McKibben, - Reader Support News
_Stephan: Bill McKibben has written an essay that, I think, gives the best assessment of the Sharm El-Sheikh COP27 conference I have read. The main takeaway for me is that the leaders of the governments of the world just don't understand or are willing to do what needs to be done to deal with climate change. That guarantees we will live through massive misery, social upheaval, and death._
_Illustration by Violeta Encarnacion_
In 2021, Shippensburg University won the NCAA Division II Field Hockey championship, completing an unde ... ⌘ Read more
Six million Americans carried guns daily in 2019, twice as many as in 2015
Lois Beckett, Staff Writer - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: This is what America's obsessive gun psychosis has produced. We are becoming a nation, particularly in Red states, of armed individuals. That inevitably will mean an increase of people wounded or murdered by gunfire, plus increased suicides by gun. Nearly 40,000 men, women, and children had died from gunfire in the U ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained
Nicole Narea, Li Zhou, and Ian Millhiser , - Vox
_Stephan: Think about this: "Every day, more than 110 Americans die at the end of a gun. American guns are concentrated in a tiny minority of households: just 3 percent own about half the nation’s guns, according to a 2016 Harvard and Northeastern University study. They’re called “super owners” who have an average of 17 guns each," as this essay describes. This is the sickness ... ⌘ Read more_
Next Covid-19 Strain May be More Dangerous, Lab Study Shows
Antony Sguazzin , - msn
_Stephan: As I have been telling you viruses mutate, and here is a report on a just published South African study showing that we are far from through with Covid, and Covid is, in my opinion, just the first of a sequence of pandemics. As climate change worsens a range of viruses will mutate to cope with their changed circumstances, so we are going to see more Covids, not Covid it ... ⌘ Read more_
People in Portland Planted Trees. Decades Later, a Stunning Pattern Emerged
RUSSELL MCLENDON, - SCIENCE alert
_Stephan: This is part of how a society fosters wellbeing. Think about how relatively inexpensive planting the trees was, and how impressive its affirmative social effect has been. This is the kind of thinking we need from Congress, instead of the culture war we now have.
To see the research paper upon which this report is based go to: ht ... ⌘ Read more_
Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all
George Monbiot, Columnist - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I don't think this will completely replace agriculture. I chose this piece because it reports on one of the new technologies that recognizes the matrix of consciousness and fosters wellbeing._
_Illust ... ⌘ Read more_
US corporations gave more than $8m to election deniers’ midterm campaigns
Ed Pilkington, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: This is yet another report on attempted corruption by corporations controlled by UBer-rich individuals. What can you do about this? Simple. Don't shop at Home Depot. Change your phone from AT&T, and don't fly on Delta. And, of course, don't do business with anything touched by Koch Industries._
_Credit: Joshua Holland_
There was another mass shooting last night, this one in ... ⌘ Read more
Pharma Companies Abuse the Patent System, and Patients Pay the Price
Emily Hutto, Associate Video Producer - MedPage Today
_Stephan: Big Pharma is one of the most corrupt parts of the illness profit system that passes for healthcare in the United States. You and I fund the development of drugs, then pay obscene overcharges to get access to them. This interview presents an excellent explanation of the current situation, and why it must change._
The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing
Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute - Independent Media Institute
_Stephan: What becomes ever more clear as I read the scientific and professional literature is that humanity, and particularly the United States, are not only not properly planning for dealing with climate change, the allocation of resources for the task is badly screwed up because politicians simply won't face the reality of what is happening. Th ... ⌘ Read more_
Children’s Hospitals Call on Biden to Declare Emergency Amid ‘Alarming Surge’ of RSV
JULIA CONLEY, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: The illness profit system of healthcare, on the basis of objectively verifiable evidence (see the SR archive), is failing. And it is only going to get worse as health issues become more extreme as a result of pandemics, lack of staff, and healthcare "deserts" in rural areas where there are no hospitals, as well as fe ... ⌘ Read more_
Donald Trump Is (Still) President of White America
Erin Aubry Kaplan, - Politico
_Stephan: For fearful resentful Whites, Trump is still their leader, as this article describes. The problem they face is that this cohort is a shrinking minority. The problem the rest of us face is that as these people recognize they are a shrinking minority they are likely to get more violent. We've had four mass shootings during this Thanksgiving period and I fear this is a precursor for wh ... ⌘ Read more_
Science Slowly Accepts the Matrix of Consciousness
Stephan A. Schwartz, Columnist - Explore Journal
_Stephan: When I talk about the matrix of consciousness this is what I mean in spacetime. The matrix though extends into the nonlocal consciousness domain as well._
_Plants don’t have a nervous system but they have developed detailed molecular networks which enable them t ... ⌘ Read more_
Plants teach their offspring how to adapt to climate change, scientists find
Charlotte Elton , - euronews.green
_Stephan: Here is yet more on the matrix of consciousness. Once you begin to understand the matrix you see clearly why fostering wellbeing at every level is the wy to go._
_New analysis suggests that plants can pass on climate adaptat ... ⌘ Read more_
Why solar electric vehicles might be the next generation of EVs
Katie Brigham, - CNBC
_Stephan: As we exit the carbon energy era a whole range of new technologies are going to arise, technologies that foster wellbeing by reducing harm to the environment. Here is an example of what I mean._
The world’s first commercial solar electric vehicles are hitting ... ⌘ Read more
How Much Wealth The One Percent Dominates In Different Countries, Visualized
Darcy Jimenez, - digg
_Stephan: From a historical perspective, the profit above all other priorities has had the effect of creating an aristocracy of wealth instead of blood. It is a recreation of the medieval model. Wealth inequality is not only an American problem, and worldwide it wounds wellbeing. I predict that between 2040 and 2045 we are going to undergo a massiv ... ⌘ Read more_
Lawmakers seek to end slavery for the incarcerated, which is legal in most states
Cheyanne M. Daniels, - Changing America
_Stephan: Did you know that in the United States we still have slavery? We have the largest incarcerated population in the world and by law they are, these men and women enslaved at the choice of their owners the government. The American Gulag (See the SR archive) is a humanitarian disgrace. It is a system of punishment ... ⌘ Read more_
Politicians in Colorado Springs Chose Flouting Gun Laws Over People’s Lives
Tim Miller, - Bulwark
_Stephan: The Colorado Springs massacre was, as this article describes, an example of what America's obsessive gun psychosis is doing to American society. Since the beginning of the year we have had 601 massacres, and suddenly no place is safe assuredly. The discussion now is all about mental health support but, I suggest, there is also an issue of m ... ⌘ Read more_
Amy Coney Barrett urged to step away from gay rights case because of faith affiliation
Stephanie Kirchgaessner, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Yet another integrity issue with the christofascist majority of justices on the Supreme Court._
_Amy Coney Barrett. Credit: Damian Dovarganes / AP_
Former members of Amy Coney Barrett’s secr ... ⌘ Read more
Gun Violence Archive
, \\- Gun Violence Archive
_Stephan: As we all listen, read, and watch the latest mass murder in the U.S. are you noticing that almost no politicians are talking about serious gun control? We have had 601 mass murders since 1 January 2022 that have killed almost 40,000 people so far, all involving guns, yet nothing serious is happening about military-style weapons like AR-15s. It has gotten to a point that one faces a measure of risk going anywhere to anything where a group of pe ... ⌘ Read more_
France to require all large parking lots to be covered by solar panels
Jennifer Mossalgue , - electrek
_Stephan: This is how a country moves out of the age of carbon energy, and this is good news. It is a shame that in the United States where our infrastructure is, in all too many cases, third world, we can't seem to reach the clarity, particularly in states under Republican governance. where obvious things like this move in France are being implemen ... ⌘ Read more_
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