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Neocolonialism: Pillaging the Earth for the ‘Climate’**
Christopher Ketcham, Contributing Editor - truthdig
_Stephan: This, in contrast to the earlier story, is exactly the wrong way to go into the future. This is the corporate greed led by greedy individuals, that is destroying the earth's ecosystems and threatening the very existence of human society._
_The pipeline takes aim at the camp. Credit: ... ⌘ Read more_
Billionaires are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s anti-democratic agenda
Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and Former US Secretary of Labor - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Robert Reich is correct. The oligarchs who increasingly control the United States recognize criminal Trump as their path to power and their goal of turning the country into a racist christofascist anocracy, and you into a powerless p ... ⌘ Read more_
Poll: Gun ownership reaches record high with American electorate
Alexandra Marquez, Political Researcher - NBC News
_Stephan: Forty percent of Americans are afraid to walk down a dark street alone. The main cause of childhood death in the United States is a bullet in the child's body. And we have a gun psychosis as this article describes. For God's sake what kind of country are we becoming?_
_Unlike other federal nutrition programs ... ⌘ Read more_
Talk of “Border Crisis” Is Misleading. The Real Crisis Is US-Imposed Poverty
C.J. Polychroniou , - truthout
_Stephan: This is the most sensible thing I have read about the immigration issue in many months. The corporate media has made a complete hash of this trend, and most peopledo not have a correct understanding of what is going on. This interview will being clarity and accuracy._
_A levee on the M ... ⌘ Read more_
40% of Americans are afraid to walk alone at night — most in decades, poll says
Brendan Rascius, Reporter - Miami Herald
_Stephan: Over my life I have travelled to 119 countries, including several involved in war or civil violence. Some I have especially enjoyed. Some I have loathed. One of the things I particularly pay attention to is: Can I walk alone at night? Japan, China, Sweden, Netherlands, Taiwan, Canada never give it a thought. Argentina ... ⌘ Read more_
Pentagon Failes Sixth Audit in a Row, Claiming “Progress Sort of Beneath the Surface”**
Ken Klippenstein, Staff Writer - The Intercept
_Stephan: The miitary-industrial complex, as President Eisenhower warned, is beyond corruption. Americans spend via their taxes more on the military-industrial complex than the budgets of the next seven nations of the world combined. It has become a legitimized vampire scam whose corporations suck more money ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Climate Change Is Here’: Every Part of the U.S. Will Suffer Climate-Related Disasters, Report Finds
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: I continue to read Republican websites and publications and what notably stands out for me is the continued climate denialism. Climate change is not a political argument, it is a scientific reality, and whether you believe in it or not it is still happening and ... ⌘ Read more_
The Great Carbon Divide
Jonathan Watts, Ellen Wishart, Rich Cousins, Alessia Amitrano and Pip Burkett, Reporters - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: This the latest report on the grotesque wealth inequality currently shaping the world, it is the worst in over a century. In the United States as of 2023, there are a 735 billionaires and 22 million millionaires. In contrast, the average median income in the U.S. is $67,521, but in some Southern Red states it is only %50,000. That means there are people w ... ⌘ Read more_
How Big Tech Generated Billions In Fines… Then Didn’t Pay Them
Joseph Boyle and Peter Murphy, Staff Writers - Barron's / Agence France-Presse (France)
_Stephan: Part of the wealth inequality crisis that plagues the world is that corporate interests, which control governments through various kinds of bribery, are increasingly just disregarding fines they incur from breaking the law. Here is an example of what I mean._
Tropical diseases move north
Claire Ainsworth, Freelance Science Journalist - nature
_Stephan: Exactly as I have been predicting in SR for years (see SR archive), climate change is causing other beings to move North as the climate changes. This is a warning story about mosquitoes and the neglected diseases they are bringing into Europe and in the U.S. The governments of the world are not preparing properly for what is happening, because they are controlled by corporate interests whose only in ... ⌘ Read more_
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles
Muhammad Rizwan Azhar and Waqas Uzair, Scholars Edith Cowan University - ars technica
_Stephan: Here is some good news e-bikes involving a trend, I confess, I had not considered. Individuals are making choices for a better future._
_Ryan L. Jane / Getty_
We hop in the car to get groceries or dr ... ⌘ Read more
Teen Boys Are Falling for a Snapchat Nude-Photo Scam. Here’s How to Avoid It.
Julie Jargon, Staff Writer - The Wall Street Journal
_Stephan: For several weeks now I have been tracking a trend about another very dark side of social media. I got started on this when a reader wrote me to tell me that a boy in her daughter's school, whom her daughter had rejected, got hold of a picture of her face and using AI combined her face with a porn photo that ... ⌘ Read more_
Inside the American Redoubt
Jacob Furedi, Deputy Editor - Unherd - Unherd
_Stephan: With almost no media attention a block of states and counties has become the center of a survivalist violence prone christofascist community. Counties on the east side of Washington and Oregon are trying to secede from their states and become a part of Idaho to join what is called Redoubt. It is dangerous to go to this part of the U.S. and be heard saying anything supportive of Biden or Democrats. As this artic ... ⌘ Read more_
Terror on Repeat
Silvia Foster-Frau, N. Kirkpatrick and Arelis R. Hernández, Reporters - The Washington Post
_Stephan: I hope you will click through and look at the pictures, the kind you almost never see, of what mass murder sites look like after the killings are over. It my view that we should be seeing these pictures including the bodies lying on the floors or the grass. I don't think Americans really understand what is happening in this country. Maybe seeing the pictures would wake us from our nation ... ⌘ Read more_
Rising Seas Imperil US Sites, Military Bases Worth $387 Billion
Stephen Lee, Paul Murphy, Atthar Mirza, and Jon Meltzer, Staff Writers - Bloomberg News
_Stephan: Somewhere back in the early days of SR, 1991, or 2, I was living in Manhattan Beach, California, and I studied projected climate change maps and realized that about 30% of Norfolk and Virginia Beach were going underwater, and that a big part would be the Naval Station in Norfolk. I predicted this woul ... ⌘ Read more_
Students Are Missing School at an Alarming Rate
Sarah Mervosh, Education Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: The MAGAt generation is literally physically and psychologically damaging America's youth, and the young are fed up with the MAGAt view of healthcare and education. They are consumed and influenced by social media, and a large segment of them don't make school as a priority._
_Far more st ... ⌘ Read more_
Judge rules former President Donald Trump is eligible for Colorado’s primary ballot
JESSE SARLES and JENNIFER MCRAE, Reporters - CBS Colorado
_Stephan: And so it gets down to the voters, you and me. A man with 91 indictments, numerous convictions, an man who represents the worst in American culture will be running for President. We will see who Americans chooses, because it will shape American culture, and end democracy._
_Elon Musk Credit: Associated Press_
For years, some people with the unlucky habit of paying too much attention to Elon ... ⌘ Read more
The problem isn’t inflation. It’s prices.
Emily Stewart, Business and Economy Staff Writer - Vox
_Stephan: I think this article explains why Biden is getting to little credit from American voters. The truth is very few Americans have anything more than the dimmest understanding about how the economy works. Study after study shows this. So all the good things Biden and his administration have done just goes over their heads. What they do understand is what things cost. When you pay $1 ... ⌘ Read more_
New Supreme Court Ethics Code Is Designed to Fail
Michael Waldman, Staff Writer - Brennan Center for Justice
_Stephan: It is my view that the just published Supreme Court ethics code with no form of enforcement is basically a scam to improve the extremely poor respect the Court currently suffers with. When I see something happen to hold Clarence Thomas, Alito, or Roberts accountable for their gross corruption I will believe there are any established ethics standards to wh ... ⌘ Read more_
Speaker Mike Johnson calls separation of church and state ‘a misnomer’**
Ed Pilkington, Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Johnson is incorrectly informed, willfully ignorant. The separation of church and state was a very big deal to the Founders. Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were states founded on the basis that the national government and the state were separate. Franklin, jefferson, and Madison, particularly felt very strongly about this. We hav ... ⌘ Read more_
Nuclear Panel Packed With Defense Industry Interests
ELI CLIFTON and BEN FREEMAN, -
_Stephan: The United States is unbelievably corrupt. And yet do you see discussion about it as a major trend? No, neither do I. Here is a classic example of how corruption works in America. One corporate group taking control of the country's decision about their industry.This is a major issue affecting our democracy._
_Credit: Getty / Westend61_
A prolonged [decline in male fertility](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mens-health/plunging-sperm-counts-major-public- ... ⌘ Read more
As Trump Vows Vengeance Against ‘Vermin,’ Republicans Look The Other Way
Igor Bobic and Jonathan Nicholson, Senior Politics Reporter \\| Politics Reporter - Huffington Post
_Stephan: I think Trump has moved past anything resembling normal politics. He cares only about the MAGAts, and anticipates that if he loses the MAGAts will create a civil war that will put him in power._
_Tr ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump’s transition to fascism is now complete
Bill Blum, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: As I have listened to Trump at his rallies, and read his social media posts I hear echoes of Hitler and Mussolini. Not even echoes in many cases the same words and images. Trump is now a blatant fascist, and what worries me, and should worry you, is that millions of Americans virtually worship Trump, and will do anything he asks. I'm not sure we are going to survive the 2024 election as ... ⌘ Read more_
The Radical Strategy Behind Trump’s Promise to ‘Go After’ Biden
Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman, Reporters & Correspondents - The New York Times
_Stephan: This piece was written nearly six months ago, and I am running it today for two reasons: First: no one in the future will ever be able to say Americans were not warned about Trump and his intentions. Second, because it shows, by the party's months of silence, that the Republican Party is com ... ⌘ Read more_
The Trouble With America’s Ultra-Processed Diet
Andrea Petersen, - Wall Street Journal
_Stephan: Americans have shorter lives, particularly men, than the populations of any other developed nation -- as much as six years shorter life. Why? Largely because of a diet that is based mostly on profit not healthy nourishment. This is something you can do something about. Are you prepared to do it, or do you just want to die years before people in other countries?_
_Credit: AFP / Getty_
Ohio voted [56.6% to 43.4%](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/07/us/elections/results-ohio-issue-1 ... ⌘ Read more
The Inflation Reduction Act has created nearly 75,000 jobs
Sarah Kennedy, Staff Writer - Yale Climate Connections / ChavoBart Digital Media
_Stephan: It is amazing to me that American voters simply do not recognize that Joe Biden has been one of the most effective President's in decades, based on actual objectively verifiable evidence. Instead they think he is to old, but a fascist criminal just three yers younger seems to be quite acceptable. Biden has a good rec ... ⌘ Read more_
Amid blowback over Clarence Thomas travel, Supreme Court says it will adopt first-ever code of conduct
John Fritze, Staff Writer - USA Today
_Stephan: The Supreme Court, the lowest rated court in American history, has made a largely symbolic gesture -- there is no enforcement mechanism -- at ethics probably to offset their low rating. The thing no one in media talks about is that all the corruption involves the christofa ... ⌘ Read more_
What Americans know about their government
GABRIEL BORELLI and SHANAY GRACIA, U.S. Politics Research Associate - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: American's knowledge of how their government operates is pathetic. The Pew Research Center looked into this at length. Here is what they found. You can click through and take their survey._
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_Stephan: The Roman Catholic Church constantly proclaims it morality and high ethical standards, but the law tells a very different story, which this article describes. To protect the institution the church has developed a strategy of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganization, but has don ... ⌘ Read more_
Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office?**
Tori Otten , - The New Republic
_Stephan: This is an amazing story getting virtually no coverage in corporate media. Christofascist Speaker of the House Mike Johnson displays a Christian Nationalist flag outside of his office in the halls of Congress, and no one seems to care. Suppose it was a swastika flag. Do you think anyone would notice or care? This is what our natio ... ⌘ Read more_
How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits
Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Reporter - ProPublica
_Stephan: The people of the United States pay more than those of any other country for pharmaceuticals. And this difference is not a small one, it is orders of magnitude, and it is obscene. Go to my weekly podcast, because this week I have focused on the outrageous way the pharmaceutica ... ⌘ Read more_
Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Sows Chaos in States
PHIL GALEWITZ, KATHERYN HOUGHTON, BRETT KELMAN, SAMANTHA LISS / KFF HEALTH, - truthdig / Kaiser Family Foundation
_Stephan: The United States has the worst health care system in the developed world -- we rank 69th compared to other developed nations. And it is getting worse, particularly for people of low income who are on Medicaid. What amazes me is that Americans don't seem to get any of this, and there is no national uprising of voters ... ⌘ Read more_
South Carolina Is Ripping Infants Away From Their Mothers Over Pot Use
Emily Janakiram , Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: The Republicans who control Red States are always on the lookout for a way to control women. This report is the latest horror story. It's from South Carolina but come from any number of Southern states. I'm sorry but I have been forced to conclude that being a Republican is to be an accessory to a series of social crimes, and this ... ⌘ Read more_
EU Scientists ‘Can Say With Near Certainty’ That 2023 Will Be Hottest in 125,000 Years
Jessica Corbett, Senior Editor and Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: This year is the hottest in 125,000 years. Do you think that would prompt governments and corporations to reassess policies whether governmental or for profit? If you do you are going to be disappointed. The United States and most of the developed nations made only a meager effort ... ⌘ Read more_
Why Are Republicans Fiddling with Fascism While the Shutdown is Looming?**
THOM HARTMANN, Commentator - The Hartmann Report
_Stephan: As is frequently the case, I agree with Thom Hartmann. It should be obvious to anyone, and certainly will be to historians, that the U.S. Congress is essentially dysfunctional. Instead of doing its job on behave of the people who voted them into office, they behave like neighborhood children in a petulant fight. This, of ... ⌘ Read more_
We asked every member of Congress about child care policy. Only 5 Republicans answered.
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_Stephan:_
_The House of Representatives holds a vote on speaker of the House on Jan. 3, the first day of the 118th Congress.
Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times/ Getty_
In September, when billions of dollars in child care fundin ... ⌘ Read more
A lot of Americans embrace Trump’s authoritarianism
Philip Bump, Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: It is my view that the central problem America faces is that a large number of us, mostly low education Red state Whites, will support criminal Trump even if he is convicted and sentenced to prison. He speaks to their resentments, hates, and grievances, and that is all they care about. Will some of these people awaken to their own stupidity. Maybe if he really is con ... ⌘ Read more_
Amazon deforestation falls more than 20% to its lowest levels in 5 years
Reuters editorial staff, - CNN
_Stephan: Here is some news about the Amazon forest that confirms earlier reports I have published. (See SR archives). So multiple reports from different sources tends to suggest the news is accurate and good news indeed._
_Aerial view of ... ⌘ Read more_
The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault
Margaret Sullivan, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I watch a lot of media of all biases doing research for SR so that I can keep it fact-based and not partisan. I agree with Margaret Sullivan. Corporate media is not accurately conveying to their audiences what is really going on in America. The Republican Party funded by christofascist oligarchs is trying t ... ⌘ Read more_
Peter Thiel is Taking a Break From Democracy
Barton Gellman, Staff Writer - The Atlantic
_Stephan: This is a very revealing very deliberately chosen portrait of an anti-democracy oligarch Peter Thiel. I encourage you to read it because it will give you some insight into how the oligarch community thinks._
It wasn’t clear at first why Peter Thiel agreed to talk to me.
... ⌘ Read more
The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States
Nat Lash, ProPublica, and Janet Wilson, - ProPublica
_Stephan: If you live in one of the seven states -- California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming -- that rely on the Colorado River for their water, you have probably noticed that almost all discussions on this issue talk about states. That is a grossly misleading way ... ⌘ Read more_
The middle class is not buying electric vehicles as hoped. What happened?**
, \\- Chicago Tribune
_Stephan: In my view the entire conversion away from the internal combustion engine could not have been handled more badly. It should have started with a national policy covering the construction of roads that can charge vehicles that drive on them, and then provide an better tax levy to encourage people to buy EVs. Instead it has been done as we have all ... ⌘ Read more_
Tommy Tuberville is not acting: he really is Trump’s useful idiot
Sidney Blumenthal, Commentator - THe Guardian
_Stephan: I got an email this morningfrom a retired two star Navy admiral, I have known since he as a Commander and I was Special Assistant to two CNOs. He told me that he thinks Trump is behind what Tuberville is doing, and he is trying punish the seniors military for not backing his attempt to overthrow democracy with his insurrection. Further, t ... ⌘ Read more_
Infants Are Born With Syphilis in Growing Numbers, a Sign of a Wider Epidemic
Apoorva Mandavilli, Science Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: In the United States we are seeing a terrible uptick in sexually transmitted illness like Syphilis and Gonorrhea. Why is this happening? Because we have such poor healthcare, and because Republicans have effectively blocked sex education in public schools. As with so many other health care issues Ameri ... ⌘ Read more_
‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ Wants Commission to Cut Social Security Formed ‘Immediately’**
Jessica Corbett, Senior Editor and Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: I hope you are clear that if Republicans retain the majority in the House, and Trump wins the presidency, the chances are very strong that your Social Security payments will be severely curtailed, and Medicare is likely to be gutted. You would thank that particularly older Americans would get ... ⌘ Read more_
Virtual reality experiment reveals rats have imaginations just like humans
, \\- STUDY FINDS
_Stephan: I have been telling my readers for 30 years (see SR archive) that we must understand that all nature of the beings on this planet have a measure of consciousness, and that we need to recognize that we must learn to foster wellbeing at every level if we are to survive as a species. Here is one more experimental study proving this._
_Stephan: I consider this good news. People don't like to be manipulated, and it is beginning to dawn on people around the world that they are being subjected to just that through social media misinformation._
_Social media wa ... ⌘ Read more_
New Report Reveals Big Oil’s Playbook to Silence Climate Protests
Juliana Broad , Researcher, The Center for Media and Democracy - truthout
_Stephan: The Petroleum Corporations constitute and evil industry. They place their profits above any concern about humanity's wellbeing,and there can be no dispute about that. The data is incontrovertible. If you search the SR archive you will see their behavior for decades has been completely consistent across the yea ... ⌘ Read more_
Foster Care Admission Surged When Abortion Access Fell, Study Shows
Rachael Robertson, Staff Writer - MEDPAGE TODAY
_Stephan: For a number of years I have been searching for data to answer this question: In the Red States when a woman is denied control over her own body, how many women give up their babies to foster care? A significant percentage of children turned over to foster care have all kinds of psychological problems. I finally found some solid da ... ⌘ Read more_
A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence From the Pentagon
Dave Philipps, Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: This is a horrible story, a report on the complete failure of the American military to protect its own troops. And as is so typical of American today the only people held responsible or negatively effected are those at the bottom of the chain of command. No one at the top of the chain of command have been held responsible for anything. It has ... ⌘ Read more_
Just 4% of top companies meet UN climate target guidelines: study
Simon Jessop, Reporter - Raw Story / Reuters
_Stephan: Further proof that for large corporations profit is more important to them than your wellbeing. To these corporation you are just a peasant who health and wellbeing means nothing._
_Credit: Reuters_
Half ... ⌘ Read more
‘We Feel Like We’re Drowning’: What We Heard This Week
Editorial Staff, - MEDPAGE TODAY
_Stephan: The increasing corporatization of the illness profit system that constitutes healthcare in the United States is resulting in burn out in the medical staff of physicians and nurses, who are leaving the corporately owned clinics where they work. Perhaps you have noticed the increasing number of doctors who no longer take insurance, you just pay for each visit and it is painfu ... ⌘ Read more_
Mike Johnson Said He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Usage, and Yeah, It’s Exactly as Weird as It Sounds
Daniel Kreps, Staff Writer - My Gay Prides
_Stephan: If you are a father do you and your teen age son monitor each other's porn viewing? No. Well christofascist House Speaker Mike Johnson and his 17 year old son do just that. Does that sound weird to you? It certainly does to me._
 in my opinion is the leading political trend in the world today, and no one is better at it than the Russians and Chinese who saw the implications of what it could do while the American government was asleep in its chairs. The Russians used it to ... ⌘ Read more_
Saturday Report – The Medicaid “Hunger Games” have begun…**
Thom Hartmann, Columnist - The Hartmann Report
_Stephan: Thom Hartmann is one of a few commentators whom I think really get what is going on in the United States, and here is his latest assessment. It agrees with my own thinking as your will recognize as you read it And it should scare the hell out of you. We are a nation in deep decline._
_Stephan: Here is some good news from Biden's EPA you probably won't hear much about but which may significantly improve your health. Efforts to ban the TCE chemical date back 40 years. The Obama administration proposed strong limits on its use in 2016 but, it should be no surprise the corrupt Trump administration undid those attempts to limit is in your water and i ... ⌘ Read more_
Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok.
Republican Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallagher, - The Free Press
_Stephan: Now that it doesn't serve their interests the Republicans are beginning to understand the effect of the weaponization of social media lies. I have written about how social media, which basically has no ethical or honesty standards whatever, is being used to manipulate Americans, particularly the young. You might think Congress would do so ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden Admin Approves Largest U.S. Offshore Wind Farm off Virginia Coast
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Here is some more good news from the Biden administration. It is surprising to me that American voters don't seem to get or understand that the Biden administration, on the basis of objectively verifiable data, is one of the best wellbeing fostering administrations in years. He gets no credit for what he is doing t ... ⌘ Read more_
IRS free tax filing rollout faces hurdles after multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign
Anna Massoglia, Staff Writer - Raw Story / Open Secrets
_Stephan: Yet another story of the corruption of the American Congress and the Republican Party. The tax preparation corporations pour tens of millions of dollars into Congress so they can make billions in profit. As a result most of us pay hundreds of dollars each year to have our taxes prepared. ... ⌘ Read more_
‘It’s an abomination’: battle brewing over proposed US laws to protect pesticide companies
Carey Gillam, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: First, never, ever, allow Round up on your property. If you do you are putting yourself and your family at serious risk. Second, you can watch how the corruption of the Congress works as Bayer spends millions trying to protect its right to sell this poison. It's simple. If you want to promote wellbei ... ⌘ Read more_
Poll: Most Americans Oppose Speaker Mike Johnson’s Christian Nationalist Views
Chris Walker, Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: I think this report offers a hint of good news. Christofascism remains a minority position. Iy offers some hope that the 2024 election may not make the end of democracy. It all depends on each of us voting, and voting for Democrats._
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- 56% want stricter laws; 31% kept as they are now
- Americans believe guns make homes safer ... ⌘ Read more
Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education
Peter Jamison, Laura Meckler, Prayag Gordy, Clara Ence Morse and Chris Alcantara, Reporters - The Washington Post
_Stephan: My takeaway from this research survey is that we are going to have a large portion of the next generation of American students who have been indoctrinated into all manner of nonsense and that the country's reputation as one of the best school systems in the wor ... ⌘ Read more_
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Jillian W Gregg, Johan Rockström, Thomas M Newsome, Beverly E Law, Luiz Marques, Timothy M Lenton, Chi Xu, and Saleemul Huq , Research Scientists - Bio Science
_Stephan: Yet another scientific report telling us just how dangerous the human situation is has become. You would think that an existential threat to the matrix of life on earth could command the ... ⌘ Read more_
Mike Johnson Urged a Religious Test for Politicians
DAVID CORN, Washington, DC, Bureau Chief - Mother Jones
_Stephan: American absolutely was not founded as a Christian nation, nor did the Founders intend church and state to be linked. That does not seem to be well understood by a large segment of the American population, including many Republican politicians. To the Founders the separation of church and state was very important. Many of the colonists had come to the Am ... ⌘ Read more_
‘I was extremely furious’: the dangerously high cost of insulin in America
Lauren Mechling, - The Guardian
_Stephan: The American illness profit system is designed to suck as much money out of it can. And you don't really have any choice about participating. You don't have to buy a new car, or a new dress. But if you are a diabetic you do have to buy insulin. The corporate greedheads know it, and diabetics know it. It is a national shame and the Rep ... ⌘ Read more_
Tired of tipping! 75% think the generous practice has gotten out of control
Chris Melore, Staff Writer - Study Finds
_Stephan: The United States has one of the highest tipping rates in the world, and, as this article describes, people are getting tired of it.
Tipping around the world
EUROPE – CHECK FOR SERVICE CHARGE. ...
NORTH AMERICA – TIP MORE, AND MORE OFTEN. ...
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA – THINK 10% ...
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC – NOT USUALLY, AND ... ⌘ Read more_
Pharma Nation: Americans will spend half their lives taking prescription drugs, study predicts
John Anderer, - Study Finds
_Stephan: We are slaves of the pharmaceutical corporations as this research makes so very clear. It is all incredibly profitable for them.
To read the research study upon which this article is based see: [Life Course Patterns of Prescription Drug Use in the United States](https://read.dukeupress.edu/demog ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Damning Evidence’ Mounts That Links Fracking to Health Impacts
, \\- truthdig
_Stephan: Yet another report on the damage fracking does to the environment and the people who live anywhere near a fracking installation. Who is opposed to this scientific research and in support of fracking? Why Republicans, of course, and the corporations who profit from this technology, and rent those MAGAts. Who is damaged by fracking, as reported by thousands of scientific stu ... ⌘ Read more_
Wisconsin GOP blocks pay raises for university staff unless they end diversity programs
Matthew Chapman, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Two or three times a week now I see reports on how the Republicans are trying to dismantle education in the United States from kindergarten to college. Fascists historically never want fact-based education, they always want indoctrination in support of their distorted non-fact-based view of what e ... ⌘ Read more_
Chronic absenteeism in schools doubles since before pandemic, dragging down test scores
LEXI LONAS, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: There are so many sectors of our culture that are breaking down. Schools and education generally are one example, including this. And what is becoming clear is that Americans, in this case American parents, are a big part of the problem._
![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ima ... ⌘ Read more
Food insecurity spiked last year, new report shows
Emily Peck, Contributing Writer - Axios
_Stephan: The United States is at once the richest country in the world and one of the most difficult in the world to live in if you aren't affluent. It is a national disgrace that thousands of families don't have enough to eat properly. It is also incredibly expensive because it results in all kinds of chronic medical conditions. Meanwhile the nasty circus we call Congress does not ... ⌘ Read more_
Poor Wellbeing Linked to Formation of New Chronic Conditions
DAN WITTERS and SANGEETA AGRAWAL, Research Director \\| Research Staff - The Gallup Organization
_Stephan: This is why Americans hold their government is such low esteem. The entire system in this country has been rigged to produce profit for the few at the cost of the wellbeing of the many. This has arisen because of the Republican Party, and its creating the passage of Citizens United that legalized ... ⌘ Read more_