Judith Graham, Staff Writer - Kaiser Family Foundation Health News
Stephan:
The inferiority of the American Illness Profit System becomes clearer day-by-day, here is just the latest in an endless sequence of reports showing a factual basis proving its inferiority. Yet nothing happens in Congress to correct any of this because the Congress members are so corrupt, and in the pocket of the corporations that control health care in this country. The only thing that is going to change this is how you vote in what may be the last real election in which you will ever be able to vote.
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Every day, the scene plays out in hospitals across America: Older men and women lie on gurneys in emergency room corridors moaning or suffering silently as harried medical staff attend to crises.
Even when physicians determine these patients need to be admitted to the hospital, they often wait for hours — sometimes more than a day — in the ER in pain and discomfort, not getting enough food or water, not moving around, not being helped to the bathroom, and not getting the kind of care doctors deem necessary.
“You walk through ER hallways, and they’re lined from end to end with patients on stretchers in various states of distress calling out for help, including a number of older patients,” said Hashem Zikry, an emergency medicine physician at UCLA Health.
Physicians who staff emergency rooms say this problem, known as ER boarding, is as bad as it’s ever been — even worse than during the first years of the covid-19 pandemic, when hospitals filled with […]
Matthew D. Taylor and Paul A. Djupe, Senior Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies | Director of the Data for Political Research Program at Denison University - Religion News Service
Stephan:
The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement is the religious side of christofascism with TCP Republicanism the political side, and this report explains how this form of fascism was engendered by Trump. The democracy we have enjoyed in the United States, with its separation of church and state, has been deeply wounded already by this movement. If you want the country you grew up in to survive you better vote only for Democrats. They are far from perfect but they support democracy, and christofascism does not. It is that simple.
This past month, a group of self-styled American Christian prophets released an urgent word from God on YouTube about an impending Islamic uprising in the U.S. Pointing to pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, they declared that an “insurrection is forming that is like unto the communist takeover in Russia. … This is not only about bringing a Palestinian state to the Middle East but an Islamic state to North America and other nations.”
The good news, according to these prophets, is that God also says, “If the church repents, I will relent. I will protect your nations.”
If this God-speaking-through-prophets-and-warning-nations-about-other-religions business sounds fringy and oddball in modern Christianity, it once was. But such prophecies and these prophets are rapidly redefining mainstream American evangelical theology, practice and politics. They are affiliated with a movement called the New Apostolic Reformation, a set of leadership networks whose leaders call themselves modern-day apostles and prophets and believe they are commissioned by God to take over the world.
This NAR movement runs like a golden thread through recent flashpoints of evangelical Christian support for Donald Trump, Christian […]
Adam Mahoney, Contributing Writer - Grist / Capital B
Stephan:
Do you remember the water crisis in Flint, Michigan? Well, it is still going on, and is as racist as ever. There are two takeaways here. One is the racism, America remains a deeply racist country. Two is that the water crisis from old lead piping remains a crisis throughout the older towns and cities all over the country. If you live in such a community I suggest you have a nongovernmental laboratory test your water.
At the edge of Saginaw Street, a hand-painted sign is etched into a deserted storefront. “Please help, God. Clean-up Flint.”
Behind it, the block tells the story of a city 10 years removed from the start of one of the nation’s largest environmental crises.
Empty lot. Charred two-story home. Empty lot. Abandoned house with the message “All Copper GONE,” across boarded-up windows.
John Ishmael Taylor, 44, was born in this ZIP code, 48503, and he’s seen firsthand the neglect of the place he loves, one he hopes will be reborn for his young children.
“The water crisis, no more jobs, the violence,” Taylor said, has left Flint like a “ghost town — a ghost town with a whole bunch of people still here.”
Over the past decade, Flint’s water crisis has revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city while opening the country’s eyes to how an environmental crisis could wreak havoc on all facets of life, make people sick, destroy a public school system, and kill jobs.
Four years after Flint residents reached the largest civil settlement agreement in Michigan history, […]
This is good news and bad news. Women who want a job are working. But because the United States has such appallingly poor child care as a society that many working women have a very hard time getting child care for their kids. As a culture we just can’t seem to make fostering wellbeing important.
More working-age women are employed than ever before in U.S. history, according to Friday’s jobs report.
Why it matters: The rise in flexible work arrangements is likely helping, in addition to the strong labor market.
The increase in women working also likely contributed to the recent strength in household spending, Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter, writes in a note.
Zoom in: The employment numbers — technically the employment-to-population ratio — include part-time workers. So it would include women who want to work full-time but can’t due to child care issues.
Women overall are working less now than in 2019, as ADP research found earlier this year.
Much of the improvement was driven by college-educated women (those are the ones who can work remotely) with children under 3, Diane Swonk, chief economist of KPMG said in a post on X Friday.
The bottom line: “Moral of the story. Women are working and caring for their families, but a crisis in childcare is making it harder for them to stay at work,” Swonk posted. “This could snowball and cause another setback in the […]
Here is the latest from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concerning what is likely to happen to North Carolina as climate change continues. It is going to produce massive change in the state, displace large numbers of people, and cause enormous negative economic impacts. This is going to be replicated from Florida to Maine, and we are not doing anywhere enough to prepare for it.
An interactive map shows how parts of North Carolina could be submerged in water as sea levels rise due to the effects of climate change.
The state faces particular risks because of its barrier islands, known as the Outer Banks, its extensive coastline and its low elevation.
The map also allows users to click on certain streets and landmarks and view a projected image of how they would look if partially underwater.
The United Nations‘ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that by the year 2100, global sea levels will have risen by between 0.95 and 3.61 feet. However, it notes that a rise of around 6.6 feet “cannot be ruled out.”
If sea levels rose by just 3 feet, parts of North Carolina’s barrier islands and coastal areas would be encroached by water, according to projections by the NOAA.
If sea levels were to rise to 6 feet, nearly the entire counties of Dare, […]
