You may not realize it, polls seem to show most Americans don’t, but the United States is in the middle of a religious war. Christianity although he talks endlessly about Jesus, actually has almost nothing to do with Jesus’ teachings. Instead, this is a christofascist war against authentic American followers of Jesus, secular Americans, and people who support genuine democracy. This is same same war as the Taliban war in Afghanistan, only this time the misuse of religion is about Christianity instead of Islam.
Messengers raise their ballots in support of a resolution put up for vote during a Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis on Tuesday. Credit: Doug McSchooler / AP
The largest Protestant group in the US has condemned the use of in vitro fertilization, a move that is sure to inflame the already white-hot battle over IVF and reproductive rights in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v Wade.
On Wednesday, during the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, delegates voted in favor of a resolution that urges Southern Baptists “to reaffirm the unconditional value and right to life of every human being, including those in an embryonic stage, and to only utilize reproductive technologies consistent with that affirmation”.
The resolution in effect calls on the Southern Baptist Convention – a group that includes nearly 50,000 churches and almost 13 million members – to avoid IVF.
The success of the resolution is a major victory for the anti-abortion movement, swathes of which have long opposed IVF on the grounds that providers create embryos that are not implanted in a woman’s uterus or are set aside after being […]
Tom Costello and Corky Siemaszko, Correspondent | Senior Reporter - NBC News
Stephan:
If you watch the Fox propaganda network or any local channel of the Sinclair Network you think that crime is rising and out of control. It is a standard MAGAt Republican lie. And that is just what it is, a deliberate example of the weaponization of misinformation for political purposes. In fact, as the FBI has just reported crime during the Biden administration has been dramatically declining.
To access the actual FBI report: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2024-quarterly-crime-report-and-use-of-force-data-update
The latest FBI statistics point to a “historic” drop in crime in the first quarter of this year, Attorney General Merrick Garland says.
And this, after a year in which the murder rate fell at one the fastest rates ever recorded, a top criminologist added.
“This should be good news for everybody,” criminologist Jeff Asher, who analyzed the FBI numbers, told NBC News. “But it’s also early June and the trend of the nation’s crime rate is always uncertain.”
The rate of violent and property crimes dropped precipitously in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period last year, according to quarterly statistics released Monday by the FBI known as the Uniform Crime Report.
The murder rate fell by 26.4%, reported rapes decreased by 25.7%, robberies fell by 17.8%, aggravated assault fell by 12.5%, and the overall violent crime rate went down by 15.2%, the statistics show.
Reported property crimes also decreased by 15.1%, according to the UCR report, which the FBI compiles using crime statistics supplied to the agency by law enforcement agencies across the U.S.
You may think the Fox propaganda channel is nothing but the weaponization of misinformation to support the MAGAt Republicans, and it certainly Is just that. What you may not know, few seem to, is that Sinclair Broadcasting which owns or operates nearly 200 local channels, is the same thing, spewing the same kind of crap. So I am publishing a list of all those local channels. Notice they are often affiliated with the big broadcast networks. I urge you to go through the list and don’t watch a Sinclair channel, or pay attention to its political news, and alert your family and friends about the real nature of Sinclair Broadcasting, owned by a Trump MAGAt supporter, David Smith.
Here is some important good news that is getting almost no media coverage at all. I searched for half an hour to find a story that explained. it. While criminal Trump is telling the oligarchs and the corporations they control how he is going to reduce their taxes, President Biden is making a major move, as this article describes, to improve your financial wellbeing. You’d think this would be a major story but it is not and, I think, this is telling us something important about the media’s failure to cover major changes in people’s lives. It is also making it clear that anyone who votes for the Republicans and criminal Trump will have no one to blame but themselves.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on protecting consumers from hidden junk fees as CEO of xBk Tobi Parks, center, and CEO of DICE Phil Hutcheon, left, listen during an event at the South Court Auditorium at Eisenhower Executive Office Building on June 15, 2023, in Washington, DC. Credit: Alex Wong / Getty
President Joe Biden has embraced a decidedly pro-consumer agenda at a time when many Americans aren’t feeling confident about the state of the economy — even though it may do little to assure voters whose primary economic concern is higher prices.
Through his executive authority, Biden has taken steps to combat “junk fees” — hidden fees that make everything from airline bookings to concert tickets more expensive than their sticker price, but also just feel like shady corporate attempts to get the better of consumers. He has also required companies to provide more transparency in their pricing.
His administration has also tackled monopolies like it’s the Roosevelt era, filing a flurry […]
Here is some good news to encourage the transition out of the carbon era. My concern is that U.S. auto makers just don’t get why this transition is so important or, they do understand it and just don’t care because continuing profit from carbon-powered vehicles without the required recapitalization to EVs is what they want.
A new Lexus EV at the New York International Auto Show in New York City on March 27, 2024. This year’s show highlighted new EVs and hybrids. Credit: Spencer Platt / Getty Images
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) has tightened fuel mileage standards for vehicles in an effort to transform the country’s auto market into one dominated by more climate-friendly electric vehicles.
“Not only will these new standards save Americans money at the pump every time they fill up, they will also decrease harmful pollution and make America less reliant on foreign oil. These standards will save car owners more than $600 in gasoline costs over the lifetime of their vehicle,” said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in the press release.
The new standards will save nearly 70 billion gallons of gas through 2050 and prevent more than 782.6 […]
