Kasha Patel, Reporter - Microsoft Start / The Washington Post
Stephan:
Out of stupidity and mostly greed, the small group of people who control the gas and oil industries are destroying the Earth’s Matrix of Life. You would think that they would understand that they and their families will suffer from this as well as all the other humans, and all the other beings that make up the matrix. I guess they think their wealth will protect them. It won’t, as any one who does the research can easily ascertain. But their greed must be so great it blinds them.
Ground temperatures in East Antarctica have soared more than 50 degrees (28 Celsius) above normal in the second major heat wave to afflict the region in the past two years. This historic warm spell could persist for another 10 days and is an ominous example of the major temperature spikes this polar climate could experience more frequently in a warming world.
“This heat wave is a near-record (or record) event for the region of Antarctica it’s having the biggest impact on,” Edward Blanchard, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, said in an email. “The heat wave’s large footprint is also remarkable,” as it covers a large section of East Antarctica, which makes up most of the continent.
The heat wave comes in the middle of the Antarctic winter, so temperatures are still hovering around minus-4 (minus-20 Celsius). Still, the Antarctic temperature anomaly is the largest on the globe, according to weather models.
Temperatures are expected to remain up to 36 to 50 degrees (20 to 30 Celsius) above average in parts of East Antarctica for the next 10 days. They have […]
From the time I met him in New York when we were both in our twenties I have never thought of criminal Trump as much above average intelligence. But in the last two weeks, since Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate, listening to him he seems to have become obviously mentally impaired. He says things that are so blatantly stupid, and so easily established as lies, that it surprises me the MAGAt Party continues to follow him so slavishly. He is genuinely dangerous for the future of the United States. Consider the stories you have seen or read about the Black journalist conference, or comments like the one reported in this article.
Criminal Trump. Credit: Vanity Fair
Former President Donald Trump used his turn before the nation’s largest professional association of Black journalists to question the racial identity of his rival for the White House this fall, telling a shocked National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago that Vice President Kamala Harris “happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black.”
It took Trump all of 10 days running in a head-to-head against the first woman and first incumbent of Black and Indian-American heritage to openly question her background.
“I don’t know. Is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said, raising questions that echoed the ex-President’s persistent and discredited questions about former President Barack Obama’s place of birth. “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t because she was Indian all the way and then all of the sudden she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”
Harris has always identified as a product of a multicultural family, […]
A physician who is also an SR reader sent me this telling me these trends are accurately described and that he had experienced them and saw them as a serious threat to our declining healthcare system. I have covered a number of these trends (see SR archive) but not together as a package. The American illness profit system is clearly failing, and I hope that if Harris is elected that she pays attention to what Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have been telling us for years.
Credit: MedPage Today
In October 2023, Health eCareers conducted a survey of healthcare professionals to better understand their workplace experience. Respondents answered questions about job satisfaction, job search plans, compensation, benefits, and much more. When asked what they feel are the biggest challenges facing healthcare providers today, several themes emerged from their responses ranging from a focus on profits over patients and administrative burdens to lack of staffing, insurance complications, workplace violence, and burnout.
As a doctor working within a hospital, health system, medical group, or practice, you’re undoubtedly familiar with these problems. They’re real-life obstacles you face every day—obstacles that impede your ability to meet patient needs, deliver quality care, maintain your own quality of life, and stay safe on the job.
Let’s take a closer look at the challenges today’s physicians must overcome and a few suggestions for improving your own professional experience.
1. Patient Quotas vs. Patient Care
If your employer requires you to meet certain productivity metrics, you’re not alone. Quotas for the number of patients a […]
I hope you realize how very revealing these stories that are coming out almost daily are about what was once the Republican now the MAGAt Party. Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower, or even George Bush (41), choosing such a loathsome man to be their running partner? Vance sounds like a drunk you might hear ranting in a bar. How can anyone take such a person seriously as a candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States?
JD Vance said in 2021 that “we have to go to war” against the idea that women can decide not to have children. Credit: Stephen Maturen / Getty
Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, JD Vance, said in 2021 that “we have to go to war” against the idea that women can decide not to have children, suggesting that someone who focuses on building their career instead of making babies will be “a sad, lonely, pathetic person.”
In an interview with The Federalist in May 2021, Vance was asked what he thinks conservatives can do to encourage Americans to have more kids. He suggested cultural messaging is key.
“To be a little stark about this, I think we have to go to war against the anti-child ideology that exists in our country,” said Vance, who is currently the Republican senator from Ohio.
Though he generally didn’t specify the gender of the childless people he was criticizing, the context of his remarks made it seem he was primarily speaking to women.
Citing a conversation that had recently unfolded on Twitter, Vance […]
Tatyana Tandanpolie , Salon News Fellow - truthout
Stephan:
This is exactly what I have been talking about when I warn you about the use of AI to spread fake videos and audios to damage the campaign of a candidate. Mostly, it is being done by christofascist billionaires, Elon Musk as described in this report, as well Russian, Chinese and other authoritarian governments. What can you do about this? Well, for starters stop using X social media, and don’t buy a Tesla automobile, and recommend the same to everyone you know. This weaponization of misinformation has the capacity to change the outcome of our election.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (center) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on July 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Credit: Anna Moneymaker / Getty
X owner Elon Musk’s reshare of a manipulated, faux campaign ad for Vice President Kamala Harris on social media last week raised alarms because he did not disclose that the clip, which parroted rightwing takes about the likely Democratic nominee, was a parody. But experts warn that the move illuminates AI’s potential to further embed distrust of election institutions in among voters ahead of the 2024 election.
Musk reposted the manipulated video of Harris to X on Friday night. The clip, which used much of the same imagery from her first presidential campaign ad, featured a new voice-over that appeared to be digitally altered to sound like Harris.
“I, Kamala Harris, am your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate,” […]
