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When I began Schwartzreport my purpose was to produce an entirely fact-based daily publication in favor of the earth, the inter-connectedness and interdependence of all life, democracy, equality for all, liberty, and things that are life-affirming. Also, to warn my readers about actions, events, and trends that threaten those values. Our country now stands at a crossroads, indeed, the world stands at a crossroads where those values are very much at risk and it is up to each of us who care about wellbeing to do what we can to defend those principles. I want to thank all of you who have contributed to SR, particularly those of you who have scheduled an ongoing monthly contribution. It makes a big difference and is much appreciated. It is one thing to put in the hours each day and to do the work for free, but another to have to cover the rising out-of-pocket costs. For those of you who haven’t done so, but read SR regularly, I ask that you consider supporting it.
Laura Mannweiler, Reporter - US News & World Report
Stephan:
I see this as excellent good news. I continue to be appalled at the polls saying the election is essentially a tie. The only explanation I can see for that is that people who don’t like to be asked to respond do so with the intention of screwing up the poll, or who aren’t planning to vote do so for the same reason. Even so, it is hard for me to fathom how, for instance, any woman can even think of voting for traitor Trump and the MAGAt Republicans, although I know that being a handmaiden is attractive to some. Why reports such as this one are so important is that it is clear to me that our democracy hangs by an unraveling thread.
In 1937, the American public was asked for the first time by Gallup if they would consider voting for a woman president if she were qualified “in every other respect.” Only 33% said yes at the time.
That sentiment has certainly changed.
More than 80% of young voters in key battleground states say that a woman could be an effective president and strong leader, according to an exclusive U.S. News poll conducted among more than 2,000 young people ages 18 to 34. But opinions slightly differ based on gender, political affiliation and religion, and 6% disagree that a woman candidate would meet that criteria.
As part of the poll, conducted for U.S. News by Generation Lab, young people were asked if they thought a woman could be an effective president and strong leader. Among respondents:
57% said they strongly agree
25% said they agree
12% said they neither agree nor disagree
3% said they disagree
3% said they strongly disagree
When considering gender, a slightly larger share of men disagreed about a woman’s ability to be an effective and strong leader, with 7% of the men polled answering either “disagree” or […]
Sohrab Ahmari, Editor of Compact - The New Statesman
Stephan:
I think Sohrab Ahmari is correct, there is a mental illness in MAGAt world. But I think although he is correct he misses one important aspect, the precognition I have described in my podcast, the consumning fear about the radical change in AMerican society climate change is going to cause. I am not surprised though. Very few in media know anything of nonlocal consciousness, or the Matrix of Consciousness.
Credit: Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
“Shut up, Jew.” “Your Jew lies don’t work anymore.” “Yeah, Jew, the truth can be a bitch, huh?” “Jews lie, steal, and murder – it’s their religious duty.” “Less kikes is always good.”
In recent days I’ve been inundated with these and hundreds of similar messages on the X app. The onslaught followed a recent column in which I took issue with Tucker Carlson’s granting of an uncritical platform to a crank historian. Darryl Cooper, an amateur-history podcaster using the pseudonym “Martyr Made”, claims that Winston Churchill was “the chief villain of the Second World War”. There is no point equivocating: the Carlson interview, and the way it has energised swarms of online bigots, are symptomatic of a profound sickness afflicting the American right – particularly the young, online right. The aetiology of the disease is complex, but it would be a mistake to try to locate the causes outside the right, as many of my conservative confrères will […]
Here are my views on what is happening to healthcare for women in the United States, It is yet another way in which the MAGAt Republicans are making us a second class nation, as validated by objectively verifiable social outcome data. I do not understand how any woman can vote for the MAGAts, and yet I suspect millions will. It is like voting to become a hand maid.
The United States is now in the throes of a strange and benighted trend that is negatively affecting half the population because in the Republican controlled states politicians, not physicians, are making the medical decisions for females. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as of July 7, 2022, across the entire United States there were only 17 federal physician-legislators (3.1 %, 17/541) and 86 state physician-legislators (1.1 %, 86/7552. 1 So it is irrefutable that the laws being passed to control women are being passed by non-medically trained politicians. It started on 24 June 2022 when the extreme far right majority on the Supreme Court issued the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that abandoned almost 50 years of precedent established by the Roe v Wade decision and took away the national right to abortion, leaving it up to the individual states as to whether they would permit legal abortion. Almost immediately 14 states, in perhaps the most blatant example of the Great SchismTrendI have ever reported on in the […]
Thom Hartmann, Commentator - Raw Story / Commentary
Stephan:
I have been telling you for years to not get involved with the Medicare Advantage scam. It is an insurance company grift that is sucking billions of your tax dollars out of Medicare. Thom Hartmann lays out the truth very clearly.
Credit: Zanyar Ibrahim / Unsplash
They’re competing unfairly with Medicare, and you and I are paying for it. It’s obscene.
When George W. Bush and congressional Republicans (and a handful of bought-off Democrats) created Medicare Advantage in 2003, it was the fulfillment of half of Bush’s goal of privatizing Social Security and Medicare, dating all the way back to his unsuccessful run for Congress in 1978 and a main theme of his second term in office.
Medicare Advantage is not Medicare. These plans are private health insurance provided by private corporations, who are then fully reimbursed by the Medicare trust fund regardless of how much their customers use their insurance. Thus, the more they can screw their customers and us taxpayers by withholding healthcare, the more money they make.
With real Medicare, if your doctor says you need a test procedure, scan, or any other medical intervention you simply get it done and real Medicare pays the bill. No muss, no fuss, no permission needed. Real […]
I think it is morally disgusting that tens of thousands of Palestinians, particularly women and little children who have no connection with Hamas, are being murdered by Israelis using American bombs,bullets, and missiles. It makes you and me complicit in this evil. Senator Bernie Sanders seems to be the one person in Congress who has had enough and he is moving to stop it and, thank heavens, getting to support. I don’t understand why Joe Biden doesn’t seem to get this, but he doesn’t based on his behavior. Kamala Harris does seem to get this moral error. Traitor Trump sees fellow fascist Benjamin Netanyahu as a comrade.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol Credit: Tom Williams /CQ-Roll Call / Getty
Demanding that the Biden administration follow the lead of several close U.S. allies in recent months, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday announced his intention to take action on the Senate floor to stop the flow of American weapons to Israel.
The Vermont independent said in a statement that he plans to file Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRD) regarding the sale of offensive weapons to the Middle Eastern country, which for nearly a year has bombarded civilian infrastructure and blocked humanitarian aid to Gaza, killing more than 41,000 Palestinians and pushing the enclave into famine.
The JRD is the only congressional mechanism that can prevent weapons sales from moving forward, and after months of demanding the Biden administration end military support for Israel, Sanders said that “Congress must act to save lives, uphold U.S. and international law, and stand up for U.S. interests.”
As scientists focus more on the matrix of life, we are learning how little we understand about how the matrix works. Here as an example of the point I am making is the latest on the migration of birds. Understanding the matrix is so important because it shows us how to foster wellbeing of Earth’s ecosystems, and how much damage is done when we don’t make that a priority.
For migrating birds, fall brings difficulty and danger. To reach warm winter climes, many birds must fly hundreds or thousands of miles, expend immense amounts of energy and successfully dodge storms, skyscrapers and other potential threats.
Still, scientists have long assumed that a basic trade-off made migration worth the gamble: Once birds arrived at their wintering grounds, they wouldn’t need to work so hard to stay warm, saving substantial amounts of energy. “But nobody ever tested this,” saidNils Linek, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.
Now, Dr. Linek and his colleagues have done so. Their findings, based on a partially migratory population of German blackbirds, challenge the conventional wisdom. Even in the depths of winter, blackbirds basking in balmy southern Europe or northern Africa did not spend any less energy than those riding out the cold in Germany, the scientists found.
“It’s sort of shocking that there isn’t this net benefit,” said Scott Yanco, an animal ecologist at the University of Michigan and an author of the paper. (Dr. Yanco conducted […]
The corruption of the Supreme Court christofascist majority becomes ever more blatant. These six people are restructuring the laws of the United States in service to a convicted rapist, convicted felon, and traitor. It is destroying the respect Americans have for their legal system at the highest level. And none of these is ever held responsible for anything. History is going to record these six people as the worst individuals to ever serve on the court.
Christofascist Chief Justice John Roberts Credit: Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
Chief Justice John Roberts has been exposed, wrote legal observers Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern for Slate. He may pretend to be the deliberate, moderating force on the Supreme Court, but behind the scenes he has become as reactionary as the rest of the court’s right wing.
This became clear after the court handed down its radical decision giving former President Donald Trump a presumption of immunity for “official acts” in office, reversing all lower judges who considered the matter, all while leaving unclear guidance about how exactly to define an official act, they wrote.
Their feature followed a New York Times expose on how the court arrived at its decision — while the liberals were trying to moderate the opinion, and far-right Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch privately wanted to punt it until after the election, “It was Roberts who decided […]
Marilyn W. Thompson and Alex Mierjeski, - ProPublica
Stephan:
It appears that every judge appointed by traitor Trump, when the truth about them emerges, is shown to be corrupt, and not really interested in an ethical fair judicial system. Here is the latest on Judge Aileen Cannon
Judge Aileen M. Cannon Credit:Photo illustration by ProPublica. Credit: Southern District of Florida (portrait) and Robert Knopes/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (campus of George Mason University)
Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon, the controversial jurist who tossed out the classified documents criminal case against Donald Trump in July, failed to disclose her attendance at a May 2023 banquet funded by a conservative law school.
Cannon went to an event in Arlington, Va. honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, according to documents obtained from the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University. At a lecture and private dinner, she sat among members of Scalia’s family, fellow Federalist Society members and more than 30 conservative federal judges. Organizers billed the event as “an excellent opportunity to connect with judicial colleagues.”
A 2006 rule, intended to shine a light on judges’ attendance at paid seminars that could pose conflicts or influence decisions, requires them to file disclosure forms for such trips within […]
