The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only
EMI NIETFELD,  Staff Writer  -  Slate

_Stephan: This article is the first I have seen that really climbs into the IVF procedure in the United States which, as it describes is very different than in other nations. Why? Because in the U.S. you can gender select, something you cannot do in other nations. And, because we don’t have healthcare focused on wellbeing, having an illness profit system, IVF is increasing a profit scheme … ⌘ Read more

Vermont Could Be the First State to Bill Oil Firms for Climate Damage
DHARNA NOOR,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: As the damage of the carbon industries and their role in creating climate change becomes ever more evident I think many Blue states are going to follow what Vermont is doing. This issue of the responsibility of the carbon industries, I think, is going to become a major political issue strongly influenced by the corruption of Congress … ⌘ Read more

Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception
Hannah Devlin,  Science Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: What I have been warning you about AI is now becoming increasingly recognized as this article describes. I think this is going to have a significant impact on our democracy because many people are easily manipulated by influences they see as authoritarian. To understand why take a look at my podcast. What I describe is … ⌘ Read more

Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law
Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Biden has changed his position on Israel and its genocide, and I think this is happening because of the large demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country. I believe the Democrats and Biden are beginning to reali … ⌘ Read more

Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law
Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Biden has changed his position on Israel and its genocide, and I think this is happening because of the large demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country. I believe the Democrats and Biden are beginning to reali … ⌘ Read more

The evolution of the Southern economic development strategy
Chandra Childers ,    -  Economic Policy Institute

_Stephan: Recently I have had several readers write me, often criticizing me, and asking why I say the Red States, particularly the Red States of the South, have such inferior governance, and such poor wellbeing. They tell me they accept the social outcome data I publish frequently. but they don’t understand or deny my conclusions. So why do the old Confed … ⌘ Read more

Biden draws GOP’s wrath with pause in bombs shipment to Israel
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Stephan:

Speaker of the House Republican Mike Johnson Credit: The Hill

President Biden’s move to pause a shipment of heavy bombs to Israel has drawn the fury of Republicans, further polarizing U.S. efforts to deter Israel from launching a bloody c … ⌘ Read more

Louisiana GOP Blocks Abortion Exception for Young Survivors of Rape and Incest
Chris Walker ,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: This story about the Republican politicians in Louisiana is disgusting. I don’t know how Republicans live with themselves. As this report describes how would you ever get the image of a raped child delivering a baby while holding her Teddy Bear out of your memory? I certainly couldn’t. But then most of these anti-choic … ⌘ Read more

East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse and How It Will Reshape World Politics
Nicholas Eberstadt,    -  Foreign Affairs Journal

_Stephan: The world of the next century is going to be very different than it is today. It isn’t just climate change, it is also dramatically changing population levels, and vast migrations both internally and across nations. Here is the headline on population from this research paper. “In the decades immediately ahead, Ea … ⌘ Read more

Renewable Energy Surpasses 30% of Global Electricity Supply for First Time Ever
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

Stephan: Here is some good news – not great news, it could be better, but good – about humanity emerging from the carbon era and addressing the pollution humans have created that is destroying the earth’s matrix of life.

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Desperate for Workers but Dead Set Against Migrant Labor: The West Virginia Dilemma
Paul Kiernan ,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start

_Stephan: West Virginia has never been a well-governed state. The population is poor, poorly educated, and getting more elderly because young people don’t stay in the state. It is the only state to see its population decline.  As this article describes all manner of hourly worker jobs now can not be filled and as a … ⌘ Read more

The 10 Most Obese States in America
Brianna Navarre,  Staff Writer  -  U.S. News

_Stephan: Obesity has become one of the defining characteristics of the American population. It is one of the main ways Europeans and Asians identify American tourists on sight. It is also, as this report describes, costing us almost $200 billion dollars in health costs because it is the source of a whole spectrum of health problems. It is also, although nobody talks about this, one of the defines of the Grea … ⌘ Read more

How Republicans keep U.S. guns and ammo flowing to Latin American drug cartels
Max Taves,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / DC Report

_Stephan: American guns are the murder weapons of choice throughout Central and South America. How is this possible? Because the Republicans in Congress have been rented like prostitutes by the corporations that make the murder weapons, and no law constraining gun manufacture or sales can get passed. The result is not o … ⌘ Read more

Poll: States With Strict Abortion Bans Are Driving Young Workers Away
Chris Walker,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I told you this would happen, and it is. We are seeing the population of the United States sort itself in accordance with the Great Schism Trend. Conservatives in significant numbers are moving to Red States so they can be around people who agree with their sense of resentment, victimization, racism, and views on abortion, education, and … ⌘ Read more

The Collapse of the News Industry Is Taking Its Soul Down With It
Jak Shafer,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: This is an excellent article on the change in journalism. It is a major trend changing our culture as it withers, and not in a good way. Journalism is being replaced by the weaponization of lies on social media. The result is a population of ill-informed people who have lost contact with the truth, and who no longer understand or value democracy. … ⌘ Read more

Aid Groups Warn of “Bloodbath” After Israeli Forces Seize Rafah Crossing
JULIANNE MCSHANE,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I do not in any way excuse or defend the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas. They are war crimes. But I do not think what they have done compares with the genocide of Muslim women and children being carried out by the Israelis. How is it possible that Jewish men, many of whose forebearers were murdered by Hitler’s Na … ⌘ Read more

The Trump campaign contemplates a jail sentence
Shelby Talcott,  Staff Writer  -  Semafor

Stephan: We have never seen a former president who has been convicted as a rapist, financial fraudster, and eventually very possibly committer of treason. Now I think there is an excellent chance we are going to see a former president convicted and sent to prison. What do you think America will do if that happens?

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Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm
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 po … ⌘ Read more

How Trumpism has pushed a fringe charismatic theology into the mainstream
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 … ⌘ Read more

A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues
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 … ⌘ Read more

More women are working now than at any time in U.S. history
Emily Peck,    -  Axios

Stephan: 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.

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North Carolina Map Shows Where State Could Be Underwater From Sea Level Rise
Alia Shoath,  Contributing Writer  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: 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 replica … ⌘ Read more

‘Everything’s on fire’: Inside the nation’s failure to safeguard toxic pipelines
MIKE SORAGHAN,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Another report on the corruption and scams of the carbon industries which always place profit above the wellbeing of the people and communities impacted by their work. These reports, one after another – SR has been covering them for years – all tell the same story: Greed for profit ends in environmental catastrophes. … ⌘ Read more

Report: Taxing Fossil Fuel Extraction Could Raise Nearly $1 Trillion for Climate Aid
MATTHEW TAYLOR,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I picked this article because I think it raises a very pertinent issue that needs international attention. The carbon industries through corruption of politicians and scams have avoided taking responsibility let alone paying for the damage they are doing to the matrix of life. They should be held responsibl … ⌘ Read more

CPJ condemns Israeli vote to shut down Al-Jazeera; warns of alarming precedent
,    -  Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

_Stephan: Fascism is arising in countries around the world, and Israel, under Netanyahu, has joined the trend. As a country it is also, in my view a nation guilty of crimes against humanity. I am not the only one with this view as polls show. Israel is becoming a pariah nation, and now it is sabotaging journalism, a classi … ⌘ Read more