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Annual U.S. Dementia Cases Projected to Rise to 1 Million by 2060
Jocelyn Solis-Moreira , Contributing Writer - Scientific American
Stephan: This is a report on some important new research on the dramatic increase in the occurrence of dementia, both because we are an aging population and for previously unrecognized genetic reasons.
To read the research study upon which this report is based see: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03340-9.epdf
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China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than ‘all the oil on Earth’
Ben Turner, Staff Writer - Live Science
_Stephan: While the incoming Trump administration is committed to “drill baby drill” continuation of the carbon era the Chinese are moving to exit the carbon era, as the extraordinary project to beam power down from space described in this re … ⌘ Read more
Wright poised for confirmation despite hearing clashes over climate, LA fires
Rachel Frazin, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: In contrast to what the Chinese are doing, felon Trump’s administration is moving in the opposite direction. Chris Wright, Trump’s pick of Secretary of Energy has a long history of being an evangelist for ramping up carbon energy production. HIs personal financial interests are entwined with fossil fuels. You would think … ⌘ Read more
Young, single men are leaving traditional churches. They found a more ‘masculine’ alternative
Susie Coen, U.S. Correspondent - The Telegraph (U.K.)
_Stephan: We have what I see as a serious negative cultural trend going on in the United States. Young single, mostly White, men don’t seem to understand what the role of manhood is about. They are frightened and resentful about gender equality. This is strongly reflected in what is happ … ⌘ Read more
Biden removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terrorism
Eric Bazail-Eimil, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: In the final moments of his Presidency Joe Biden has made the first intelligent move about Cuba any President has made in nearly 50 years, and taken Cuba off the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Cuba has become essentially a failed state that its population has been unable to change largely because the United States has done everything it can to k … ⌘ Read more
Jack Smith Report Insists Evidence Against Trump ‘Sufficient’ for Conviction If Not for 2024 Victory
David Gilmour, Staff Writer - MEDIAite
_Stephan: It is now clear that had American voters not elected him to be their next President that already multiply convicted felon Donald Trump would have been convicted yet again and be headed for prison. That is very clear in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s just-issued report. I don’t t … ⌘ Read more
Sanctioning of global white supremacist terrorism group rattles U.S. extremist members
Jordan Green , Investigative Reporter - Raw Story
_Stephan: As Biden prepares to leave office his State Department has finally done something positive about White Supremacy terrorism, the biggest civil threat in the United States. So this is good news. It will be interesting to see how the billionaires who own the big social media platforms respond to … ⌘ Read more
Parkinson’s tremors disappear with use of machine that sends heat waves to the brain
Cindy Krischer Goodman, Reporter - South Florida Sun Sentinel
Stephan: I know a number of people with Parkinson tremors, and perhaps you do too. Here is some very good news on that front, and if you suffer from tremors take this to your physician and see what can be done, or pass it along to someone you know who has this health issue.
_Stephan: Here finally, although still too little too late, is some good news reporting something being done to clean up the fake porn and sex images and videos in the internet social media sewer. I have had several readers who have been subjected to this write and tell me how it is essenti … ⌘ Read more
‘Merrick Garland has been wholly useless’: MSNBC host drops the hammer on outgoing AG
Tom Boggioni, Senior Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: I completely agree with Michael Steele’s comments and thinking. Felon Trump with the assistance of Attorney General Merrick Garland, Judge Aileen Cannon, and President Joe Biden’s permissive complacency has essentially walked away from accountability for his multiple crimes, sex offenses, and traitorous be … ⌘ Read more
‘Abominable’: Trump and GOP Float Tying Los Angeles Wildfire Aid to Debt Ceiling
Eloise Goldsmith, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Felon Trump has a long history of blocking federal aid to states led by politicians he doesn’t like, and his Republican Congressional cretins support him in this. However, this situation in Los Angeles is unlike anything the country has seen before regarding the extent of damage, the suffering, and damage tha … ⌘ Read more
The Psychological Toll of California’s Catastrophic Fires
April Rubin, - Axios
_Stephan: I lived in Los Angeles, was the Senior Fellow at Philosophical. Research society, and ran my research laboratory, Mobius Society, and television production company Clearlight Productions, there for 20 years. I know all the neighborhoods destroyed by the fires very intimately. At least four of my long-time friends have lost their homes in this disaster. I have found the media c … ⌘ Read more
On a Mission From God: Inside the Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
Alec MacGillis, Reporter - ProPublica
Stephan: This is the best fact-based report I have seen recently describing how the christofascists are trying to get access to your tax dollars in order to fund their christofascist indoctrination programs and further degrade public education.
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Editor’s Note — Humanity’s Precognition, Climate Change, and the Decline of Democracy
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Explore - The Journal of Science and Healing
Stephan: Today’s edition of SR has only one story. I am doing this because it is my conviction that this is the most important story shaping humanity today. I hope you will take the time to read it, and pass it on to others. ⌘ Read more
HUMANITY’S PRECOGNITITON: Climate Change and the Decline of Democracy
Stephan A. Schwartz, Columnist - Explore - The Journal of Science and Healing
_Stephan: My life has been largely defined by three activities: My experimental research on the nature of consciousness, my research on the trends shaping human civilization, and my research on how to foster individual and social wellbeing. Over the past 60 years, I have written hundreds of peer-reviewed pa … ⌘ Read more
While Los Angeles Burns, AI Fans the Flames
Schuyler Mitchell , Staff Writer - trruthout
_Stephan: I hope that you understand that the catastrophe in Los Angeles, like the one in Ashville, North Carolina, represent opening acts in what is going to be the heart-rending drama of climate change. But here, as this article describes, is an aspect of this epoch that I have not even seen mentioned before: The link between AI and the growing scarcity of water in urban areas already expe … ⌘ Read more
This could be the beginning of the end for fire insurance in California
Blanca Begert, Camille von Kaenel, Thomas Frank and Zack Colman, Staff Writers - Poliitico
_Stephan: Putting aside the disinformation crap that felon Trump endlessly spews – a revealing sign as to what his administration is going to be like – what is standing out for me is the insurance issue. In large parts of Florida, it is already impossible to get home insurance, and it loo … ⌘ Read more
Americans are doubling down on the thing that hurts them the most
Thom Hartmann, Commentator - Raw Story
_Stephan: As he usually does Thom Hartmann has it spot on. All these issues will be familiar to regular SR readers. WHat I don’t understand is where is the civil nonviolent uprising such as got women the vote, ended the Viet Nam War, and achieved – if briefly – a new age of civil rights. Something is wrong with the psyche´ of the American people, and … ⌘ Read more
Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within
Mike German, Contributing Writer - Brennan Center for Justice
_Stephan: I can remember walking down to the Lincoln Memorial with a Black friend to listen to Martin Luther King deliver his I Have a Dream speech, and looking over and seeing two highly conservative attorney lobbyists walking with us and thinking, “Maybe this is really going to be the end of White racism.” Sadly it wasn’t, and part of the reason for White Supremacy’s continu … ⌘ Read more
‘Morally Bankrupt’ Biden Blasted for $8 Billion More in Arms to Israel Amid Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: I predict that historians will define President Biden in three ways: First, and the good news, he restored the wreck of the American economy he inherited from Donald Trump. Second, and then shameful bad news, he arranged for the United States government during his term to fund Israel’s genoci … ⌘ Read more
Doctors Against Genocide Hold Global Sick-Out to Highlight Atrocities in Gaza
Chris Walker , Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: I want to be clear that I do not in any way condone or support what the Muslim terrorist groups did and have done to keep the wars in the Middle East going. But I see all that as no justification for your money and mine being used to finance an Israeli genocide of Muslims. More than that as this article describes is the … ⌘ Read more
40% of Alzheimer’s Cases Are Preventable — How You Can Reduce Your Risk, According to an Expert
Ally Mauch, Staff Writer - Nice News
Stephan: We all know friends who have succumbed to Alzheimer’s. A reader just sent me this, and I want to get it out to all of you, because it could change your life, a family member’s life, or a friend’s life
Stephan: Convicted felon Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants more drilling, more use of petroleum, and Project 2025, the MAGAt guidebook for the new administration, doesn’t even address climate change and talks about increased drilling for oil and gas. In contrast other nations are moving as quickly as they can out of the carbon era. Here is a good news report from Norway.
Stephan: Humanity’s dangerous poor behavior as part of the matrix of life on Earth may, as this report describes, become a major factor in pushing us out of our carbon era. As the title says how “Ironic”.
_Stephan: Creating climate change is just one of the major changes humanity is causing in Earth’s matrix of life. Here’s is somthing you probably have never heard or even thought about. We, as a species, must evolve in our thinking to make fostering the wellbeing of the matrix humanity’s highest priority. A … ⌘ Read more
Why the American dream of owning property is dying
Josh Kirby, Senior Money Writer - The Telegraph (U.K.)
_Stephan: Like virtually everyone I knew buying a first home for my wife and myself was a prime objective. It was 1969, I was 27, and the managing editor of Seapower Magazine. My wife didn’t work and was in the 7th month of her pregnancy. We bought the house in Chevy Chase, Maryland just past the border with D.C. for $68,000. It was not a large house, but on a nice … ⌘ Read more
Fact Check: Melania Trump’s Nude Photos Aired on Russian State TV
Aleksandra Wrona, Staff Writer - Yahoo! News | Snopes
_Stephan: Russian state media a few days after the U.S. election aired soft porn photos of soon-to-be first lady Melania Trump. I am leading with this story today because I think it is telling us something very important about the geopolitical trend showing the decline of the United States. Think about it for a moment. The American people … ⌘ Read more
Newborns are being left in dumpsters in Texas, but Republicans don’t seem to care
Amanda Marcotte, Senior Writer - Salon
_Stephan: A major part of the Great Schism Trend I have been reporting on for years, which both politicians and media largely ignore is politicians not physicians making healthcare laws, and legalizing the government’s – read men’s – control over women’s bodies. Nowhere is that made clearer than in Texas where, as this ar … ⌘ Read more
The Fossil Fuel Industry Spent $219 Million to Elect Trump and Republicans in Congress
Karin Kirk, Staff Writer - Reader Supported News | Yale Climate Connections
_Stephan: The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, as I have told you many times, legalized the renting of politicians like hiring prostitutes. A large percentage of American voters either don’t realize this, or don’t care but it has corrupted American democracy so compl … ⌘ Read more
Bezos’s Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week
, - Agence France-Presse (France)
_Stephan: I have been thinking about this report from France for several days. Think about this: Because of the way the Republicans rigged the tax code during the Reagan administration to overwhelmingly favor the rich, we now have two men so wealthy they own and are running their own competitive space programs. Ahh, but you must also remember this. Because of the c … ⌘ Read more
Linda McMahon Has no Education Experience Except Wanting to Defund Public Schools
Jessica Washington, Staff Writer - The Intercept
_Stephan: Betsy DeVos Trump’s Secretary of Education in his first administration did everything she could to sabotage free public schools. This time he seeks to appoint Linda McMahon, who knows and has no experience with public education at all, and will do Trump’s bidding. United States public school children a … ⌘ Read more
‘Can it be done?’ Mike Johnson seeks to shut 75% of federal agencies with Elon Musk’s help
David Edwards, Senior Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: In 16 days the first convicted multiple-felon and sex offender in American history will become the President of the United States, and, as he tells us repeatedly, he will immediately seek to change the country into a racist, male-dominant, christofascist pseudo-democracy. He yet again is what the … ⌘ Read more
What Makes Someone Wise? Global Study Finds Cross-Cultural Agreement on 2 Major Factors
, - Nice News
_Stephan: A reader sent me this, and I found it a very interesting report on research about wisdom. I see so little wisdom in our politics and religion today, and so little understanding of what defines it, that I thought you might like to see this report as well. To download the research paper upon which it is based: https://www.nat … ⌘ Read more
Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
Ian Sample, Science Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I found the research paper upon which this report is based in the medical research literature and then found this excellent article on the research in The Guardian which is one of the most reliable sources of fact-based journalism. If you are still smoking please consider what this research is saying about your life. If you know som … ⌘ Read more
New Year’s attacks fuel fears of extremism in military
Brad Dress, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: Did you particularly note that the two terrorists that recently murdered innocent Americans were militarily trained MAGAts? The rising percentage of MAGAts in active service, or recent retirement, in the armed forces is a trend I having been following and reporting on (see SR archive) in SR for years. It really concerns me because if Trump orders the use of the militar … ⌘ Read more
Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2024
Chip Brownlee , Reporter - The Trace
Stephan: Here, as bad as it still is, is some good news about gun violence in the United States. Gun violence is going down, so are gun sales. Children killed by gun violence is down. Mass shootings are down, although still high. Federal spending for research on gun violence is much larger. We still have the most gun violence in the developed democracies, but the trends are better, so that is good news.
Stephan: This column is a confirmation of what I said in the previous comment. This is why what Australia is doing is so important, and why the United States has to act.
_Stephan: NASA for decades the U.S. approach to space exploration is dying. It is being taken over by billionaires who are using your tax money and mine coming to them through government contracts to increase their wealth and create their own space exploration programs. This is getting virtually no coverage in the A … ⌘ Read more
Trump Bibles, Rudy coffee, Tucker nicotine pouches: the rightwing knick-knack racket
Adam Gabbatt, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Here is another American trend that is getting almost no coverage in the increasingly coorrupted U.S. billionaire owned media. Once again I saw the trend but have had to go to another British newspaper to get a decent article describing the trend. The Republican Party has become a billionaire-controlled organiz … ⌘ Read more
KAIST Develops Foundational Technology to Revert Cancer Cells to Normal Cells
KAIST Research Team, - KAIST
Stephan: Here is what looks like it is going to be very good healthcare news. If cancer is an issue for you or someone you know or care for you might alert your oncologist about this research.
Despite the development of numerous can … ⌘ Read more
What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?
Rachel Wolfe, Reporter - The Wall Street Journal
Stephan: The American culture is dramatically changing as this report describes in some detail; all sorts of trends have changed from previous generations. When one adds this to the Great Schism Trend one sees how very different the country is now than it was as recently as the 1990s.
_Stephan: I agree with Danilo Brozovic in the sense that we are coming up on a civilization threatening calamity in 15 years. I have been doing a remote viewing project for 45 years asking people to remote view specific dates in the future. The one constant is that between 2040 and 2045 a combinat … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s Pick to Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts to Aid the Poor
Jesse Coburn and Andy Kroll, Staff Writers - ProPublica
_Stephan: Homelessness, as I reported in SR yesterday, is up 18%. Tens of thousands of Americans, live on the streets, and eat whatever they can beg, find, or be given. All of this results from the fact that fostering wellbeing is no longer a priority in the United States, only greed and power shape our social … ⌘ Read more
Merrick Garland’s DOJ criticized for impeding Ethics Committee’s Matt Gaetz investigation
Sarah K. Burns, Senior Digital Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: It is my belief that in the future historians are going to see Senator Mitch McConnell and Attorney General Merrick Garand as two of the worst villains and the weakest men of this period. Biden is an institutionalist and he has been weak in dealing with Garland whom he should have replac … ⌘ Read more
Spain’s MetroCHARGE Powers EVs With Energy Recovered From Barcelona Subway Train Brakes
Paige Bennett, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Here is some good news although, once again, it is not a development in the United States. While we are about to go backwards to sustain the carbon era to the profit of the oligarchs that have supported criminal Trump’s election, the other democracies of the world are trying to exit that era, a … ⌘ Read more
How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu
Amy Maxmen / KFF Health, KFF Staff Writer - truthdig | Kaiser Family Foundation
_Stephan: We may be on the verge of a new pandemic, as this report from the Kaiser Family Foundation reports. What it also makes clear is that once again the American public’s interest has been sacrificed on the altar of greed. We simply seem to be a country that is incapable of making the fostering of social and individual wellbeing a priority. Greed and corr … ⌘ Read more
US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people
MICHAEL CASEY, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: As I enjoy the Christmas holiday with my wife, daughter and grandson, I have thought about the misery of the rising number of homeless people in the United States, and the cruelty of American communities. Imagine the number of decent living quarters that could be built if the uber-rich actually paid their fai … ⌘ Read more
Jemperli (dostarlimab) receives US FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for locally advanced dMMR/MSI-H rectal cancer
, - GSK
Stephan: This is more technical than I usually run in SR but it is a special kind of good health news. If you or anyone you know has rectal cancer this may be important. If that is an issue giovve it to your physician or give it to them to give to their physician.
_Stephan: Fascism is our new reality brought on by a level of explicit corruption of the American government never before seen in the last 250 years. The oligarchs have openly bought Trump, and the Republican Party, and Project 2025 is what they have in mind for you and me. This was not imposed on us, forty-eight percent of voters … ⌘ Read more
‘Kind of amazing’: Ethics expert aghast by Trump Christmas merchandise spree
Brad Reed, Managing Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: Donald Trump and I met in New York at a charity function arranged by Gloria Vanderbilt when he was about 20 and I was about 24. We began talking because as we stood at the bar he noticed that like himself I had asked the bartender for iced sparkly water with a lime slice in it. He introduced himself and when I asked him what … ⌘ Read more
Pioneering innovations for the car of the future: Mercedes-Benz provides exclusive insights into research activities and future technologies
, - Mercedes-Benz Media
Stephan: We are on the verge of a revolution in how cars are built, and here is a first report on the trend that is developing. Good News on Christmas Day.
_Stephan: Day after day, in both the American and international media, I see and read, or watch, horror story after horror story of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Muslims, much of it done with weapons given to fascist Netanyahu by Presidents Trump and Biden. Two men who, in my opinion, are both too old to hold th … ⌘ Read more
Editor’s Note – Americans Did it to Themselves
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: As I watch the chaos of the incoming Trump administration, several trends have stood out for me. The first is how it is possible that such corrupt and incompetent men and women have been elected as the representatives of the districts and states they are supposed to serve. What I think we are seeing is the manifestation of what the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United ma … ⌘ Read more
GOP senator who appeared to urinate on self in DUI test caught double-dipping on expenses
Cassandra Stephenson, Staff Writer - Raw Story | Tennessee Lookout
Stephan: I want to make a point today that most of the media either does not see, or won’t properly address. They do one-off stories like this one, but they don’t report on the trend I described in my editor’s comment.
_Stephan: Thankfully MAGAt Republican Kay Granger, the representative for Texas’s 12th Congressional District, will retire with the close of this Congress. But the question is how long has she suffered from dementia. As the article describes she has been in her office or even having someone an … ⌘ Read more
In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle
Matt Sledge, Staff Writer - The Intercept
Stephan: It isn’t just Republicans that are corrupt whores serving the interest of the rich who bought them their seats instead of the poor fools who voted them into office. Kyrsten Sinema is a notable example making this point. Here’s why I say this.
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_Stephan: The christofascist Supreme Court majority engineered by Leonard Leo, Mitch McConnell and Trump, has produced the most corrupt court in the history of the United States. Not only corrupt but incredibly arrogant. They have no ethic standards they are required to … ⌘ Read more
Bernie Sanders Says Defeating Oligarchy Now Most Urgent Issue
Jon Queally, Managing Editor - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Senator Bernie Sanders is one of the few people in Congress who tells the truth about what has happened not only in the UNited States, but around the world. Most of the world’s economy is controlled by a handful of uber-rich, and they don’t give a damn about you or your family. You are the equivalent of cattle, to be herded in the direction th … ⌘ Read more