Stephan: A number of you have written to ask me about my 2060 remote viewing project. I still have a great deal of anlysis to do, there are 10,000 pages of data. However, here is the first report on the project, and also a detailed explanation about how it is being done
From the time written records began to be kept nearly 4,000 years ago in Egypt, although the real origins probably go back millennia earlier and are lost in the mists of time, humans have wanted to know the future. Down to the present day, cultures all over the world have actively sought such information. Edgar Cayce is the very personifcation of this. We know from those early records that this quest traces back to the oracles of Greece, Dodona, Trophonius, Erythaea, Cumæ, and the best known one, Delphi.
All of these efforts have relied on one thing, the nonlocal nature of consciousness: that aspect of consciousness not limited by time and space.
At the Greek oracles, cadres of girls chosen in a ritual were taken from their families and raised and taught to attain and sustain intentioned, focused awareness through techniques like meditation, because intentioned focus is the key to opening to nonlocal consciousness. Once trained they were known as the Pythia.
The Egyptians had another variation of this, the Oracle of Amun, located deep in the desert near the Egyptian-Libyan border in a remote oasis. As at […]
Stephan: As a result of the Republicans in the Texas legislature, the state's ghastly Republican governor Greg Abbott, and the fascist Supreme Court, thanks to Trump, if you are a female in a Republican-controlled state in America you are now or about to be by law a second-class citizen. You will no longer have control over your body even if you are raped or are a victim of incest. But that is only part of what is going on in Texas, which is the model other Republican states will follow. The Republican Party on the basis of its actions, not just its words, is trying to make America a christofascist male-dominant White Supremacy authoritarian faux democracy controlled by Republicans.
How do you feel about that? What are you prepared to do about it?
People display signs during the Georgetown to Austin March for Democracy rally on July 31, 2021 in Austin, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell / Getty
While the big news from Texas this week was about the Supreme Court upholding the state’s ban on essentially all abortions in the state, a number of other restrictive laws that advance a far right Republican agenda also went into effect the same day.
A total of 666 new laws were rolled out on Wednesday. Many of them, if they had been implemented individually, would have raised the alarm for Democrats and progressives. One law, for instance, criminalizes homelessness by disallowing people without homes from camping in a public location, making the act a misdemeanor with a $500 fine. Another law will make it illegal for people to hire workers for sex, which critics say will only exacerbate dangerous conditions for sex workers.
Many of the laws that went into effect on September 1 were a direct backlash against the Movement for Black Lives that gained momentum across the country over the past year, along with the general movement for racial justice. One
Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard University - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: I agree with Laurence Tribe's careful analysis of what has happened with this extraordinary midnight decision of the Supreme Court.
Constitutional Scholar Professor Laurence Tribe
Observers have speculated how today’s new ultra-right court would commence the slicing: by chipping away slowly at Roe v Wade? Or by taking the political heat and overruling it outright? Few imagined that the court would let a statute everybody concedes is flagrantly unconstitutional under the legal regime of Roe not only go into effect without being judicially reviewed but become the centerpiece of a totally unique state scheme that puts a bounty of at least $10,000 on the head of every woman who is or might be pregnant.
For years, as the supreme court’s composition kept tilting right, reproductive rights have been squarely on the chopping block. Now they are on the auction block as well.
It wasn’t just Roe that died at midnight on 1 September with barely a whimper, let alone a bang. It was the principle that nobody’s constitutional rights should be put on sale for purchase by anyone who can find an informant or helper to turn in whoever might be trying to exercise those rights.
Stephan: As this report demonstrates in the United States, if you are rich enough you are essentially above the law, even if you are responsible for the death of thousands of people. This is one of the reasons the American justice system is ranked a shameful 21st in the world.
Two demonstrators protest against U.S. Judge Robert Drain, who has granted immunity from future opioid lawsuits to members of the Sackler family. Credit: Brian Mann
Members of the Sackler family who are at the center of the nation’s deadly opioid crisis have won sweeping immunity from opioid lawsuits linked to their privately owned company Purdue Pharma and its OxyContin medication.
Federal Judge Robert Drain approved a bankruptcy settlement on Wednesday that grants the Sacklers “global peace” from any liability for the opioid epidemic.
“This is a bitter result,” Drain said. “I believe that at least some of the Sackler parties have liability for those [opioid OxyContin] claims. … I would have expected a higher settlement.”
The complex bankruptcy plan, confirmed by Drain at a hearing in White Plains, N.Y., was negotiated in a series of intense closed-door mediation sessions over the past two years.
Damian Carrington, Environment Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: Our inability to recognize that we do not have dominion over the earth, and are in fact just one species in earth's interconnected interdeppendent matrix of life is destroying our environment, and our environment is destroying us.
Air pollution is cutting short the lives of billions of people by up to six years, according to a new report, making it a far greater killer than smoking, car crashes or HIV/Aids.
Coal burning is the principal culprit, the researchers said, and India is worst affected, with the average citizen dying six years early. China has slashed air pollution in the last seven years, but dirty air is still cutting 2.6 years from its people’s lifespan.
