How women’s basic rights and freedoms are being eroded all over the world

Stephan: 

Part of the manifestation of humanity’s precognition is the hysterical fear a growing number of men have about women. Part of it is, I think, that there is no other way to incarnate except through the body of a woman, and these men unconsciously realize if there is a subordinate gender it is male. So they seek control of their superiors. This insanity is shaping multiple human societies including our own as this article describes.

Afghanistan women have been forbidden to speak or even laugh in public Credit: Getty

From Iraq to Afghanistan to the US, basic freedoms for women are being eroded as governments start rolling back existing laws.

Just a few months ago a ban on Afghan women speaking in public was the latest measure introduced by the Taliban, who took back control of the country in 2021. From August the ban included singing, reading aloud, reciting poetry and even laughing outside their homes.

The Taliban’s ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, which implements one of the most radical interpretations of Islamic law, enforces these rules. They are part of a broader set of “vice and virtue” laws that severely restrict women’s rights and freedoms. Women are even banned from reading the Quran out loud to other women in public.

In the past three years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken away many basic rights from women who live there, so that there’s very little that they are allowed to do.

From 2021, the Taliban started introducing restrictions on girls […]

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HUMANITY’S PRECOGNITION: Climate Change and the Decline of Democracy

Stephan: 

I am publishing only one story in today’s SR edition. It is a research paper I have just published in Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. I have decided to do this because I think this paper explains the existential trend that is shaping the behavior and attitudes of humanity.

Since 1972 when I was appointed by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to the Secretary of Defense-MIT Study Group on Innovation, Technology, and the Future, I have been studying what is happening in the news, looking for trends. In 1991 I began publishing online the daily Schwartzreport, and since 2005 I have been researching these papers for each issue of Explore in both of which I track trends thatare shaping our future. Even longer, since the late 1960s, I have been an experimentalist studying the nature of consciousness, particularly non-physiologically based, nonlocal consciousness. I go into this bit of bio because these parallel paths in my life have made me recognize a trend that media, politicians, and most people neither mention or even notice: a precognition that is shaping humanity’s future.

Let me begin with the United States. If you look at the Project 2025 book, several of whose authors now hold high positions in the current administration, it is easy to see this is the blueprint now guiding the United States.  This is a book […]

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Global Elections in 2024: What We Learned in a Year of Political Disruption

Stephan: 

Here is a report on elections across the globe. Note the trends. It is my opinion that the economic issues and the cultural ones are actually not the causes but manifestations of a deeper existential issue, a humanity wide precognition  of the climate change catastrophe that is growing and that is going to change civilizations across the world.

dotplot showing ideological difference between the left, center and right across 15 countries. In these countries, those on the left are more likely to say their country will be better off if it is open to changes than those on the right.

2024 was a remarkable year for elections as voters in more than 60 countries went to the polls. It also turned out to be a difficult year for incumbents and traditional political parties. Rattled by rising prices, divided over cultural issues and angry at the political status quo, voters in many countries sent a message of frustration.

How we did this

In this essay, we analyze four major themes that emerged from this year’s busy slate of elections around the world:

In one of the year’s highest-profile elections, Democrats in the United States lost the presidency, with Donald Trump, the Republican former president, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. Republicans also won majorities in both houses of Congress.

It was the third straight U.S. presidential election in which the incumbent party lost. And it was one of many notable losses for […]

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US business leaders set to break record on donations to Trump inaugural fund

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 — not even a majority — chose it. Now 100 percent of us will have to live with it.

Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg (left), and Amazon, led by Jeff Bezos, gave $1m each. Credit: Getty 

US business leaders are spending big on Donald Trump’s second inaugural fund, which is predicted to exceed even the record-setting $107m raised in 2017.

The donations, which are not restricted by campaign finance laws, come as industries and business leaders seek to curry favor with the incoming administration after the president-elect decisively won a second, non-consecutive term in November.

Some of the planned donations reportedly include $1m each from Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Facebook parent company Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg.

Hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin has said he plans to donate $1m, Bloomberg reported; Uber and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi are reported to be chipping in $1m each; and Toyota, Ford and General Motors are each peeling off $1m. Ford is also reportedly coupling its donation with a fleet of vehicles.

“EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Thursday.

Many senior executives in US industries and finance have already made the trip to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s transition team headquarters, or are planning […]

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‘Kind of amazing’: Ethics expert aghast by Trump Christmas merchandise spree

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 he did, he said, “My father and I are the biggest real estate developers in the city.” Talking to him he came across to me as a sleazy self-important nouveau riche. A very pretty busty girl walked past us and he excused himself and walked after her. As I stood there watching him approach the young woman, Mrs. Vanderbilt came up to me with my friend Sam Green, who had arranged for my invitation while I was staying with him in the city. I asked her, “Who is Donald Trump?” She replied, “He and his father desperately want to be accepted into society.” Then she smiled adding, “It will never happen.” As it has developed she was right, and Trump is even sleazier than I had originally assessed him. I see him today like a nasty cartoon figure from a Batman movie, and am amazed and saddened by the fact that the media either doesn’t see him as he is or is afraid to profile him accurately. Read this and think about how you would assess such a person if you met him, as I did, at a charity function. Oh, and did I mention he wants you to pay him $100,000 if you want him to go to church with you?

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press, at Trump Tower in New York City, U.S., September 26, 2024. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado

President-elect Donald Trump is using the holiday season to further enrich himself by hawking a wide array of Christmas merchandise that has left at least one ethics expert aghast.

As the Washington Post reports, Trump-branded Christmas merchandise on sale this year includes a $38 Trump Advent calendar, a $95 Mar-a-Lago bauble, $22 candy cane Trump socks, an $86 “GIANT Trump Chocolate Gold Bar” and a $28 Trump apron that features Santa Claus waving an American flag.

What makes this cash-out particularly noteworthy is that Trump isn’t even making a pretense about sending the proceeds to charity, but is rather pocketing the money for the Trump Organization.

“As the company encouraged customers to celebrate the holidays with Trump gifts for all ages, President-elect Donald Trump personally profited off of his upcoming term in a manner that is unprecedented in modern history — even during his unconventional first stint in the White House,” reports […]

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