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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.
I am running this article to make this point: It is not just MAGAt politicians that are trying to destroy the demmocracy of the United States. It is MAGAt citizens as well. And I think we are going to see more and more reports like this. Elon Musk’s mother is openly advocating people use fake names to vote multiple times. I have been thinking about this for several days, and my takeaway is that Americans have not seen civil violence on a large scale in living memory, and a large percentage of Americans have never been outside of the country’s borders. They really have no idea what the oligarchical fascism traitor Trump and the MAGAt Republican politicians are advocating would be like to live under. Their worshipful adherence to Trump, and the reason this election is so close in the polls is the manifestation of this. Plus I think these people are particularly susceptible to the precognitive fear of what the future is going to be like that I have been describing for you. See my SR podcast on this precognition at: https://www.youtube.com/@Schwartzreportnet
St. Clair Shores, Michigan
A top law enforcement official in Michigan, one of the most important battleground states in the 2024 election, announced felony charges against seven residents of a predominantly Republican county on accusations of voter fraud, a new report shows.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is charging seven people in Macomb County with felonies in relation to alleged voter fraud in the Aug. 6, 2024 primary election, the Detroit News reported Friday.
Four people — 68 year-old Frank Prezzato, 56 year-old Stacy Kramer, 44 year-old Douglas Kempkins Jr. and 62 year-old Geneva O’Day — stand accused of “trying to vote a second time,” according to the report.
The four reside in St. Clair Shores, and Nessel reportedly alleges each tried to vote with absentee ballots as well as in-person.
Three others have been charged: Two poll workers in St. Clair Shores — 73 year-old Patricia Guciardo and 42 year-old Emily McClintock — have each been charged with one count apiece of falsifying election records, in addition to other charges of voting more than once, according to the report.
I think Earl Stephens is absolutely correct, although not nearly strong enough in his condemnation of Merrick Garland. I am running this piece because it is one of the only ones I have seen in general media making this point. My own view is that the crisis that now threatens the futurre of American democracy is in large measure the result of Merrick Garland’s cowardice and incompetence as Attorney General. The ongoing Trump nightmare is in large measure the predictable result of Garland’s failure to act to hold traitor Trump accountable. I believe Garland will become an historically significant example of governmental failure and weakness.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland Credit: AFP
Merrick Garland’s failure to protect us from the anti-American madman who attacked our country, and now wants to finish us off, has been a catastrophic dereliction of duty unmatched in American history.
I am not here to needlessly pile on or distract us from our important work of making good and damn sure Kamala Harris is elected next month, but I do think it is vital we understand that our attorney general’s — the most powerful law enforcement officer in the world — refusal and/or inability to do his job upon his appointment in 2021, has put this country in tremendous danger.
He is without a doubt Joe Biden’s greatest mistake, and we must now hold our breaths for the next 30-plus days hoping that that mistake won’t be a tragic footnote to the story about America’s once-great democracy.
Aliya Uteuova, Environmental Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan:
We are simply not preparing for what is coming as a result of climate change which is going to fundamentally alter Earth’s ecosystems. There is still a significant faction of MAGAt Republicans in Congress who don’t even believe human mediated climate change is a real issue. Project 2025 mthe MAGAt bible proposes to strip the federal government of the funds, people, and power to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. If you live anywhere near water and plan to vote for Republicans, kneel down and kiss the floor and your house goodbye. Let Ashville, North Carolina be your warning.
Projection of flooding in Provincetown, Massachusetts Credit: Guardian
Floods affecting much of the south-east US show the destructive force of higher sea levels and warmer temperatures. Now, researchers at the non-profit Climate Central are using artificial intelligence to predict how climate-related flooding will affect US communities into the next 75 years if warming continues at its current pace.
Previous research has shown that by 2050, sea levels along the US coastline could rise as much as 12in (30cm) from 2020 levels. High-tide flooding, which can occur even in sunny weather, is projected to triple by 2050, and so-called 100-year floods may soon become annual occurrences in New England.
The scale of the threat is difficult to fathom, said Ben Strauss, CEO and chief scientist at Climate Central. He hopes new AI imagery will help.
“We want to change how flood risk is communicated in this country,” Strauss said. “When the picture [is] of a local site that you know and are familiar with, that’s when the stakes really make themselves apparent.”
Climate Central sent camera-equipped trucks along the eastern and Gulf coasts to […]
Here is the latest research on what is happening to public education; it is yet another disaster report. This one involves parents. If you are the parent of a child in school I would take this very seriously. If you know someone who has a child in school, please pass it on. The school age generation of Americans are going to have a very hard time in a very different country.
Credit: Fly View Productions / Getty
Teaching in 2024 has become increasingly challenging and frustrating. Recently, we shared stories from teachers who opened up about the “hard truths” about their students that parents need to start listening to and accepting. Following that, over 400 more teachers of the BuzzFeed Community shared their experiences and the harsh realities they want parents to hear. Here are their brutally honest responses.
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“I am a substitute teacher — kids need to hear ‘no.’ They do not respect authority. Parents are letting the phones and computers raise the kids. I’ve seen most kids NOT know how to tie their shoes from pre-k to seventh grade. They are not taught at home, and we get so tired of teaching every child to tie their shoes. It takes 30 seconds to tie shoes.”
“Allow your child to experience failure without you choosing to ‘fix it.’ Students should be held accountable for missed assignments, defying phone restrictions, using profanity in the classroom when it is not appropriate, lying to cover aberrant behavior, […]
Do you have an account on X? Do you participate with it in any way? If you do you are supporting a man who describes himself as a “dark MAGA”. You are participating in a project Elon Musk has created to destroy American democracy.
Elon Musk and former President Trump during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. Credit: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg
In the middle of his Butler, Pennsylvania rally Saturday,former President Trump called up one of his most powerful allies — Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of X.
Why it matters: This was Musk’s first time at a Trump rally since the night of the shooting, when Musk posted that he “fully” endorses Trump.
Musk literally jumped onstagewith his arms held high,Reuters reports.
“Thetrue test of someone’s character is how they behave under fire,” Musk said, calling the election a “must-win situation” for Trump that could be “the last election.”
Wearing a black “Make America Great Again” cap, Musk said at Trump’s side: “As you can see, I’m not just MAGA — I’m dark MAGA.”
Musk urged the crowd to register to vote: “Be a pest to everyone you know.”
Invoking Trump’s words just after he was shot, Musk finished by saying: “Fight, fight, […]
Carey Gillam, Margot Gibbs and Elena DeBre, - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan:
It is impossible to exaggerate the greed of American pesticide corporations. They don’t give a damn if tens of thousands of us die of painful illnesses. All they care about is maintaining and increasing their profits. They are aided in this by an evil corporation, v-Fluence in Missouri. These group of scum, as this report describes, is paid huge sums of money, some of it coming from the tax dollars you and I pay, to weaponize and distribute misinformation to confuse and corrupt government officials and the public into accepting the corporate lies about agricultural pesticides. Here are the facts about what is happening and the effects it is having on your life.
Pesticides being sprayed on a cotton field in Arizona. Credit: mvp64 / Getty
In 2017, two United Nations experts called for a treaty to strictly regulate dangerous pesticides, which they said were a “global human rights concern”, citing scientific research showing pesticides can cause cancers, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and other health problems.
Publicly, the pesticide industry’s lead trade association dubbed the recommendations “unfounded and sensational assertions”. In private, industry advocates have gone further.
Derogatory profiles of the two UN experts, Hilal Elver and Baskut Tuncak, are hosted on an online private portal for pesticide company employees and a range of influential allies.
Members can access a wide range of personal information about hundreds of individuals from around the world deemed a threat to industry interests, including the US food writers Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman, the Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva and the Nigerian activist Nnimmo Bassey. Many profiles include personal details such as the names of family members, phone numbers, home addresses and even house values.
The profiling is part of an effort – that was financed, in part, by […]
Marjorie Hecht, Contributing Writer - Big News Netwwork
Stephan:
Here is yet another confirmation of what I have been telling you for years about the existence of the Matrix of Consciousness. What is important is that once one realizes the Matrix it changes one’s entire thinking about why fostering wellbeing at every level is to vitally important to our own wellbeing. This is one of the reasons pesticide agriculture is not just wrong, it is evil.
Humans have had relationships with their pets for thousands of years, talking to them, coddling them, and imbuing them with human attributes. But are these animals “thinking,” and do nonhuman animals have the same sorts of feelings that humans have? Most people with pets would say “yes.”
What does the science say? In recent decades, researchers have begun to find scientific answers to questions of consciousness for a variety of species. The broad consensus is that many animals are sentient (have conscious thought), that there are different types of cognition, and that a larger number of animals require protection and more research is needed for a wider range of species.
At an April 2024 meeting at New York University, 39 prominent scientists from different disciplines issued “The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness,” emphasizing “strong scientific support for the attributions of conscious experience to other mammals and to birds” and “at least a realistic possibility of conscious experience in all vertebrates (including reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) and many invertebrates (including, at minimum, cephalopod mollusks, decapod crustaceans, and insects).”
Adame Server, Staff Writer - Microsoft Start | The Atlantic
Stephan:
This is what MAGAts are doing to reduce women to handmaiden status. by legalizing and rewarding tattletales for turning women in who get abortions, either through medications or doctors. As I read this it left me with the feeling that Republicans are turning us into the communist Soviet Union or Nazis Germany. This has nothing to do with fetuses, if it was the same people would be big sponsors of infant care. But they are not, quite the contrary. They are also sexual perverts obsessed with controlling LGBTQ people. And yet, I know that in less than a month millions will vote for MAGAt Republicans at both the federal and state levels. This is how sick the United States culture has become.
Photo-illustration by Vanessa Saba. Credit: Bernd Eberle / Getty
Last year, in Texas, a deteriorating marriage became the testing ground for a novel legal strategy favored by some of the country’s most prominent right-wing lawyers and politicians.
Marcus and Brittni Silva’s divorce had just been finalized when Marcus filed a lawsuit against two of Brittni’s friends. According to his complaint, Brittni had discovered that she was pregnant with their baby in July 2022, and ended the pregnancy by taking abortion medication. Marcus alleges that her friends Jackie Noyola and Amy Carpenter “assisted Brittni Silva in murdering Ms. Silva’s unborn child.” He is suing for wrongful death and asking for at least $1 million in damages from each defendant.
Noyola and Carpenter tell their own version of what happened in a countersuit they filed. Marcus drank often, they allege, and when he did, he was prone to verbally abusing Brittni. He got so drunk at one of her work events that he had to be escorted off the premises—but not before he called […]
