Last Friday, commissioner of Major League Baseball Rob Manfred issued a warning that the entire league will shut down if the coronavirus spread is not more effectively contained. The season finally opened on 23 July, but every time a report surfaced that a player or anyone involved with a team contracted COVID, the league reacted...
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NEW YORK STATE OF MIND: SINKING
For years, reports have been issued warning of dire consequences to the “greatest city in the world” due to rising seas caused by climate change. The Lower Manhattan Coastal Resilience survey, released a little more than a year ago, predicted 37 percent of the lower island will be subject to storm surges by 2050 and...
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SCHOOLS REOPEN WORLDWIDE: U.S. DEBATE RAGES ON
Who is dying from COVID-19? Ask the World Health Organization (WHO): “COVID-19 impacts the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions most severely.” Yet, when fighting the COVID War, like most others, politicians and mainstream media sell lies and fear rather than truth and facts. And now there is the great debate as to whether...
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VACCINE VOLUNTEERS OR GUINEA PIGS?
Go back to last week. Pick up newspapers from the U.S. to the U.K. and you’ll see the same photo: a young, masked woman with blue-black hair, glasses, and tattooed arms getting vaccinated. This was the headline last Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal: “Vaccine Volunteers Given First Doses.” With most citizens around the world...
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MEDIA SELLS HORROR HEADLINES & FEAR: MAJORITY BUYS IT
From the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, as we have detailed in the Trends Journal, the mainstream media has been selling Fear and Hysteria. Indeed, this was our 28 January Trends Journal cover: CORONAVIRUS: 106 DEAD IN CHINA. 1.4 BILLION STILL ALIVE. THE NEW “BLACK PLAGUE”? The point of this cover story: why are 106...
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SWEDEN: ON THE FAST TRACK TO RECOVERY
As we reported in last week’s Trends Journal, Sweden has withstood the harsh backlash and constant mainstream media criticism, willing to stand virtually alone among major Western nations in refusing to shut down its society. While some European countries which imposed harsh lockdowns are facing renewed outbreaks, the Health Agency of Sweden reports its infection...
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MELBOURNE MADNESS
In America, Trump supporters blame the anti-Trump media and Democratic politicians for fanning the COVID Hysteria that is destroying the economy, so he will be defeated in the 2020 Presidential Reality Show®. They have this narrow vision, as do most “We’re #1” Americans, because they are junk news addicted to a dumbed down, U.S.-centric media...
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LUXURY RENT CRASH
We had forecast this would happen long before the nationwide lockdowns began in March. And now, a bad situation is turning much worse. In “Ghost Town” New York City, average asking rents along 16 major retail shopping strips in Manhattan slid in 2020’s second quarter, the 11th consecutive quarter rents have fallen. Rents in these...
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PROTECTING YOURSELF: THE CARJACKING NIGHTMARE
When New York City locked down in March, by mid-April, auto thefts soared 63 percent. It’s a trend. And as the global economy dives deeper, car thefts will continue to rise. Without having experienced it, you probably cannot come close to fully understanding the immediate terror, helplessness, hopelessness, and subsequent depression coupled with future fear...
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NEW SOFTWARE COULD LET COMPUTERS PROGRAM THEMSELVES
Computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Intel, and MIT have created software that could ultimately enable computers to write their own programs. Initially, though, its purpose is to save human computer programmers frustrating hours, or sometimes days, of work finding and fixing bugs among thousands or millions of lines of code in software...