Sebastián Piñera, the billionaire president of Chile, was impeached last Tuesday by the lower house of Chile’s congress over allegations that his family benefited financially from a mining deal made possible by his government’s intervention. The Pandora Papers were released in October and contained leaked documents showing that Piñera used offshore companies in the British...
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NICARAGUAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: THE NEW SOUTH AMERICA?
To the disdain of Washington—which has a century’s long track record of stealing land, launching overthrows, assassinations, occupations across South and Latin America—Nicaraguans earlier this month voted overwhelmingly to keep Daniel Ortega as President. Now in his fourth term, there are reports by “outside observers” that the election was marred by political arrests, intimidation, and...
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‘HISTORICAL RESOLUTION’: CHINA’S XI IN FULL CHARGE
The Chinese Communist Party on Thursday passed a resolution that essentially puts President Xi Jinping in the same category as Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong, while cementing his power in the country. Qu Qingshan, a senior party official, told a press conference on Friday that the resolution will help the CCP “to achieve future progress”...
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COMEDY CRAP: AUSSIES WILL UNITE WITH U.S. TO DEFEND TAIWAN AGAINST CHINA
Australia seems to have learned from the U.S. how to leave just enough wiggle room in statements about defense for them not to mean anything. Peter Dutton, Canberra’s defense minister, said in a recent interview that his country will stand with the U.S. to defend Taiwan if Beijing attacked. “It would be inconceivable that we...
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LUNACY CONTINUES: OCEANS AWASH IN PLASTIC DEBRIS
Some months ago (on 10 June), The Guardian reported that, of all the various forms of rubbish polluting our oceans, just ten types of plastic items account for 75 percent of ocean-borne trash. The top four of those items are all associated with food and drink; plastic bottles, single-use bags, food containers and wrappers—many that...
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BANKSTER BANDITS: CRIME SYNDICATE COVER UP
Trends Journal has written before about the Bankster Bandits at the Federal Reserve, and their apparent flouting of their own bank’s ethical guidelines and of ethics in general, particularly with regard to insider trading and cronyism with the very institutions they are supposed to regulate; see, for example, “BANKSTER BANDITS GET RICHER PLAYING THE INSIDE...
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COVID WAR KEEPING WORKERS OUT OF THE OFFICE
The Hearst Corporation owns newspapers and magazines as well as TV stations and channels. Its magazine division publishes, among other titles, Esquire, Car and Driver, Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics and Good Housekeeping and employs some 550 persons, of whom 450 are represented by the Writers Guild of America, East. Like so many who would normally perform...
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MORE EVIDENCE: GET JABBED, SPREAD THE VIRUS
Behind President Biden’s mandate calling for employers of 100 or more persons to compel their employees to be vaccinated, on pain of job termination (and with hefty fines against the employers for non-compliance) is the claim that unvaccinated persons present a workplace hazard. This is also the premise under which the Occupational Safety and Health...
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SWEDEN WON. THEY DIDN’T FIGHT COVID WAR
Anders Tegnell is the chief epidemiologist of Sweden, and is responsible for that nation’s COVID-19 policies, under which there were no formal lockdowns, schools remained open, and personal freedoms were not curtailed as they were elsewhere, such as in neighboring Finland, Denmark and Norway; see “SWEDEN BUCKS TREND: OPEN FOR BUSINESS” (31 Mar 2020). Right...
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THE VAX/BOOSTER MARKET: DRUG DEALER ON PARADE
The Wall Street Journal reports, on 10 November, that Pfizer-BioNTech has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve its COVID-19 booster shots for persons as young as 18 yrs. old, thus expanding the booster shot market to include all adults. In September the FDA approved Pfizer’s boosters for persons over 65 or otherwise...