Protests ripped through Guatemala last week due to anger over the country’s 2021 budget that many in the country say takes from worthwhile initiatives, such as funding human rights agencies and coronavirus treatments, and instead directs the money straight back into the coffers of lawmakers. Alejandro Giammattei, the president, was the focus of much of...
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VIOLENT PROTESTS BREAK OUT ACROSS UGANDA
Not far from Ethiopia, where civil war tensions are rising, Uganda has seen its worst unrest in years. It was reported that at least 45 people were killed by security forces who opened fire on protesters supporting Bobi Wine, the musician who is challenging President Yoweri Museveni, who has held office for 36 years. The...
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ETHIOPIAN FORCES DECLARE VICTORY AFTER OVERTAKING TIGRAY
We have been reporting in the Trends Journal on the escalating civil war in Ethiopia that was launched by its Nobel Peace prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed against the leaders of the Tigray Region. (See our 10 November article, “ANOTHER NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER GOES TO WAR” and our 17 November article, “ETHIOPIA/TIGRAY CONFLICT INTENSIFIES,...
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IRANIAN NEWSPAPER CALLS FOR ATTACK ON ISRAELI CITY
A small newspaper in Iran – which is edited by a person believed to have been an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – ran an opinion article on Sunday that called for an attack on the Israeli city of Haifa if it turns out Israel played a role in the killing of Mohsen...
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BIDEN SAYS IT’S “PATRIOTIC” TO WEAR MASK & PLAYS COVID WAR CARD
The unofficial president-elect Joe Biden, a major proponent of mask-wearing, said in an interview last Tuesday with NBC (a few days before breaking his foot allegedly when playing with his dog), “I think it’s critically important. I think it’s a patriotic responsibility to wear a mask, to socially distance.” In a speech he delivered last...
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SHOOTINGS NEARLY DOUBLE IN NEW YORK CITY
No surprise to Trends Journal subscribers: In March, when U.S. politicians launched the COVID War, we warned that people would be leaving densely populated urban areas for suburbs and ex-burbs to escape rising crime and the fear of being taken down by the coronavirus. (See our 21 April article, “CRIME ON THE RISE DURING THE...
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STUDY: OXYGEN TREATMENT REVERSES AGING
Researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Shamir Medical Center say they have reversed key signs of aging in older adults by subjecting them to hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HOTs). In HOTs, a person is sealed in a tank and the air pressure inside the tank is raised to two or three times normal levels. As...
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NEW “TWISTRONICS” GRAPHENE IS SUPERCONDUCTOR
Since it was first created in 2004, graphene – a sheet of carbon just one atom thick – has fascinated scientists as a kind of universal material: it’s bendable yet many times stronger than steel, it’s transparent, and conducts electricity. Graphene already is being used in medical filters and specialty coatings, among a spectrum of...
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CAN VITAMIN D DEFEAT THE COVID VIRUS?
A small study by doctors at Reina Sofia University Hospital in Cordoba, Spain, indicates that taking vitamin D supplements might keep a person from catching the COVID virus or minimize its effects on those who already have it. The physicians divided 76 newly hospitalized COVID patients into two groups. One group of 26 was given...