The number of new marriage licenses in China has hit a 13-year low so far in 2021, so the country announced an effort to lower the price tag of tying the knot. The Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) said it will make marriage more affordable in 29 cities across the country after reports indicated that...
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IRAN NUKE DEAL: U.S. VS. ISRAEL
The Biden administration and Tel Aviv have clashed in recent weeks over the White House’s effort to resume nuclear talks with Tehran in hopes of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal that was destroyed by President Donald Trump in 2018. President Biden’s team has publicly expressed frustration with Israel, ranging from new settlements to Israel’s decision...
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IRAQ: MORE “MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED”
On 10 December, the Associated Press published a report that the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, formed to seek out and destroy Islamic State fighters, had formally shifted its mission from combat to one of providing training, assistance and advice to Iraqi forces. The report notes that the Biden administration had declared in July that the...
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ETHIOPIA: FULL BLOWN CIVIL WAR?
Ethiopian citizens concerned about advancing Tigrayan fighters have left their jobs in order to join federal forces in an effort to prevent Addis Ababa from falling to the advancing fighters. The precise number of how many citizens from Africa’s second-most populous country who have joined with the federal forces is hard to quantify. One mayor...
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WAR CRIME GANG GETS RICHER
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a military spending bill worth $778 billion, which represents the largest amount since WWII and $24 billion more than President Biden requested. The bill, which focuses on the challenges that Russia and China pose, now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to pass with ease. The New...
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COVID WAR CRACKDOWNS AND PROTESTS
UNITED KINGDOM: Despite the fact that as of early December, nobody who was diagnosed with the COVID-19 Omicron variant has died—and the strain is believed to be much milder than Delta—that did not stop British Prime Minister Boris Johnson from imposing his so-called ‘Plan B’ to stop the spread. Johnson, who has been under fire...
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SCHOOLS: THE NEW “ABnormal”
The return to in-person learning, after the COVID War-related closures and other interruptions that began in the 2019-20 school year, has been marked, in many American schools, by behavioral issues, even in those schools thought least-likely to experience such problems. An article in The Wall Street Journal on 10 December begins by describing one in...
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COVID DRIVING KIDS CRAZY
Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, issued a 53-page report on Tuesday that said the COVID-19 outbreak has contributed to the stresses young people face, which has led to a “mental health crisis.” The Trends Journal has long warned that the tendency for “public health officials” has been to try and scare the public into...
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NO GOOD REASON FOR VAXXING KIDS
An article published on 8 December by the Brownstone Institute (brownstone.org) dares to question the so-called wisdom of vaccinating children against COVID-19, saying the COVID virus presents less danger to children than does influenza. It looks at vaccinating children in terms of risk management and concludes that, on that basis, vaccinating kids is ill-advised. Even...
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MAKE ROOM IN THE RE-EDUCATION CAMPS: 870,000 DARE TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES
Some fourteen months ago, Trends Journal told readers about The Great Barrington Declaration, penned by three highly-respected epidemiologists and professors of medicine from Stanford, Oxford and Harvard Universities; see “THE GREAT BARRINGTON DECLARATION: NO COVID FEAR” (13 Oct 2020). The declaration’s premise was that, regarding COVID-19, the cure would prove far worse than the disease;...