OLD AND ILL

Data clearly indicates that COVID-19 is primarily dangerous to the elderly and those with significant pre-existing health issues. Elizabeth Dugan, associate professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, has said even the frail and elderly in the best-run facilities are victims. According to Kaiser Family Foundation data released last Thursday, at least a third of the COVID-19 deaths...

“SHOCK & AWE 2.0”

When George W. Bush launched the Iraq War in 2003, the Pressitutes passionately quoted, and the vast majority of the American public bought, his “Shock and Awe” strategy, which would wipe out Saddam Hussein, destroy his fictional weapons of mass destruction, and bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people. The Shock and Awe strategy was to launch an attack...

TREND TRACKING LESSON: PROPAGANDA SELLS, “NEW YORK TIMES” PROVES IT

TREND TRACKING LESSON, PART 1: As trend forecasters understand, personal bias, wishes, hopes, wants, beliefs, and desires are personal blinders that prevent people from seeing the future. Hard facts count. By their deeds you shall know them. Those who believe in their news sources without question are shortsighted to what the future will bring by taking sides and ignoring counterviews....

IRAN: TRUMP VETOES WAR POWERS RESOLUTION

On 13 February, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of a War Powers Resolution that would require President Trump to get congressional approval before taking any further military action against Iran. The official language called for “the President to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces for hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any part of its government...

ISRAEL: FIGHTER JETS KILL IRANIANS IN SYRIA

Barely reported in the mainstream news, on 4 May, Israel conducted air strikes in eastern Syria, part of a recent campaign of multiple air attacks over the past two weeks. This most recent bombing killed 14 Iranian and Iraqi soldiers and wounded others, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On 28 April, the Israeli Air Force bombed...

HONG KONG: ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS BACK AGAIN

Last Sunday afternoon, demonstrators were chased by police through a number of shopping malls as protests started heating up, reconfirming the anger of citizens demanding independence from mainland Chinese authority and the resignation of Carrie Lam, the current chief executive of the city. After a period of quiet due to stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of COVID, what is...