It began as a permanent, reputedly hack-proof bookkeeping system to record Bitcoin transactions. But it quickly was seized upon by lawyers as a way to guarantee the authenticity of contract signatures; by medical care providers to ensure the integrity of electronic medical records; and by jewelers to prove that a particular diamond didn’t come from an African war zone, among...

The American media, transfixed on Russian meddling and a varied assortment of junk news, rarely mentions the longest war in U.S. history: its illegal invasion of Afghanistan. Gerald Celente now forecasts the war will begin to wind down before the November U.S. midterm elections. Beginning in late July, Celente, on various media and in his Trends In The News broadcasts,...

A vital element of trends forecasting is objectively analyzing hard data and substantiated facts. Here’s some hard data and substantiated facts: 1. The United States military has not won a war since World War II. Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghan War, Iraq War, Libyan War, Syrian War, Yemen War, plus, plus … tens of trillions spent, tens of millions killed...

Occupy Peace is becoming a formal not-for-profit organization. We are building an operational structure to advance our Action Plan, infusing a pro-peace agenda into the global dialogue. A key part of our strategy, building nation-wide and global anti-war awareness, while raising funds via local participation, is to launch a series of Occupy Peace Festivals. And the inaugural Occupy Peace Festival...

Global trend forecaster Gerald Celente will speak on the media’s role in sustaining an endless cycle of war during the Ron Paul Institute’s annual Peace and Prosperity Conference in Washington, D.C., this August. “Media and War,” the third annual Ron Paul Institute conference set for August 18 includes a special focus on the symbiosis between the mainstream media and the...

The Swiss city of Zug has declared its experiment in blockchain-based voting (Trends Journal, July 2018) a success. Because it was a test, the vote didn’t elect any officials. The result wasn’t binding, because the ballot only asked for opinions — about whether “voters” found the process easy, and if they would pay city taxes via smartphone, for example. But...

Global trend forecaster Gerald Celente warned for decades that despite scientific evidence showing cell phones to be a serious health hazard, even cancer-causing, the industry profiteers would deny it. In fact “Clean Phones” was one of our Top Trends for 2016. He noted that just as tobacco industry leaders only admitted cigarettes caused cancer in the late 1990s despite the...

Bloated. Broke. Sick. Depressed. It’s a shocking but accurate portrayal of how much of the boomer generation are living their golden years. Baby Boomers that once helped shape popular culture and societal norms are facing tough, often impossible, life choices… grappling with financial and personal hardships unimagined in their idealistic youth. In the 1960s and ‘70s, during a period of...

Last month, a friend sent me a YouTube video. I found myself enthralled by it. It made me laugh and moved me to tears. It’s of an old man in his late 70s and a cheerful chap half his age driving around having a chat and singing together. They get out at various points and look at the sights and...

With over 400 billion cups of coffee consumed every year, coffee remains one of the world’s most popular drinks. According to the International Coffee Organization, the consumer base is growing on a global scale, particularly in China, India, and Latin America. And java drinking continues to explode in the U.S. While coffee is booming among all demographics, the trend is...