Was it a fanboy convention for wannabe Star Wars stormtroopers? An FBI “black socks” operation? A sincere protest of the mistreatment of more than 600 political prisoners who’ve been jailed, mostly for trespassing at the Capitol on January 6th? Whatever it was, the hordes of police and federal agents dominating a small gathering of Americans...
Category: TRENDS EYE VIEW
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WOMEN GOING FOR GUNS
Sexual equality in America: The 2021 National Firearms Survey showed that women represented 3.5 million of the 7 million new gun owners from 2019 to April 2021, and researchers said COVID-19 uncertainty and riot fears played an outsized role in the trend. The Wall Street Journal reported that men traditionally dominated gun sales in the U.S....
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OBESITY GROWS IN STATES WHERE AT LEAST 35 PERCENT ARE CONSIDERED OBESE
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on obesity and its devastating effect on the U.S. Obese people have a greater risk for various health issues like heart disease and certain cancers, and COVID-19 hits that community the hardest. (See: “FAT CHANCE COVID WON’T KILL YOU,” “THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.”) Sixteen states now have a population where at...
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NURSING HOMES GONE ANTIPSYCHOTIC JAB CRAZY?
Doctors at nursing homes across the U.S. have written up questionable diagnoses on elderly patients in order to prescribe antipsychotic drugs that have been referred to for decades as “chemical straitjackets,” according to a feature article in The New York Times. The paper pointed out how many nursing homes across the country are facing a...
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WALL STREET SELLING WELLNESS
The Trends Journal has been a long proponent that to live life at its highest level, it’s important to get in the best physical, emotional and spiritual shape you can. And of course eating well and exercise, basic fundamentals, have now caught the attention of Wall Street investors who are on the road for clean...
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ABBOTT SIGNS SOCIAL MEDIA FREE SPEECH LAW
Message to online socials: don’t mess with Texas. The state made it unlawful last week for social media companies to exclude users based “solely on their political views.” Independent voices and particularly liberty-minded Americans have increasingly faced bans and suppression by Facebook, Twitter, and a handful of social media platforms that control most of online...
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RICHEST AMERICANS ARE BIGGEST TAX CHEATS TREASURY REPORT FINDS
President Biden’s Treasury Department released a report on Thursday that found the richest 1 percent of Americans accounted for up to $163 billion owed in taxes each year, according to a report. The Trends Journal has reported extensively on attempts to get the country’s wealthiest to pay their fair share. See: “TAX DODGING ON A GRAND SCALE”...
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MILLIONS IMPACTED BY CUTOFF OF BENEFITS
Monday, 6 September 2021 marked the end of the U.S. government’s expanded unemployment benefits, part of the $1.9 trillion economic aid package which had been in place since March, leaving 7.5 million Americans entirely without benefits and another 3 million without their $300 weekly unemployment supplement. Opponents of the aid package have been calling for...
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SUPPLY CHAIN RECOVERY: A LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE
On any given day, reports The Wall Street Journal on 7 September, forty or more cargo ships lie at anchor off the California coast, awaiting access to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. This is indicative of how the COVID War continues to play havoc with worldwide supply chains; before COVID-19, it would...
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WOMEN CONTINUE TO OUTNUMBER AND OUTPACE MEN IN COLLEGE
The “higher education gap” is widening in the U.S. between men and women, and increasing to record levels with no end in sight, The Wall Street Journal reported last Tuesday. Women now outnumber men as college students, at 59.5 percent vs. 40.5 percent, for the 2020-21 academic year. Overall, as we have been reporting, there’s...