Gerald Celente, who had forecast “Interactive U” online learning in his bestselling book, Trends 2000 25 years ago, accurately noted that it would become a significant new learning model of the 21st century. Relative to India’s online investment, Celente laid out the framework of how he envisioned education would evolve in the next century in...
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CHINA LINKED TO SOCIAL JUSTICE PUSH IN U.S. SCHOOLS
A new National Pulse report details how the “Asia Society” is working with U.S. schools to push divisive social justice tenets. The group has several leadership links with the Chinese Communist Party. The curriculum includes teaching faculty to adopt an approach that encourages “teaching activism” in favor of left-wing causes such as “equity,” “globalism,” and...
A MODEST TAX PROPOSAL FOR BILLIONAIRES
A story that should’ve made more than just momentary news concerned a leak that exposed how little America’s mega rich paid in income tax over the past decade. The leak was detailed in an extensive piece by Pulitizer winning ProPublica. Our own 15 June 2021 Trends Journal article “BILLIONAIRE TAX SCOFFLAWS PLOW SAVINGS INTO WEBS...
J&J FACES LAWSUIT FROM BLACK WOMEN WHO SAY DANGEROUS PRODUCTS WERE PURPOSELY MARKETED TO THEM
Johnson & Johnson has been accused in a newly filed lawsuit of purposely marketing its talcum-based powder to black women despite internal concerns that the product could be harmful, reports said. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the National Council of Negro Women, The New York Times reported. The paper said the lawsuit claims that the...
DRUG LORDS PAY FINES AND GO ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS
Trends Journal‘s October 2019 article “THE OPIOID WARS” told how “corporate drug distributors are the most profitable dealers on the street.” 2 March 2021’s “PHARMA SERVICE FIRMS UNITE IN $12-BILLION BUY” told of the trend toward mergers and acquisitions in the drug business leading to concentration of ownership and elimination of competition. And 27 July’s...
FORGET DEMOCRACY, AI CAN ADVISE, SAYS “PROJECT DEBATER” CREATOR
From Israel comes a report that AI is being developed with the idea of offering alternatives to democratic voting. As literally dehumanizing as that sounds, it provides insight into the minds of AI innovators like Dr. Noam Slonim, part of an IBM Research Lab endeavor dubbed “Project Debater.” The abilities of AI developed by the...
XI RAMPS UP ECONOMIC “CULTURAL REVOLUTION” IN CHINA
It wasn’t just bitcoin. China is busy expanding a crackdown on businesses deemed to be harming the public good by being too capitalist. A highly publicized crackdown on tutoring and techedu companies has wiped out tens of billions in value. And now Beijing has prohibited the “for profit” publicly traded sector from raising capital or...
GUN VIOLENCE SURGES ACROSS U.S.
Sadly, but of no surprise to Trends Journal subscribers, gun violence is surging across America. As Gerald Celente warned when politicians launched the COVID War in March of 2020 and imposed draconian lockdown orders that destroyed the lives and livelihoods of scores of millions, especially the lower economic class, “When people lose everything and have...
LIFE EXPECTANCY IN U.S. DROPS BY 1.5 YEARS
As we have been reporting, America, the junk food heavyweight of the world, has been experiencing a drop in life expectancy over the past several years. But now, with the draconian COVID War lockdowns that have destroyed the lives and livelihoods of scores of millions, life expectancy in the U.S. has been shortened by 1.5...
LAWYERS AMONG BIG WINNERS IN OPIOID SETTLEMENT
As America tries to push back against the epidemic of opioid abuse and addiction, a plethora of lawsuits—literally thousands—have been filed by states, cities and counties against manufacturers and distributors. The gist of the charges is that the Drug Lords understated the addictive potential of the drugs, and either encouraged and promoted over-prescription or willfully...