As China, India, and other countries develop their economies, their food preferences change: instead of starchy plant foods such as rice and yams, consumers gravitate to meat and processed foods laden with sugar and unhealthy fats, according to new research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Using a computer model that projected development...
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SHOOTINGS NEARLY DOUBLE IN NEW YORK CITY
No surprise to Trends Journal subscribers: In March, when U.S. politicians launched the COVID War, we warned that people would be leaving densely populated urban areas for suburbs and ex-burbs to escape rising crime and the fear of being taken down by the coronavirus. (See our 21 April article, “CRIME ON THE RISE DURING THE...
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REMOTE WORK BECOMES TECH SECTOR’S NEW NORMAL
More than 24 percent of U.S. tech companies plan to shift their staffs entirely to remote work, a survey by Remote.co and Sapio Research has found. Almost 75 percent of U.S. tech employees would move out of the U.S. if work permitted, with the majority favoring northern Europe, Canada, or Latin America, the same survey...
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GREAT RESET: NEW WORLD ORDER
Canadan Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised eyebrows recently in a video when he talked about the COVID outbreak and the potential he sees for the world “post-outbreak.” “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset,” Trudeau said. “This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global...
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EPA’S APPROVAL OF CONTROVERSIAL WEED KILLER PROMPTS BLOWBACK
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faced criticism last Wednesday after approving a weed killer for another five years despite it being blamed for damaging millions of U.S. crops. The Wall Street Journal reported the dicamba herbicides have been embraced by some farmers as being an effective tool that kills weeds which have developed resistance to...
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS UNDER ATTACK AS ONLINE CENSORSHIP INCREASES
In the 11 December 2018 Trends Journal article, “CENSORSHIP 2019,” we forecast the proliferation of internet censorship across the globe: “Freedom of speech? Freedom of Expression? Forget about it! From the United States to China, from New Zealand to Nepal, Censorship is a megatrend. For well over a year, social media giants and governments have...
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SOUTH KOREA: CONNECTION BETWEEN FLU SHOTS AND RECENT DEATHS?
While the Presstitutes, politicians, and Big Pharma keep promoting, with anxious anticipation, the arrival of a successful vaccine to end the COVID War, barely reported are the approximately 50 South Koreans who died after receiving flu shots, according to Reuters. While the Director of the Korean Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said “it is...
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BIG PHARMA DRUG DEALER PLEADS GUILTY
Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin, the highly addictive opioid, pleaded guilty last week in connection to the marketing of the painkiller that experts say contributed to the country’s drug opioid epidemic. The New York Times reported the guilty plea, and the approximately $8.3 billion settlement does not eliminate all litigation against the company, but the...
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CARGO THEFT UP, HUMAN SMUGGLING INCREASING
Confirming what we had forecast at the outbreak of the COVID War – that crime, corruption, poverty, and violence would increase – the British Standards Institution (BSI) reported last week that the lockdowns have “led to complex and varying responses by individual governments and businesses and has wreaked havoc on supply chain continuity.” Their annual...
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1 IN 6 CHILDREN LIVE IN EXTREME POVERTY
As we noted in February, when the politicians launched the COVID War and the media promoted it, it would cost trillions and kill millions… and, as with their other wars, they would not have an exit strategy. Indeed, as we note in this and other issues of the Trends Journal, they are ramping up their...
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