It’s been nearly 15 years since Jared Fogle famously lost a couple hundred pounds on a diet of Subway sandwiches, introducing us all to the improbable notion that fast food could be good for you. Yet there he was, 6’2’’ and a trim 200 pounds. It seemed almost preposterous that an American fast food eatery...
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The New Abnormal
Just when it seemed that Washington was getting back to “normal,” President Obama’s most cherished accomplishment, The Affordable Health Care Act, exploded on the launch pad. Love or hate it, in the history of The United States of America, no federal program crashed, burned and bombed as badly as “Obamacare.” From day one, the nearly billion-dollar...
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Trendpost
Social media and the Internet technologies that have enabled them constitute the largest disruptions to business communications since Gutenberg’s invention of the press. These technologies are bringing with them new approaches to the creation of value, and transforming the relationships between the creators of goods and services and those who consume them.
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Nothing new about social media…
We’ve always had social media. Sitting around a campfire telling stories is fundamentally social, with the air around our heads being the medium carrying human voices. Denizens of 16th-century Florence and Rome were known to tie notes to sculptures, expressing their approval or criticism — creating what were, perhaps, some of the earliest bulletin boards....
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No need for NATO
NATO has gone on too long. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established on April 4, 1949, as a defensive alliance whose purpose was to defend Western Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. As NATO’s first secretary general put it, NATO was formed in order to keep the Russians out of Western Europe...
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What will it take?
Positive change will occur when a critical mass finds:• The courage to admit they are living a lie.• The courage to admit they’ve been conned by political con artists and manipulated by a Presstitute media.• The courage to never again submit to those of inferior intellect and rampant immorality who hold high office, or to...
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Uncle Sam’s scam
With the population of the United States at 316,968,354 and each citizen’s share of debt over $54,000, it is inconceivable that the national debt will ever be paid back. I forecast that the debt burden will continue to grow as the U.S. economy continues trending downward. There is no recovery. Economic conditions continue to worsen,...
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Death of the dollar
Considering the rate at which U.S. public debt has been increasing and dollars printed to finance it, the dollar’s exchange value has survived longer than expected. The U.S. dollar began to crumble in 2011 when gold hit $1,900 per ounce. But the Federal Reserve discovered that it or its dependent bullion banks (Goldman Sachs, JP...
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Protest
To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men. The human raceHas climbed on protest. Had no voice been raisedAgainst injustice, ignorance, and lust,The inquisition yet would serve the law,And guillotines decide our least disputes.The few who dare, must speak and speak againTo right the wrongs of many. Speech, thank God,No vested...
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Empire America is fading fast
“Empire America Fading Fast.” I wrote that forecast for the Trends Journal in 2002. It almost cost me my career and nearly killed the Journal. After publication of that autumn issue, I was blackballed by the broadcast and print media that had once regularly featured me, my subscription base collapsed and I was persona non...