Swearing might be frowned upon in certain company, but researchers at England’s Keele University say slipping in the occasional curse word during some medical treatments can increase the body’s tolerance of pain. “Swearing is drug-free, calorie-free, cost-free, and side effects-free, so why not try it,” Dr. Richard Stephens, a senior lecturer in psychology at the...
Tag: april 5 2022
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UNIONIZATION: TOP TREND FOR 2022 ON-TREND
Since the beginning of the year, we have been reporting on the acceleration of one of our Top Trends for 2022: Unionization. The trend continues to accelerate: CONDE NAST: Hundreds of workers at Condé Nast—the company behind magazines like The New Yorker and Vogue—announced last week that they formed a union and requested the NewsGuild of New York...
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WORKER ON DEMAND: STRIKING KELLOGG’S WORKERS SECURE PAY INCREASE
About 1,400 workers at a Kellogg’s plant in Kansas City, Kan., are now in line for a 15 percent pay increase over the next three years after taking part in a three-month strike for improved wages and working conditions. “This contract is further evidence of the power of a union voice and collective bargaining,” Stuart...
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MORE CORPORATE WELFARE FOR THE BILLIONAIRE CLUB
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed deal that calls for $1.1 billion in public funding to finance the new Buffalo Bills Stadium in Orchard Park, which is just outside Buffalo, has drawn criticism from residents and lawmakers alike who called the deal an example of “corporate welfare.” The New York Times reported that the state...
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CORPORATE WELFARE: LUCRATIVE TAX BREAK FOR THE LUXURIOUS
Political hacks in New York City are in the middle of a debate on whether to keep a decades-old tax incentive program in place that critics say unfairly benefits big real estate developers and leaves average New Yorkers out in the cold. Opponents have blamed the 51-year-old tax incentive, called 421a, for contributing to the...
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NYC MAYOR ADAMS DICTATES MASK MANDATES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 5
Eric Adams, the New York City mayor who recently caused a stir for allowing athletes not to be vaccinated, announced Friday that children under the age of five will still be forced to wear a mask inside schools despite having virtually no chance of coming down with symptomatic COVID-19. “New Yorkers, we want you to...
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MORE THAN HALF OF AMERICANS POLLED SAY THEY’VE RECOVERED FROM COVID-19
About 52 percent of Americans polled said they’ve been diagnosed or are convinced that they came down with COVID-19 and have recovered, according to a newly released poll by Monmouth University. Of those, 42 percent said they were officially diagnosed and the other 10 percent claimed they were certain they were infected. The poll was...
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SHANGHAI BLUES: MILLIONS GET LOCKED DOWN TO FIGHT COVID WAR
The Chinese government decided to extend the lockdown in parts of Shanghai amid flare-ups of COVID-19 infections that have prompted the country’s largest response to date in an effort to get the virus under control. Beijing deployed health care workers from the military to test all 26 million residents on Monday, Reuters reported. The effort will consist...
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NEW WORLD DISORDER: SRI LANKANS TAKE TO THE STREETS
As Gerald Celente has often noted, “When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it.” And as we had forecast when the COVID War broke out over two years ago and hundreds of millions of lives and livelihoods were killed… the deeper people fell into poverty and hopelessness, the higher the...
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SHOOTING BREAKS OUT IN ISRAEL: REVENGE OR TERRORISM?
A Palestinian gunman opened fire on Tuesday night in a Tel Aviv suburb, killing five, in what Israeli authorities have called an act of terror. On the other side, which is denounced as being anti-Semitic, the gunman was considered a warrior fighting against Israeli occupation and seizing of Palestinian land over the past 70 years. ...
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