Tag: Aug2018

Occupy Peace is becoming a formal not-for-profit organization. We are building an operational structure to advance our Action Plan, infusing a pro-peace agenda into the global dialogue. A key part of our strategy, building nation-wide and global anti-war awareness, while raising funds via local participation, is to launch a series of Occupy Peace Festivals. And...

Global trend forecaster Gerald Celente will speak on the media’s role in sustaining an endless cycle of war during the Ron Paul Institute’s annual Peace and Prosperity Conference in Washington, D.C., this August. “Media and War,” the third annual Ron Paul Institute conference set for August 18 includes a special focus on the symbiosis between...

The Swiss city of Zug has declared its experiment in blockchain-based voting (Trends Journal, July 2018) a success. Because it was a test, the vote didn’t elect any officials. The result wasn’t binding, because the ballot only asked for opinions — about whether “voters” found the process easy, and if they would pay city taxes...

Global trend forecaster Gerald Celente warned for decades that despite scientific evidence showing cell phones to be a serious health hazard, even cancer-causing, the industry profiteers would deny it. In fact “Clean Phones” was one of our Top Trends for 2016. He noted that just as tobacco industry leaders only admitted cigarettes caused cancer in...

Bloated. Broke. Sick. Depressed. It’s a shocking but accurate portrayal of how much of the boomer generation are living their golden years. Baby Boomers that once helped shape popular culture and societal norms are facing tough, often impossible, life choices… grappling with financial and personal hardships unimagined in their idealistic youth. In the 1960s and...

Last month, a friend sent me a YouTube video. I found myself enthralled by it. It made me laugh and moved me to tears. It’s of an old man in his late 70s and a cheerful chap half his age driving around having a chat and singing together. They get out at various points and...

With over 400 billion cups of coffee consumed every year, coffee remains one of the world’s most popular drinks. According to the International Coffee Organization, the consumer base is growing on a global scale, particularly in China, India, and Latin America. And java drinking continues to explode in the U.S. While coffee is booming among...

Our brains are being re-shaped. Make no mistake about it. We humans have most likely invented our last great tool, computer intelligence. This machine intelligence, known as AI, is now capable of teaching itself in ways computer engineers and neuroscientists can’t fully anticipate. And, it’s expanding at such exponentially high speeds that most of its...

In 2020, robots will be celebrating the centennial birth of their name, and their species. How they celebrate will be up to the humans that program the micro-computers which direct their actions. Or, it may be up to them. Coined for a mechanical, science fiction character in a 1920 Czech play, the term Robot means...

Want to get an idea of when you’re going to die? Ask Google. The omnivorous data-collecting company fed an artificial intelligence program 46 billion bits of data, including odd scraps such as notes written on patients’ charts, on more than 216,000 patients in hospital. The program can be used to double-check doctors’ diagnoses. But its...