The head of a hotel trade group in Germany said last week that businesses are growing “increasingly desperate and angry” since the country is keeping its strict restrictions in place, according to the Financial Times. Guido Zöllick, the head of DEHOGA, a German association of hotels and restaurants, told the paper that more and more businesses...
Tag: feb 23 2021
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“DEADLY IMPACT”? FROM WHERE?
Continuing in a long line of over-hyped, anxiety-ridden headlines by mainstream media, the Wall Street Journal published this last Thursday: U.S. Life Expectancy Fell in First Half of 2020 as COVID-19 Deaths Surged The article cites data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics that show life expectancy dropped by a full year during...
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NYC: HOW TO DEAL WITH SUBWAY STABBINGS
City and state officials in New York are at odds over the best approach to make straphangers feel safer riding the rails after two fatal stabbings. Sarah Feinberg, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s interim head, has called for the NYPD to increase its subway patrol by 1,000 officers to stem any budding crime wave. Police officials...
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CNN: THE VOICE OF HYPOCRISY
CNN was on the defensive last week when they were forced to explain why anchor Chris Cuomo was allowed to interview his older brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo when it had long been against company policy. Spewing out Presstitute B.S., the Cartoon News Network told Newsweek, “The early months of the pandemic crisis were an...
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TRUMP DUMPS ON MCCONNELL
A picture speaks a thousand words. For anyone looking at recent pics of Mitch McConnell – America’s former Senate majority leader, now minority leader after the 2020 elections – you know this is not someone in the highest spirits. Last week, former President Trump’s team released a letter Trump had sent McConnell, whom he called...
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DRAGHI: BANKSTER CONTROL OF ITALIA
Italy’s newly-anointed Prime Minister Mario Draghi – born into the upper class with long Bankster credentials – World Bank, Goldman Sachs, European Central Bank, etc. – appealed to Italians to be patient. The government will deploy its $240 billion European relief package and “begin a new reconstruction,” said Draghi. Draghi noted the country is facing...
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YOUTH REVOLUTION 2021: MYANMAR MILITARY VS. THE PEOPLE
As we have been reporting in the Trends Journal, tens of thousands of protesters, ranging from students to government workers, have been taking to the streets in Myanmar, demanding the military release leader Aung San Suu Kyi and hand back power it seized in a coup earlier this month. (“Burma” is the name of this country...
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YOUTH REVOLUTION 2021: PROTESTS RAGE IN BARCELONA
The arrest of the popular Spanish rapper Pablo Hasel sparked days of protests in Spain as thousands who are fighting against what they see as a stunning attack on freedom of expression laws in the country took to the streets. Hasel was arrested on Tuesday while he was barricaded inside the University of Lleida with...
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SOMALIA: COPS KILL PROTESTERS
This past Friday, police forces in Mogadishu fired on protesters as demonstrators took to the streets to voice their anger about a delay in the country’s election, which was supposed to occur earlier this month. A video emerged on social media showing demonstrators marching peacefully and then running for cover in the middle of the...
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GEORGIA: NEW CHOICE OF PM, TENSIONS RISING
Georgian Dream, the governing party of Georgia, announced last week it nominated a close associate to Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire who founded the party, as the country’s next prime minister, according to a report. The Financial Times reported last week that the nomination of Irakli Garibashvili, the defense minister who served as prime minister from 2013-15, will...