by Bennett Davis Switzerland, one of the first countries to begin deploying a 5G telecommunications network, has halted progress on the initiative “indefinitely” due to widespread public concerns about its health effects. The country installed more than 2,000 5G antennas in 2019 and has been promising its population “imminent” access to the speedier, more capacious...
Tag: Feb 24 2020
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PRESIDENTIAL REALITY SHOW®: BERNIE SHINES, MONEY TALKS
Senator Bernie Sanders, who tied for first in the Iowa Caucus and won the New Hampshire primary, scored impressively in the Nevada caucus last Saturday. He earned more than twice the votes of second place finisher Joe Biden, with Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren finishing third and fourth. Senator Sanders has by far the most...
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EASTERN LIBYA: LIFE UNDER EX-CIA AGENT HAFTAR
Oil-rich Libya, the African country with its strategically valuable coastline, has melted down to mayhem following Noble Peace Prize winner Barack Obama’s “Qaddafi has to go” 2011 U.S.-led war, supported by NATO, that led to the overthrow and murder of the country’s leader, Muammar Qaddafi. As reported in the Trends Journal, there has been an...
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AFGHANISTAN: PEACE AS PREDICTED
The U.S. war in Afghanistan, now in its 19th year, the longest in American history, may be coming to an end. In fact, Gerald Celente had forecast over a year ago that President Trump would have a peace deal with both Afghanistan and North Korea to help boost his 2020 re-election odds. Indeed, at his...
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SYRIA: TURKEY RAMPS UP WAR
As reported in last week’s Trends Journal, the northwest section of Syria, which borders Turkey, has been the scene of increasing warfare between Turkish forces crossing the border to clear out Kurdish fighters and the Syrian military backed by Russia and Iran. James F. Jeffrey, Special Representative for Syria Engagement and the Special Envoy for...
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EUROPE JOINS THE BLACKLIST GANG
Immediately following the U.S. assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized Europeans for not being supportive enough of the action, stating, “Frankly, the Europeans haven’t been as helpful as I wish that they could be. The Brits, the French, the Germans all need to understand that what we did, what the Americans...
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NO EUROPEAN REBOUND: EURO SINKING
It was bad economic news before coronavirus fears took center stage this month. Europe’s fourth quarter 2019 growth rate of 0.1 percent has crushed hopes that some analysts held for an economic rebound. The rate was the slowest since early 2013. The sag deepened with retail sales falling 1.6 percent in December, the sector’s weakest...
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VENEZUELA: U.S. LOVES REGIME CHANGE
As reported last week in the Trends Journal, self-proclaimed Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó, after being applauded by the U.S. congress as an honored guest of President Trump at his State of the Union Address, returned to Venezuela to face condemnation as a traitor by angry citizens when he landed at the Caracas airport. Among the...
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FED OFFICIALS SAY INTEREST RATES WON’T FALL – WE DISAGREE
Last week, three Federal Reserve bank officers said they see no need to lower interest rates, despite market expectations of as many as two cuts this year. Raphael Bostic, president of Atlanta’s Fed branch, said on Friday he strongly expects “that the economy is not going to see rising risks and it’s going to stay...
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ISRAEL: BOMBS AWAY ON GAZA AND SYRIA
The ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict ignited again on Sunday, when a video released on social media showed an Israeli bulldozer dragging the dead body of a Palestinian they said was trying to plant an explosive next to a fence at the Gaza border. The video also shows a number of men being shot in the legs...