It wasn’t just bitcoin. China is busy expanding a crackdown on businesses deemed to be harming the public good by being too capitalist. A highly publicized crackdown on tutoring and techedu companies has wiped out tens of billions in value. And now Beijing has prohibited the “for profit” publicly traded sector from raising capital or...
Tag: jul 27 2021
GUN VIOLENCE SURGES ACROSS U.S.
Sadly, but of no surprise to Trends Journal subscribers, gun violence is surging across America. As Gerald Celente warned when politicians launched the COVID War in March of 2020 and imposed draconian lockdown orders that destroyed the lives and livelihoods of scores of millions, especially the lower economic class, “When people lose everything and have...
LIFE EXPECTANCY IN U.S. DROPS BY 1.5 YEARS
As we have been reporting, America, the junk food heavyweight of the world, has been experiencing a drop in life expectancy over the past several years. But now, with the draconian COVID War lockdowns that have destroyed the lives and livelihoods of scores of millions, life expectancy in the U.S. has been shortened by 1.5...
LAWYERS AMONG BIG WINNERS IN OPIOID SETTLEMENT
As America tries to push back against the epidemic of opioid abuse and addiction, a plethora of lawsuits—literally thousands—have been filed by states, cities and counties against manufacturers and distributors. The gist of the charges is that the Drug Lords understated the addictive potential of the drugs, and either encouraged and promoted over-prescription or willfully...
THIS BANKSTER AIN’T SINGIN’ THE BLUES
Bob Dylan once observed (in his 1962 song “Talkin’ New York”) that “some people rob you with a fountain pen.” That line may very well come to mind while hearing the exploits of the megabank JPMorgan Chase (in terms of assets, the biggest U.S. bank) and its chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon. And just as...
U.S. MEDIA PUSHED NARRATIVE OF CHINA LOCKDOWN “SUCCESS” IN EARLY 2020
With yet more data proving Sweden’s no-lockdown policy worked, an interesting article by Michael Thau has noted that China and a gullible (or worse) U.S. media pushed the West to lockdown in early 2020. Thau constructed a timeline that showed how China worked to publicise its “success” in stemming COVID via draconian measures. And stateside...
BIDEN DOJ ON BLUE STATE NURSING HOME DEATHS: NEVERMIND
The Department of Justice has dropped investigations of COVID related nursing home deaths in four Democrat run states that flouted Federal guidelines in 2020. The states, led by New York, experienced some of the highest death rates of nursing home seniors anywhere in the country. During one period, Governor Andrew Cuomo ignored Fed recommendations and...
NATURE MAGAZINE CONTRADICTS FAUCI SENATE TESTIMONY
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s claim last week in Senate testimony that research taking place at a Wuhan lab did not involve “gain-of-function” experiments, directly conflicts with a 2015 Nature magazine review of the study in question. The Trends Journal extensively covered the Nature magazine story and the original study itself, in our 18 May 2021 article...
U.S. BORDER RESTRICTIONS EXTENDED
The U.S. announced on Thursday that it was extending the border restrictions with Canada and Mexico due to the coronavirus and the uptick in new cases due to the Delta variant. The Department of Homeland Security said the borders will remain closed for nonessential travel until 21 August. The Wall Street Journal noted that the...
DELTA VARIANT SURGES IN U.S.
Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced Wednesday that the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant now makes up about 83 percent of all new infections in the U.S. She called the jump from about 50 percent during the week of 3 July significant but expected. She pointed out that...