Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, supported by the Trump administration, has promised to annex parts of the West Bank next month. In response, Palestinians say since this would breach the ongoing peace accords established in the 1990s, they would no longer be bound by its conditions. This includes coordination between Israel and the Palestinians on important...
New waves of anti-government demonstrations broke out across the country again last week. The protests were a reaction to the continuing plunge of the Lebanese currency, which dropped to a new low. Most Lebanese citizens have lost virtually all means of supporting themselves and their families, and they have put the blame on the greed...
Last Tuesday, thousands of demonstrators risked violating social distancing orders and unauthorized assembly rules to protest the expansion of charges against people involved in the months-long protests, which rocked the city in 2019. Some who had been charged with illegally entering the city legislature last year are now being charged with “rioting,” a far more...
With countries continuing to reopen their societies after the unprecedented global shutdown, we keep seeing more and more evidence of non-scientific, irrational restrictions decreed by political leaders. Many of these “Dictators 2.0” now are agreeing to end the months-long “stay in your house and shut down your business” rules they have imposed… but with a...
The diminishing sexual appetite resulting from the young and the free sheltered-in-place was already declining in the U.S. before the nation was locked down. A study published last Friday by researchers at San Diego State University, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that between 2016 and 2018, the percentage of 18-24...
While pointing out the facts that governments instituting strict lockdown policies have robbed people of their Constitutional and Bill of Rights, now, they have made moves to control bedroom behavior. Beyond the laundry list of new regulations and phased-in opening restrictions of stores and restaurants, which not only are limiting the amount of customers allowed...
On 8 June, “Phase 1” was launched to start reopening New York City. The subway cars were soaked down with cleaning fluids and, as with other nations such as the U.K., riders must wear masks. They let construction workers back on the job, but in the new ABnormal, first they had to line up to...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the media-anointed leading COVID “expert,” told the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, the largest trade association advocating for biotech companies and research, that the virus was his “worst nightmare.” He claimed the virus “has devastated the whole world” and “took over the planet.”...
As much of the world is unlocked from the three-month plus lockdown, as we had forecast, the vast, often contradictory, non-science based, made-up rules and regulations that are not laws, but edicts, are further destroying the already severely damaged global economy… and driving businesses and individuals deeper in poverty and desperation. In Brussels, Belgium, some...
U.S. equity markets continue to rise. The Dow rose 477 points on Friday, and after plunging over 700 yesterday, rebounded to close up 157 points. Today, the Dow closed up 526 points. As we noted last week, The Dow’s six-day winning streak, which brought the S&P 500 back above where it began the year, and...