During January’s Super Bowl, Harvard University dream researcher Deirdre Barrett collaborated with brewer Molson Coors in a marketing test. The night before the game, volunteers watched a 90-second online video featuring waterfalls and mountain scenery – both of which feature in Coors’ logos – coupled with an eight-hour, overnight soundtrack featuring breezes, sounds of nature,...
Tag: jun 22 2021
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MELATONIN AND METHYL B12 ON FDA HIT LIST?
People who use currently common supplements to help with sleep and other issues may be in for a rude awakening. The FDA is targeting melatonin, choline chloride, oxitriptan (also known as 5-hydroxytryptophan or 5-HTP) and methylcobalamin (or methyl B12) for tighter regulation, or even possible bans. An online meeting scheduled on June 9 of the...
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TAX EVADING BLOOMBERG TELLS AMERICANS TO GIVE UP HOME OWNING DREAMS
Bloomberg featured an opinion piece entitled “America Should Become A Nation of Renters” last week. It argued that mega-corporate landlord firms swallowing up single family homes across the country should actually be seen as a good thing. Nevermind that for most owners, their home serves purposes more important than investment. Their homes are (1) shelter,...
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CHINA CRUSHES NEWSPAPER’S DISSENT IN NAME OF “SECURITY”
China is again blazing the dystopian path for the rest of the world to follow. 500 Chinese police swarmed the offices of Apple Daily, a pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper, on Thursday. In addition to shutting down operations of the news organization and freezing their assets, along with several connected companies, police conducted raids on four...
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WITH JUNETEENTH, FED EMPLOYEES NOW GET 44 PAID DAYS OFF YEARLY
America’s bloodiest war, the Civil War, which ended in the Spring of 1865 with a combined death toll of between 752,000 and 861,000, and President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, brought an end to slavery in the U.S. But it wasn’t until 19 June 1865 that the last slaves, in Galveston, Texas, finally got word...
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BACK TO WORK TRENDS DOWN
Kastle Systems, the nationwide security company behind employee access cards, revealed that as of last week fewer than three out of 10 white-collar employees have returned to the office in major cities like Los Angeles and New York. The Wall Street Journal, citing the company, reported that about 31 percent of these employees returned to work....
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WORK-FROM-HOME: 21st CENTURY MEGA-TREND
Trends are born, they grow, mature, reach old age and die. The work-from-home trend has just been born. Go back 17 months ago when politicians and Presstitutes launched the COVID War. Who would have ever forecast that in a blink of a cosmic eye, billions of people across the planet who used to commute to...
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BIDEN “REALIGNS RESOURCES WITH STRATEGIC PRIORITIES”
The Biden administration is changing the face of America’s military presence around the world, and the latest evidence of this is in the withdrawal of U.S. missile systems from a number of countries. The Wall St. Journal reports, on 19 June, that Patriot anti-missile batteries are being pulled from countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq...
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ALGERIA’S ECONOMY IN FREEFALL. COVID LOCKDOWNS HELPED KILL IT
As we reported in the Trends Journal in February 2019, Algeria was being rocked by protests following the decision by then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a fifth term. His regime was accused of having taken control of revenues from the country’s natural resources and used them to pay off political cronies and financial supporters....
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EUROPEAN UNION: SOME U.S. TOURISTS WELCOME
In an effort to prevent another summer of economic disaster marred by COVID-19 restrictions that destroyed the tourism industry, the European Union announced it will reopen its border to Americans… if they meet certain demands. Jeroen Roppe, a spokesman for Visit Brussels, told NPR that 2020 was a “catastrophe” due to travel restrictions. He said about 80...