A massive protest broke out last Friday in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, to condemn the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting with the country’s Houthis for six years. Thousands took to the streets in Sana’a to criticize a Saudi-led blockade and the closure of an airport in the country, according to Tasnim News Agency. The...
Tag: Mar 2 2021
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GEORGIAN UNREST INTENSIFIES
Last week, we reported that the Georgian Dream, the governing party of Georgia, announced the nomination of Irakli Gharibashvili as the country’s next prime minister. Gharibashvili is a close associate to Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire who founded the party. There was a contested parliamentary election in October and subsequent arrest of opposition leader Nika Melia...
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ERITREAN TROOPS GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES?
We have been reporting on the escalating war in Ethiopia since it broke out in early November. It was launched by its Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) after the region held its election in September without Ahmed’s approval. As the war spread, we reported on Ethiopia bringing in troops...
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MYANMAR REVOLT: AT LEAST 18 DEAD
As we reported in our 9 February article, “MYANMAR PROTESTS SURGE, JUNTA CLAMPS DOWN,” on 1 February, Myanmar’s military put Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s de facto leader, under house arrest declaring a state of emergency. Taking full control of the government, they postponed the new election until next year. Since the overthrow began,...
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TOP DEMOCRAT: KEEP THE AFGHAN WAR GOING
Senator Jack Reed, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, signaled last week that the U.S. should refrain from withdrawing troops from Afghanistan to meet an agreed-upon 1 May deadline, calling the pullout potentially destabilizing. The Trends Journal has been reporting on U.S. troop deployment in the country and how October will commemorate the...
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ISRAEL VS. IRAN: WAR DRUMS BEATING
Without providing any evidence, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Friday that an “initial assessment” of a transport ship sailing in the Gulf of Oman that was hit with a blast to its hull was the work of Iran. “Iran is looking to hit Israeli infrastructure and Israeli citizens. The location of the ship in...
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HONG KONG CRACKDOWN
What is big news in the major media is old news to Trends Journal subscribers. As Gerald Celente forecast when the virus first broke out in China last January, Beijing would use COVID to achieve what they were unable to accomplish before the virus struck Wuhan: lock down Hong Kong to stop the protests. A...
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MODERNA EXPECTS TO REAP $18.4 BILLION FROM VACCINE SALES
Ten-year-old Moderna Therapeutics will collect $18.4 billion this year from COVID vaccine sales, more than half as much as the $11.2 billion analysts have forecast and more than the $15 billion Pfizer expects to see. Revenues for 2021 could rise higher, Moderna said, as governments ramp up orders for vaccines and the Covax vaccine program...
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VACCINE FAST FACTS
The latest numbers of adverse events recorded in CDC’s VAERS reporting system include nearly 1,100 deaths related to COVID mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. Numbers from the system as of 18 February include: 19,907 total adverse events 1,095 deaths following injections 403 permanent disabilities 4,151 visits to Emergency Rooms 2,298 hospitalizations According to the...
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“INEPT” VAX ROLLOUT SPURS TALK OF EURO-EXIT
With France and Germany initiating yet another round of lockdowns, the perceived failures of the EU rollout of COVID vaccines are leading some observers to speculate that countries may seek a Brexit-style exit over the mismanagement. The French and German governments have both expressed doubts about the safety of the British Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Some in...