Data clearly indicates that COVID-19 is primarily dangerous to the elderly and those with significant pre-existing health issues. Elizabeth Dugan, associate professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, has said even the frail and elderly in the best-run facilities are victims. According to Kaiser Family Foundation data released last Thursday, at least a...
Tag: may 12 2020
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“SHOCK & AWE 2.0”
When George W. Bush launched the Iraq War in 2003, the Pressitutes passionately quoted, and the vast majority of the American public bought, his “Shock and Awe” strategy, which would wipe out Saddam Hussein, destroy his fictional weapons of mass destruction, and bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people. The Shock and Awe strategy...
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TREND TRACKING LESSON: PROPAGANDA SELLS, “NEW YORK TIMES” PROVES IT
TREND TRACKING LESSON, PART 1: As trend forecasters understand, personal bias, wishes, hopes, wants, beliefs, and desires are personal blinders that prevent people from seeing the future. Hard facts count. By their deeds you shall know them. Those who believe in their news sources without question are shortsighted to what the future will bring by...
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IRAN: TRUMP VETOES WAR POWERS RESOLUTION
On 13 February, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of a War Powers Resolution that would require President Trump to get congressional approval before taking any further military action against Iran. The official language called for “the President to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces for hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or...
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ISRAEL: FIGHTER JETS KILL IRANIANS IN SYRIA
Barely reported in the mainstream news, on 4 May, Israel conducted air strikes in eastern Syria, part of a recent campaign of multiple air attacks over the past two weeks. This most recent bombing killed 14 Iranian and Iraqi soldiers and wounded others, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On 28 April,...
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HONG KONG: ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS BACK AGAIN
Last Sunday afternoon, demonstrators were chased by police through a number of shopping malls as protests started heating up, reconfirming the anger of citizens demanding independence from mainland Chinese authority and the resignation of Carrie Lam, the current chief executive of the city. After a period of quiet due to stay-at-home orders to slow the...
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VENEZUELA: WHO BOTCHED THE COUP?
On Sunday, 3 May, Venezuelan security arrested dozens of people involved in a plot to abduct President Nicolás Maduro. The pre-dawn incursion included an attempted beach landing led by two former American special force members at the port city of La Guaira. Eight of the invaders were killed. Later that Sunday, Jordan Goudreau, a U.S....
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COVID-19: NOT AS DANGEROUS AS TOXIC AIR AND FATTY FOODS
As reported in the Trends Journal, compared to air pollution, COVID-19 paled as a killer in China, where the coronavirus first emerged. With slightly over 4,600 Chinese succumbing to the virus pandemic, it is important to note that more than 1.5 million Chinese die every year from environmental pollution, according to a worldwide study by...
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NOTES FROM THE FRONT LINES
Social distancing tech booms. Wearable devices that measure athletes’ performances are being tweaked and redeployed to factory floors to tell workers when they violate social distance norms. For example, when people wearing chip-based devices from Kinexon come within a certain distance of each other, the devices emit an audible alarm and record how long the...
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WORLD’S LARGEST BREWER RECORDS DOUBLE-DIGIT APRIL DECLINE
Anheuser Busch Inbev, which makes one out of every four beers drunk in the world, reported a 32-percent global sales decline in April, compared with just a 9.3 drop in the year’s first quarter. The company warned that the second quarter’s results will be “materially worse” than the first’s, in which AB Inbev lost $2.25...