Once again, pollsters have proven to be ineffective at predicting trends in major elections after they continued to claim President Trump would be left for dead in his matchup with Joe Biden. “We’re all trying to figure out where we go from here,” Mark Blumenthal, a pollster, told The New York Times. There are a number...
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FACEBOOK PULLS PLUG ON “STOP THE STEAL” GROUP
The censorship trend, which we have continually detailed in the Trends Journal, continues to escalate. Social media giant Facebook pulled the plug on a group called “Stop the Steal,” which was created shortly after President Trump claimed troubling irregularities during the 2020 election. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the company’s decision was based on...
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PELOSI ATTACKED BY FELLOW DEMS
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to protect Democrats from being attacked as socialists and tied to the extreme left wing of the party, which contributed to the loss of several congressional seats, according to colleagues in the House. The Washington Post reported Democrats held a tense call that lasted more than three hours, which included many...
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MEDIA CALLS BIDEN WINNER, TRUMP SAYS HE’S WINNER. SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE?
President Trump has maintained that he will continue to challenge the outcome of the 2020 presidential elections after allegations of widespread voter fraud and counting irregularities which have emerged in ballot-counting centers in key swing states. The election between President Trump and Joe Biden, his Democrat opponent, was razor-thin in states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania,...
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FEARS OF NEW TERROR WAVE BREWING IN EUROPE
Last month’s “Islamist terrorist” stabbing attack at a church in Nice, France, has put all of Europe on edge over fears of a new terror wave on the continent. The Associated Press reported that a Tunisian man carrying a knife and a copy of the Quran killed three worshipers at the Basilica of Notre-Dame. The...
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POLAND SET FOR MORE PROTESTS OVER ABORTION RIGHTS
Protests across Poland have attracted more than a million people, angered over a court ruling barring abortions of fetuses with congenital defects and what demonstrators claim is a patriarchal society. Marta Lempart, a lawyer and a leader of Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (OSK), a grassroots women’s movement, told the Guardian she believes the protests are “backlash against”...
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ANOTHER NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER GOES TO WAR
Last Wednesday, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops and aircraft into the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. This follows in the footsteps of Barack Obama, another Peace Prize winner, who launched a series of continuous and murderous wars during his eight years as president of the United States. According to...
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PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTS CONTINUE TO RAGE IN THAILAND
The months-long protests in Thailand that involve the country’s youth, who have demanded changes to its constitutional monarchy, continued last week. Riot police used water cannons to break up at least one demonstration that was approaching Bangkok’s Grand Palace. These protesters have also called on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to step down. The Guardian reported that...
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AZERBAIJAN FORCES CLOSE IN ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH
The weeks-long conflict that erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and Armenia resulted in 90,000 civilians fleeing the area, as Azeri forces advance on the key strategic town of Shusha. Zaur Mammadov, Chairman of the Baku Club of Political Scientists, a think tank, told the Wall Street Journal this is “the most important moment now in...
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NY STATE BAR RECOMMENDS COVID VACCINE BE MANDATORY
The New York State Bar Association said the state should consider making any future coronavirus vaccine mandatory and created a task force to address the “unique legal and ethical questions” the disease raises. Law 360, a legal news service, reported the state bar came up with its position just days before Pfizer announced a potential breakthrough...