We have been reporting on the escalating war in Ethiopia since it broke out two weeks ago. Hopes of a quick and peaceful resolution in Ethiopia between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) seemed to have been dashed last week after violent clashes killed hundreds and sent 11,000 people fleeing...
Tag: nov 17 2020
Post
TBILISI ELECTORAL FRAUD IGNITES PROTESTS
Tens of thousands have protested the parliamentary election in Georgia, the country in the Caucasus region, over allegations of a rigged election that involved intimidation and vote-buying. Al Jazeera reported that the Georgian Dream Party, which was founded by Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire who made his money in metals and banking in Russia, won the election...
Post
IMPEACHMENT PROTESTS IN PERU TURN DEADLY
Protests have erupted in Peru after the recent impeachment and replacement of the South American country’s president over unproven allegations that the former leader took bribes while he served in another role in government from 2011–2014. The Wall Street Journal reported the country is on edge and has suffered during the coronavirus outbreak. The paper, citing...
Post
BEIJING WINS, PRO-DEMOCRACY HONG KONG LAWMAKERS LOSE
We said it would happen, and it has happened. The Trends Journal is the only magazine that has analyzed the COVID War, launched by China on its Lunar New Year 2020, and forecast China would use it as a means to end the ongoing Hong Kong demonstrations, which began on 31 March 2019, when millions took...
Post
LOOKING ALZHEIMER’S IN THE EYE
One of the many frustrations surrounding Alzheimer’s disease has been physicians’ inability to diagnose it. Often, the only way to be sure of its presence has been to autopsy a person’s brain after the patient has died. Years ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota began looking at the retina, the thin layer of tissue...
Post
SETBACK FOR NOVEL NUCLEAR PLANT DESIGN
Eight of 36 utilities that had agreed to partner to help finance a novel nuclear power plant to be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) have withdrawn from the group. The eight quit the plan soon after UAMPS announced the plant would take three years longer to build than expected and cost 50...
Post
SYNTHETIC PROTEIN FOOLS COVID VIRUS, PREVENTS INFECTION
An international team of researchers has created a synthetic protein that binds to the spikes on a COVID virus. The new protein effectively “fills up” the space on the virus that it would use to bind to a human cell. The filled-in connection leaves the virus no way to grab onto a human cell and...
Post
GLOBAL ECONOMIC TRENDS
MORE THAN HALF OF EUROPE’S SMALL BUSINESSES EXPECT TO FAIL. One in ten of Europe’s small and medium-size businesses expect to file bankruptcy by next spring; and 55 percent believe they will fail before next fall if revenues remain at current levels, according to a survey of 2,200 businesses in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and...
Post
MORE LOCKDOWNS, MORE PROTESTS
While there are virtually no major protests against the draconian lockdown rules politicians have imposed on society in America, they continue to erupt in Europe. GERMANY. Police in Frankfurt used water cannons last Saturday to disperse a crowd of anti-lockdown protesters who disregarded social-distancing orders and mask-wearing mandates. The reason for the government-imposed lockdowns were...