Tag: Spring2017

Tensions continue to heat up between the US and North Korea. The new US administration’s strengthening of alliances with Middle East monarchies and Israel has expanded war fronts. The trigger points for World War III grow. Even as war drums beat louder, the economic struggles of many countries are stirring civil unrest. Dissatisfaction with the...

With President Donald Trump bearing down on completing his first six turbulent months in office, which have rattled the halls of Congress and governments worldwide, this in-depth feature with global forecaster Gerald Celente provides the perspective you need to understand how these events are forming future trends. PROTECTIONISM, POPULISM, PROMISES, PITFALLS What can we expect...

“When you kill innocent children, innocent babies, little babies… that crosses… many lines.” Those were President Donald Trump’s words following news of a chemical attack on Syrian citizens on April 4 — an incident the media claim was orchestrated by President Bashar al-Assad. At least 86 people, including 30 children, died in the attacks. Mainstream...

Tracking trends is an understanding of where we are and how we got here to forecast where we’re going. It may sound simple, but in a society dumbed down by a daily diet of mainstream-media junk news, the past is ancient history. What is recalled is mostly distorted to fit agendas. Go back to The...

It’s a scam. It’s a grand deception. It’s a colossal failure. It’s a mass of data confusion and contradictions rammed down the throats of individuals, businesses and industries. It doesn’t work. It has no future. “It” is digital advertising. You’ll remember the promise of the glorious future of online marketing and advertising. A mere decade...

Global forecaster Gerald Celente, whose Trends Journal was the first magazine in the world to predict Donald Trump would win the White House, announced that his Trends Research Institute has been awarded the Presidential Reality Show® trademark, a phrase he coined to describe the presidential campaigns even before Trump, a true reality TV star, entered...

I retired from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation last December, but it didn’t last long. I’m now working as chief advocate for National Seniors Australia. It’s a nonprofit organization with 200,000 members representing those over age 50. I’ve quickly discovered people who turn 50 don’t want to be seen, or referred to, as a senior. When...

Half of the Top 10 Trends For 2017 defined in the winter Trends Journal are a result of one major underlying force. Make It New: The creation of new social awareness. RIP: The Fourth Estate: The dramatic transformation of media. Rust Belt 2.0: The astonishing effect of machines increasingly thinking for us. VR-Ed: The transformation...

Alzheimer’s disease is part of your future — if it’s not already part of your present. Either you or someone in your family will contract it, or you’ll know someone who will. And even if you don’t, the disease will cost you financially as it ravages our health care and social support systems. Alzheimer’s is,...

In the 1930s, Henry Ford was looking for a way to help farmers survive the Great Depression. He began experimenting with car parts made partly from a plastic derived from hemp, a common crop at the time. In a famous demonstration, Ford hit a plastic car fender with an ax. The ax head bounced off...