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NOTICE TO READERS

For the past two days, it was all the news. Nothing else in the world counts. These are the major headlines on 24 September 2019: “Impeachment inquiry is coming” – CNN “Pelosi Plans Formal Impeachment Inquiry of Trump”– The New York Times “Trump Ukraine call: Democratic calls for impeachment grow” – BBC “Pelosi hints at...

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CHEAP MONEY = SOLID GOLD

Last week was a trip back to the good old days of the Panic of ‘08. The New York Federal Reserve Bank injected $203 billion into the U.S. financial system to alleviate funding pressures caused by a sudden scarcity of cash in the “repo market.” It was the largest monetary methadone injection of this scale...

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HATE IRAN. IT’S THE AMERICAN WAY

The major global news story remains the tensions in the Middle East following Houthi drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil processing facility, the world’s largest, and its oil field, which knocked out half of Saudi’s production.  The Houthis in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack. They said it’s in retaliation against Saudi Arabia who launched...

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TREND TRACKING LESSON: DON’T BUY THE HEADLINES

In today’s hand-held world of reading soundbites, it’s important to read more deeply into the story if you want to understand how the current events form future trends. The examples of how the west has learned to hate/blame Iran is again made clear with this headline in last week’s The Wall Street Journal: “Saudi Attack...

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MAKING PLASTIC BOTTLES INTO HOUSES

by Ben Daviss The world uses an estimated one million plastic bottles a minute, most of which are thrown away. But, as Canadian start-up JD Composites is showing, people could live in them instead. On the Nova Scotia coast, the company has built a 2,000-square-foot house out of 612,000 used plastic bottles. A European processor...

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EMPIRE AMERICA: THE END

It’s over. The politicians of both parties, the Dumbocrap’s and Repulsivkin’s mass murder killing spree that spent trillions has destroyed America. A Trend Vision 2020 Freak Show. From Harry “Little Haberdasher” Truman who gave us the CIA and the murderous losing Korean War to Donald “Locked and Loaded” Trump, America’s presidents have waged wars in...

TOO FAT TO FIGHT
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TOO FAT TO FIGHT

A Defense Department study found nearly 30 percent of American troops are overweight. While the President throws out one-liners of being “locked and loaded,” and “We are by far the strongest military in the world,” America’s military happens to be the fattest in the world. Beyond overweight, studies found that a shocking 22 percent of...

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GLOBAL ROUNDUP

India Playing “A Most Dangerous Game” Tensions between India and Pakistan continue to heat following India’s revocation of Kashmir’s special independent status as guaranteed in India’s constitution. This unprecedented move has worsened India’s long-time conflict with neighboring Pakistan over the autonomy of the Kashmir region, which lies between the two nuclear powers. For many living...

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BRIEF EXERCISE MAY BOOST YOUR BRAIN

by Ben Daviss Conventional wisdom says that a little exercise at a time isn’t as good as long bouts on the treadmill or in the weight room. But your brain may disagree. Scientists at Oregon Health and Science University worked with mice to try to figure out if exercise affected the brain directly or only...

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VIRTUAL ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANTS

by Ben Daviss When tomorrow’s electric utilities need to expand generating capacity, they won’t think about spending billions on a new central station. They’ll just ask owners of Tesla home power batteries to let them in. National Grid, which supplies electricity in Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island is trying out the idea with its...

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