Some months ago, my former classmates who graduated Gorton High School in Yonkers, NY, celebrated our 50th reunion. I couldn’t make it. I was attending a premiere showing of the movie, Zizi and Honeyboy, based on my book, What Zizi Gave Honeyboy: A True Story about Love, Wisdom and the Soul of America, starring Doris...
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Media: Silent on peace, screams for war
“Either you are with us, or with the terrorists.” And with those presidential words from George W. Bush following 9/11, the media stopped covering war from the outside in. Instead, the Fourth Estate, formerly the people’s voice separate from government, became Uncle Sam’s mouthpiece: War propagandists, swallowing whole the White House lies and getting a...
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Celente’s movement is our only choice
Gerald Celente has a proven record as a trend spotter. Now he is branching out. He is becoming a trendsetter. Celente sees the trend we need is peace. He is encouraging it by launching Occupy Peace. The first event was September 20 in Kingston, NY. Celente is correct that the trend the world desperately needs is a powerful...
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Terror generation
The fatal shooting of two Virginia broadcast journalists on live TV in August 2015 marks the latest event in a long string of video-ready violence. Almost immediately afterward, the media picked up on the necessary talking points, primarily gun safety and racial identities of the parties involved — the new front lines for the War...
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Because war has been so ubiquitous since the advent of cable-television news, the millennial existence is defined by its presence. There is no time millennials know without war, no alternative to the violent images and media blabber. Thus, war has freely been glorified by the media — owned almost entirely by giant corporations whose aims...
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You can defy economic gravity for only so long
Where is the global economy headed? Which equity markets will rise and fall? Will gold prices rebound, the dollar soar, euro tank, yuan be devalued? From Shanghai to Wall Street, markets worldwide were hit hard during a summer of equity turbulence not felt in years. While some indexes have rebounded to their 2015 highs, others...
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The principles of free-market economics, price discovery and fiscal discipline are dead. They have been replaced by central banks’ quantitative-easing money-pumping schemes and record low-interest policies. Both, by all measures, have artificially pumped up failed economies, boosted sagging equity markets and As a result of these policies, a global debt bubble, estimated at $225 trillion,...
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Dazed and confused
Manufactured angst over when — or if — the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates after its seven-year policy of keeping them at zero overlooks the fact that actions speak louder than overanalyzed words. ZIRP began as a so-called “emergency measure” to inject liquidity into the system (read: big banks) and stabilize the economy (read:...
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We have entered a period that will be marked by vicious volatility, followed by desperate central-bank moves, to contain the resultant market downside and breathe a sigh of relief at temporary upsides. For the foreseeable future, this situation will continue regardless of what the Fed does — but it will get much worse if the...
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Democracy in America is dead
Go back to your Spring Trends Journal. Take a look at the cover. Read the headline: “Liars, cowards, freaks & fools: Welcome to The Presidential Reality Show.” That’s precisely what it is, and we wrote this before reality show champion Donald Trump was a contestant. Now take a look at what is being passed off to the public...