Liberals, progressives and leftists… these are antiquated, meaningless labels of what they once symbolized. With high voter distrust toward the party by millennials who believe the nomination of their candidate, Bernie Sanders, was stolen by Democratic Party leaders, older Democrats have proven they are unable to revitalize or redirect the party. There is no progressive...
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“No” news from Dumfukistan
The Information Age! A world of the Internet of Things, a smartphone society that lets you track down whatever you want to know, wherever you are, at any time, by Googling facts or asking Alexa. Under this high-tech formula, it is assumed that by tapping into the 21st century Alexandrian Library, society would seek...
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Trend Forecast
As current trends evolve, the general public will become less informed and more detached. The news business is virtually dead. Newspapers and major media outlets have shrunk reporting resources by over 60 percent in just the last decade. As for broadcast news, there’s no variety, no balance, and the same talking heads and paid analysts...
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Cryptocurrencies: Believe the banksters or trust the trends
Cryptocurrencies are a Ponzi Scheme, a dying fad, a fool’s folly, backed by nothing, living in a cyber world and floating on a digital cloud. Top bank officials and business-media mouthpieces across the continents won’t stop bad-mouthing cryptos, calling them Ponzi schemes and ridiculing the millions of believers around the world who have invested in...
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Trend Forecast
As more nations worldwide go cashless, and the range of new cryptocurrency offerings widens, the general public’s purchase of digital currencies — especially following the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s decision to launch Bitcoin futures trading — and investors to invest in them, increases. But the speed at which digital-currency investment is increasing worldwide is prompting some...
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The facts behind globalization
For the last half century, we’ve heard it again and again: Globalization is an irreversible force whose irresistible pressures were destined to shrink, and eventually erase, differences separating people and countries and regions in which they have been embedded for millennia. This utopian vision has been enshrined in best-selling books such as Tom Friedman’s “The...
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The number of national entities is growing. Europe alone has 50 percent more countries than it had some 40 years ago. Many more potentially new nations are waiting in the wings. As we write, Catalonia is considering seceding from Spain. Kurdistan may split from Iraq (and later possibly from Turkey and Iran). Scotland is likely...
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The healthy-food trend: Fact or fiction?
By Doug Grunther, CONTRIBUTING WRITER and Derek Osenenko, EXECUTIVE EDITOR While America’s fast-food industry may be hitting an earnings ceiling, it maintains its enormous grip on American eating habits and, despite the fast-emerging healthy-fast-food trend, continues to feed devastating health problems affecting growing segments of American society. Indeed, healthy alternatives to fast, cheap processed food...
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While organic and whole-food movements have grown substantially over the last decade, the fast-food industry remains a behemoth (worth over $500 billion worldwide). It’s wreaking havoc on American health. Americans as a culture are addicted to government-supported quick fixes of factory-farmed meat, salt, sugar and chemical-laden food, with devastating results to health. Yet, despite anticipated...
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The collaborative intelligence
The world has become so complex — from trying to feed 7 billion people to comprehending the exponential rise of computer intelligence in every aspect of our lives — that we no longer can count on heroic/brilliant individuals to solve these immense problems. From corporate boardrooms to educational forums to medical conferences, we see the...