By Howard Bloom CNN says The Washington Post just laid off 100 people.   In reality, it’s worse than that.  The Post has signed 240 people to voluntary separation agreements. It has gotten rid of a whopping 10% of its entire staff.  And those on the left fear that freedom of the press and free speech are at
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By Howard Bloom How you feel about America’s hopes for 2025 depends on the party you belong to.  That’s the bottom line of four polls on Americans’ expectations for the coming year, polls from Gallup, Reuters, AP-NORC, and CBS News.   In reality, these polls are a referendum on the upcoming Trump administration.  Republicans’ expectations are sunny.  Democrats’ expectations
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The Drone Panic By Howard Bloom In the middle of November, roughly four weeks ago, the first of a deluge of reports appeared complaining of large numbers of drones the size of SUVs hovering at night with their lights on over New Jersey.  Later more of these reports came in from New York State and Connecticut.  And
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CEO and founder of Music Brings Life, Keenan “Special” Bristol, is set to make a powerful impact at The Sundance Film Festival with his heartwarming and vital film, Students Are Heroes: A Sickle Cell Warrior’s Story. The project highlights the urgent need for blood donations, particularly from African-American, Latino, and Caribbean communities, for individuals battling sickle cell
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Sunday December 8th the world was hit with a massive surprise.  The government of Syria had fallen.  Syria’s dictator for life, Bashar al-Assad, had fled to Moscow.  In a mere eleven days, rebels had swept through the cities of Aleppo and Hama and had taken Syria’s capital, Damascus.  Syria had been in the hands of dictators from
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By Howard Bloom Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election.  In a landslide.  How did he do it?  And what will it mean to the country?  First, how did President-elect Trump pull off this triumph? He used three levers.  Lever number one is publicity.  Trump began to seek publicity 50 years ago. His mentor, the mastermind of
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By Howard Bloom  The headlines say that as of October 30th’s polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck.  But is that true?   In FiveThirtyEight’s Recent Polling Average Update, which pulls together roughly a hundred national and state polls, Harris leads Trump, even though her edge is a slender 1.8%. In the Cook Political
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Behind the 5th Ave Snowflake- trailblazers George and Christine Stonebely are featured guests on “Secrets of the Stage” with celebrity host Quinn Lemley.  “Secrets of the Stage” is a tv show on MNN. Watch as Quinn Lemley pulls back the curtain and interviews artists, entrepreneurs and creators to discover their process “behind the scenes.” Behind The
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By Howard Bloom This is the most abnormal election of your lifetime and mine.  At this moment, a mere eleven days before we go to the polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck.  A Wall Street Journal poll issued Wednesday night, October 23, says Trump is leading by two percent.  In England,
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By Howard Bloom Why are people so upset these days?  The answer is simple.  Politics.  The political climate in this country is more extreme than at any time since the days of demagogue Huey Long in 1936 and of segregationist George Wallace in 1968.  The Democratic side believes that if Donald Trump wins, it will mean the
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Iran and Israel are arranging their pieces on the chessboard before Israel retaliates against Iran’s October 1st attack. In that attack, you remember, Iran assaulted Israel with the biggest number of ballistic missiles in history—200 by Iran’s count, 180 by the Western media’s. On Wednesday, October 9, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had his first
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The mid-morning sun kisses your bronzed skin as you idly comb the sand with your toes. A gentle, salty breeze. Crashing waves leaving meandering trails of foam in their wake. Subtle wafts of cedar and hibiscus from the distant clifftops come, then go. Lovely. Just lovely. Now if only someone could bottle that feeling… Alright,
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