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By Howard Bloom The Washington Post ran a headline Wednesday, August 2, saying Donald “Trump has been indicted before. Historians say this time is different.” Why is this time different?   From the Democrat point of view, we are at a turning point in American history. The next 458 days, many Democrats feel, will determine whether
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By Howard Bloom Digital IDs are sweeping the world, but are barely seeping into America.  This American techno-sluggishness has disturbing implications.   We Americans have traditionally led the world with our technologies and our infrastructure.  That is no longer the case.  Our roadways and airports make us look like a third world country.  Even our water and
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By Howard Bloom Cleveland, Ohio, has now been rated the most stressed-out city in America three years in a row.   The personal finance company WalletHub compared 182 cities across what it called “four key dimensions” of stress: work stress, financial stress, family stress and health and safety stress.  The five most stressed-out cities in America,
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By Howard Bloom The figures are staggering. During this Fourth of July weekend, there were 22 mass shootings in 13 states.  Yes, twenty-two mass shootings.  What’s more, twenty Americans were killed and 126 were injured in the five days between last Friday and early Wednesday morning. But that’s just the toll from mass shootings.  Over the last week,
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By Howard Bloom In my opinion, the sooner Vladimir Putin leaves the planet the better.  He’s a mass murderer.  But the fact is that Putin has pulled off a miracle.    The news media says that the mutiny against Russia’s military leaders on Saturday June 24 shows Putin’s weakness. But that’s dead wrong.  The mutiny shows Vladimir Putin’s
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By Howard Bloom Rupert Murdoch’s US Sun just headlined “The Complete Destruction of the UK in six minutes.”   Why?  At 3:00 pm Moscow time on Wednesday, June 22nd, Vladimir Putin gave a speech to the top graduates of Russia’s military universities and military academies.  In that speech, Putin made it clear that he has added
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By Howard Bloom Something startling is happening to aging.   90,000 Americans have reached the age of 100.  Which means that you, too, may live that long.  But how?   Publicity for a new book on longevity has brought a 2012 study back into the news.  In that study, researchers from Yeshiva University looked at 250 people
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By Howard Bloom There’s a reason junk food is called junk.  It isn’t good for you.   A new small scale study in Sweden, a study with only fifteen experimental subjects, shows something intriguing.  When you eat a high fat/high sugar diet, a junk food diet, a strange thing happens to your sleep.   You sleep just
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There’s a term that used to be applied to mass hysterias, a panic.  And we are in a social network panic.   The Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy, a man who normally stays in the shadows, has issued a 25-page advisory with 104 research references warning of “a profound risk of harm” to
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A new Gallup survey of 5,167 American adults says that depression in the USA has just reached new heights.   The percentage of respondents who report having had depression “at some point in their lifetime” has gone up ten points since 2015.  It’s now at 29%.  In other words, nearly a third of us have been
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By Howard Bloom Two weeks ago, on March 30th, the Atlantic magazine published a story headlined “Why People Are Acting so Weird.”  The article claimed that “Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents [on airplanes], and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently.”   Peculiarly, the first example it gave was of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock
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Three researchers from New York University have shown something startling.   You can cut your risk of dementia in half with a simple trick—using the internet for roughly two hours a day.  Dementia is a state in which your brain shrinks  and your memory gives out on you.  It often comes with old age. In extreme
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By Howard Bloom Someone is trying to end the liberty and freedom of your kids. On Wednesday April 26th, a bipartisan team that included Hawaii Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, and Alabama Republican Katie Britt introduced The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act. An act that strangles the
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