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One of the highest figures in the American military called it the most disturbing thing he’d seen in his 52 year career.  In 2022, China announced that Beijing would triple its number of nuclear weapons by 2035.   The Department of Defense took that announcement seriously.  In a recent report on “Military and Security Developments”[i] in China,
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By Howard Bloom Early in the morning of Tuesday, March 14th, two Russian Su-27 jets harassed a $32 million American MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone that was gathering information on the nearby Ukraine War from the air above the international waters of the Black Sea 75 miles from Russian-held Crimea.  The two Russian jets reportedly toyed
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Twenty years ago in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, four children–Latavia Washington McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown, and Eric Williams–were inseparable friends.   According to Zindell Brown’s sister, they stuck together “like glue.”   Latavia is now 33 and the mother of six children.  When she decided to get her figure in shape with a three to five
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By Howard Bloom March 1st, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on H.R. 1153, a bill to give the president “the power to ban…. TikTok.”  And not just to ban TikTok. Giving the president the power to ban any app from “a foreign entity that is ‘subject to the influence of China’.”    This is just one
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By Howard Bloom February 24th marks a year since the troops of Vladimir Putin first invaded the Ukraine.  And new developments are emerging rapidly.  The war in Ukraine is becoming a piece in a new great game.  A chess piece in a new faceoff between the great powers.   On Wednesday February 22nd, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi[i] visited
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By Howard Bloom On February 6th, a constitutional amendment was introduced in the California Legislature by Assembly Member Isaac Bryan.  Bryan’s amendment would give voting rights to people in prison on felony convictions.  Two days later, David Cruz, an ex-felon who spent thirteen years in state prison and then helped organize a non-profit called Initiate
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By Howard Bloom Two Iranians in their early twenties have just been sentenced to a longer period of time in jail than a murderer.  What in the world could they have done to deserve this punishment? Social networking. On October 26th, the two Iranians, Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiancée, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, posted  a video of
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By Howard Bloom On January 3rd, a new study on teens and social media hit the headlines in places like StudyFinds.org and the New York Times.  The headline in StudyFinds was scary: it warned of a “social disaster.” And it explained that “Children who frequently check social media face significant brain changes.”   But the headline was wrong. 
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Today Gallup, one of the most respected polling organizations in America, issued the result of a survey it did from November 9 to December 2.   The first line of the report was disturbing.  Says Gallup, “Americans’ self-reports of mental health are their worst in over” 20 years.  Gallup explains that, “We’ve hit a record low
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By Howard Bloom The Russian Defense Ministry announced on December 14th that “Russia’s Yars intercontinental ballistic missile has been loaded into a silo at the Kozelsk missile formation in the Kaluga Region in central Russia,” southwest of Moscow.  With a 7,500 mile range, the Yars rocket is able to hit the United States.  The Yars carries
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Early in the morning of November 7th, Vladimir Putin chaired an online meeting of his Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and made some disturbing statements about nuclear weapons.   But before we get into Putin’s latest nuclear end-of-the-world scenario, it’s important to understand what Putin’s Council for the Development of Civil
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Historically, in the first mid-term after a new president steps into office, his party loses the House and Senate. In a landslide.  So Republicans anticipated a red wave, a tsunami of Republican wins in November 8th’s elections.  But said the Democratic Washington Post, “The expected red wave looks more like a puddle.”   And the Republican
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By Howard Bloom On Tuesday, September 13, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, came out of a subway station in central Tehran, walked through a park, and in that park was arrested by Iran’s Moral Security Police.  The morality policemen bundled her into their standard white and green Morality Patrol van.  And, according to Amini’s
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At 1:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time on September 7th, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, California, the US Air Force Global Strike Command launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile stripped of its nuclear warhead.  The Space Force says that the point of the test is to prove that “the
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First, let me give you the hidden bottom line of this story.  If you are a man or a boy, nature has cut your lifespan off at the knees.  Now for the news. On August 31st,  the CDC dropped some startling statistics about your probable lifespan and mine.  Life expectancy in America has gone down a shocking three years
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By Stewart Atkinson On August 29th, NASA is planning to launch its biggest rocket ever, its 35-story-high Space Launch System.  NASA claims this is the rocket that will return Americans to the moon.  “Alas,” says Howard Bloom, “that is not true.” In Boca Chica, Texas, a rocket in the testing phase will be able to
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