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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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By Howard Bloom If the launch of SpaceX’s 100-passenger Starship on Thursday succeeds, it will radically change the relationship between life and space. Why? ·        for the price of one NASA Artemis Moon Rocket launch, you could launch 2,000 Starships ·        for the price of one Artemis Moon Rocket launch carrying three passengers to the moon, you
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By Howard Bloom On Wednesday April 12th, NPR announced that it will quit Twitter. It will take down all 52 of its Twitter accounts. Why?  Because Twitter has taken the label it uses for state-manipulated propaganda channels like Russia’s Russia Today and China’s CCTV—“state affiliated media”– and has applied it to NPR. Implying that NPR
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Howard Bloom has just launched The Big Bang Tango on Substack to give readers the Truth Behind the Headlines. His job is to surprise you, and he really does. Read The Big Bang Tango by Howard Bloom on Substack here: https://howardxbloom.substack.com/ Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein, Newton, and
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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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