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By Howard Bloom At 6:01 pm on the evening of May 20th, CNN published a story reporting that, “The US has obtained intelligence suggesting that Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.”  The story, says CNN, came from “multiple us officials familiar with the latest intelligence.” And what was their data source? “Private messaging from
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By Howard Bloom Today’s world is driving some of us insane.  Especially us liberal Democrats. Why?  The realities we take for granted are heaving beneath our feet.  For example, Democrats believe that standard ethical and moral norms have been swallowed by a sinkhole.  On May 14th, our president openly used his Saudi trip to make business deals
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In an era where artificial intelligence is reshaping every corner of the creative world, Chris Pati—an artist and innovator known for pushing boundaries—has introduced one of the most intriguing developments yet: Siphia, the AI-powered singer designed to redefine how we think about voice, performance, and artistry. Blurring the lines between human emotion and machine precision,
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By Howard Bloom On April 22nd, in a scenic valley in the Western Himalayan mountains known for its breathtaking beauty, five armed men in military uniforms emerged from the pine forest, rounded up a group of tourists, forced the men to sit or kneel, asked each man his religion, and if the answer wasn’t Islam,
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By Howard Bloom Wednesday, April 29th, in New York State’s capital, Albany, Governor Kathy Hochul and the leaders of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate announced an agreement on a whopping $254 billion state budget—a budget that still requires approval by the New York State Legislature.  Buried in that quarter-trillion-dollar
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Future of Blood By Howard Bloom The evening of April 22nd at 7:08 pm the Washington news publication Axios revealed the hidden details of Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Ukraine, his “final offer.”  What did our president’s peace plan require?   That Ukraine recognizes as Russian a key piece of Ukrainian territory that Russia seized by
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By Howard Bloom On Monday April 14, 2025, the peer-reviewed sociology journal Socius published an article called “Breaking Free of the Iron Cage,” a striking title.  Why was Breaking Free of the Iron Cage so arresting that even the lofty physics outlet Phys.org gave it space?  StudyFinds, an outlet that sums up the latest eye-catching scientific research, said
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By Howard Bloom  Cory Booker, during his 25-hour record-breaking Senate speech Monday night March 31st to Tuesday night April 1st described the current state of America as a “crisis” and emphasized that “these are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.” Booker’s statement was dismissed as pathetic whining by MAGA cheerleader Sean Hannity. But
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Bloom to unveil his new book The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong at Transformed How to Create The Future When The World is Upside Down, May 3-4, 2025” He’s a man of science who did his fieldwork in mass behavior as a career architect for hundreds of performing
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By Howard Bloom  It all started at 2 am Tuesday morning, March 18th.    Israel broke the ceasefire.  War planes filled the Gaza sky.  Bombs were dropped. Thirty-five airstrikes were made.  Hamas claimed that over 400 people were killed, most of them women and children.  But remember, Hamas makes heavy use of lying in war.  It’s called taqiyya, a form
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We Are Sitting On The Edge Of A Volcano By Howard Bloom Why are Americans uneasy?  A year ago, in the spring of 2024, ​The Chapman University Survey of American Fears, indicated that over 50% of Americans were worried about a third world war, corrupt government officials, and terrorism.  Since then, things have gotten worse.  Why?
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By Howard Bloom MIT physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark says in his book Our Mathematical Universe that math is the universe.  And many believe that ideas without a mathematical foundation are not science at all. Jesus had an opinion on this sort of thing.  He said about the strictness of the high priests of his day, the Sabbath was
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Eli Marcus will be a featured guest on “Secrets of the Stage” hosted by Quinn Lemley on Sunday, February 23rd, 2025.  Eli Marcus is also known as “The Mayor of Times Square,” and is a top 1% ranked podcaster in the world with The Motivation Show.  Eli brings together people from every industry who are motivated
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Even to a Democrat like me, Donald Trump’s first ten days in office were mind-blasting.   President Trump issued over 100 executive orders, proclamations, and memoranda in just his first week in office.  Joe Biden had signed 15 executive orders in his first day.  Trump signed 26.  Then Trump just kept signing.   He broke records and hired 1,300 new
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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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By Howard Bloom Things are not going well for the government of Iran or for its people.  Its proxy armies are in shambles. In Gaza, Hamas is a mere shadow of its earlier self.  Its men are hiding wherever they can find the biggest crowd of civilians to use as human shields. And in Lebanon, Hezbollah
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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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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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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with renowned director, producer, screenwriter & author, Fred Olen Ray.  Fred Olen Ray is a renowned director, producer, screenwriter and author whose body of work includes over 200 feature films in many genres including horror, sci-fi, action-adventure, erotic thrillers, crime dramas, rom-coms and holiday films.  Some of his most
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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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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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By Howard Bloom  Iran has mounted the biggest ballistic missile attack in history.   It claims it launched 200 ballistic missiles at Israel Tuesday night, October 1st.  181 appeared in the night skies over Israel.  They were shot out of the heavens by Israel’s Arrow3 missiles, a part of Israel’s remarkable air defense system, the Iron Dome.  There
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