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There is a sudden movement in the Western World to take smartphones away from kids.   It started in the summer of 2022 when social psychologist Jonathan Haidt at New York University, the father of two adolescents, was writing a book about what he called “the pervasive negative effects of the internet and social media on
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Wendy Stuart and guest co-host Evan Laurence will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest J.R. Price.  This episode is a part of The Best of Triversity Talk series that takes at the beginning of each month. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives,
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By  Howard Bloom, Founder and Chair, Space Development Steering Committee, Co-founder Asian Space Technology Summit, and Erinn van Wynsberghe, Founder VanWyn Technologies The space race of the 21st century is not between nations, but between China and one man: Elon Musk.  As CEO of SpaceX, Musk has revolutionized space travel, achieving milestones once thought impossible. His
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Director/writer Richard Burgin is celebrating the release and success of his horror thriller “FANG” which can be purchased and streamed on Amazon Prime and Apple TV and has already won 13 awards and 15 nominations at film festivals throughout the US.  The Plot:  It’s winter in Chicago and Billy Cochran (Dylan LaRay) can’t stop alienating the
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By Howard Bloom The headline in a CNN story that appeared a little after noon on Wednesday, June 26th, was brutal: “Children are dying of starvation in their parents’ arms as famine spreads through Gaza.”   The details were heartbreaking. One nine year old boy, said CNN, is “clearly wasted from severe malnutrition and suffering from
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Wendy Stuart and Steven Bloomer Teague will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Kit Blessing. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk!
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
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By Howard Bloom On Tuesday, June 18th, a new word showed up in the vocabulary of the Middle-East war: “inevitable.”  Nearly every expert in Israel from the country’s military leaders to its newsletter writers said that an all-out war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah was inevitable.  And who is Hezbollah?  Like Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah is a part
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Dean Butler, Actor (“Almanzo Wilder” from “Little House on the Prairie”) Producer, Director, Author.  Dean Butler is a beloved actor, producer and director who has been immortalized for his unforgettable portrayal of “Almanzo Wilder”, the innocent and pure-hearted young man who won “Laura’s” heart and married her, on one
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by  Howard Bloom On Wednesday June 12th something frightening happened.  The Russian Northern Fleet naval group completed “precision missile weapons” drills East of the Florida Keys, within easy nuclear missile distance of the United States.  Then the four ships of mass destruction sailed to Cuba, only 106 miles from the beaches of Florida, anchored at Havana
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By Howard Bloom In the wake of Covid, are Americans losing their minds? Sort of. We are going crazy for animal stories.  Why?   It could be because stories of insanity among humans are just too hard for us to take.  In the Associated Press’s list of the 31 oddest stories of the week, fully 16—more than
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by Howard Bloom Hamas’ strategy of using civilians as human shields is working.   The biggest stories in Gaza War news in the last few days have centered on two purported Israeli strikes in Rafah killing civilians.  On Sunday May 26th Israel dropped two small 37-pound bombs to kill two Hamas leaders.  These pinpoint bombs killed precisely the
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By Howard Bloom The Internet has been under constant attack for the last 20 years as the source of all of our emotional woes, from depression, cyberbullying, and suicide to negative body image.     The anti-Internet attack has been so fierce that nine states have tried to ban social media access for kids under sixteen or
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Wendy Stuart and Steven Bloomer Teague will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest film historian John DiLeo. This episode is a replay of one of the Best Of Triversity Talk shows from the past. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
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What Do College Campuses Have to Do With It? By Howard Bloom The standard story in the Western media right now is that Israel has proposed a ceasefire deal that American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calls “extraordinarily generous.”  And that is true.  The Israeli deal proposes to give up over a thousand Palestinian prisoners—in many
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By Howard Bloom On Wednesday, April 24th, the Senate passed a TikTok bill. And Joe Biden signed it into law. The new law says that ByteDance, the company that founded and owns TikTok, must sell TikTok to an American purchaser within nine months or TikTok will be banished from the Apple and Google app stores
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By Howard Bloom  We have reached a dire moment.  At 2 am Sunday morning, March 14, Iran launched a swarm of between 300 and 350 suicide drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles at Israel.  Israel’s Stunner missiles, Arrow missiles, and Iron Dome missiles, with help from the French and Americans, knocked 99% of these weapons out
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By Howard Bloom A story broke in Newsweek magazine April 10th claiming that a study in a high prestige medical journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Psychiatry, revealed that teenagers who spend a lot of time playing video games and who use their computers heavily are more likely to have a psychotic episode.   In the study Newsweek was reporting on,
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By Howard Bloom Americans are suffering through a trauma of stolen expectations. The result is what you might call The Great Unhappiness.  First off, are things bad in America right now?  Is the economy tanking?  Not at all.  America is booming.  ·       Our economy is growing at 3.2% per year, the highest post-Covid growth rate of any
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Michael Fishman, Co-Star of “Roseanne” & “The Conners”. Michael Fishman is a multi-award winning actor, writer, producer and director who first captured our hearts as “D.J. Conner” on the long-running TV sitcom, “Roseanne”, and its spinoff series, “The Conners”, winning a TV Land Award, a Young Artist Award
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by Howard Bloom Taiwan’s defense chief, Chiu Kuo-Cheng, has revealed that American troops are permanently stationed in Taiwan.   Our soldiers are there to train Taiwan’s military in the use of things like drones.  However, some of those troops are less than two miles from China’s border.  A headline in London’s The Express warns that this puts
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The TikTok issue is one of the biggest damned if you do, damned if you don’t problems on America’s agenda.  On April 14, 2023, nearly a year ago, Montana became the first state to try to ban TikTok, but a US District Judge put a temporary halt to the ban, saying it “oversteps state power,”
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
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Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guests John Hellman and Lisa Jenkins.  TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is
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