By Howard Bloom Thomas S. Dee, an education professor at Stanford University, has just released the results of a study he carried out in partnership with the Associated Press. The study’s topic is student absenteeism in 40 states, and the results are disturbing. The Dee study concludes that 6.5 million students are chronic absentees. They are absent
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By Howard Bloom In 1968 Pope Paul VI established a Global Peace Day. A New Year’s Day on which the Pope gives a speech “reflecting the signs of our times.” Wednesday August 9th, the Vatican put out an announcement about the speech the pope will give at next year’s Peace Day, coming up on January 1st,
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
By Howard Bloom In a new paper published in the Journal of Applied Psychology on Monday, eight researchers from the United States, Singapore, and England studied more than a thousand people in America, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia. The result was a simple bottom line: people in 2021 who worked with the artificial intelligence of the
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
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
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
China plans to start building a lunar base and to land Taikonauts on the moon before 2030. The Chinese intend to start this project with Long March rockets that can carry 28 tons to orbit. But we are in position to outdo the Chinese. We have a rocket that will deliver more than twice a
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
By Howard Bloom According to a headline from England’s Daily Mail, “American adults now spend more time watching Netflix and other digital platforms than viewing traditional TV for the first time ever.” The information for this story and a dozen others like it come from a press release put out on the morning of February
On Tuesday December 27th, the Chief Administrative Officer of the US House of Representatives sent a notice to all Congressmen and women informing them that TikTok was being banished from all phones provided to them or to their staff by the government. But this was just the latest tip of a slow-motion landslide. In January,
A major race is coming up in the next few weeks, a race between two rockets. But the rocket that’s the clear winner is being hobbled by the government. It’s SpaceX’s Starship. Starship’s alleged competitor is NASA’s Artemis Moon Rocket. NASA has been working hard to focus all the media attention on the Artemis Moon
October has been a month of marshalling alliances. And in the ally gathering game, Joe Biden and NATO have come out on top. With the exception of one important Putin victory. There was a vote in the general assembly of the United Nations on October 12th to condemn Russian annexation of Ukrainian territories. The West won
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
TAE Technologies, a company co-founded in 1998 by Harry Hamlin, co-chair of the Howard Bloom Institute’s Why Save Western Civilization Initiative, has now raised $1.2 billion for its clean nuclear fusion effort in collaboration with Google. TAE has breakthrough approaches that it believes can allow it to deliver clean electricity from nuclear fusion to homes
On an ordinary morning 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs, and all the other life forms on Earth, were spending their morning like they had so many mornings before, eating breakfast, taking care of their kids,[i] and maybe even going out to the water to enjoy a dip. But this morning wouldn’t turn out to
For the first time, three branches of the US government–the US Space Force, the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit, and the Air Force Research Laboratory–have issued a report together, the 2021 State of the Space Industrial Base Report. And that report has been endorsed by both the NASA Administrator and the Space Force Chief of
By Howard Bloom We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, And when we find someone whose Weirdness is compatible with ours, We join up with them and fall in Mutual weirdness and call it love. —Robert Fulghum Can gaudy displays of bling really lead to breakthroughs? Can flamboyant ornamentations and shows of