by Tom Luongo, Tom Luongo:
Where do we go from here
Terror in Rue de St. Denis, murder on the periphery
Someone else in someone else’s pocket
Christ knows I don’t know how to stop it
Poppies at the cenotaph, the cynics can’t afford to laugh
I heard in on the telegraph there’s Uzis on a street corner
— Marillion, White Russian
Last year I finally gave in to the pressure and did a 10 Predictions for 2023 post. I’m not a huge fan of these things, but getting out of your comfort zone is never a bad thing. So, let’s look at the scorecard and update things.
Last year’s theme was “Losing My Religion.” Last year was a mess. So many of the themes I wrote about advanced significantly. So many of them caused a lot of folks to lose their religion over old narratives.
It’s quite telling that Jeffrey Epstein, one of the most notorious sex traffickers and child predators in the US, barely got a mention in mainstream media. It seems he received the red carpet treatment, likely because he had some very rich and powerful friends, whom he was probably blackmailing. Logically, that type of influence would play a key role in keeping Epstein’s dirty laundry under wraps. And on the rare occasion that a journalist dared to discuss his perverted activities, it wouldn’t be surprising if someone like Bill Clinton stepped in, throwing around his weight until the story was kiboshed.
A 2021 study predicting a tsunami of future autism cases and costs if environmental root causes of the disease remain unaddressed was retracted last year under pressure from the “autism industry,” and republished last month. Rising prevalence rates and lack of state services show the predicted crisis is already playing out.
Over the past year, we have heard a lot about skyrocketing “global temperature.” The problem is — global temperature doesn’t exist.
A new study suggests spike protein persists in the body much longer than previously thought and may contribute to long COVID.