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As we look ahead to 2024, there is no shortage of expert forecasts and predictions for the world’s economy, markets, geopolitics, and technology to track in this new year.In this now fifth year of our Prediction Consensus (part of our comprehensive 2024 Global Forecast Series), we’ve summarized 25 of the most common predictions and forecasts by experts into a single visual of what’s expected to happen in 2024.Drawing from our predictions database of over 700 forecasts compiled from reports, interviews, podcasts, and more, Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte created the Prediction Consensus “bingo card” and this article to offer an overview...

The College Fix has done a series of articles recently estimating the number of administrators at various colleges compared to the number of students. The numbers are pretty surprising.The University of Virginia employs one full-time administrator for every three undergraduates at the school, according to an analysis conducted by The College Fix…During the 2013-14 school year, there were 291 full-time administrators and support staff employees per 1,000 undergrads, and in 2021-22, the most recent year for which data are available, there were 318 full-time administrators and support staff employees per 1,000 undergrads.Meanwhile, the number of full-time educators per 1,000 undergraduates...

For the second time in less than a month, senior Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard officers have been killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria. Iran's unofficial Mehr news agency said, "The Revolutionary Guards' Syria intel chief, his deputy, and two other Guards members were martyred in the attack on Syria by Israel." Updated reports say that five IRGC officers, plus some of their Syrian counterparts, were killed in the attack. The icons are already circulating. The intelligence chief, Sadegh Omidzadeh, was a close associate of Brigadier General Sayyed Reza Mousavi, the IRGC commander in Syria, who, along with...

The art of making George Custer look like the all-time winner...Seems likely that KKKomodomir Ichabodavich Zelensky (all-time loser) may have been what Jethro Tull had in mind...

Looks like there's more trouble for Fulton County DA Fani Willis. We reported earlier about the response from Jocelyn Wade to Willis' attempt to get out of a deposition in Wade's divorce case. Wade wants her to talk about the money that she paid Nathan Wade, Jocelyn's husband and Willis' alleged "paramour' (the term used in Jocelyn Wade's filing), so that could help her figure out the marital estate for purposes of the divorce and the spousal support. Willis ridiculously accused Jocelyn Wade of colluding with the parties in the election interference case and trying to harass her. Then Wade...

Every day the press seeks to destroy President Trump, no matter how much they have to lie, and every day they try to make America believe that Biden is a great president with tremendous policies. They can't stand that his poll numbers are low. So they try to prop Joe Biden up since, so far, they can't put Trump in jail. Everything the public needs to know about how they spread misinformation comes in this one sentence in the following New York Times piece titled Morning in America by Binyamin Applebaum, whose bio at the bottom of the piece says...

The Biden administration has done all they can to go after anyone having anything to do with Jan. 6. Indeed, it's more than three years later and they still seem to be going after people, even for just being around the Capitol at the time. They're tracked down all kinds of people across the country. READ: Merrick Garland Says Department of Justice Will Speed Up the Hunt for Non-Violent January 6 ProtestersSo it seems a bit odd that with video evidence of the culprit who allegedly planted the bombs at the DNC and the RNC on Jan. 5 that they...

The United States Marine Corps frantically called 911 after losing one of its F-35 Fighter planes in an airborne “mishap” that led to a crash in South Carolina, according to newly released audio files. The $90 million stealth jet went missing on Sept. 17 over the state’s Lowcountry region after its pilot safely ejected and the plane continued flying unmanned into the unknown as it disappeared from view. “I believe we potentially have an aircraft that went down in Williamsburg County earlier today,” a major from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort told a Williamsburg County 911 dispatcher, according to audio...

Starfleet had a base on Mars, as evidenced by an image captured by NASA's Curiosity rover. Amateur astronomer Scott Atkinson found the stone sculpture of the Starfleet insignia among a pile of rocks on the Red Planet's Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons).

During an activity by the fighters of the Yiftach Brigade in Shuja'iyya, the fighters raided the infrastructure of the Islamic Jihad • Among other things: they located and destroyed an underground tunnel route of the organization, and found a bunch of pamphlets and "battle instructions" for the Seventh of October. Llac Shoval, 7/1/2024, 7:28 p.m., updated 7/1/2024, 10:30 p.m. The IDF published today (Sunday) documentation of the activities of the battle team of the Yiftah Brigade in Sja'iya, during which they raided the infrastructure of the Islamic Jihad, destroyed a tunnel route, found weapons and training booklets for the Shivah...

Currently, there are more than 55 million people who suffer from dementia worldwide, and nearly 10 million new cases of dementia are diagnosed each year. Cognitive decline has become such a pervasive issue in modern society; it has become normalized across the political spectrum. Some of today’s government officials show serious cognitive decline, and even the de facto President of the United States routinely stumbles around in a stupor, taking cues from handlers and mumbling incoherently at times. Cognitive decline is a serious health issue worldwide, but in many cases, there are ways to reverse the damage, prevent the death...

The battle against DIE (diversity, inclusion, equity) in America’s educational institutions isn’t about the obvious abuses of academic integrity, disregard for achievement, or embrace of institutional racism. It’s about power and money. The same goes for DIE’s offspring, ESG (environmental, social and governance), whose proponents have forced public and private companies to adopt policies that are antithetical to their basic missions. Much of our academic, political, and corporate elite are heavily invested in DIE because its doctrines have enabled them to acquire their positions of power absent competitive merit or achievement. They will cling to their privileges in the face...

DeSantis was not in New Hampshire on Saturday, but his campaign said the Florida governor will be back in the Granite State before the primary on Tuesday.. [cut] Meanwhile, in Manchester, there were long lines in the cold outside the Southern New Hampshire University Arena for Trump's rally Saturday night. In fact, the line was so long, some people who had tickets couldn't get in. Recommended Battle of the Badges hockey game raises money for families of Lewiston shooting victims "We're leading in New Hampshire, but take nothing for granted because polls only matter if you get out and vote....

Washington — Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer urged President Biden to personally speak out about the abortion issue more in an interview Saturday with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan, suggesting more "blunt language" on the subject "would be helpful." Brennan noted that Mr. Biden has previously expressed reservations about abortion because of his Catholic faith, asking, "Does he need to talk about it more?" "I think it would be good if he did," Whitmer responded. The governor added, "I know one tenet of his belief system is that women and only women, with their families and healthcare professionals, are...

Bloomberg Television host Francine Lacqua asked leaders at the World Economic Forum Friday about how they would prepare for the very real possibility of Donald Trump’s reelection. Lacqua hosted a panel on the “The Global Economic Outlook” on the closing day of the forum in Davos, Switzerland, where Trump’s return is viewed with concern. She first turned to David Rubenstein, the co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, and asked, “David, a number of leaders have expressed concern of what Donald Trump in the White House means for fragmentation, for foreign...

With the deployment of airborne laser sensors as well as more traditional excavation techniques, archeologists have discovered evidence of a massive and sophisticated lost city in the dense Amazon rain forest region of eastern Ecuador in the Andes foothills. Lead researcher Stephen Rostain of the National Center for Scientific Research in France told the BBC, “This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilization, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilization.” According to the survey of about 200 miles in the Amazon,...

"a stronger and fairer France" Emmanuel Macron appeared before the French media Tuesday night a wide range of issues covered including the notion of a higher birth rate for the country. Macron did a 30-minute speech followed by questions from the media. Mr. Macron saying a six-month parental leave for both parents should replace the current one-year extendable to three-year leave for mothers of newborn children... Macron blasting the political party currently most popular in France, the National Rally. Macron called the RN a party of "easy anger" and "lies"... There was political polling done earlier this month by IFOP....

... Some of his headlines included: "Welcome to the Wacky World of Novak Djokovic: Anti-vaxxer tennis superstar is a tree-hugger who insists Bosnia's 'pyramids' give off mystic energy and that positive thoughts can PURIFY water," "Novak Djokovic's WEASEL words cut no ice and he has damaged his reputation with his 'misinformation' around the Australian Open... after helping to create a player union, his leadership credentials have been BADLY damaged," "Novak Djokovic will remain a hero to some, but to many others he has TRASHED his reputation beyond repair," and "Novak Djokovic could ruin his chances of becoming the GOAT by...

Some would call this story a coincidence and shrug it off. I think it is a sign to those of us who are praying for Allie. My niece who is in a hospital 85 miles from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where little Allie is still fighting for her life, could not sleep last night and was happy to have the overnight charge nurse on her floor to talk to. They realized after a while that they both believe in the power of prayer. The nurse then told my niece that she was praying for her little cousin who was...

Two Chicago journalists reported that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has become so "stressed out" that he was hospitalized for panic attacks. John Kass and Anita Padilla broke the news on WGN-AM's Chicago Way Podcast on January 16, saying that Johnson needed medical help due to increasing stress. They were talking about the illegal immigrant problem on air when Kass said "No amount of anti-depressants can cure him of this problem." "I know, it's so true," Padilla said. "And you know, I actually, you brought it up, I was gonna bring it up." "The panic attacks?" Kass asked. "The mayor's panic...