HBI Blog

Howard and the rest of the team at the Howard Bloom Institute are always putting out thought-provoking content about a wide array of topics. Make sure to stay tuned to the HBI Blog!

Why Twitter? Elon Musk’s X-App

On April 14th, roughly six months ago, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion.   Then he pulled out of the deal.  Now he is pulling back in again, offering to buy Twitter at the original price if Twitter will drop a lawsuit it filed against him after he...

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Protests in Iran

On Tuesday, September 13, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, came out of a subway station in central Tehran, walked through a park, and in that park was arrested by Iran’s Moral Security Police.   The morality policemen bundled her into their standard white and...

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Putin’s Delusions

At 9 am Moscow time Wednesday September 21, Vladimir Putin gave his first address to the Russian nation since he started his Ukraine war in February 2022.  The speech was shocking.  It revealed a worldview radically different from yours and mine.    Shock number one...

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Can’t Sleep? You’re Not Alone

Two new polls show that since the beginning of the Covid pandemic on March 11, 2020, some of us have had trouble sleeping.  There are two main things keeping us awake.  We are worried about the state of the world and its impact on us.  And our mate in the bed next to...

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Your Lifespan Has Just Nose-Dived

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...

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Has Fahrenheit 451 Come To America To Stay?

By Joshua Calkins Treworgy (author of Motor City Shambler--Bob the Zombie Book 1)   Has Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel about book burnings--come to America to stay?  Is America being hobbled by censorship?  Is that censorship coming from both sides of...

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Fentanyl Kills

On the morning of August 10th, in Aurora, Colorado, Margarita Flores Velasquez opened the door to her bathroom and discovered her 13 year old grandson, Jose, bent over with his head in the sink. She recalls, “I said 'Jose, Jose,'… I tried moving him. He was limp,...

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Mar a Lago Civil War

The biggest danger of the Mar a Lago FBI intrusion is civil war.    Here are the details.  At roughly ten in the morning  of Monday August 8th, a team of FBI agents entered the Trump mansion at Mar A Lago, went to a padlocked  room in the basement, and removed roughly...

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Get Curious, Oh Artist!

An essay by Joshua T. Calkins-Treworgy Author of “A Hunter and His Prey”     One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from author and political hopeful Marianne Williamson: “I think the happiest people are the ones who follow ‘I don’t know’ with ‘Let’s...

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Was the Texas School Shooter Delusional?

Attention is the oxygen of the human soul.  A few of us who cannot gain attention by doing good will seek it by doing evil.   At 11:30 am on Tuesday, May 24th, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who did not have a driver’s license, crashed his grandparents’ four-door silver...

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