Universities, their professors, and students face a dilemma, The New York Times said in an article this month: do they “use more AI to stay relevant or dial back to preserve learning and thinking?”
ECONOMIC UPDATE
As we have been detailing, by the facts and data, there is no relationship betweenWall Street and Main Street.
IRANIAN CONTRADICTS WASHINGTON’S CLAIM ON OIL TRAFFIC IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ
Press TV, the Iranian outlet, said last week that Washington’s claim on how many ships transited the Strait of Hormuz was a lie, and traffic in the vital waterway fell to single digits.
WE TOLD YOU SO: NETANYAHU WAS ALERTED BEFORE HAMAS ATTACK
As Gerald Celente has noted, “When all else fails, they take you to war.” Totally forgotten but reported in The Trends Journal before Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, there were 39 weeks of major protests raging across Israel as people were taking to the streets to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reform act... protests that Israel President Isaac Herzog called a “civil war.”
BUSINESSES/COMPANIES ARE FRONT-LOADING. (PREPARING FOR SHORTAGES/SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION, AND HIGHER PRICES)
CORE CAPITAL GOODS SURGE AS COMPANIES ARE PREPARING FOR SHORTAGES, INCREASING SUPPLY RISK, AND HIGHER PRICES MOVING FORWARD.
PLANTATION WORKERS OF SLAVELANDIA PAY FOR TRUMP’S POLITICAL ADS
The Trump administration ran a TV commercial that featured President Donald Trump warning about the risk of the U.S. becoming a Communist and Marxist country that was paid for by the federal government (We the People of Slavelandia), which raised ethics concerns that the ad violated federal laws, according to a report last week in The Wall Street Journal.
Global Economy
TRUMP, XI CUT $60 BILLION IN TARIFFS
At last week’s presidential summit, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to cut $60 billion in tariffs on goods traded between China and the U.S. Each country will remove $30 billion in levies on goods not seen as supporting vital industries at home.
A THIRD OF ARGENTINIANS NOW LIVE IN POVERTY
Argentina’s population living below the official poverty line grew by 4.1 percent during the first half of this year, raising the total from 28.2 percent to 32.3 percent, the national statistics agency reported.
U.K. MINISTER TOUTS DEFENSE AS KEY TO REINDUSTRIALIZATION
In a speech to his governing Labour Party’s annual conference this week, U.K. finance minister John Healey championed investments in defense contractors to revitalize Britain’s manufacturing industry.
U.S. Economy
SPOTLIGHT: WHY U.S. APARTMENTS BECAME A BAD INVESTMENT
As we have greatly documented with facts and data, the economies of the U.S. and of many nations were artificially propped up during the COVID War.
U.S. CONSUMER SENTIMENT SAGS TO FOUR-MONTH LOW
The University of Michigan’s second of its bimonthly surveys of U.S. consumer sentiment fell to 48.1 in September, down from 51.7 in August.
The Iran War
IRAN’S SPEAKER SAYS U.S. IS LYING ABOUT HORMUZ STRAIT TRAFFIC
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian speaker, said in a post on X Sunday that the Trump administration is lying when its “Gaslighting Bureau” tries to insist that the Iranians are not in control of the Strait of Hormuz.
TRUMP CAUGHT IN LATEST LIE ABOUT IRAN WAR, BUT THERE’S NO OUTRAGE
President Donald Trump addressed the Republican Party’s first midterm convention in Dallas on 9 September and told reporters on the way there that the war with Iran will “end immediately” after the elections on 3 November “because they [the Iranians] can’t hold out any longer.”
CANADA’S CARNEY REFUSES TO CONDEMN TRUMP FOR GENOCIDAL LANGUAGE AGAINST IRAN
Despite Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent attempt to try to show the world that he has the courage to stand up to President Donald Trump, he proved that he is just another Western leader who falls into line.
The Israel War
WHAT CEASEFIRE? ISRAEL CARRIES OUT NEW AIRSTRIKES ACROSS SOUTHERN LEBANON
The IDF on Sunday carried out new airstrikes across southern Lebanon and its forces also demolished homes in at least two districts, proving once again that the so-called ceasefire that was announced on 19 June 2026 is over.
GAZA/LEBANON DEATH TOLL
Israel killed at least 74,023 Palestinians and injured another 175,980 since the start of the genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023.
NETANYAHU CALLS NYC MAYOR AN ‘ANTI-SEMITE’ DURING UN ADDRESS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani an “antisemite” during his address to the UN General Assembly last week in New York and blamed the city’s Muslim mayor for making “many Jews no longer feel safe” in the Big Apple.