Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund managing more than $7 billion in assets, has increased its ownership share in Howard Hughes Corp. to almost 25 percent over the past seven months, according to public filings reported by the Wall Street Journal. The Hughes company is beginning construction on 1,475 apartment units in Hawaii, Las...
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AMERICANS: GOING BROKE, MOVING OUT
When the COVID War broke out last year and the mainstream media pumped up a steady stream of fear and hysteria, we had forecast that people would flee big cities to escape the coronavirus and rising crime rates. They did. A June survey by Pew Research Centers found that 28 percent of the people who moved...
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TOXIC METALS FOUND IN BABY FOODS
An investigation conducted by a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives found that some top baby food brands were selling products that contained “dangerously high levels” of toxic metals and called on ways to ensure regulators enforce tougher standards. The discovery of toxic metals in baby food came after major companies including Gerber; Beech-Nut...
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CHILE: ON EDGE
Violent protests erupted on Friday in Chile in the southern city of Panguipulli after a police officer shot a young street juggler for what had been reported as his refusal to give the officer identification papers. Videos emerged showing the cop firing shots at Francisco Martínez Romero, 27, as he was juggling two “blunt” machetes...
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MODI VS. INDIA’S FARMERS: LOST FREEDOMS FEARED
We have been reporting since mid-November on the protests of hundreds of thousands of farmers in India, in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for deregulation laws that farmers fear will sink them deep into poverty. They contend the new farm laws, passed in September in secrecy, strip them of earning potential, allowing major...
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UGANDAN POLITICAL WAR: YOUTH REBELLION
Bobbi Wine, Uganda’s opposition leader who lost last month’s election to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, announced he is seeking to overturn the election in court. Wine, who pulled in 35 percent of the vote in the 14 January election to Museveni’s 58 percent, has been a vocal critic of what he called an intimidation campaign on...
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CHINA BOYS FEMININE: MAKE THEM MANLY
China’s Education Ministry issued a notice last week warning that a troubling number of young men in the country have become too “feminine” and called on schools to begin “cultivating students’ masculinity.” The initiative called the “Proposal to Prevent the Feminization of Male Adolescents,” urged schools to tap former athletes to serve as role models...
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TURKISH STUDENTS: YOUTH REVOLUTION
As reported in this Trends Journal, the Chinese government is taking measures to de-feminize its male population. Over in Turkey, however, students at Istanbul’s Bogazici University last week protested the appointment of Melih Bulu as the school’s new president over allegations he targeted LGBT freedoms in the past, the Financial Times reported. The report said the protests...
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U.S. PANEL: KEEP FIGHTING LOSING AFGHAN WAR
October will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan. The war was launched under the guise of capturing Osama Bin Laden and ridding the nation of its Taliban leadership because they both were, allegedly, responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. government, however, contends that 15 of the 19 hijackers were...
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ICC TO PROBE ISRAELI WAR CRIMES
The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced last week it was investigating the Gaza War, or Operation Protective Edge, named by Israel when the war was launched in 2014 after the court determined it maintains jurisdiction over the territories. Israel called the ruling a political move without legal standing while Palestinians praised the investigation. Axios reported that Tel...