[Free Beacon] New data from the Department of Education show that several top-tier universities, including Yale and Cornell, failed to report more than $3 billion in foreign gifts and funds—many of which come from anti-American regimes such as China and Qatar.
According to a new study from the Clarion Project, American colleges and universities inaccurately disclosed foreign funding to the Department of Education. Between 2014 and 2019, they reported a total of $11 billion in foreign funds. But the Clarion Project's data show that the true number is over $14 billion. Some of the biggest discrepancies involve Cornell University, Texas A&M University, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Yale University.
Cornell initially reported taking $340 million in foreign funding, but the real number is closer to $1.3 billion—over $800 million of which came from Qatar. The University of Colorado Boulder initially reported $55 million in foreign funding, but the real number is closer to $345 million—61 percent of which came from the United Arab Emirates. Yale initially reported $128 million, but the real number is $496 million—almost $42 million of which came from China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Russia.
Foreign influence is growing on college campuses, and universities seldom disclose their fiscal relationships with foreign actors. A Washington Free Beacon review of federal records found that over 100 U.S. universities have Confucius Institutes, a Chinese government-backed program that often pushes Chinese Communist Party propaganda on American students. The Department of Education has mandated that universities report all foreign money through a new online portal, which has unearthed previously hidden disparities.
In all, unreported contributions from China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UAE, and Qatar totaled $1.59 billion between 2014 and 2019.
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Between 2014 and 2019, they reported a total of $11 billion in foreign funds. But the Clarion Project's data show that the true number is over $14 billion.
That's doesn't include money going directly to persons, one presumes.
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/\ That doesn't include money going directly to persons, one presumes.
May be all inclusive. No mention of actual distribution, but your comment is valid. What a delightful cover for the funding of foreign or domestic operatives, buy influence, provide Intelligence Contingency Funds, and ...cough, cough, weapons, safe-houses, and logistics.
[AMGREATNESS] The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can—allowing the cities go on with their ritual self-destruction.
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[American Thinker] In his inaugural address, Donald Trump announced that "today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another -- but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the American People. For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished -- but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered -- but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.... That all changes -- starting right here, and right now, because this moment is your moment: it belongs to you."
These were stirring words, but they were the sort of thing presidents have said for ages. Back in his first inaugural address in 1913, Woodrow Wilson decried the fact that "the great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people." In his first inaugural address in 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower asserted that "we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve." And in his January 1996 state of the union address, Bill Clinton declared: "We know big government does not have all the answers. We know there's not a program for every problem. We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means. The era of big government is over... Our goal must be to enable all our people to make the most of their own lives -- with stronger families, more educational opportunity, economic security, safer streets, a cleaner environment in a safer world."
However, as Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster explains, Trump’s declaration that he was transferring power back to the people actually heralded a move away from big government, not toward it. Trump’s words didn’t herald a push to expand government power under the guise of working for the people. On the contrary, he was determined to expand the freedom Americans enjoyed and roll back government power. A new era had begun in American politics: for the first time in over a century, the rule of "the people" did not mean the rule of the government.
[Market Watch] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Aug. 27 gave stock investors the green light to throw more money at the market.
In a virtual speech to the annual Jackson Hole monetary policy conclave, Powell declared that the central bank would allow inflation to rise above 2% if that followed a period of persistently low inflation, essentially abandoning its longtime target.
Powell only codified what the Fed has been doing since COVID-19 sent the U.S. economy into the deepest recession since the Great Depression: Cutting interest rates to zero and engaging in trillions of dollars’ worth of securities purchases to shore up shaky markets, and stimulate the economy and job creation.
That speech and continued hopes for a vaccine and an economic recovery pushed the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.21% and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.78% higher that day and again Friday.
One leading market guru thinks we’re just getting started. Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist for CFRA in New York, says that, based on history, the new bull market that emerged from the February-March COVID bear market could last three years. By one model, he says, that could take the S&P 500 30% higher, which would put it around 4,500 points in 2023. (Stovall has not published an official projection for 2023.)
Stovall, who’s been a market analyst and strategist for over three decades, bases his projection, in part, on sunny forecasts from his firm’s economists, who see a V-shaped economic recovery on the horizon. (He says they called the 32.9% second-quarter GDP decline almost to the percentage point.)
Speaking to me last week before Powell’s remarks, Stovall explained how rock-bottom interest rates shape his forecast.
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Dems will say there is a lag and it all began under the tutelage of Barry Soetoro. But when things go south, it's Trump's fault. Before COVID, Dems basically rooted for poor economic numbers to defeat Trump. Enter COVID and attempts at going green (not just in the US).
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People whose retirement depends on a rising market don't care who's responsible, who gets credit. But let it start going down and you will hear plenty...
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I’m upping my contributions to winred.com: I figure it’s not only investing in a stop-loss strategy, but I’ll easily recoup in the market surge afterwards.
At least I’m leaving abundant proof of where I stand.
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The WAPO in December 2018, after the Dow had dropped 800 points: It's Trump's Stock Market Now. Who am I to argue with the WAPO?
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All those newly 'created' trillions of dollars have to find a home, so the market will rise. It will not be accompanied by increased productivity though, so it will all be an inflationary illusion.
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^ Especially if interest rates are close to zero. The current choices are to buy stocks or hide it under the mattress. So people are buying stocks at just about any price. E.g., Tesla's a great story-stock, but a 1200/1 PE ratio is crazy.
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Obama: "1200/1 Profit to Earnings is evil"
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Let's hope they're not trying to set up an October Surprise Crash.
[Diogenes Middle Finger] They're so irrational it's particularly hard to work out what might be going on in that rusted amusement park in their heads, but with Antifa's almost nightly orgy of fire and violence, and black BLM members enjoying their opportunity for unbridled psychotic screaming in faces of white people and yelling at lamp post, the answer is clearly no. Why would they care about helping Biden/Harris, who's past policies helped fill america's prisons. I don't see how, believing in systemic racism and the deeply ingrained evil of America, they can think Joe Biden will further their cause. And there's a big risk that his election would deflate their energy.
The Democrats are learning, much to their chagrin, that the problem with courting and covering for chaotic anarchists and inbreed intercity soft skulls is that you can't really control them.
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BLM protesters, Antifa and the rest care little about the upcoming presidential election. They've already written it off as a Biden/Harris defeat. Their movement is much larger than a presidential election, and will likely continue beyond January.
These groups receive most of their money from the exact same sources that fund Biden and the rest of the Dem Establishment: the Act Blue SuperPAC, Google and other Woke corporations, lefty nonprofit foundations like Ford, other nonprofits like Jellogg, and the billionaire wokerati like Jobs's widow and Bezos's castoff ex-wife.
Plus the whole array of left wing shadow orgs like the Tides Foundation. And of course Soros.
All these sniveling foolish bastids thought they could ride the BLM-Antifa tiger. Now they and CNN, the NY Times and the rest are shitting their trousers because the tiger threw them off and is coming after their muppet candidate.
Least of their worries... wait til Justice starts folllowing the money trail and enforcing the campaign finance laws
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The Dems and their support to the socialist cause amounts to them being useful idiots. Don't they look at history? In EVERY socialist/communist take over the old political class, regardless of their support, are removed-usually murdered.
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Peace and prosperity are bad for Democrats. ANTIFA and BLM are here to create chaos. When they cease being useful, the money will dry up. They are disposable.
[RedState] The year was 2009. A 22-year old black man was shot and killed while being detained by police at a BART station in Oakland, CA. In the days following rioting ensued, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage occurred.
That event was considered to be the first of a new fight for civil rights. Where peaceful protests occurred, they were justifiable and necessary. The fight against police brutality is not a fight against the police. Unfortunately, the peaceful movement has been co-opted by organizations that use violence as a means of attempting to steer public policy. (see Occupy Movement, Antifa)
In 2010 and the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, cities across the country faced violent outbursts from leftist groups for years. Almost every major US city faced threats of violence from communist forces unless they cowered to the agenda. They were (and are) literally the definition of domestic terrorists. (see FBI definition of terrorism)
Michael Brown, Vonderrit Meyers, Eric Garner, Antonio Martin, Freddie Gray, Mansur Ball-Bey, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Sylville Smith, and Keith Lamont Scott. Each of these shootings of young minorities led to violent riots across the country, all of which took place before Trump ever set foot in the Oval Office. Each was met with marches that almost always turned violent with the destruction of property and the assault of citizens and police officers alike. Even up until recently, Democrats were siding with encouraging rioting and violence as a result of the treatment of minority men by police.
Yet, as Democrats march toward November, they now want to place the blame for the violence that has plagued our country for over a decade on a man who has been President for less than a third of that time.
Even if you follow beyond Trump’s inauguration (which dem protestors also turned violent), violent actions almost exclusively originate with leftist organizations and were endorsed and supported by dem leaders. If Trump truly is to blame, and Democrats believe violence and destruction are justified, either they believe that violence is an answer to a political spat or they agree Trump is bringing the necessary change to the US they claim they want.
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"Well, Amna, these so-called militias Resist, though they're highly nutritious,
And have no authority."
"Mostly majority?"
"Racists. Distasteful and vicious."
[Babylon Bee] U.S.—Democrats around the nation are growing increasingly worried that their candidate for President, Joe Biden, will live through election day, November 3rd, 2020. Biden had surprised Democrats around the nation when he spoke for an extended period of time off a teleprompter at the Democratic National Convention, causing a bit of a panic among Democratic Party operatives and voters.
This concern comes at a time when national polling among likely voters shows the race tightening between Biden and Trump, after weeks of Biden holding on to a commanding lead.
"That was the most life we’ve seen in him for a long time," said DNC spokesperson Michael Tyler.
"We all went back to the drawing board to plan a strategy that includes the possibility that Joe might actually be President if he wins on election day and goes on to live for another year or two or four," he added.
"We nominated him because he is the most inoffensive candidate we could find--and believe me we looked high and low," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez.
"Biden is a great pick for us because he reassures middle America that he isn’t a total left-wing nutjob, while at the same time, he speaks to all the left-wing nutjobs that he won’t be around for very long. If he throws a wrench in that by looking vibrant, coherent, and less than senile, I’m not sure how we are going to capture the progressive vote we aliented before in 2016."
At publishing time, the DNC was throwing the idea around that maybe they should be airing ads that make Biden look a little more on the verge of dying to reassure progressives.
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The Bee, but the Dems *do* have a Biden problem. On one hand, he'd make a great figurehead Prez which would allow all sorts of scheming and agenda-setting by the various Dem factions. But on the other, he is an old white guy - something the Woke set will not stand for. They won't vote for Trump, they just won't turn out for Biden.
Best case scenario: Biden steps aside in October to "spend more time with the family", Comma-La becomes the candidate AND they get to appoint yet another woman for the Vice Prez slot. It's a woke two-fer!
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At the party level, none of it is governed by law. It's whatever the party insiders say.
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They won't vote for Trump, they just won't turn out for Biden.
Which is why they are pushing mail-in voting. They will vote for Biden even if they don't vote for Biden!
[Communism: G. Edward Griffin] Describes Manning Johnson's book (http://www.manningjohnson.org/book/CC...), explains how, since at least the 1920s, communists have had plans to use racial agitation, violence, & socialism for communist revolution in America.
(The entire movie from which this clip derives can be watched here: https://youtu.be/Wcj_KDXn38k)
Another book worth reading and mentioned by Manning Johnson is "Reds in America" R M Whittney, which has FBI documents resulting from an Augutst 22, 1922 raided the Convention of the Communist Party at Bridgman, MI., which can be read here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f-a4...
Related video: Recorded in 1967 by Myron Fagan (1887-1972). Fagan was Jewish-American who became a famous Broadway playwright who exposed the Illuminati secret society operating within our own government, since at least 1760, that assisted in the creation of Communism and their long-term goal for a One World Government.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Free Beacon] New data from the Department of Education show that several top-tier universities, including Yale and Cornell, failed to report more than $3 billion in foreign gifts and funds—many of which come from anti-American regimes such as China and Qatar.
[Diogenes Middle Finger] They're so irrational it's particularly hard to work out what might be going on in that rusted amusement park in their heads, but with Antifa's almost nightly orgy of fire and violence, and black BLM members enjoying their opportunity for unbridled psychotic screaming in faces of white people and yelling at lamp post, the answer is clearly no. Why would they care about helping Biden/Harris, who's past policies helped fill america's prisons. I don't see how, believing in systemic racism and the deeply ingrained evil of America, they can think Joe Biden will further their cause. And there's a big risk that his election would deflate their energy.
[RedState] The year was 2009. A 22-year old black man was shot and killed while being detained by police at a BART station in Oakland, CA. In the days following rioting ensued, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage occurred.
