[Free Beacon] A majority of American parents are unaware that China, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar are among the top financiers of U.S. universities and are worried that foreign cash is influencing what their children are taught in the classroom, according to a recent poll.
Nearly 60 percent of those interviewed in the September poll said they were not aware that the countries are major donors to U.S. universities. The poll was commissioned by the Lawfare Project, a nonprofit advocacy group that tracks campus issues.
Qatar’s presence in the U.S. academic system was concerning to parents when they learned about the small Gulf nation’s deep ties to Iran and terrorist organizations such as Hamas and the Taliban. Eighty-four percent of those surveyed said American schools should publicly disclose their ties to Qatar and explain how the money could be coloring the in-class agenda, according to the poll, which surveyed 2,009 adults last month and was provided exclusively to the Washington Free Beacon.
While extensive foreign funding of American universities has raised alarms in Congress and among advocacy groups such as the Lawfare Project, ordinary American parents are not aware of the issue. This is partly because American schools do not publicly disclose their funding and in many cases try to hide their ties to adversarial nations like China. Foreign countries see the U.S. academic system as central to their propaganda efforts, including anti-Israel initiatives. In the case of countries such as China, they seek to steal cutting-edge research. More than 80 percent of those surveyed said Congress should enact legislation requiring schools to publicly account for every foreign donation.
Around 70 percent of those surveyed said they were concerned that foreign donations influence teaching and research priorities. In Qatar’s case, the country has spent billions running propaganda efforts in at least 28 American universities, generating concerns these donations run afoul of U.S. law. With anti-Semitism and anti-Israel attitudes increasing on many American campuses, foreign money has helped foment these movements, including at the University of North Carolina and Duke University—both of which have been embroiled in a long-running controversy over Qatar’s funding of programs critics see as anti-Semitic.
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Just like most American television viewers are unaware of all the business that parent corporations of ABC, CBS and NBC do in China.
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The Gulf donations have been reported since the 1980s, the Communist Chinese donations for at least a decade. Presumably the same people who don’t “know” also fervently believe the New York Times and NPR.
[GatewayPundit] WION Gravitas, a popular prime-time show in India that brings viewers news and discussions on concurrent issues and across the globe, exposed in a recent episode how Pfizer bullies and blackmails countries for shots and took a hard line in the push for profit.
A non-profit organization called Public Citizen obtained a confidential unredacted Pfizer contract of some of its negotiations. The contracts show how Pfizer can stop countries from speaking about its contracts, block vaccine donations, unilaterally change delivery schedules and demand public assets as collateral.
I would dearly love to know how these contracts compare to the usual purchase agreement for other proprietary materials before I agree that I need to get upset. After all, 60 Minutes is a popular prime time show in America, and we all know how trustworthy their reports are.
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India, which has a large state controlled (if not owned) pharmaceutical industry, wants all IPO restrictions dropped ... for the children! They have been threatening to ignore all foreign patents for many year.
[Mercer] It matters not that the few "Republican governors crusading against vaccine mandates are [allegedly] facing significantly lower approval ratings on their handling of the coronavirus pandemic than their counterparts," as Politico purports. (Don’t believe Politico!)
What matters are governors like Texas’ Greg Abbott, who "flat-out banned vaccine requirements, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, followed up by vowing to sue the Biden administration."
These two governors are unique in upholding natural, inalienable, individual rights—the right of self ownership, bodily dominion; the stuff mocked by President Joe Biden, wearing a ghoulish grin.
Biden’s remark came at a recent, highly contrived CNN townhall, during which "moderator Anderson Cooper noted that as many as one in three emergency responders in some major cities are refusing to comply with city vaccine mandates."
"I’m wondering where you stand on that," inquired Cooper. "Should police officers, first responders be mandated to get vaccines? And if not, should they be mandated to stay at home, let go?"
"Yes, and yes," replied the president.
Disinterred for the day, Biden went on to mock the quaint notion of bodily autonomy with a demented quip, "I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID. I mean, come on, freedom."
Were our representatives to frame the vexatious question of vaccine mandates in the correct language of natural rights—self-ownership and individual privacy—we’d get the right answers, more likely to be followed by rights-upholding legislation.
But are Republican representatives doing so? Are our representatives who art in D.C. doing anything but wait in Tucker Carlson’s green room?
When it comes to Covid-19, only the following arguments are permissible as an objection to the Covid vaccine mandate. "Exemptions from employer-mandated coronavirus vaccines [are] in [these] three general areas: natural immunity, religious objection, [and] medical objection."
One hears also a perfectly calm case being made on the Left for outcome-based coercion: rights-violations work well to bring about vaccine-compliance, so let’s violate us some rights.
Dr. Leana Wen’s positions reveal the scandal of coercion:
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This was never about a virus. It was always about the 'vaccines.'
They failed to sell us socialism, so instead we are being replaced. We're being killed off in hospitals and with mandatory 'vaccination.' What's left of the middle class will be destroyed with inflation and shortages (more inflation).
Meanwhile our replacements are streaming across the border. They are no longer needed for their votes - Dominion has that covered. They aren't being tested or vaccinated - they are wanted here. Because they *will* accept socialism and be happy for it.
[News With Views] Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. —Hannah Arendt, quote from The Origins of Totalitarianism
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. —Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So, information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build, a defense against repetition. —Simon Wiesenthal, Baltimore Jewish Times, 1989
Communism is a system based around a theory of economic equality and advocates for a classless society. Fascism is a nationalistic, top-down system with rigid class roles ruled by an all-powerful dictator. Communism originated in Europe, but when it failed to take root, they immigrated to the "land of the free" in 1848.
Over 13 communists were high level officers in the Union Army. Karl Marx wrote a number of letters to President Lincoln, knowing that the war would ultimately give the centralized federal government absolute power over the states, and we’ve seen this time and again with state laws being overturned by a federal court.
After Lincoln’s assassination, President Johnson also received letters from Karl Marx. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 placed Southern governments under military rule for ten long years, and technically for the two years prior to the Act. The South had to pledge to vote for Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes as president in order to end reconstruction. Thousands of government officials were removed from office in the South and replaced with military commanders. It was a very brutal time for the southern population.
Punished With Poverty by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy explodes the myths taught in our government schools and tells the unvarnished story of the intentional policy of economic devastation and exploitation of the South which has affected all Southerners, both black and white, long after the close of the "Civil War" and "Reconstruction." In fact, the sad legacy of these punitive policies continues to this very day.
The despotic seeds of tyranny were planted in America long ago and have now come to fruition. Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, Fauci’s filthy NIH, Bill Gates’ Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Soros Foundations and Big Pharma are making huge profits via the propaganda spewed by their comrades in our Pravda media.
Lobbyists for Big Pharma are filling the coffers of federal and state politicians to promote the lies of the FDA, NIH, CDC, medical journals and AMA on a virus 99.8% of the people recover from. Billions are being made, but hard data proves Big Pharma knew Covid jabs would worsen and prolong the virus.
There are powerful forces at work, far more powerful than we can possibly know, who are influencing anyone in a position of authority. History is repeating itself. What we saw in the 20th century is again rearing its demonic head in the 21st century.
Hitler’s burgeoning power seemingly happened in a short period of years, yet strategy and planning were years ahead of the regime change and "insurrection."
[American Thinker] Unbelievable. That's really the only way to describe the never-ending onslaught of bad news and incredible occurrences that are exploding in our daily lives. Just when you think it couldn't get any worse, that they can't be serious, that it seems as if the "Biden" administration's sole goal is to make each person's life as wretchedly painful as possible, BAM! — another incredible misery warhead detonates on our reality.
So far, in only nine months, the Biden war machine has inflicted almost incomprehensible damage on the American people:
Rising Inflation
With their excessive government spending and totally over-the-top COVID unemployment assistance (to the point that far too many people are completely disincentivized from going back to work), inflation has roared back with a vengeance not seen in decades. The economy is reeling, household budgets are upside-down, and everyone's purchasing power is melting away before our eyes. The government stutters and yammers about it being "transitory," but everyone can see that's simply not true.
High Energy Prices
After pipeline cancelations and the widespread rescinding of oil exploration leases, the administration has accomplished its mission: it's sent the world's oil market the unmistakable, intentional message that America is no longer interested in being a top-tier oil producer. Predictably, the price of crude oil has risen from the $40s/bbl to the mid-$80s/bbl. Gasoline and heating oil are more expensive now than we ever thought they'd be again.
Vaccine Mandates
These are not "vaccines." A real vaccine prevents disease and prevents the transmission of that disease. These do neither. (To their credit, if you "read between the lines" and paid close attention in the beginning, the drug-makers never said they were traditional vaccines — only that they would mitigate the symptoms to some degree and reduce the severity of the infection.) These are really nothing more than therapeutics, with bad side effects. Safer, more effective, and cheaper therapeutics already exist, like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. But the government's politically motivated refusal to encourage or even allow any mention or use of these proven therapeutics is further evidence that the entire COVID debacle has been hijacked by Progressives to rig elections and wrest control of the country. They need to perpetuate the public's fear of the COVID crisis in order to maintain their control of the voting process and they are doing everything they can toward that end.
Betraying the Average American
Progressives have proposed new taxes on unrealized capital gains and Roth IRAs. This is a betrayal of the American people, pure and simple. Millions of people have invested and planned their family's finances in good faith based on the rules that were in effect at the time of the original investment. Now Progressives want to change the rules after the game has started? This is beyond belief.
American Hostages Ignored
This administration abandoned hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan by evacuating our military before all the civilians were out. How is that even remotely possible? What genius approved that plan? Just because the liberal media (network news, the N.Y. Times, the Washington Post, CNN/MSNBC, et al.) don't continually trumpet, "The president has abandoned American hostages to the Taliban!" the way they would if it were President Trump, that doesn't mean it's not true. It's just further proof of how corrupt the liberal media are and how totally gullible and ignorant the average Progressive voter is.
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There is some speculation about crude oil going to $180. per barrel. If anything close to that happens, the economy will suffer like we've never seen in any of our lifetimes.
In re-reading it, I was even surprised of how many historical similarities there are between the Biden/DC Swamp driven Coup and King George of England in 1776.
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A good bellwether of when a revolution starts in any country is the food prices jumping by 20% or more. Most people can't afford that and it usually is combined with food shortages.
Well right now we have a 17% food cost jump and food shortages. How much longer before some red states say "Enough" and jump?
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There is some speculation about crude oil going to $180. per barrel. If anything close to that happens, the economy will suffer like we've never seen in any of our lifetimes.
Besoeker, that's probably within 10% of what the price of crude oil was in 2008 if you take into account 30% worth of inflation.
And between then and now about half the oilfield has been driven out of business with whips and scourges.
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Anyone heard anything about those Chinese ships anchored off the California coast?
New Rumor
Filled with Chinese Soldiers and Military Equipment ready for the "Thanksgiving Day Invasion". The ship that caught fire 🔥 off the Canadian Coast almost gave the "element of surprise" away. (Soldiers were warming up their Won Ton Soup ration / fire 🔥 got out of control) ☲
Now, Don't think the USG wants to "move the cargo" anytime soon, after all Biden is Xi's boy, and he'll do as he is told by the CCP.
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No 'airlift required', The cargo is color coded,
brown = military equipment
red = personnel & medical facilities
blue = food & water
green = air support (missiles, drones, lightening helicopters)
white = new clothes for New American Coopted followers
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So look, when you have a Donut as President &
a Donut Hole for Vice President,
don't expect a lot in the way of National Defense.
But you already knew that right ?
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I don't understand how there has been a MAJOR adverse reaction to the Transportation Secretary's latest actions and inactions. IF we were willing to pretend that every other aspect of this faux administration were top-notch, his actions and inactions have been that of a buffoon and fireable offenses. Where are the Republicans beating the drum for his removal???
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Filled with Chinese Soldiers and Military Equipment ready for the "Thanksgiving Day Invasion"
A Chinese invasion would be even less effective than our recent attempt in Afghanistan. Perhaps if they sent their entire million man army... An invasion after releasing a plague wouldn’t be any more effective, given the demonstrated uselessness of their vaccine development program, even with the head start of knowing what they were dealing with.
The cargo is color coded,
Mr. Wife had never heard of such a thing, despite a decade working as a purchasing department head
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.
.... raised alarms in Congress
[Mercer] It matters not that the few "Republican governors crusading against vaccine mandates are [allegedly] facing significantly lower approval ratings on their handling of the coronavirus pandemic than their counterparts," as Politico purports. (Don’t believe Politico!)
