[Federalist] The board of Harvard unanimously voted to retain the university’s president Claudine Gay despite her public refusal to say that calls for genocide of Jewish students would contradict Harvard’s code of conduct — and subsequent allegations of past plagiarism.
"Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing," the Harvard Corporation announced in a statement on Tuesday.
...Investor and Harvard alumnus Bill Ackman claimed that Gay’s poor performance had cost Harvard more than a billion dollars. But somehow Gay survived both poor reactions from donors and allegations of plagiarism, a chief sin in academia — and it was likely not a coincidence.
Gay is the first black woman to run the university that is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious institutions in higher education.
"She assumed leadership with high expectations, but her tenure, which began this summer, has been mired in scandal," Chris Rufo reported Monday in City Journal. "As dean and then as president, Gay has been accused of bullying colleagues, suppressing free speech, overseeing a racist admissions program, and, following the Hamas terror campaign against Israel, failing to stand up to rampant anti-Semitism on campus." She landed the top job at Harvard despite having only authored 11 peer-reviewed articles, four of which have now come under allegations of plagiarism.
...So-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives such as the programs endorsed by Gay, however, have begun to replace merit-based standards in academia, government, and business, with physical characteristics becoming a factor in employment eligibility. The vice president and a Supreme Court justice were both explicitly chosen based on their sex and skin color. Began? Began!
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They knew about her plagiarism and lack of good scholarship when, if, they read her thesis. She checked the right boxes. Now her papers are being re-written to include proper quotation marks and with proper documentation. Looting is shopping without money so plagiarism is schollarly looting.
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DEI Is Welfare For People Like Claudine Gay Who Couldn't Get A Job Without Identity Politics
She might get a job at some junior college...somewhere.
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Plagiarism? Good enough to be POTUS. She can take the moptop's position as Press Secretary spokesperson.
#5
That money is earmarked for keeping inflated salaries and bonuses in place for 15 years after most of America wises up to what a scam higher education has become.
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Universities would just up their rates to cover the loss. The problem is free, unlimited money and too many 18 year olds who don't understand debt willing to sign whatever in order to "get ahead."
#7
if you have money i am not concerned where or how you spend it. The gov't (me,you,them) must not financially support any school except trade school fees which would be recovered from the wages paid to the graduate. support employment.
#8
They are still getting millions in taxpayer money. In 2020 Harvard, despite having a 40 BILLION dollar endowment, got 560,000,000 in taxpayer money. End government subsidies of colleges with huge endowments.
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They need that money to bribe politicians.
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^They bribe politicians by letting their halfwit offspring get Ivy degrees.
[American Thinker] With the conflict in Ukraine at a stalemate and the prospects of a Ukrainian "victory" dim, perhaps it would have been wise for our current administration to have followed the doctrine elaborated by Gen. Colin H. Powell before engaging in foreign conflicts. As an infantry officer in Vietnam, Powell saw firsthand the lackluster effects of the Johnson and later Nixon administrations attempting to fight a protracted proxy war against the Soviet Union through gradual escalation, as opposed to an all-out effort to defeat the enemy. Our military was burdened with extremely restrictive rules of engagement, and our force levels were only gradually increased to match those of our adversary.
Based on this experience, Gen. Powell formulated the "Powell Doctrine," which postulated that America should resort to significant foreign military intervention only if political and military leadership could positively answer the following crucial questions:
1. Is the goal clear and vital to national security? Is it achievable?
2. Do the American people support military intervention?
3. Is there a plausible and credible exit strategy to avoid perpetual war?
Under the doctrine, if the U.S. could answer yes to these questions, then decisive or even "overwhelming" force would be utilized against the enemy to end the war as quickly as possible and to minimize casualties.
As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell under President H.W. Bush had the opportunity to put his own doctrine into action during the first Gulf War, or Operation Desert Storm. Under Powell’s command, the nearly 1 million U.S. and coalition forces defeated a capable Soviet-trained enemy in less than seventy-two hours.
Contrast this today with the conflict in Ukraine, where it appears, after two years of incessant conflict and the expenditure of billions of dollars, that there will not be a clearly defined "winner." In addition, thousands of lives, both civilian and military, have been lost, and our current administration has yet defined for the American people a plausible strategy of end state other than "regime change" in the case of Vladimir Putin.
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i heard that when the Chinese entered the Korean conflict and Truman asked MacArthur what he should do the general said 'bomb Beijing'. we have the bomb and they don't. what would the aftermath have been? SEA?
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#6 the fear was the Soviets who had just gotten 'the bomb', care of American 'progressives', could do and would do the same in Europe. We'd pretty much cleared out of Europe after the war, demobilized industry, and were just in the process of redeploying sufficient forces to act as a deterrent in 1950 after the Berlin airlift. The military establishment in Washington was more worried about Europe than Korea. Like the Philippines in '41, Mac got caught by the enemy mismanaging the enterprise and was looking for a quick fix to his poor execution.
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Ref 3 5 above
Smedley Butler Was one of Two Marines to be awarded TWO Medal's of Honor!
"Smedley Butler is one of TWO Marines who received TWO Medals of Honor for SEPARATE actions, Vera Cruz, Mexico and Haiti. With his award of the Marine Corps Brevet Medal in the Boxer Rebellion, an award considered on par with the Medal of Honor, he could technically be called the only TRIPLE recipient of the Medal of Honor. During World War I he was awarded both the Army and Navy Distinguished Service Medals. He retired as a Major General in 1939"
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[RIA] The American press, covering the voyage of the Kyiv hetman to the United States, writes about everything except the true background of the event. Why was it necessary to arrange this “hastily arranged visit,” as The New York Times characterizes it?
Zelensky hoped that the flow of his eloquence would convince congressmen and senators who were dead set on the money issue? This is doubtful. It has been explained to Kiev more than once in plain text that it failed, it is his own fault, and they absolutely do not want to give him money, at least while Zelensky himself is in power there.
The bagpipe has been dragging on for more than three months with the approval of Biden's aid package to Ukraine . First they find one excuse, then another. The notorious two-party consensus on Independence, which was so waved at the beginning of the Northern Military District, has completely broken down: elections are just around the corner, what kind of consensus can there be? Zelensky can rant as much as he wants, but it won’t affect anything. By the way, realizing this, a week ago he himself refused to speak via video link to US senators.
Why did Biden need this visit? To bring your political pet into the world and ask for money for him, like people begging on the street for money to “treat a dog”? But it’s obvious that this won’t work. Everyone was tired of his dog worse than a bitter radish.
It seems that the meeting of the two leaders had deeper, personal, one might say, intimate motives. The fact is that many in Washington are really thinking about replacing Zelensky with a more manageable figure. They are thinking about the same thing in London , regularly promoting Zaluzhny.
The topic of elections hangs over Zelensky’s Sword of Damocles - he guesses that the “expression of the people’s will” will become a pretext for his masters to remove him from the chessboard. It is not difficult to guess how dangerous the loss of power is for him.
But Joe Biden is in exactly the same situation. He also has elections coming up, and he is extremely unpopular. Moreover, he faces impeachment, followed by criminal prosecution under such serious charges as, in particular, high treason. Moreover, danger threatens not only him, but also his brother Jim, and most importantly, his own blood, his son Hunter.
What is characteristic is that Vladimir Zelensky has all the information that could drown Biden. Pranks in Ukraine with multimillion-dollar bribes, Hunter’s salary in Burisma, the dismissal of Prosecutor General Shokin, organized by Joe Biden - all this is part of the crimes that Republicans accuse the current US President.
In the summer, Hunter Biden's former accomplice Devon Archer spoke before a US congressional committee on this issue. He testified under oath that Joe Biden (at that time Vice President of the United States) was aware of all the affairs of his son, participated via speakerphone in his negotiations on bribes and received kickbacks from them.
In this case, the Republicans found a witness - the former chief accountant of Burisma. However, here’s the bad luck: in the summer, this woman suddenly died - shortly before Archer made his revelations. By the way, this lady’s husband, Nikolai Lisin, a former co-owner of Burisma, also died several years ago in a mysterious accident.
As we see, someone is very interested in the Biden clan remaining in power. And the current leader of Ukraine has all the sensitive information on this issue.
For a long time, liberal American journalists did their best to sweep this inconvenient topic under the rug. However, after Archer’s official speech it became impossible to remain silent. Isn’t the US President a puppet of Kiev? Newsweek magazine, closely associated with the American intelligence services, wondered.
If this is the case, then Zelensky’s voyage looks like a completely logical event. The Kiev leader could intimidate the American leader with the available compromising evidence and demand that he be left in his post and given some money. Risky? Yes, sure. But there are still no good solutions left for Zelensky.
Biden, in turn, could try to pay off the blackmailer - with money, weapons, promises. It also does not benefit him if his political opponents replace Zelensky with their little man. This little man may well be able - in payment for his position - to publish incriminating evidence on the President of the United States.
It is no wonder that, while campaigning for help to Ukraine, Biden behaves so hysterically: he either threatens nuclear war or intimidates congressmen with “Putin’s attack.” Don’t judge the old man harshly; a lot is at stake for him now - both his own freedom and the freedom of his son.
It seems that Zelensky’s speeches before American legislators are simply the surroundings of his visit, obviously aimless and useless. The real goal of his voyage is a personal meeting with Biden. Well, you can’t discuss such delicate issues, fraught with a prison sentence, over the phone.
Mutual blackmail, rampant corruption, treason, betrayal of national interests—it’s amazing how Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky came together on topics. This would be a good plot for a political comedy - a US president who has become dependent on his minion - if both had not simultaneously ruined Ukraine and its inhabitants for the sake of their greed.
It is unknown how this clinch will end, but so far the relationship between the two leaders is well described by the words of the classic: “And we, intertwined like a pair of snakes, // Embracing tighter than two friends, // Fell at once...”
#4
Biden will give a speech with Zelensky there, and it will look and sound like Nixon with 'Checkers' the dog. For a good reason.
The Dems set up Ukraine as their money laundering clearing house, and are willing to fight to the last one of us to keep it.
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The fact is that many in Washington are really thinking about replacing Zelensky with a more manageable figure. They are thinking about the same thing in London , regularly promoting Zaluzhny.
I understand that this is Russian propaganda but it's so easy to believe because we're talking about Joe Biden and the Deep State who hate voter ID but love them some Dominion voting machines and mail in ballots.
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Zelensky's main utility was the argument "Ukrainian Nationalists are NOT Nazis - Nazis wouldn't have a Jew as Chief." But now the very people with whom this argument had weight march through western capitals calling for the death of the Jews In context).
[American Thinker] Everytime I read an article by Rick Newman at Yahoo Finance it feels like I kill more brain cells; here he says that there is only one component regarding inflation left that people have to worry about: "rent."
So, I thought I would look at some expenses that most people have to deal with on an annual or monthly basis to see if the inflation problem is really behind us. Is overall inflation really down to around 3% as mainstream pundits assure?
Less than a month ago, USA Today published an "outlook for car insurance" report, in which the analysts noted this:
Consumers shopping for the best car insurance in 2024 can expect higher prices, according to Mark Friedlander, Director of Corporate Communications at the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I).
’Car insurance rates are expected to continue to increase in 2024 due to costlier repairs, driven by parts shortages and higher costs of labor, as well as low inventories of vehicles, which generates higher costs of replacing totaled cars.’
#4
Remember, after sending over 100's of $$$ Billions to Ukraine and more to other countries. Congress saw fit to grant those of us that worked and EARNED IT, a SSA 2024 COLA of 3.2%.
Note: Using the published inflation rates, so far 2023. Us on FIXED INCOMES have seen increases totaling J6.4 + F6.0 + M5.0 + A4.9 + M4.0 + J3.0 + J3.2 + A3.7 + S3.7 + O3.2 + N3.1 = 46.2% Just for Jan to Nov. 46.2% / 11 months = 4.2% using the Gov's. own COLA process.
However, it feels more like the 46%, than 4.2% when we also add in product size SHRINKAGE and price INCREASES. Plus all the things that have been played with in the food and household supply chain.
#5
Despite not having a job since March my Medicare payments taken out of my Social Security will increase next year. I was told it's based on what I made in 2022.
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Biden ruined the economy with government mega kickbacks to the consortium of leftists that elected him. In the end, most Americans have exhausted their savings, charged up their credit cards and are living paycheck to paycheck. It is a crushing weight to carry. If the Administration has slowed the rate of inflation, with which they have burdened us, why should we now give them the congratulations that they demand? The burden remains and part of the weight that we are carrying is them. They continue to ride us with their moralism like deranged jockeys. It is time to dump the lot of them in the nearest pool of the biggest pigsty we can find.
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[American Greatness] As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) mourns the loss of their "old friend" Dr. Henry Kissinger, who passed away on November 29, it is worth noting his influence as the originator of the "Engagement School" of thought towards the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which remains the dominant voice amongst the "China Hands" of America’s foreign policy establishment. Ironically, this was exemplified the day after his death in the pages of the Council of Foreign Relations Foreign Affairs international relations magazine. It published an article entitled "Taiwan and the True Sources of Deterrence: Why America Must Reassure, Not Just Threaten, China."
The article was written by three of America’s most prominent "China Hands," Bonnie S. Glaser, Jessica Chen Weiss, and Thomas J. Christensen whose primary thesis is that U.S. deterrence against the PRC should be more than just "weapons in arsenals, boots on the ground, planes in the air, ships at sea, or strategies on the planning table." As these China Hands argue, America and Taiwan must provide "credible assurances" to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to have any effective deterrence of the PRC’s expansionist agenda.
The authors condemn "ill-advised" statements by former and current U.S. officials who have called for the United States Government (USG) to formally recognize Taiwan. The authors go so far as to demand that USG officials avoid even giving the impression that America is moving toward restoring formal diplomatic relations or a defense alliance with the island, even in the face of the PRC’s military threats against Taiwan that have dramatically spiked in the past year.
[American Greatness] A handful of the 51 signatories of the debunked letter which falsely called Hunter Biden’s laptop "Russian disinformation" are now calling on Congress to expand the scope of domestic surveillance in the United States.
As reported by the Daily Caller, the letter to House lawmakers on Tuesday was signed by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Deputy Director for the National Security Agency (NSA) Richard Ledgett, former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell, former CIA Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash, and former NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell. All five men had previously signed the controversial letter in 2020 claiming, without evidence, that information found on the recently-unearthed laptop of Hunter Biden was all "Russian propaganda" meant to influence the 2020 election.
In their new letter, the former intelligence community officials voiced their opposition to a bill that would reduce the ability of intelligence agencies to spy on Americans without a warrant. At the same time, they offered up praise for a bill that would allow surveillance of any location where internet access is provided.
"We cannot hamstring the U.S. Intelligence Community either by failing to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or by limiting it in ways that would make it difficult for the government to protect Americans," the letter reads in part. "To be clear, Section 702 saves American lives and helps keep Americans safe from international terrorist attacks, foreign cyberattacks, overseas fentanyl suppliers, and other threats to our national security. There’s no substitute for it."
In recent weeks, the House Judiciary Committee has been working on possible reforms to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the controversial provision which ultimately allowed the intelligence agencies to spy on then-candidate Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, under the false pretenses that he was "colluding" with Russia.
"Reasonable minds might disagree on the details of the various reforms that might be needed, even as included in the [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] bill," they add. "But it presents a rigorous approach to the challenges and attempts in a responsible way to balance privacy protections and our nation’s safety."
Despite the claims in their 2020 letter, numerous mainstream media outlets eventually verified the authenticity of Hunter’s laptop and all of the information contained on it, which included details about Hunter’s numerous foreign business deals, his efforts to sell access to his father while he was Vice President, as well as his frequent drug use and solicitation of prostitutes, among other scandalous revelations.
It has since been revealed that the letter was orchestrated by the Biden campaign, under the direction of then-campaign advisor Antony Blinken, who now serves as Biden’s Secretary of State.
[EPOCH TV] "During the special counsel's appointment, he—Jack Smith—went to the Biden administration and requested a waiver of that privilege for the first time that I'm aware of in U.S. history. And the only person that can deliver a waiver of the presidential privilege is the president of the United States. And Joe Biden, by allowing the prosecution to continue, presumptively proves he received that waiver, plus the pleadings that Jack Smith has put forth in his prosecution in the Washington, D.C., case."
Kash Patel is former President Donald Trump's senior adviser and author of "Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy." In this episode, we discuss recent developments in the Trump indictment, misleading headlines by the media, and whether section 702 of FISA will be reauthorized.
"Last year alone, Chris Wray’s FBI unlawfully used 702, a component of the FISA program, which is used to collect foreign intelligence against foreign threats to the United States. Chris Wray’s FBI used it 27[8],000 times illegally in that one year. That's not Kash Patel saying it. That's the report from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that was issued in April of 2022," says Mr. Patel.
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Lesley Wolf, the Assistant US Attorney from the Delaware US Attorney’s office central to the IRS Whistleblower’s claims of slow walking the Hunter Biden investigation, is no longer with the Department of Justice, according to a source familiar with the situation.
[Breitbart] The State of Israel is fighting the Palestinian Hamas terror organization in Gaza, but that is just one front in an ongoing war against terror groups and their sponsors. In fact, Israel currently faces at least five enemies on five fronts. They are:
1. Hamas – Gaza and the West Bank. Israel has invaded Gaza and is determined to destroy Hamas’s capabilities there. But Hamas also has terror cells in the West Bank, and they have carried out several attacks in the weeks since the war started.
2. Hezbollah – Lebanon. The Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah has been launching sporadic attacks on Israel’s northern region since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. Israel has kept its response restrained, but faces the prospect of a broader war.
3. Syria. Syria has been formally in a state of war with Israel for decades. Russia and Iran have turned Syria into a puppet after intervening for Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war, and there have been attacks on Israel from across the Syrian border.
4. Houthis – Yemen. Iran backs the Houthi rebels — whom President Joe Biden delisted as a terror group in 2021 — and they have been firing missiles and launching drones against Israel, as well as seizing ships and threatening Red Sea shipping lanes.
5. Iran. Iran is the force behind all of the terror groups and client states attacking Israel; the rest of the Arab world had been moving toward peace with the Jewish state, under the Abraham Accords. Meanwhile, Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons.
The list could be longer, since there are Iranian-backed militias in Iraq that are attacking U.S. forces as a proxy for Israeli targets.
Israel also has peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, and participates in the Abraham Accords with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. None of those countries has abandoned peace with Israel since the start of the ongoing war.
All of the enemies that Israel faces, in fact, are controlled by the Iranian regime. Hamas has been disappointed that its attack on October 7, while celebrated by protests in Arab cities and on western university campuses, has not let to broader Arab support.
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All of the enemies that Israel faces, in fact, are controlled by the Iranian regime.
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Globalism has multiple meanings. In political science, it is used to describe "attempts to understand all the interconnections of the modern world—and to highlight patterns that underlie (and explain) them". While primarily associated with world-systems, it can be used to describe other global trends. The concept of globalism is also classically used to focus on the ideologies of globalization (the subjective meanings) instead of its processes (the objective practices); in this sense, "globalism" is to globalization what "nationalism" is to nationality.
The term is now frequently used as a pejorative by far-right movements and conspiracy theorists, as in the New World Order conspiracy theory. False usage in this way has also been associated with antisemitism, as antisemites frequently appropriate the term globalist to refer to Jews.
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A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.
The geo-political axis of commie globalists.
The cultural axis of the woke mind virus.
The terror axis of the shia crescent led by iran.
And what I would call the political pressure front of non-aligned bloc of anti-west nations. Aligned only in being anti all things American: Russia, China, Venezuela, N.Korea, etc.
The Chans are full of anti-semites.
And I hang out on the Chans.
I never heard anyone insult a jew by calling them a globalist. That's silly. And I never heard a globalist referenced as jew. Except for the cliche Jews control the world meme.
Is there a such thing as false usage of false usage.
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In terms of intellectuality, reflective means a willingness to re-examine previously held positions with the strength to admit past considerations were incorrect.
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The terror axis of the shia crescent led by iran.
And the other terror axis of the Sunnis led by multiple points — Turkey, overly pious Gulf Arabs (but I think not the government of Saudi Arabia any longer, or not as openly), Al Qaeda and ISIS franchises, all those other feeder groups around the world…
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Though to be fair, on reflection it occurs to me that the non-Iran client Sunnis have targets more local than Israel, making my dreadfully clever point utterly moot. Bummer. :-(
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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