Title of the article is wrong it is not "Qatar’s War for Young American Minds", ,but it should be "How American Universities sold American students to the highest bidder".
Problem in US universities is not Qatar that is giving them money, but Elite Universities which have no issue taking it. Elite Universities have trned themselves in Hedge Funds with enormuse enowments, with side business in education for pupouse of avoiding taxes.
Untill we start taxing unspent endowments, we will be trapped in current situations, where only focus is amassing $$$ no matter how dirty they are
I have said this before. If we were a truly moral country we would cut all ties with China, Russia and most if not all Islamic countries. China is a brutal dictatorship that is actively practicing genocide. And Russia is well, Russia. The Muslim nations treat women like shit, brutalize, murder them, practice honor killings and practice modern day slavery.
Why would anybody want anything to do with them. Well, the ultra left wing companies like Apple and Nike love the police state of China but it's OK because they are compassionate Democrats.
Amen to that. But we'd have to do our own manufacturing and we'd hate to give good jobs to working class people, and also, too, what would the Wokes have to whine about if we cut off all those asshole nations at the knees?
Right. If we could only transfer 80% of America's law students and lawyers, gender studies, etc. to the engineering, manufacturing, mining, agricultural, resource-based sectors, we might be able to make up for the shortfall in conventional and critical materials that China, Russia, et al, are about to impose on America.
I'm guessing those auto workers, who just settled their contract with three of the big auto makers for a 25% wage increase are making gobs more than many college graduates.
They might believe the work is beneath them, but the auto workers are laughing all of the way to the bank.
ahh, don't disregard the power of the almighty dollar. everything is for sale for the right price, including one's soul. The Left is all lawn signs - "SJW! BLM! Me Too! Love is love and Trans rights are human rights!" until the bucks pour in and just like that, they they're in the back pockets of brutal misogynistic, racist, homophobic, dictatorial regimes.
Polecat, here are some phrases about which you and others posting about the leveraged buyout of elite schools might want to learn more. I have an ice cold feeling you will be hearing much more about this very soon. So here they are:
* de-risking
* managing interdependence
* nothing less than a transformation of US government
* economic security apparatus
* the new Washington consensus (my favorite synonym for "let me cure your wrong thinking by gently pressing this pillow over your face while you sleep")
And where are these gems to be found? Why, the November/December 2023 issue of Foreign Affairs Magazine, aka the Gideon Bible of Those We Must Obey. Now don't fire those steel tipped darts at me just yet. The article, by two professors, one from Johns Hopkins, the other, Georgetown is actually worth reading. They have lifted the usual paywall so at least we can be forewarned.
Summarizing, the thesis: free markets in last 40-50 years have brought us to a place where western economies are so interdependent with potentially hostile nations, that government initiated withdrawal from those economies is now an issue of economic and national security. Therefore, the US government must undergo "nothing less than a total transformation" through establishment of an "economic security apparatus" to mesh with emerging European and Japanese models. That is "de-risking", a term coined by European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen (she of the Minimum Global Tax coven).
There is plenty to think about here, without automatically trashing all the ideas because of the source. The "one if by land, two if by sea" alarm is that Biden and his successor (still think Trump can win? O......K.....) will be implementing whatever comes next. Maybe start by finding a blank marble facade somewhere in DC to chisel the new national mottos. Who said there are no artisans left?
Is this all tangential to the main article about entangling foreign alliances with cunning sheiks in American higher ed? I think it's another loop in the global tangle, but I know the readers won't hold back with your thoughts. At least that's still something to depend on.
Everything in America has been sold to the highest bidder, especially the souls of the "elites". No difference between the DIEvy League and The World Cup, which was just hosted in Qatar thanks to bribery. I wrote an open letter to all American university trustees on the actions they need to take on campus insanity: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-get-into-harvard-open-letter-to-trustees
This has been a pet subject of mine for some years.
Back in the 1980s and 90s, people who represented a particular group’s interests to the government, were called “lobbyists”. Back then, liberals hated lobbyists. These lobbyists represented horrible things like the tobacco industry and the gun industry, and it was clear to the mainstream media that the government was unduly influenced by these people. This was bad.
Fast forward to the last 20 years, and boy have times changed! Now we call these people, activists, and they are revered by “liberals” far and wide. Activists now represent “wonderful” things like Big Pharma, and Hamas, and the offshore whale-killing wind power industry, and the gender surgery, industry, and these “liberals” are happy that the “activists” have great sway over the government, which appears to indulge their every whim. This is seen as good.
Raziel, for once I totally agree with you! They should NOT have tax exempt status for ANY donations. The elites really believe in their own purity of purpose and justify ANYTHING if it will increase the bottom line.
The money spent by qatar and others like the Saudis at places like Harvard, Georgetown and Stanford, are often associated with Middle East Studies. For example, Wikipedia cites an endowed chair at Georgetown, funded by Libya, going to a close associate of Yassir Arafat. The whole piece tells a story though, of Arab oil money basically buying a department to teach its world view.
Power of not being taxed should not be used to directly undermine our democracy and its values. Either you are educational institution that trys to educate as much people as possible (tax exempt), or you are hedge fund with side bussies in education (should be taxed, because cleary you goal is not to educate people any more).
"The power to tax should not be a political weapon in the hands of governments"
I agree with your sentiment. I also believe it should not be used to pick economic winners and losers. Too bad for both of us that legislators writing tax laws believe that power should be used to enrich themselves and and the corporate patrons financing their beach front properties.
Harvards $50B endowment works out to $5 million for each of the 10,000 students. The donations are tax deductible.
Either we let Harvard self fund tuition, end the deduction for gifts to well endowed universities, or tax Harvards endowment directly. Why fund entities that don’t need funding?
It’s the Saudi Arabia business model. Placate the US while supporting terrorism to remain valid in the Arab world. The 9/11 hijackers predominantly Saudi.
"Eisenman notes, 'those characteristics describe the United States no less than Qatar and don’t prevent Northwestern from maintaining campuses in Evanston and Chicago.'"
It's hard to imagine a place more racially and socially unequal than Qatar. 320,000 immensely wealthy citizens control and live with dramatically greater rights than the other 2.3 million residents of Qatar.
This piece is as much additional sad commentary on the sad state and hypocrisy of higher education as it is about the Qatari influence specifically.
I didn't intend to imply I thought indentured servitude was any less a way of exploiting people. I thought there are significant differences from classic enslavement which need to be recognised - such as the indentured do receive some sort of financial renumeration (paltry as that may be), the term of their labour is usually defined - rather than being lifelong and they cannot be bought and sold like commodities.
a friend of mine was toured the area as a musician. He described a decadent elite, mercenaries and bodyguards on the payroll, and a vast underclass no one cared about.
Sociologically the stratification of Qatar more closely resembles Feudalism. An enormously rich class of overlords who own everything, serviced by a vassal class who have extremelly limited rights.
Freedom of speech protects criticism of American government when the intent is productive - to improve the country you love, just as you criticize a child. That quote is hate speech - it is intended to incite hate of America. The only action implied is to hate and is self-destructive.
Islam shares their hatred of Jews. That hates seems to be mutually powerful enough that Leftists are willing to look the other way when it comes to Islam's treatment of women, while the Muslims they cut deals with are similarly willing to largely look the other way when it comes to Leftists' celebration of sex and intoxicants.
The past couple of weeks have been very ironic. The same people who were screaming that conservatives (and indeed anyone who disagreed with their Far Left views) were Nazis have now revealed themselves to be pro-Nazi.
That irony has been going on for a while now if you consider the Corporate Media’s sycophantic press on the Azov Battalion and other fascistic anti-semitic groups in Ukraine. All those wokies with their flag emojis should have been a clear signal.
They don’t see it as “bought.” They see it as “supported.” As in not building an other inch of a border “ wall,” but installing “barriers” to slow the influx of illegals. Or changing the definition of “vaccine” to include an experimental drug that does not prevent the disease. Malleable definitions can be very useful.
I am wondering if the US Special Forces will be willing to assist the IDF in tracking down these Hamas leaders for covert executions now that it is beyond obvious what they are doing. Also wondering what Qatar will do once these fermin are eradicated on their soil.
Bari, please do one on China too. China is also pumping tons of $$$ into US universities, and our university administrators have sold their souls lapping it all up.
Clearly true as regards many. I think it should likewise be obvious there are many who keep a far lower profile and some who are both Iranian and Qatari …and then there is the need for secure escape intel.
In a much broader implementation of this same policy…this is how the IDF should respond and minimize shelling and ground fighting.
My son is two and pretty clearly left-handed. When I was a kid, my grandmother would have never allowed that, even if it was naturally your more dominant hand. I distinctly remember her scolding one of my cousins for putting his fork in his left hand. This was the 90’s, so not long ago.
She was the most wonderful, kind person I’ve ever met. No idea what her hang-up on left-handed was was.
Human social history is filled with many completely batshit crazy things. I will note that gauche is the French word for left, and sinister and sinistral are also both related to the left.
At root, our experience is truly unrooted. We don't have personal experience of God, in general, much less any revelation, so we all feel fear. This fear leads to conformity, and conformity leads to violence against the different.
Individualism and rationality and science are the most beautiful things--at least for the planet as a whole--the human spirit has yet built, and most current colleges attack all three daily.
I have personal experience with God every day. All I need to do is look outside or talk to my son or daughter on the phone. It's too bad so many want to look so far and wide to explain what is right in front of our senses.
Time to wake up and face the truth We are living in a kleptocracy. From our felonious president down, most of our elected officials are on the take. You know those who are not because they live normal lives like you and me. Of course the ones who take corporate handouts are their bought lapdogs but they aren't the worst. Although the sweetheart deals they make usually cost our dollars, our heath and our liberties. No. The worst are those who take foreign cash to sell out their countries. To do the bidding of tyrants, authoritarians and now butchers of innocents. There's a term for that and the penalty is usually death. And the prime culprit most likely sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But as the evidence mounts up, his days of raking in foreign cash for favors are looking shorter and shorter.
I'd like to think so, but he controls the Justice Department so he won't be charged with any crime, and his party controls the Senate so he won't be removed from office by impeachment. And, if he survives another year, he is running even in the polls with Trump for another four years.
I don't like being the bearer of gloom and doom, Herr F, but as long as Trump is alive, he is our version of the concrete block chained to Vinnie's ankles when they fish him out of 'da river. Look what happened today to Congressman Emmer's bid for Speaker of the House. All it took was a hard stare and a shake of the head from Trump for House Republicans to fold like a soggy diaper. If by a cosmic star shower someone else is nominated, he runs as head of his own party. If he is convicted, he runs. If he is in jail he runs via a proxy stand in. If he is the nominee, and loses in a year when Republicans could win the Senate and add seats in the House, he declares himself head of the government in exile, and establishes a new party to rival the
Republicans. Why? "Because they were so disloyal to me, and so terribly NASSSSTY!" Don't count on Father Time solving the problem. There is enough "mean" charged in his battery to last decades. He will never. leave. the. stage.
Thast is depressing. The Republicans, if there are any left, will have to deal with losing again. I wonder if they think it's worth it? Of course if they get re-elected that's all they really care about. As long as the gravy train keeps running they'll stay on board. Between the Democrats and the Republicans, I think that the US is on a downward spiral and I don't know what it will take to reverse it. I'm old enough to believe that it won't happen in my lifetime.
It's 3:36 AM where I am. Couldn't believe I got such a quick reply-looks like you're a night owl too.
Headed for bed now, but just a quick hit on the downward spiral you mentioned. The problem is, human's are like other animals- we may hate the circumstances, but we can adapt to anything i.e., being a Jew in Egypt (or really anywhere anytime it seems), being a Christian in Spain during Moorish rule, a Cambodian (survivor) during Pol Pot, and on and on and.........
Maybe we are at that point in the US. We are so disappointed in all the lies, the grifters (looking at you Matt Gaetz) the incompetence, year in and out, over and over, rinse/repeat, that we simply cope and endure all the decay around us. Much of the anger we see comes from the sense that all we can do is yell at the TV network "news", post on these forums, or mumble to no one in particular.
In our case, we have a 21 year old son who plans to apply to medical school, so I can't roll up in a ball. I need to at least hope times will improve during his life, but like so many others what kind of impact can I have, really. Where we live we are pretty much in step with the prevailing social/political climate, but I know there are a great many more in large urban areas who think we should be in Hillary Clinton's re education
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. One of the things I like about the site is that most people are civil in their responses even when the disagree. I'm probably fortunate that I'm nearing the end of my life and won't have to see the coming destruction that happens before the turnaround.
Youre son, being in medical school will have the oportunity to make a positive difference in people's lives. My son is a musician and music teacher and my daughter is an artist so both of them can make a positive difference.
I'm awake because I live in Thailand. We're 12 hrs. ahead of EST.
Most US universities are 5th columns at war with America and traditional western values in general. They no longer need financial help, either. It's time to call on the Federal Government and private citizens alike to end all aid and endowments to public universities.
Contrary to commonly held ideas, churches DO pay taxes! Payroll tax, sales tax, county and city tax, and any funds that cannot be attributed to operational expenses. Check it out!
As I said, anything over operating costs gets taxed, the same as any other 501C3 organization, such as BLM! I was on a church bord of directors, and it was always our task to make sure the funds were properly allocated. By the way, most churches work under the same strictures as any other non-profit. There is plenty of monkey business that goes along with it, but most comply as required.
People always look at those mega-churches and think that most churches are just money machines when, in fact, MOST churches are rather small, usually under 100 people. Only 2% reach over 1000 people.
Yes, let's distinguish between the smallish Catholic parish (mine) with one priest who lives with his sister and brother-in-law (by choice, since there is a house next to the church) and well, the Jim and Tammy Faye Baker excess. Gosh that was a crazy good movie on Tammy Faye (watched it on a flight back from Europe).
Check out the donations to the Clinton Foundation from certain Arab states while HRC was SOS; many accepted without seeking the required approval. At least $1 million from Qatar (estimates ranged from $1 - 5 million), with funds being meant for the "Women and Girls Initiative". Yeah, sure.
What a much more powerful statement it would have been at the time to publicly denounce accepting those funds.
What better way to destroy their enemy , the USA than by controlling the academies. The poisoning of our youth with the woke ideology is somehow connected to this Qatari money trail. Diabolical to secretly support the teaching of thought streams they disagree with on Islamic grounds, for the sole purpose of destroying their perceived enemy ....America and western culture.
The "Greatest Generation" produced the "Stupidest Generation" which is now dismantling what their forebearers saved.
BY the way, I just read your bio and wish that you were my neighbor. We could have some knockdown, drag out discussions capped off with a strong drink and some laughs!
Haidt and Lukianoff summed it up in The Coddling of the American Mind. I'm Australian but the Woke are just as strong here, if not worse. Who would have thought the democrcacy and prosperity they fought for would lead to their grandchildren being susceptible to getting turned into soft dupes? I was uncharacteristically speechless when my 15 year old granddaughter told me she is queer (I'm pretty confident she won't actually turn out that way) Unfortunately she lives a long way away and I have little influence in her life. Several grandchildren of close friends call themselves trans...a 10 yr old is going on to puberty blockers. When I did my degree in Visual Art in 2000 (as an adult) I encountered Foucault, Lacan et al and shuddered at what the nihiism of their beliefs could lead to....now are witnessing it unfolding in my lifetime.
I wish you were my neighbour! We are currently in a dispute with the ones we have over their wish to replace our boundary fence with a 6 foot high solid metal wall....this kind of penning yourself in is what some young people think is desirable.
If you were in Sydney and in your 20s and 30s, in the mid-sixties you would have seen the roots of todays problems in Australia. Less so in Melbourne and barely visible in Perth.
I was born in New Zealand, early 60s and have lived in Australia (married an ozzzie) since 86.
Hahahaha...rather than having observed the flourishing of post mordernism/structuralism ideology, until recently I was part of the problem. Starting with having lived in the notorious cult community Centrepoint in NZ. I had 2 babies to 2 different fathers and depended on welfare until I was in my 30s. I only "woke up" about the corruption of the left in 2017 when I was told that I had to believe men can turn into women. Even for an ex greenie tree hugger like me, I wasn't going to jump into that abyss of insanity. I call myself a conservative these days and still suffering trauma from what I've learned about Woke
Pearl, thanks to Robert Moore I have also just read your bio. The story of the Australian Light Horse Brigade and the Battle of Beersheba was fascinating. As for those hypocritical women at the Australian wearable art group, fancy them suggesting you reflect on your thought crimes! A criminal for having a sensible mainstream opinion. Well done for making them capitulate.
Perth began to change during the Vietnam war, when US sailors took R&R in Perth and brought Thai drugs into the country. Within a week of the sailors landing, Perth was flooded with hard drugs, mainly heroine, opium, and amphetamines. They had been avaiable in Sydney 5 yrs. earlier, brought in by middle easterners. Lebanese hashish was very popular, and the Italians controlled the heroine trade.
I am deeply grateful that my Greatest Gen parents didn't manage to adopt until they were in their late 40s. By then they'd had the chance to see just how badly wrong their peers had gone with parenting. That allowed them to avoid a lot of those errors in raising me.
"Al Jazeera aired a weekly program hosted by Muslim Brotherhood cleric, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, between 1996 and 2013. al-Qaradawi was denounced by the Anti-Defamation League in 2013—the same year that Northwestern signed its agreement with Al Jazeera—as the “theologian of terror.” In one 2009 sermon aired on the network, he said: “I will shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus I will seal my life with martyrdom.” "
So, has al-Qaradawi carried out his 2009 promise? Is he enjoying his virgins now? Probably not, the jihadi leadership are never the ones who strap on the suicide vests.
“Hamas’s senior leaders has donated billions to American universities. Here’s why.”
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Is it because they know David French will write a column about how seditious conspiracy is pluralism, while also asserting based on nothing that pluralism is good? That’s it isn’t it.
Title of the article is wrong it is not "Qatar’s War for Young American Minds", ,but it should be "How American Universities sold American students to the highest bidder".
Problem in US universities is not Qatar that is giving them money, but Elite Universities which have no issue taking it. Elite Universities have trned themselves in Hedge Funds with enormuse enowments, with side business in education for pupouse of avoiding taxes.
Untill we start taxing unspent endowments, we will be trapped in current situations, where only focus is amassing $$$ no matter how dirty they are
I have said this before. If we were a truly moral country we would cut all ties with China, Russia and most if not all Islamic countries. China is a brutal dictatorship that is actively practicing genocide. And Russia is well, Russia. The Muslim nations treat women like shit, brutalize, murder them, practice honor killings and practice modern day slavery.
Why would anybody want anything to do with them. Well, the ultra left wing companies like Apple and Nike love the police state of China but it's OK because they are compassionate Democrats.
Amen to that. But we'd have to do our own manufacturing and we'd hate to give good jobs to working class people, and also, too, what would the Wokes have to whine about if we cut off all those asshole nations at the knees?
The Wokes would be too busy working in American factories, putting in 60 hours a week.
Do you do stand up?
Only when I'm on my feet.
So yeah, the DoorDash generation is not going to “lower” themselves to factory work. “Gosh darn it, I have a degree in gender studies!” 😂
Right. If we could only transfer 80% of America's law students and lawyers, gender studies, etc. to the engineering, manufacturing, mining, agricultural, resource-based sectors, we might be able to make up for the shortfall in conventional and critical materials that China, Russia, et al, are about to impose on America.
I'm guessing those auto workers, who just settled their contract with three of the big auto makers for a 25% wage increase are making gobs more than many college graduates.
They might believe the work is beneath them, but the auto workers are laughing all of the way to the bank.
ahh, don't disregard the power of the almighty dollar. everything is for sale for the right price, including one's soul. The Left is all lawn signs - "SJW! BLM! Me Too! Love is love and Trans rights are human rights!" until the bucks pour in and just like that, they they're in the back pockets of brutal misogynistic, racist, homophobic, dictatorial regimes.
But they don't take their signs down...
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Good luck.
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Polecat, here are some phrases about which you and others posting about the leveraged buyout of elite schools might want to learn more. I have an ice cold feeling you will be hearing much more about this very soon. So here they are:
* de-risking
* managing interdependence
* nothing less than a transformation of US government
* economic security apparatus
* the new Washington consensus (my favorite synonym for "let me cure your wrong thinking by gently pressing this pillow over your face while you sleep")
And where are these gems to be found? Why, the November/December 2023 issue of Foreign Affairs Magazine, aka the Gideon Bible of Those We Must Obey. Now don't fire those steel tipped darts at me just yet. The article, by two professors, one from Johns Hopkins, the other, Georgetown is actually worth reading. They have lifted the usual paywall so at least we can be forewarned.
Summarizing, the thesis: free markets in last 40-50 years have brought us to a place where western economies are so interdependent with potentially hostile nations, that government initiated withdrawal from those economies is now an issue of economic and national security. Therefore, the US government must undergo "nothing less than a total transformation" through establishment of an "economic security apparatus" to mesh with emerging European and Japanese models. That is "de-risking", a term coined by European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen (she of the Minimum Global Tax coven).
There is plenty to think about here, without automatically trashing all the ideas because of the source. The "one if by land, two if by sea" alarm is that Biden and his successor (still think Trump can win? O......K.....) will be implementing whatever comes next. Maybe start by finding a blank marble facade somewhere in DC to chisel the new national mottos. Who said there are no artisans left?
Is this all tangential to the main article about entangling foreign alliances with cunning sheiks in American higher ed? I think it's another loop in the global tangle, but I know the readers won't hold back with your thoughts. At least that's still something to depend on.
Thanks for the lead to the FA magazine article Charlie.
Enterprise Risk Management
Everything in America has been sold to the highest bidder, especially the souls of the "elites". No difference between the DIEvy League and The World Cup, which was just hosted in Qatar thanks to bribery. I wrote an open letter to all American university trustees on the actions they need to take on campus insanity: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-get-into-harvard-open-letter-to-trustees
Just based on what a pestilence the open borders NGOs are, it’s pretty clear we need to eliminate tax exempt status entirely.
This has been a pet subject of mine for some years.
Back in the 1980s and 90s, people who represented a particular group’s interests to the government, were called “lobbyists”. Back then, liberals hated lobbyists. These lobbyists represented horrible things like the tobacco industry and the gun industry, and it was clear to the mainstream media that the government was unduly influenced by these people. This was bad.
Fast forward to the last 20 years, and boy have times changed! Now we call these people, activists, and they are revered by “liberals” far and wide. Activists now represent “wonderful” things like Big Pharma, and Hamas, and the offshore whale-killing wind power industry, and the gender surgery, industry, and these “liberals” are happy that the “activists” have great sway over the government, which appears to indulge their every whim. This is seen as good.
And here we are.
Raziel, for once I totally agree with you! They should NOT have tax exempt status for ANY donations. The elites really believe in their own purity of purpose and justify ANYTHING if it will increase the bottom line.
Well said.
The money spent by qatar and others like the Saudis at places like Harvard, Georgetown and Stanford, are often associated with Middle East Studies. For example, Wikipedia cites an endowed chair at Georgetown, funded by Libya, going to a close associate of Yassir Arafat. The whole piece tells a story though, of Arab oil money basically buying a department to teach its world view.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Contemporary_Arab_Studies
"Untill we start taxing unspent endowments..."
The power to tax should not be a political weapon in the hands of governments.
Power of not being taxed should not be used to directly undermine our democracy and its values. Either you are educational institution that trys to educate as much people as possible (tax exempt), or you are hedge fund with side bussies in education (should be taxed, because cleary you goal is not to educate people any more).
My point was that in _principle_ tax laws are a dangerous weapon in the hands of governments which they should not be.
"The power to tax should not be a political weapon in the hands of governments"
I agree with your sentiment. I also believe it should not be used to pick economic winners and losers. Too bad for both of us that legislators writing tax laws believe that power should be used to enrich themselves and and the corporate patrons financing their beach front properties.
The law of unintended consequences applies here.
Harvards $50B endowment works out to $5 million for each of the 10,000 students. The donations are tax deductible.
Either we let Harvard self fund tuition, end the deduction for gifts to well endowed universities, or tax Harvards endowment directly. Why fund entities that don’t need funding?
It’s the Saudi Arabia business model. Placate the US while supporting terrorism to remain valid in the Arab world. The 9/11 hijackers predominantly Saudi.
Great comment, and I'd like to hat tip you in my comments but I don't know your name.
Yes!! Senator Vance is working on a bill to require holders of endowments to either pay taxes or spend at least 20 percent of their funds every year.
I agree with your reframing! Crazy how much just changing the beginning framing changes the implications.
"Eisenman notes, 'those characteristics describe the United States no less than Qatar and don’t prevent Northwestern from maintaining campuses in Evanston and Chicago.'"
It's hard to imagine a place more racially and socially unequal than Qatar. 320,000 immensely wealthy citizens control and live with dramatically greater rights than the other 2.3 million residents of Qatar.
This piece is as much additional sad commentary on the sad state and hypocrisy of higher education as it is about the Qatari influence specifically.
straight up slavery exploiting southeast asians and our anti-racists say nothing.
technically the workers are indentured servants
"Technically...."
Their passports are seized when they arrive. They can be abused without having any recourse to legal protection.
But no, that's just "indentured servitude," not slavery....
Theoretically there are time limits, and wages paid. That’s the difference. Doesn’t make it less abusive.
Theoretically.
And that's literally slavery. The technicality here is the type of system. It's considered a type of "bonded labor".
I didn't intend to imply I thought indentured servitude was any less a way of exploiting people. I thought there are significant differences from classic enslavement which need to be recognised - such as the indentured do receive some sort of financial renumeration (paltry as that may be), the term of their labour is usually defined - rather than being lifelong and they cannot be bought and sold like commodities.
In the future please do not bring your nuance into the narrative. It slows the process and makes us less like them.
Sorry! I regret being an impediment to experiencing righteous indignation. Simplistic answers are best
I lived in Doha for a bit. A more racist and exploitative country there is not.
a friend of mine was toured the area as a musician. He described a decadent elite, mercenaries and bodyguards on the payroll, and a vast underclass no one cared about.
Sociologically the stratification of Qatar more closely resembles Feudalism. An enormously rich class of overlords who own everything, serviced by a vassal class who have extremelly limited rights.
Oh but Rob, don’t you know? Only USA had slavery and it was always whites over blacks. 🤨😂
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Freedom of speech protects criticism of American government when the intent is productive - to improve the country you love, just as you criticize a child. That quote is hate speech - it is intended to incite hate of America. The only action implied is to hate and is self-destructive.
It's deeply ironic that institutions that ideologically claim to "hate capitalism" have been so easily bought by an Islamist state.
Another reminder that Leftist leaders are more devoted to money and power than they are to their ideology.
They also despise religion except when it comes to the religion of peace
Islam shares their hatred of Jews. That hates seems to be mutually powerful enough that Leftists are willing to look the other way when it comes to Islam's treatment of women, while the Muslims they cut deals with are similarly willing to largely look the other way when it comes to Leftists' celebration of sex and intoxicants.
And do not forget that Hitler used Islamicists to help with his "Jewish" problem!
So, leftist progressives and Hitler together! What a concept!
The past couple of weeks have been very ironic. The same people who were screaming that conservatives (and indeed anyone who disagreed with their Far Left views) were Nazis have now revealed themselves to be pro-Nazi.
That irony has been going on for a while now if you consider the Corporate Media’s sycophantic press on the Azov Battalion and other fascistic anti-semitic groups in Ukraine. All those wokies with their flag emojis should have been a clear signal.
They don’t see it as “bought.” They see it as “supported.” As in not building an other inch of a border “ wall,” but installing “barriers” to slow the influx of illegals. Or changing the definition of “vaccine” to include an experimental drug that does not prevent the disease. Malleable definitions can be very useful.
Great journalism!
Thank you for exposing the money trail.
I am wondering if the US Special Forces will be willing to assist the IDF in tracking down these Hamas leaders for covert executions now that it is beyond obvious what they are doing. Also wondering what Qatar will do once these fermin are eradicated on their soil.
Bari, please do one on China too. China is also pumping tons of $$$ into US universities, and our university administrators have sold their souls lapping it all up.
What better way to implant spies and steal intel?
The IDF doesn't need help to track these vermin down! They are THERE, in plain sight!
Clearly true as regards many. I think it should likewise be obvious there are many who keep a far lower profile and some who are both Iranian and Qatari …and then there is the need for secure escape intel.
In a much broader implementation of this same policy…this is how the IDF should respond and minimize shelling and ground fighting.
Mossad and our intelligence know where these Hamas leaders are in Qatar. And Hamas knows we know. Thus the hostages..
I wonder how the female and gay students are doing on those Qatari campuses?
Don't be silly! They don't have gay people. Just ask them!
I am told some cultures also believe they don't have any left handed people.
That's true, because they eat only with their right hands, as the left hands are used for wiping their bottoms.
That's just silly. My dogs are left handed.
And gay.
Are they "people?"
Nah, they’re corporations!
The Corporate Dogs of America
My son is two and pretty clearly left-handed. When I was a kid, my grandmother would have never allowed that, even if it was naturally your more dominant hand. I distinctly remember her scolding one of my cousins for putting his fork in his left hand. This was the 90’s, so not long ago.
She was the most wonderful, kind person I’ve ever met. No idea what her hang-up on left-handed was was.
Will, just curious......isn't the fork supposed to go in the left hand? And the knife in the right?
Human social history is filled with many completely batshit crazy things. I will note that gauche is the French word for left, and sinister and sinistral are also both related to the left.
At root, our experience is truly unrooted. We don't have personal experience of God, in general, much less any revelation, so we all feel fear. This fear leads to conformity, and conformity leads to violence against the different.
Individualism and rationality and science are the most beautiful things--at least for the planet as a whole--the human spirit has yet built, and most current colleges attack all three daily.
Your analysis is definitely 'unsaintly'.
I have personal experience with God every day. All I need to do is look outside or talk to my son or daughter on the phone. It's too bad so many want to look so far and wide to explain what is right in front of our senses.
Is the Queer Palestine club fully funded
Srsly
Time to wake up and face the truth We are living in a kleptocracy. From our felonious president down, most of our elected officials are on the take. You know those who are not because they live normal lives like you and me. Of course the ones who take corporate handouts are their bought lapdogs but they aren't the worst. Although the sweetheart deals they make usually cost our dollars, our heath and our liberties. No. The worst are those who take foreign cash to sell out their countries. To do the bidding of tyrants, authoritarians and now butchers of innocents. There's a term for that and the penalty is usually death. And the prime culprit most likely sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But as the evidence mounts up, his days of raking in foreign cash for favors are looking shorter and shorter.
I'd like to think so, but he controls the Justice Department so he won't be charged with any crime, and his party controls the Senate so he won't be removed from office by impeachment. And, if he survives another year, he is running even in the polls with Trump for another four years.
Exactly what happens in a corrupt, banana republic.
That's what our Democrat friends have done to America.
That's why it is necessary to replace Trump with someone who can be elected.
I don't like being the bearer of gloom and doom, Herr F, but as long as Trump is alive, he is our version of the concrete block chained to Vinnie's ankles when they fish him out of 'da river. Look what happened today to Congressman Emmer's bid for Speaker of the House. All it took was a hard stare and a shake of the head from Trump for House Republicans to fold like a soggy diaper. If by a cosmic star shower someone else is nominated, he runs as head of his own party. If he is convicted, he runs. If he is in jail he runs via a proxy stand in. If he is the nominee, and loses in a year when Republicans could win the Senate and add seats in the House, he declares himself head of the government in exile, and establishes a new party to rival the
Republicans. Why? "Because they were so disloyal to me, and so terribly NASSSSTY!" Don't count on Father Time solving the problem. There is enough "mean" charged in his battery to last decades. He will never. leave. the. stage.
Thast is depressing. The Republicans, if there are any left, will have to deal with losing again. I wonder if they think it's worth it? Of course if they get re-elected that's all they really care about. As long as the gravy train keeps running they'll stay on board. Between the Democrats and the Republicans, I think that the US is on a downward spiral and I don't know what it will take to reverse it. I'm old enough to believe that it won't happen in my lifetime.
It's 3:36 AM where I am. Couldn't believe I got such a quick reply-looks like you're a night owl too.
Headed for bed now, but just a quick hit on the downward spiral you mentioned. The problem is, human's are like other animals- we may hate the circumstances, but we can adapt to anything i.e., being a Jew in Egypt (or really anywhere anytime it seems), being a Christian in Spain during Moorish rule, a Cambodian (survivor) during Pol Pot, and on and on and.........
Maybe we are at that point in the US. We are so disappointed in all the lies, the grifters (looking at you Matt Gaetz) the incompetence, year in and out, over and over, rinse/repeat, that we simply cope and endure all the decay around us. Much of the anger we see comes from the sense that all we can do is yell at the TV network "news", post on these forums, or mumble to no one in particular.
In our case, we have a 21 year old son who plans to apply to medical school, so I can't roll up in a ball. I need to at least hope times will improve during his life, but like so many others what kind of impact can I have, really. Where we live we are pretty much in step with the prevailing social/political climate, but I know there are a great many more in large urban areas who think we should be in Hillary Clinton's re education
camps, so what now?
Rambled on too long. Best wishes and sleep well.
God Bless your son. The medical field is a mess right now.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. One of the things I like about the site is that most people are civil in their responses even when the disagree. I'm probably fortunate that I'm nearing the end of my life and won't have to see the coming destruction that happens before the turnaround.
Youre son, being in medical school will have the oportunity to make a positive difference in people's lives. My son is a musician and music teacher and my daughter is an artist so both of them can make a positive difference.
I'm awake because I live in Thailand. We're 12 hrs. ahead of EST.
Sleep well.
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A year is a long time Tx we are getting fed up enough is enough.
I’m not as optimistic as you Bruce. I doubt any member of the Biden Crime Family will ever do a perp walk.
They'll probably name a new destroyer after him!
Nope they won’t in fact if anything they will be adding to their coffers
Well posted Bruce yip the senile one’s days are numbered!
Mmmm. I wonder if Qatar has safe spaces and supports menstruating men.
LOL
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Most US universities are 5th columns at war with America and traditional western values in general. They no longer need financial help, either. It's time to call on the Federal Government and private citizens alike to end all aid and endowments to public universities.
Don’t send your kids to them either. Full boycott of the higher education system that has spawned this monster.
Here's a thought: Tax the hell out of them and apply it to Social Security and Medicare!
Agreed. Let's tax churches as well..
Contrary to commonly held ideas, churches DO pay taxes! Payroll tax, sales tax, county and city tax, and any funds that cannot be attributed to operational expenses. Check it out!
But not income tax, as far as I know.
As I said, anything over operating costs gets taxed, the same as any other 501C3 organization, such as BLM! I was on a church bord of directors, and it was always our task to make sure the funds were properly allocated. By the way, most churches work under the same strictures as any other non-profit. There is plenty of monkey business that goes along with it, but most comply as required.
People always look at those mega-churches and think that most churches are just money machines when, in fact, MOST churches are rather small, usually under 100 people. Only 2% reach over 1000 people.
Yes, let's distinguish between the smallish Catholic parish (mine) with one priest who lives with his sister and brother-in-law (by choice, since there is a house next to the church) and well, the Jim and Tammy Faye Baker excess. Gosh that was a crazy good movie on Tammy Faye (watched it on a flight back from Europe).
I only donate to colleges that take no federal money and provide a traditional education, such as Christendom College and Hillsdale College.
There you go human ❤️Love your tradition!!
This is the best post today!
Check out the donations to the Clinton Foundation from certain Arab states while HRC was SOS; many accepted without seeking the required approval. At least $1 million from Qatar (estimates ranged from $1 - 5 million), with funds being meant for the "Women and Girls Initiative". Yeah, sure.
What a much more powerful statement it would have been at the time to publicly denounce accepting those funds.
In the army, SOS was called shit on a shingle, i.e. chipped beef on toast. I think the name applies to the money sent to the Clinton Foundation.
I can’t hear “Shit on a shingle” without remembering Johnny Carson’s bit that featured “Shiite on a shingle”. 🥸
Well, Clinton foundation paid their daughter Chelsea almost a million $$ annual salary. Consider that “ women and girls initiative” 😂
Interesting thing about that foundation. All donations ceased the day after she lost in 2016.
You got to be kidding, The Clinton’s are the root of all evil just follow their money
What better way to destroy their enemy , the USA than by controlling the academies. The poisoning of our youth with the woke ideology is somehow connected to this Qatari money trail. Diabolical to secretly support the teaching of thought streams they disagree with on Islamic grounds, for the sole purpose of destroying their perceived enemy ....America and western culture.
the barbarians are no longer at the walls, but safely ensconced at every level of education and institutions.
The ideological marxist identitarian cultists started infiltrating from the 60s and now a whole generation has been indoctrinated
The "Greatest Generation" produced the "Stupidest Generation" which is now dismantling what their forebearers saved.
BY the way, I just read your bio and wish that you were my neighbor. We could have some knockdown, drag out discussions capped off with a strong drink and some laughs!
Haidt and Lukianoff summed it up in The Coddling of the American Mind. I'm Australian but the Woke are just as strong here, if not worse. Who would have thought the democrcacy and prosperity they fought for would lead to their grandchildren being susceptible to getting turned into soft dupes? I was uncharacteristically speechless when my 15 year old granddaughter told me she is queer (I'm pretty confident she won't actually turn out that way) Unfortunately she lives a long way away and I have little influence in her life. Several grandchildren of close friends call themselves trans...a 10 yr old is going on to puberty blockers. When I did my degree in Visual Art in 2000 (as an adult) I encountered Foucault, Lacan et al and shuddered at what the nihiism of their beliefs could lead to....now are witnessing it unfolding in my lifetime.
I wish you were my neighbour! We are currently in a dispute with the ones we have over their wish to replace our boundary fence with a 6 foot high solid metal wall....this kind of penning yourself in is what some young people think is desirable.
I'll have a toast to you this evening!
Shalom
If you were in Sydney and in your 20s and 30s, in the mid-sixties you would have seen the roots of todays problems in Australia. Less so in Melbourne and barely visible in Perth.
I was born in New Zealand, early 60s and have lived in Australia (married an ozzzie) since 86.
Hahahaha...rather than having observed the flourishing of post mordernism/structuralism ideology, until recently I was part of the problem. Starting with having lived in the notorious cult community Centrepoint in NZ. I had 2 babies to 2 different fathers and depended on welfare until I was in my 30s. I only "woke up" about the corruption of the left in 2017 when I was told that I had to believe men can turn into women. Even for an ex greenie tree hugger like me, I wasn't going to jump into that abyss of insanity. I call myself a conservative these days and still suffering trauma from what I've learned about Woke
I'm glad you you've recovered. It also took me a long time to wake up. Better late than never.
Pearl, thanks to Robert Moore I have also just read your bio. The story of the Australian Light Horse Brigade and the Battle of Beersheba was fascinating. As for those hypocritical women at the Australian wearable art group, fancy them suggesting you reflect on your thought crimes! A criminal for having a sensible mainstream opinion. Well done for making them capitulate.
Perth began to change during the Vietnam war, when US sailors took R&R in Perth and brought Thai drugs into the country. Within a week of the sailors landing, Perth was flooded with hard drugs, mainly heroine, opium, and amphetamines. They had been avaiable in Sydney 5 yrs. earlier, brought in by middle easterners. Lebanese hashish was very popular, and the Italians controlled the heroine trade.
I am deeply grateful that my Greatest Gen parents didn't manage to adopt until they were in their late 40s. By then they'd had the chance to see just how badly wrong their peers had gone with parenting. That allowed them to avoid a lot of those errors in raising me.
The seeds were planted in the 50s, with the Beat Generation, that morphed into the Hippies of the 60s.
Three generations now.
Yip!
While we obsess over quarterly profits, they play the long game.
The Islamic version of the CCP’s Confucian Institutes.
Confusian Institutes.
More proof--if anyone needed it--that the big-time higher education business in America--is completely corrupt.
Great article.
1. Following the money always illuminates things.
2. Just like Europe, tolerance and democracy in the United States is being used to ruin it.
"Al Jazeera aired a weekly program hosted by Muslim Brotherhood cleric, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, between 1996 and 2013. al-Qaradawi was denounced by the Anti-Defamation League in 2013—the same year that Northwestern signed its agreement with Al Jazeera—as the “theologian of terror.” In one 2009 sermon aired on the network, he said: “I will shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus I will seal my life with martyrdom.” "
So, has al-Qaradawi carried out his 2009 promise? Is he enjoying his virgins now? Probably not, the jihadi leadership are never the ones who strap on the suicide vests.
Despite what they say their theology is, their only goal is retention of power at the cost of OTHERS' lives.
Same as it ever was.
If you want to gin up a rent a mob for hamas, you have to spend the money.
“Hamas’s senior leaders has donated billions to American universities. Here’s why.”
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Is it because they know David French will write a column about how seditious conspiracy is pluralism, while also asserting based on nothing that pluralism is good? That’s it isn’t it.
Now WHY did you bring up David French?! That just ruined my evening...