Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 30, 2023
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR: Ivy League among top recipients of $8.5 billion Arab funding.
“In recent years, Qatar have been the largest investor in universities,” Dr. Bard’s report reads. “It, too, has an image problem as a funder and supporter of terrorist groups – Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood – and the home of the rabidly anti-Israel anti-American Al Jazeera television network.”
Dr. Brad also notes that since 1976, Arab governments and individuals have been providing American universities with hundreds of grants to create chairs and centers in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Student groups at major gift recipients have come out against Israel in droves since the start of the latest Israel-Palestine conflict—beginning with the Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.
According to Dr. Brad’s report, Cornell is the single largest recipient of Arab funding with over $1.5 billion gifted between 127 gifts or contracts. Qatar also signed contracts with Cornell for six years prior to 2020 for the strange amount of $99,999,999.
Related: Cornell University on alert after violent threats to Jewish community.
Meanwhile: Far from Gaza hardships, Hamas chief and family enjoy easy life in Qatar.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Speaker Johnson—Hitting All the Right Notes, Annoying All the Right People. “If we’re giving Mike Johnson a report card based on his agenda and the knee-jerk reactions that he is forcing from some of the worst people in America, he gets ‘A’s all across the board.”
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Jewish schools across Paris evacuated due to a bomb threat. “Some of these schools have been evacuated. In most schools, parents were asked to take their children home.”
IT’S TRAGICOMIC: Biden’s Cheat Sheets Attain Comic Book Status, But It’s Not Funny.
The North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan is a majority-Muslim region in southwest Russia that borders Azerbaijan and Georgia. It is an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation.
“In Muslim areas of Russia’s north Caucasus, mobs raid hotels looking for Jews after rumors spread that some Israelis had moved there to flee the war,” said Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. “This video is from Dagestan, but similar incidents happened in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia.”
Trofimov highlighted signs that were seen in the region that said: “Entry to citizens of Israel (Jews) strictly forbidden.”
“A Jewish cultural center under construction in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria region of Russia, went up in flames,” Trofimov added. “‘Death to Yahoods (Jews),’ the graffiti says. Northern Caucasus has its own autochthonous Jewish community that lives [sic] there for millennia.”
More:
TERRIFYING FOOTAGE: A flight originating from Israel and bound for the Russian Republic of Dagestan had to be diverted from its originally planned destination of Makhachkala's capital after a group of violent pro-Hamas protesters breached security at the airport, with the… pic.twitter.com/4s1TZIKJHf
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 29, 2023
Maybe Putin would have an easier time keeping Russia’s increasingly restive “autonomous” regions under control if he wasn’t so busy trying (and so far mostly failing) to conquer Ukraine.
October 27, 2023
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: No Playing Around, It’s ‘The Florida Man Games.’ “This week we have the introduction of the first-ever Florida Man Games, how not to show the police what you’re packing, and the Indiana stripper who will do anything for work (but not that).”
I’LL TRUST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MUCH MORE WHEN IT STOPS BEING SO STUPID:
Google was rotting from the inside out before AI came around but it's going to get 10 times worse pic.twitter.com/5NYlw4WTEy
— Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) October 26, 2023
It does make you wonder what else AI is baking into Google’s results.
VICTORA TAFT’S WEST COAST, MESSED COAST: UC Berkeley’s Extra Credit for Nazis!
FAIL, BRITANNIA: UK’s £100 Billion Rail To Nowhere. “All rationale for HS2 vanished, leaving the UK with a multi-billion pound bill just to slightly reduce travel time between London and Birmingham.”
If you don’t have the time or inclination to watch a video, Lawrence Person has done his usual excellent job of breaking out the bullet points.
GARBAGE PEOPLE CHEER GARBAGE PEOPLE: Here Are Just a Few of Hamas’s Atrocities Against Israel the Left Is Cheering.
If you ever wondered how seemingly ordinary people could herd other ordinary people into cattle cars, well, here you go.
YOUR PAL PUTIN: Moscow hosts Hamas delegation and Iran’s deputy FM, prompting Israeli outrage. “The stated goal of the visit was to discuss the ongoing war with Israel and ways to stop ‘Zionist crimes supported by the United States and the West.'”
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Watch The New ‘Police State’ Film While You Have the Freedom to Do So.
More here from Christian Toto:
Hollywood in Toto’s interview with the author-turned-filmmaker appears on the platform along with a “context” warning from left-leaning Wikipedia.
The note says Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
Why would YouTube mention that? Perhaps because D’Souza’s previous film, “2000 Mules,” made a provocative case that voter fraud helped swing the election for Biden.
The HiT interview with D’Souza didn’t mention Trump’s allegations of voter fraud or the 2020 presidential election.
At all.
Just talking to D’Souza apparently was enough. (And let’s assume the same warning doesn’t appear whenever election-denier Hillary Clinton graces the platform)
Sadly, you can’t buy that kind of advertising for “Police State,” a docudrama arguing the United States is heading toward Banana Republic status.
Plus an interview with D’Souza at the link.
NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO BUY, NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO SELL: Goldman just dropped a housing market forecast for 2024 and sees high home prices, high mortgage rates—and the lowest number of existing home sales since the early ’90s.
NEVER FORGET: Hakeem Jeffries Is an Election Denier.
STILL NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME: Colorado district to rely on diesel buses for challenging routes green buses can’t handle. “Diesel school buses are essential for mountain routes due to their robust performance in challenging terrains. These routes often have steep inclines, variable weather conditions, and remote locations, making diesel buses a practical choice.”
ROUNDUP OF UPDATES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST: Israel’s Gaza Ground Offensive Begins… in the West Bank?
HMM: GOP-led House panel requests Biden loan documents predating his presidency.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is requesting that the White House provide documentation of a $200,000 loan that President Joe Biden made to his brother James Biden in 2018.
In a letter Thursday to White House counsel Edward Siskel, Comer asked for records including the loan payment, loan agreement and any other supporting documents related to the check Biden received from his brother dated March 1, 2018.
“The current lack of documentation leaves reason to doubt claims that this transaction was repayment for a legal loan,” Comer wrote. “We request documentation clarifying the nature of this payment and whether all applicable documentation and IRS filings were properly made.”
Capone did his time for tax evasion but with today’s IRS, you can be sure all the correct exceptions will be made for all the correct people.
Update: BOMBSHELL: Biden Bribery Allegations Credible, Former Prosecutor Confirms.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: OK Democrats—Let’s Chat About ‘Election Deniers.’ “I frequently call the Democrats the ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ party because of their ability to go blank about any history that is inconvenient for their various false narratives. If they’re not completely blocking out the facts, they’re rewriting them to fit their needs.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: A spiraling Israel-Hamas war could plunge the global economy into recession and depress the stock market by 20%, warns EY economist.
“If your market is 90% U.S.-based, in the Midwest, why should you care about the [conflict]? Well, you will have to care because it will have consequences that will affect your business,” Daco said. “Depending on how diffuse the situation becomes, the consequences could go from very marginal to significant.”
The hypothetical situation outlined above, which Daco dubbed the “uncontained” scenario, includes a widening of the front to Lebanon and Syria, direct involvement of the U.S. and Iran, and wider social unrest in the Middle East. That outcome isn’t more likely than a more contained scenario, which would limit the war to a ground offensive in Gaza and have almost no long-term global economic consequences. Still, CEOs better take all possibilities into account as they plan ahead.
The prospect of long-term economic consequences also points to a definitive end to the days in which multinational companies could simply forecast economic growth, trade, and manufacturing costs for their global markets. They must also factor in the constant threat of disruptive forces like political and social turmoil and war.
But Paul Krugman had assured me this kind of thing was great for the economy.
NO CHANGE, PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH: Debunking the Conspiracy Theory Keeping Britain’s Socialized Healthcare System Alive.
Even though it’s self-evident the emperor has no clothes, the NHS is treated like a sacred cow. This begs the question: why are people so loyal to a system that is clearly failing them?
There is a prevalent conspiracy theory that the NHS is being intentionally underfunded by the Conservative Government so that the resulting poor outcomes will provide justification for them to privatize it and transform it into the American model of healthcare. This theory is pushed by the establishment: from senior members of the British Medical Association, journalists, and Members of Parliament.
This theory achieves two things. One, it shifts blame for poor outcomes away from the NHS as a system itself and toward the politicians in power. Two, it frames the debate with the assumption that privatization is a bad thing, causing any meaningful reform to be met with fear mongering.
This narrative has caused a massive issue for opponents of the NHS as there are multiple levels of misleading rhetoric. The fact of the matter is that the Conservatives are not privatizing or underfunding the NHS. Furthermore, whether it be a fully privatized system or even the mixed system as seen in other European countries, free-market reform would significantly help patients and doctors.
But socialism is never about outcomes; it’s about control.
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October 26, 2023
PAULA BOLYARD: Truth. “The Left will tell you that everyone has his/her/zher own truth. Thanks to postmodernism, we’re supposed to believe that objective truth is a myth—a relic of a bygone era.”