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Elite Western universities form a corrupt and parasitic empire

Dr. Mathew Maavak
RT
Fri, 30 May 2025 13:35 UTC
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© Rattankun Thongbun/Getty ImagesThe Graduate
Instead of high-quality education, these institutions are fostering a global neo-feudal system reminiscent of the British Raj.

US President Donald Trump has banned international students from attending Harvard University, citing national security concerns.

The move has sparked widespread condemnation from academics and foreign governments, who warn it could damage America's global influence and reputation for academic openness. At stake is not just Harvard's global appeal, but the very premise of open academic exchange that has long defined elite higher education in the US.

But exactly how 'open' is Harvard's admissions process? Every year, highly qualified students - many with top-tier SAT or GMAT test scores - are rejected, often with little explanation. Critics argue that behind the prestigious Ivy League brand lies an opaque system shaped by legacy preferences, DEI imperatives, geopolitical interests, and outright bribes. George Soros, for instance, once pledged $1 billion to open up elite university admissions to drones who would read from his Open Society script.

Comment: Who pulls the strings in US politics and education?

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SCOTUS allows Trump admin to revoke legal status for 500K illegal aliens

Virginia Allen
The Daily Signal
Sat, 31 May 2025 18:02 UTC
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The U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for 500,000 illegal aliens living in the U.S.

In a 7-2 ruling on Friday, the justices lifted a lower court's order that barred the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration parole program.

The court's decision comes in response to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's efforts to end the Biden-era parole policy that allowed migrants from the four countries to fly directly into the U.S. and be transported into the interior of the county.

Comment: The move will prevent an endless backlog of dubious claimants in the lower courts:



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Trump's parlous gambit

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00 UTC
Trump
© UnknownUS President Donald Trump
"The modern politics of division have become a banally hectoring faux morality play put on by the theater kids for the other theater kids."
— El Gato Malo on X
While Jake Tapper leads the Mea Culpa Chorus singing Kumbaya in a minor key, absolutely nobody is fooled that the grotesque psychotic deformities of US politics can be reduced to a few White House factotums lying to the news media about "Joe Biden's" cognitive abilities. For one thing, the news media was not lied to. The news media (including Jake) lied to the nation, consistently, flagrantly, mendaciously, for years, and most of all they lied about the gigantic racketeering operation that government had become in the age of Anything Goes and Nothing Matters.

Cases-in-point, as reported by Alex Krainer, the $93-billion barfed out of the Department of Energy between the November election and January 20 to scores of hastily-formed NGO gangs with no business model or record of competency. . . and the staggering $375 billion spread around similarly out of the EPA from a slush fund run by John Podesta (as Senior Adviser to the President for International Climate Policy and Clean Energy Innovation).
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Exclusive: Putin's demands for peace include an end to NATO enlargement, sources say

Guy Faulconbridge
Reuters
Wed, 28 May 2025 10:00 UTC
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© Sergei Ilyin/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool/APRussian President Vladimir Putin
President Vladimir Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards and lift a chunk of sanctions on Russia, according to three Russian sources with knowledge of the negotiations. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the deadliest European conflict since World War Two and has shown increasing frustration with Putin in recent days, warning on Tuesday the Russian leader was "playing with fire" by refusing to engage in ceasefire talks with Kyiv as his forces made gains on the battlefield.

After speaking to Trump for more than two hours last week, Putin said that he had agreed to work with Ukraine on a memorandum that would establish the contours of a peace accord, including the timing of a ceasefire. Russia says it is currently drafting its version of the memorandum and cannot estimate how long that will take. Kyiv and European governments have accused Moscow of stalling while its troops advance in eastern Ukraine.

"Putin is ready to make peace but not at any price," said one senior Russian source with knowledge of top-level Kremlin thinking, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The three Russian sources said Putin wants a "written" pledge by major Western powers not to enlarge the U.S.-led NATO alliance eastwards - shorthand for formally ruling out membership to Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova and other former Soviet republics.

Comment: Putin wants a deal, Trump wants a deal, Zelensky...wants.

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Sudan's complaint against the United Arab Emirates


voltairenet.org
Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00 UTC
Sudan and UAE guys
© voltairenet.orgAbdel Fattah al-Burhan • Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed
It has become clear that in the wake of the defeat of the Rapid Support militia, which is a proxy of the United Arab Emirates, by our armed forces, which is the legitimate institution charged with defending the homeland and protecting its resources, the United Arab Emirates has stepped up its aggression against the Sudan support and channelled still more of its capabilities into supplying that mercenary militia with advanced strategic weapons and military equipment.

From Sunday, 4 May 2025 through this morning, the Sudan has been battered by systematic terrorist missile and drone strikes directed and sponsored by the United Arab Emirates. Strikes have hit vital strategic installations, hydroelectric power plants, civilian and oil facilities, and the Port Sudan port and airport, in a flagrant attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Sudan. These criminal attacks have included civilian installations in the city of Port Sudan, where tens of thousands of civilians have taken refuge since the war broke out. They have also targeted the Merowe Dam generating station and electrical plants in the cities of Gedaref, Madani, Kassala, Dongola, Shendi, Merowe, Atbara, Kusti and Port Sudan.
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Lavrov briefs Rubio on Ukraine negotiations


RT
Thu, 29 May 2025 04:12 UTC
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© John McDonnell/Getty ImagesUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio • House Committee on Appropriations • May 21, 2025 • Washington, D.C.
The Russian foreign minister and the US secretary of state spoke by phone on Wednesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed Ukraine peace negotiations in a phone call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Lavrov briefed Rubio on "concrete proposals for the next round of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul. Both sides affirmed their intent to maintain constructive and respectful dialogue," the ministry said in a statement on its website.

US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said:
"Rubio welcomed Russia and Ukraine's exchange of '1,000-for-1,000' prisoners over the weekend. The secretary reiterated President Trump's calls for constructive, good-faith dialogue with Ukraine as the only path to ending this war."
The conversation took place as US President Donald Trump intensified his rhetoric toward Russia, accusing his counterpart Vladimir Putin of "playing with fire."
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UK to step up cyberattacks on Russia and China - minister


RT
Thu, 29 May 2025 19:00 UTC
John Healey
© Antonio Masiello/Getty ImagesBritish Defense Secretary John Healey
London will significantly step up offensive cyber operations against Russia and China, UK Defense Secretary John Healey announced on Thursday following the inauguration of the country's new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command.

In a statement quoted by The Times, Healey claimed that "the keyboard is now a weapon of war" and said the UK's new cyber command would coordinate both defensive and offensive operations, including hacking into enemy systems to disrupt attacks and spread of propaganda.

Asked whether this would include Russia and China, Healey responded: "Yes."
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When East and West can't meet: Between Leviathan, Behemoth and Mandala

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 30 May 2025 17:42 UTC
ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit
© GlobalTimes
The first ever ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit earlier this week in Malaysia - with 17 Global South nations at the table - was a de facto celebration of the New Silk Road spirit.

Malaysian Prime Minister and current ASEAN chair Anwar Ibrahim summed it all up: "From the ancient Silk Road to the vibrant maritime networks of Southeast Asia to modern trade corridors, our peoples have long connected through commerce, culture, and the sharing of ideas."

That inspires a lot of reflection. Let's try a first, succint approach matching East and West - and what divides them - guided by an extraordinary study, La Mediterranee Asiatique: XVI-XXI Siecle, by CNRS research director Francois Gipouloux, also a specialist in the Chinese economy.

The European tradition is far from monolithic - and it's only part of the picture - when it comes to global perceptions about political philosophy and the conception of the State. There are stark differences even when referred to Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau.

The heart of the matter used to be the land/sea opposition. For Carl Schmitt, land/sea relates to friend/enemy - the matrix of politics - providing a key interpretation of world history, yet one among many.

It's on "continental" Europe - to borrow the Anglo terminology -, mostly in France and Prussia, and not in England, that the Hobbesian concept of the State materialized. Britain became a world power thanks to its navy and trade, eschewing the characteristic institutions of the state such as a written constitution and a legislative codification of law.

Anglo-Saxon international law in fact voided the continental conception of the State and also war. According to Schmitt, it developed its own concepts of "war" and "enemy" out of maritime and trade conflicts which did not make a distinction between combatants and non-combatants (when it comes to its lasting legacy, think "the war on terror").
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Nothing in the Associated Press' Presidential Records Act hit piece on Trump is true

Don Lueders
The Federalist
Fri, 30 May 2025 15:34 UTC
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© Daniel Torok/The White House/Flickr
If Trump wants to restore the trust in our government that was so badly damaged under Biden, he must comprehensively reform the government's records management ecosystem.

On May 20, the Associated Press published an article titled "The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous U.S. president." As a federal records management consultant with more than 25 years of experience supporting White House and agency records management at all levels of the government, I can assure you nothing in this article is even remotely true.

Let's begin with the article's opening claim:
"For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected ... safeguarding snapshots of the government and the nation for posterity."
While this may have been true decades ago when almost all government records were maintained on paper, it has not been true in the digital age.

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Economist: "We're paying private banks $200 billion per year to hold all the cash the Fed printed"

Tim Hains
RealClearPolitics
Thu, 29 May 2025 19:46 UTC
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Economist Brian Wesbury
Economist Brian Wesbury comments on how the Federal Reserve (and eventually taxpayers) are paying hundreds of billions of dollars in interest to private banks to hold money printed during massive balance sheet expansions following the 2008 crisis and COVID.

"Right now, we're paying banks 4.5% on over $5 trillion. We're paying private banks $200 billion a year to hold all this cash that the Fed printed," he said during an appearance Tuesday on Steve Bannon's War Room.
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