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Northeastern U kicks out students for 'crowded gathering' as coronavirus gives colleges a license to steal tuition fees

Graham Dockery
RT
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 21:42 UTC
Northeastern U
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Northeastern University's Ell Hall
Boston's Northeastern University has dismissed 11 students, kicking them off campus and pocketing their $36,534 tuition checks. Coronavirus has blurred the distinction between higher education and highway robbery even further.

The students were enrolled in Northeastern University's Nu.in program, which usually places students abroad for their first semester. However, coronavirus restrictions saw the students confined to Boston this year, and put up in the city's Westin Hotel. Tuition remained at a pricey $36,534, even though the hotel's "socially distanced" student center was a far cry from the foreign campus experience in Ireland they were promised.

However, that experience was cut short and all 11 were dismissed on Friday with no refund, after they were caught gathering together in one of the hotel rooms in breach of the university's coronavirus rules. "Students who attend an unsafe gathering, social or party, either on or off-campus, can expect suspension," student affairs vice-chancellor Madeleine Eastbrook wrote in a letter to students.

Comment: Pay and obey: Universities are taking advantage by balancing less expenses with impossible rules that may culminate in mass tuition forfeiture. Harvard, with an endowment worth more than 100 countries GDP, has refused to return $8.6M federal bailout money:
Harvard has refused a call from President Donald Trump to return millions in coronavirus bailout money, insisting it needs it for financial aid. Trump has threatened to "look at" Harvard's fat $41 billion endowment.

It said it would not return $8.6 million in 'emergency' funding allotted as part of last month's $2.2 trillion CARES Act, despite pleas from several politicians, including Trump and some members of Congress who stipulated that at least half the money go to financial aid for students.

Harvard's refusal followed a press briefing in which Trump called on Harvard, with one of the largest endowments "in the country, maybe in the world," to pay back the government's largesse. "Harvard is going to pay the money back and they shouldn't be taking it."

Trump wasn't done with Harvard, however, responding to their refusal in a late-night tweet with a threat to "look at" their "whole 'endowment' system" if they did not return the funds.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a Harvard alum, pointed out that the school's massive endowment equates to "$13mm per student, or $171mm per faculty member."

"Universities with billions & billions stashed away in endowments should get no taxpayer money until they have tapped those endowments," Missouri senator Josh Hawley tweeted on Monday, calling the bailout of the wealthy college "obscene."

Note: Harvard University has since issued a statement after this article was published revealing it has decided not to take the bailout money after all. Read about it here.

However, Harvard administrators want students to know the school is suffering, too. The university's chief financial officer told campus outlet the Harvard Crimson last week that the value of its endowment, estimated at $40.9 billion in June, has declined to 'only' the "mid-30-billion range" due to the stock market crash.
In comparison:
Yale University pulled down $6.9 million despite sitting on a $30.3 billion endowment, while Stanford University got $7.4 million in bailout bucks despite a $27.7 billion endowment. Columbia University was a big winner with $12.8 million, though its $11 billion endowment is chump change compared to its Ivy League brethren. $14 billion in total was distributed to colleges and universities as part of the bailout.
See also:

Michigan college puts students on campus arrest with mandatory Covid-19 tracking app, while staff get to leave

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Professor believes coronavirus pandemic is all over, despite rising 'R' rate this morning

JayTe
The Duran
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
UK news
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While the US and UK governments and their mainstream media adjuncts are still pushing the COVID 'pandemic' narrative, more public health experts are breaking ranks, and are sharing their factual findings with the public.

Despite the UK government's claim that the coronavirus 'R' rate is rising, Professor Carl Heneghan from Oxford's Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) is taking a more optimistic approach to the COVID crisis, and believes that the 'pandemic' is more or less over now and that society should really be trying to get back to normal, and that parents should be sending their kids back to school. He states:
"As we go back to schools, we can be reassured that the risks to children are incredibly low .... and they (children) are more at risk to infections like influenza. Across the board the disease is a a low level, and its impact is minimal."
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Mail

Tennessee woman who died 6 months ago receives letter claiming she has coronavirus

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC

Comment: This story sums up the whole farce...


Whittington
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A Tennessee woman died six months ago, but that didn't stop the Shelby County Health Department from sending her a letter notifying her that she tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus and needed to self-quarantine, her bewildered son said Thursday.

Troy Whittington said he was surprised when he opened the letter this week from the Shelby County Health Department. He knew what was in that letter was false.

Whittington said a letter arrived from the Shelby County Health Department for his mother, Sandra Whittington. The letter says she has been diagnosed as COVID positive and needed to isolate.

That would be difficult, according to her obituary: the 66-year-old died February 16th. That was weeks before the first case of COVID-19 was detected in Shelby County.

"It's been six months, almost seven, since she passed away," he added. "There was no testing that was done at that time. On her death certificate it was stated she died, what the cause of death was, and it was not COVID-19. It was COPD."

Comment: Will she also vote in the upcoming election?

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Family

Majority of young adults in the US live with their parents, first time since the Great Depression

Richard Fry, Jeffrey S. Passel and D'Vera Cohn
Pew Research Centre
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:00 UTC
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The coronavirus outbreak has pushed millions of Americans, especially young adults, to move in with family members. The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading early this year, surpassing the previous peak during the Great Depression era.

In July, 52% of young adults resided with one or both of their parents, up from 47% in February, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of monthly Census Bureau data. The number living with parents grew to 26.6 million, an increase of 2.6 million from February. The number and share of young adults living with their parents grew across the board for all major racial and ethnic groups, men and women, and metropolitan and rural residents, as well as in all four main census regions. Growth was sharpest for the youngest adults (ages 18 to 24) and for White young adults.

Comment: By all metrics the US is in terminal decline:

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Cult

Lunatic Extinction Rebellion protesters return to London - more than 600 arrests


The Guardian
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 17:10 UTC
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Extinction Rebellion protesters pretend to be dead outside Buckingham Palace on Saturday.
Climate campaigners stage a range of public events over five days despite Covid restrictions

More than 600 people have been arrested during five days of climate crisis protests in central London, police have said.

Environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion (XR) reignited its efforts to highlight the dangers of climate crisis this month after they were largely placed on hold by the coronavirus pandemic.

In a series of daily actions, protesters have marched on Parliament Square, blocked roads, staged sit-ins and glued themselves to the ground.

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Yellow Vest

Hundreds attend protest against lockdown in Edinburgh, Scotland

Katharine Hay
The Scotsman
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 13:37 UTC
Edinburgh lockdown protest

Hundreds of people have turned up to an anti-face mask protest outside an Edinburgh parliament building.
The group Saving Scotland, a "grassroots health movement" is organised the event, which is aimed at protesting the mandatory face covering rule and putting an end to lockdown restrictions.

Members believe lockdown is more harmful than the virus itself.

About 500 to 600 people are believed to have attended the event, many of whom were carrying signs with anti-lockdown and anti-mask slogans.

Here are some photos of protesters on the day:

Comment: It seems that, while Scotland is suffering under lockdown-lite measures, they aren't yet being subjected to the shameless tyranny we're seeing in Australia: 'Full-blown fascism' comes to Australia: PREGNANT woman handcuffed & charged with inciting anti-lockdown event on Facebook

Although there is evidence of it in England:



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Bizarro Earth

Two French military personnel killed by IED during operation in Mali


Sputnik
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 19:56 UTC
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© AP Photo / Maeva Bambuck
The two soldiers were killed after their armored vehicle was stricken by an improvised explosive device, the Elysee Palace said in a statement on Saturday evening. According to the statement, a third serviceman was injured in the blast.

"The two soldiers killed were a Brigadier-Chief First Class Sergeant and Hussar Parachutist First Class Arnaud Volpe. They belonged to the 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment of Tarbes."

The blast took place on Saturday morning in Tessalit province of the northeastern Malian region of Kidal.

Comment: See also: 10 killed in Somalia in 'Islamic extremist' attack on Mogadishu hotel

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Heart - Black

Suffer, little children: School closings, child abuse, and the COVID19 coup's war on democracy

Michael Lesher
OffGuardian
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:37 UTC
mother child mask covid
I've been an angry man since the age of sixteen. That was when I read Lloyd deMause's newly-published The History of Childhood, an inquest into the realities of growing up that minced no words about society's ingrained habit of victimizing children to serve the implacable ends of adults.

As I absorbed deMause's relentless account of the cruelty inflicted on children in the world's most "advanced" civilizations, I swore an angry oath to myself that I would never acquiesce in the deliberate harm of little kids, no matter how respectable their abusers might claim to be.

So I'm not going to pull any punches about the systematic child abuse being orchestrated, as I write, by a phalanx of America's most "respectable" politicians, pundits and self-styled educators.

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Eye 2

Fabricating a pandemic - Who could organize it and why

Gregory Sinaisky
OffGuardian
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 05:22 UTC
world economic forum
It is difficult not to notice something contrived in the currently announced "pandemic" of the Novel Covid-19 virus. Media coverage of this event has all the hallmarks of a coordinated hysterical campaign, namely:
  • the use of emotions instead of numbers and logic (for example videos showing allegedly overflowing hospitals and morgues, which can easily be staged or occur due to a natural situation unrelated to Covid-19)
  • the refusal to even mention the most obvious counter-arguments (for example, the media will never compare the number of deaths caused by flu in recent years with Covid-19 deaths)
  • and the complete censorship of all opinions that disagree with the mainstream media narrative, even those that come from recognised experts.
We have witnessed the publication of numerous fake stories, like the CNN report about bodies being left on the streets in Ecuador which was later debunked. We have frequently seen hysterical headlines that are not supported in any way by the contents of the article.

Finally, the national, as well as the local coverage, is always vague, never saying who exactly is ill or what they've got, or whether they are at home or in a hospital, and they never say how they treat the disease. Vagueness in media is a sure sign of lying.

Out of any proportion to reality, the mass media continues to drone on ominously that this is the New Normal, and that we might as well get used to it, that the world will never be as it was before the coronavirus. This is nothing more and nothing less than classic psychological warfare.

Why would a viral outbreak require "psy-ops", that is, unless something larger was afoot?
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USA

Osama bin Laden's niece says only Trump can prevent another 9/11

Jon Levine
New York Post
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 16:43 UTC
bin laden ladin
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Osama bin Laden and his niece Noor Bin
Another 9/11-style attack may be just around the corner if Joe Biden is elected president, warns Noor bin Ladin, the niece of Sept. 11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.

"ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe. Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign threats by obliterating terrorists at the root and before they get a chance to strike," bin Ladin, 33, told The Post in her first-ever interview.

Bin Ladin (whose branch of the family has always spelled their name differently than her infamous uncle) lives in Switzerland but said she considers herself "an American at heart." A full size US flag hung in her childhood room at age 12 and her dream vacation is an RV trip across America.

The stunning, Swiss-born bin Ladin says she is all in for Trump in 2020, calling the election the most important in a generation.

"I have been a supporter of President Trump since he announced he was running in the early days in 2015. I have watched from afar and I admire this man's resolve," she said. "He must be reelected ... It's vital for the future of not only America, but western civilization as a whole."

"You look at all the terrorist attacks that have happened in Europe over the past 19 years. They have completely shaken us to the core ... [Radical Islam] has completely infiltrated our society," bin Ladin continued. "In the US it's very worrying that the left has aligned itself completely with the people who share that ideology."
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