just a little dance on the fascism side a la higher ed
Here, from the Chronicle of Higher Education, always asleep at the wheel a good 40 years behind the fascism times:
Over the past four years, higher education has faced a devastating onslaught of ideological attacks from government actors. Seventeen states have adopted 25 laws or policies restricting ideas on college campuses, beginning in 2021 with state-level educational gag orders banning “divisive concepts” from classroom instruction. Starting in 2023, these attacks expanded to include a host of assaults on university governance and autonomy: bans on diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and on institutional statements on race, gender, and identity; ideological limitations on majors, minors, and core curricula; and restrictions on tenure, shared governance, and accreditation.
In the past month, the federal government has escalated the attacks, issuing executive orders restricting diversity, equity and inclusion (or what the government determines to be DEI, since it is not defined in the order) in a host of public institutions — an order which is now under a partial stay by a federal judge; restricting curricula at military academies and the free expression of international students; instituting a total freeze on federal grant funding (also stayed by a court) and devastating cuts to federal research funding; and publishing a “Dear Colleague” letter threatening to defund colleges over “illegal” DEI programs.
These sweeping attacks on the free expression of ideas have done profound damage to higher education. The news features a constant, demoralizing stream of closed cultural centers, canceled research projects, censored general-education curricula, eliminated majors and minors, deleted websites, and altered mission statements. In many cases, institutions have complied in advance with directives that were merely threatened or suspected rather than enacted, or have overinterpreted vague laws out of an abundance of caution, going far beyond the prohibitions in the actual statute and doing the censors’ work for them. Faculty, staff, and students are operating in a constant state of fear. And all this has happened before the projected dismantling of the Department of Education or the actual enforcement of most of the new federal policies and directives.
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Another proof of how deadly and rotten Judaism is in the USA:
And Jews writ large are celebrating the continue edifice of UnUnited Snakes of Israel:
The Trump administration has sent its first notice to a college that it may take away federal funding.
A new federal task force on antisemitism will review more than $5 billion that Columbia University receives from the government, and will immediately consider imposing stop-work orders on $51.4 million in federal contracts that Columbia holds.
The funding review — announced by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the General Services Administration — comes as the Ivy League institution is facing federal scrutiny for alleged violations of civil-rights law. Both the Biden and Trump administrations opened investigations into Columbia over complaints that it had failed to take antisemitism seriously amid a surge in antiwar protests.
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Oh, that Jew York!
The Trump administration has sent its first notice to a college that it may take away federal funding.
A new federal task force on antisemitism will review more than $5 billion that Columbia University receives from the government, and will immediately consider imposing stop-work orders on $51.4 million in federal contracts that Columbia holds.
The funding review — announced by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the General Services Administration — comes as the Ivy League institution is facing federal scrutiny for alleged violations of civil-rights law. Both the Biden and Trump administrations opened investigations into Columbia over complaints that it had failed to take antisemitism seriously amid a surge in antiwar protests.
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And so we get yet MORE insight from the Chronicle of Lower Education from resident Jews:
So, Rick, I’m not gonna lie: I was naïve. I did not think the Trump administration was going to go after higher education on day one. I knew that Project 2025 existed. And The Chronicle Review published a really fantastic essay in March of 2024 articulating what’s in Project 2025 and basically saying: Hello, higher ed. Trump very well might get reelected. He and his allies have published this blueprint about how they’re going to overhaul higher ed and you should pay attention.
Can you tell us why higher ed is under attack right now?
Seltzer: I think there are several different reasons. Like many things, there’s no simple answer. First and foremost, it was an effective message that they ran on, and it resonated with a certain corner of their base and the Trump administration has made no qualms about trying to deliver on things it promised its base.
Maybe one of the reasons this resonated so much with the base is that a lot of the ideas they’re pursuing are not new in conservative politics. Republicans have long articulated goals like closing the Education Department. Certain cuts to federal funding, even research funding. There have been voices arguing for some of those things, and some of the other things that we’re going to talk about today. So that was all preloaded, if you will.
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From the Chronicle: Looting? Unsual for Universities? The AmeriKKKan and Jewish Way.
A bathtub in Emory University’s museum is splashed with symbols of the sea: a giant fish, wavy water lines. Someone in the ancient Mediterranean world may have used it as a coffin, believing it would ferry their soul to the afterlife, as a label told museum visitors.
Yet this tub has another dark history. In 2007, Greece told the Michael C. Carlos Museum that it and two other artifacts were looted, and asked for them back. They are still there.
The Carlos Museum is considered to have the most prominent classical-art collection in the Southeast and one of the best of any university museum in the country. In an era where Emory was striving to be seen as a top school, the Carlos emerged as a cultural force in its own right, luring crowds, scholars, and money to campus.
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Just a reminder of how rotten the white “race” is, you Putin Putzes!
“Liberated Syria”: Walk among the corpses … we’re not supposed to notice the slaughter
Assad’s mistake was to trust Putin
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In a nutshell, err, pig sty, Capitalism, Global Predatory and Criminal and Soul-Sucking CAPITALISM:
Resistance in Chile against Coexca and its factory pig farms
Private equity has played a key role in the expansion of agribusiness projects in the Global South, and a prime example of this is Coexca, an industrial pig farming company. For over a decade, the community of San Javier, in the Maule region of Chile, has been denouncing this company – backed by Chilean and Danish capital – for its serious environmental, social and economic impacts on the area. Inhabitants have faced land speculation, persistent foul odours, fly infestations, water contamination and financial losses that have significantly diminished their quality of life.
The population has seen domestic animals poisoned and food production diminished. In addition, the presence of pesticides and insecticides in the environment is damaging the only rainfed wetland in Chile, Ciénagas del Name, affecting more than 100 species of migratory birds that inhabit the marshes.
Coexca reflects a production model that prioritises profitability over community welfare and environmental balance.
GRAIN has interviewed a representative of the people of Maule to better understand the principal problems that factory farming is causing for local communities, and how their resistance can be strengthened.
Another problem is water grabbing and pollution. This has resulted in a severe water shortage being declared for the community, which seriously affects the water supply for both people and crops. Wildlife and domestic animals have also been impacted by new diseases and infestations since the factory farm was built.
Recently, in 2024, we noticed the effects of insecticides, specifically pyrethroids. Insects such as cicadas, which used to make noise at night, can no longer be heard. Although there are still bees, they are brought in by transhumant beekeepers, and there are no more wild hives to be found.
The bird population has also declined significantly. In addition, those working in the agricultural industry have seen animals such as dogs and rabbits poisoned. This poisoning is the result of pesticides and insecticides such as pyrethroids and organophosphates used by Coexca on its industrial pig farms. These include Demon EC (Zeneca), Aquapest (BTS) Maxifort (BTS), Agita (Elanco) and Diazinon (ANASAC), among others. All these insecticides and pesticides are toxic to humans and animals, as well as the natural environment (there are two large tributaries in the area, the Purapel River and the Perquilauquen River, as well as the only rainfed wetland in Chile, Ciénagas del Name, which is home to unique flora and over 100 species of migratory birds that come every year and have been clearly affected by these practices).
These factors have resulted in financial and environmental losses for farmers. What’s more, the community’s food sovereignty is being compromised, as we are producing less and less food.
Another problem is that, despite all the pollution, the value of the land has not been affected, due to the presence of agribusiness in the region, which leads to land speculation.
Israel’s Pig Farms – a Picture of Inhumanity
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GRAIN: Who owns Coexca?
MSPV: The company is mainly owned by Chilean and Danish capital. As far as Chilean capital is concerned, the shareholders are linked to the families that traditionally control the country’s economy. As for the Danish capital, it comes from a private equity fund managed by Denmark’s development bank, the Investment Fund for Developing Countries or IFU. The IFU directly manages the Danish Agribusiness Fund I K/S, in which the two major Danish pension funds, as well as the government, are involved. In other words, we are up against powerful national and international groups, who have led society to believe that the fight is over.
It felt like we had arrived in hell. A powerful stench was discernible half a kilometer away. A little closer, you hear the moans and screams. And inside – overcrowding and filth. Here, several kilometers west of the Galilee village of A’ablin, is where all of Israel’s commercial pig farms are concentrated.
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