The board of Harvard unanimously voted to retain the university’s president Claudine Gay despite her public refusal to say that calls for genocide of Jewish students would contradict Harvard’s code of conduct — and subsequent allegations of past plagiarism.
“Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing,” the Harvard Corporation announced in a statement on Tuesday.
Around the globe, Washington juggles three crises: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s war with Hamas, and Chinese belligerence over January’s presidential election in Taiwan. Now, Venezuela’s revolutionary socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, is adding a new one, on South America’s northern coast.
Thursday, Venezuela’s dictator meets with President Irfaan Ali, the democratically-elected leader of Guyana, Venezuela’s sparsely populated neighbor to the east. The goal is to head off South America’s first war since Argentina and Britain fought over the Falkland Islands in 1982.
For the past two weeks, I’ve been using a new camera to secretly snap photos and record videos of strangers in parks, on trains, inside stores and at restaurants. (I promise it was all in the name of journalism.) I wasn’t hiding the camera, but I was wearing it, and no one noticed.
I was testing the recently released $300 Ray-Ban Meta glasses that Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking empire made in collaboration with the iconic eyewear maker. The high-tech glasses include a camera for shooting photos and videos, and an array of speakers and microphones for listening to music and talking on the phone.
With the West in a desperate search for leadership, the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House next year might be just the fillip it needs.
US president Joe Biden’s three-year tenure in the White House has largely been characterised by his penchant for capitulation, from overseeing the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to his constant dithering over the Ukraine conflict. His failure to provide Kyiv with the military kit it requires to make a decisive breakthrough in the conflict, informed, in part, by his fear of provoking the Kremlin, has been a key factor in creating the current stalemate.
Polls should always be taken with a grain of salt, but the numbers coming out of Germany suggest that the biggest Right-wing wave since the end of the Second World War could be emerging. What is brewing across the country is no longer the usual ebb and flow of electoral politics, but instead the prelude to a coming revolt at the voting booth.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Foundation suffered an $11 million drop in donations last year, meaning the organisation made a loss, tax filings reveal.
A public disclosure form filed with the American tax authorities shows Harry and Meghan’s foundation recorded a deficit of $674,485 due to a sharp plunge in donations.
The foundation received $13 million in 2021, including $10 million from a single donor, but that figure dropped to $2 million last year, the filing shows. The donations from last year were from two individual donors who each gave $1 million, though their identities are not revealed.
This marriage is toast.
Gavin Newsom is at it again. Not content with signing bills into law that allow biological males to be placed in women’s prisons, or declaring California a ‘refuge state’ for transgender youth, the Golden State’s governor has launched another ultra-woke crusade – this time focussing on children’s toys.
A woman who worked late night shifts at a takeaway shop has successfully sued for discrimination after her male boss ignored her fears over walking home alone.
Fathimath Athif was awarded more than £15,000 even though she worked only four shifts at Spice E17, an unlicensed takeaway restaurant in east London.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tried to boost his MPs’ morale with bags of fast food during a marathon voting session he forced over the weekend, but during that same session, public opinion was souring on him, a new poll suggests.
The latest Abacus Data survey — provided exclusively to the Star — reveals a five percentage point drop in support for Poilievre’s Conservatives, an increase in those who have a negative opinion of Poilievre and a move away from him among those who think it’s time for a change in government.
Israel will continue its war on Hamas even if it loses international support, the Israeli prime minister has said.
Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would “go all the way” in its war in Gaza, during a visit to a military base in southern Israel.
“We’re going all the way, there’s no question about it,” he told troops. “I say this despite the huge pain, but also despite international pressures. Nothing will stop us, we’re going all the way, until we’re victorious, and nothing less.”
This is great! @fancypants_s https://t.co/h0KGaTx23T
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 13, 2023
IBM hates you.
BREAKING LEAKED VIDEO: CEO of IBM @ArvindKrishna admits to using coercion to fire people and take away their bonuses unless they discriminate in the hiring process.
“You got to move both forward by a percentage that leads to a plus on your bonus,” Krishna said about hiring… pic.twitter.com/UUK26HX8IP
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 12, 2023
IBM ‘dealt directly with Holocaust organisers’
… When the Nazis invaded Poland, Black wrote in the Jerusalem Post, “IBM New York established a special new subsidiary called Watson Business Machines,” after its then- president, Thomas Watson. “IBM’s new Polish company’s sole purpose was to service the Nazi occupation during the rape of Poland.” Watson Business Machines even operated a punch-card printing shop over the street from the Warsaw Ghetto, the paperback claims.
h/t Patti Jo and Sweetpea
Bob Rae was caught on a hot microphone, just after he joined in calls for a ceasefire in Gaza late Tuesday.
“We’ll see how that flies,” Canada’s ambassador at the United Nations said, off camera, after telling the UN general assembly that Canada supports the “humanitarian ceasefire” proposed in a resolution that was supported by 153 countries and opposed by just 10.
Female who thinks she’s a man claims she’s more of a man than real men because she put more work into becoming masculine throughout her transition.
Women cannot become men no matter what they do their bodies. Women will never be men. pic.twitter.com/hVfTPeZJq0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 13, 2023
A second alleged senior Iranian official found living in Canada is undergoing deportation proceedings, Global News has learned.
Canada has launched a case against Iranmanesh Majid, the Immigration and Refugee Board said on Wednesday.
A new “Civil War” Movie is coming out ahead of 2024
This is Predictive Programming pic.twitter.com/IBbWJJuKKY
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 13, 2023
h/t Mauser
