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I just listened to that on Rumble and Papi is right!
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https://rumble.com/vsz0us-seor-bidens-handlers-must-be-losing-their-minds….html
>>15428186 Gen. Flynn Tells The Western Journal in Next 24 Hours Massive Corruption Will Be Exposed
Does URI work with DS, or do they embezzle, launder money or what?article below
January 20, 2022 at 8:01pm
The family of former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn has issued a fiery statement in response to a report that the University of Rhode Island’s new president has recommended that the institution revoke an honorary degree conferred upon the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014, calling the move “corrupt.”
Given that URI President Marc Parlange has held his position only since August, he apparently believes that revoking this honorary degree and one conferred upon former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2003 are top priorities for the school.
The committee overseeing URI’s honorary degrees voted on Dec. 10to revoke both degrees “based on their findings that General Flynn and Mayor Giuliani no longer represent the highest level of our values and standardsthat were evident when we first bestowed the degree,” according to a letter to the school’s board of trustees cited by The Providence Journal.
“This is another example of cancel culture and ‘wokeness’ in our academic institutions,” Flynn told The Western Journal in exclusive comments. “And I know there is a concerted effort to attack me from certain elements on the Left, mainly because of my very visible stance fighting back against the socialist takeover of our country.”
“It will get national attention in the next 24 hours,” he predicted.
A statement from the Flynn family described Parlange’s recommendation to revoke the honorary degree as “a cowardly and corrupt attempt to discredit our brother, Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, USA (Ret.) and his life’s mission and work, without cause.”
“With this flawed and crooked action, URI endorses the destructive and tyrannical cancel culture, bowing down to the woke mob and repressive forces, while revealing itself to lack the intellectual capacity, fortitude or integrity that is required of an American public university in the 21st century,” the statement said.
Do you think Gen. Flynn's honorary degree should remain intact?
“Astoundingly, URI’s new President Mr. Marc Parlange distorts the facts and adopts lies and gossip spread for years in connection with the, now confirmed, framing of General Flynn,” the family argued in their statement. “Mr. Parlange’s recommendation to revoke General Flynn’s honorary degree lacks moral courage, prioritizes pettiness over principles, and sets an unsavory, disturbing precedent.”
“This saga has been festering for a year,” Flynn told The Western Journal. “My family has had enough.”
URI the Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa upon Gen. Flynn in 2014, The Providence Journal reported.
The Flynn family’s full statement appears below:
Today, our family learned the University of Rhode Island plans to disguise itself under a veil of false righteousness and turn its back on an American hero in a cowardly and corrupt attempt to discredit our brother, Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, USA (Ret.) and his life’s mission and work, without cause. If URI’s Board of Trustees gutlessly vote to revoke General Flynn’s honorary degree at their meeting Friday, January 21, 2022, the University will fail to stand for honor, truth, justice and morality, but instead, will smear its own reputation and dishonor its community, the State of Rhode Island, and General Flynn’s mother along with 10 of his siblings, nieces, and nephews who all graduated from the University. The blatant hypocrisy arising out of the Board’s expected decision to revoke General Flynn’s honorary degree smacks in the face of the core principles of this Country and the stated mission of the University, itself. With this flawed and crooked action, URI endorses the destructive and tyrannical cancel culture, bowing down to the woke mob and repressive forces, while revealing itself to lack the intellectual capacity, fortitude or integrity that is required of an American public university in the 21st century.
https://www.westernjournal.com/exclusive-gen-flynn-tells-western-journal-next-24-hours-massive-corruption-will-exposed/?
Rhode Island is and has been corrupt for a long time, mostly mafia controlled
Milestones on the modern march toward separation of powers
By Peter Hufstader, Research Director, Common Cause Rhode Island (1996-2007)
April 1986
Then-Superior Court Judge Ronald Lagueux rules that legislative appointments to the Rhode Island Coastal Resource Management Council (CRMC) are unconstitutional. Eight of the Council’s 16 members are legislative appointees: two state representatives, two state senators, and four public members. The Speaker of the House appoints six of the eight. Three of the governor’s seven appointments to the CRMC require Senate confirmation.
The day after Lagueux's ruling, the Providence Journal calls on the constitutional convention then in progress to clarify "executive and legislative bounds" in the amendments it would recommend to the voters. Despite the Journal's recommendation, the convention, under tight control of House Speaker Matthew J. Smith, does not confront the issue of Separation of Powers.
March 10, 1987
The Rhode Island Supreme Court, all of whose members have been elected by the General Assembly meeting "in Grand Committee," reverses Judge Lagueux’s ruling. The high court rules that Lagueux improperly raised the question of the CRMC's constitutionality, and that the parties in the dispute had submitted to its jurisdiction.
December 31, 1990
The Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corporation (RISDIC), a private insurer of 45 credit unions, declares it is insolvent.
January 1, 1991
Newly sworn in, Governor Bruce Sundlun closes the 45 credit unions formerly insured by RISDIC.
March 14, 1991
A special study commission impaneled by Governor Bruce Sundlun and headed by Brown University President Vartan Gregorian issues Carved in Sand, a report on the collapse of the Rhode Island Share and Deposit Indemnity Corporation.
Gregorian's report explains how oversight fails when legislators have conflicted interests:
"Contributory or compounding causes of the collapse of RISDIC included structural and operational weaknesses of the General Assembly, the Department of Business Regulation, and RISDIC itself. With friends of RISDIC in key positions in the General Assembly's leadership, legislators were unwilling and unable during the mid-1980s to heed various warning signals."
April 1992
Sheldon Whitehouse, then-Executive Counsel to Governor Bruce Sundlun, tells Common Causeof Rhode Island Executive Director Phil West that reformers "will not cut the deep root of Rhode Island's corruption" until they address separation of powers.
December 1992
The Select Commission to investigate the multi-million dollar failure of RISDIC-insured Financial Institutions issues its four-part report. Phase IV of the report is entitled "The Failure of Governmental Oversight."
July 1994
The Common Cause/RI State Governing Board adopts separation of powers as its highest priority. Attorney Robert Kilmarx heads the separation of powers Task Force, a responsibility he will carry until 1999, when Roger Williams University Law Professor Carl Bogus takes over. Each brings legal skill and personal passion to the mission of establishing separation of powers in Rhode Island.
1995 - 2001
Every year legislators introduce separation of powers bills at the request of Common Cause, but all the legislation is killed in House or Senate committees.
April 1995
The Rhode Island Bar Journal publishes "The Impetuous Vortex," an essay by United States Attorney Sheldon Whitehouse. Whitehouse draws his title and theme from James Madison's argument in Federalist Paper #48 that legislatures, unless rigorously prevented from doing so, will eventually seek to draw all government powers into their control. In that article and in a later one in the Roger Williams University Law Review, Whitehouse contends that the Rhode Island General Assembly has demonstrated the worst that Madison feared. The key, Whitehouse says, is the legislature's ability to gain influence and control of agencies by appointing members of the boards that run them….
http://secretsandscandals.com/milestones.html
==It took from 1986 until 2003–19 years (with congress and senate of RI watering it down and opposing it) to get the constitutional amendment (that us in the US constitution) to get passed in Rhode Island. Some of corruption of government, congress and senate below.
January 17, 1996
Directors of the Solid Waste Management Corporation (SWMC) fire Thomas E. Wright as Executive Director of the trash disposal agency.Wright reports pressure from state Rep. John McCauley (D-Providence) to hire a five-times convicted felon.
Common Cause asks Speaker John B. Harwood (D-Pawtucket) and Senate Majority Leader Paul S. Kelley (D-North Smithfield) to investigate charges that Wright's refusal to hire the felon is a factor in his dismissal. Neither Harwood nor Kelley replies to repeated inquiries on the matter.
April 26, 1999
TheRhode Island Lottery Commission votes 5-4 to allow the Lincoln Greyhound Park and Newport Jai Alaifronton to add 850 new video lottery slot machines to their operations.Six of nine members of the Lottery Commission are sitting state legislators. Daniel V. McKinnon, law partner of House Speaker John B. Harwood (D-Pawtucket) serves as counsel to the owners of the gaming facility.
November 15, 1995
The Providence Journal reports thatState Senator John Orabona (D-Providence) has retired at the age of 52, claiming public pensions of $106,000 per year based on a total of 79 years worth of retirement credits.
Common Cause presses the Ethics Commission to investigate conflicts-of-interest involving Orabona's service both on the General Assembly's Joint Committee on Retirement that drafts retirement legislation and on the Retirement Board that administers pensions for retirees.
The Ethics Commission does nothing, but General Treasurer Nancy Mayer, a long-time critic of insider pension deals, moves to block Orabona’s state pension.
May 1997
At the urging of Common Cause, the Rhode Island Ethics Commission concludes that =•it is an inherent conflict-of-interest for lawmakers to both write the laws and then serve on the boards that execute them.== The panel's new regulation also outlaws legislative appointments to boards and commissions with executive powers.
August 24, 1999
Edward Achorn, a new editor at the Providence Journal, publishes the first in a relentless series of columns that target Rhode Island's casual acceptance of political corruption and its dangerously unrepresentative form of state government. The remedy, Achorn will tell readers many times in coming years, is constitutional separation of powers.
September 15, 2000
Common Cause of Rhode Island publishes Democracy Betrayed; Conflicts of Interest and Failures of Oversight in Rhode Island State Government. The white paper summarizes scandals that have arisen because state law empowers lawmakers to exercise executive powers. Chapters focus on the State Retirement System, the Narragansett Bay Commission, the Coastal Resources Management Council, the Lottery Commission, the Resource Recovery Corporation, and the Unclassified Pay Plan Board.
June 30, 2003
Both houses of the General Assembly unanimously pass the bill containing the package of separation of powers amendments to the Rhode Island Constitution. Passage means the amendments will appear on the ballot in November, 2004 as Question 1.
Guess who used to work for the Atlantic Council and directly associated with University of Rhode Island?Well, Dr. Sandra Whitehouse is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s ultra rich wife
Watch The Water applies to her. Wonder if she worked with the Terramar project?
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/sandra-whitehouse/
>>15428186 Gen. Flynn Tells The Western Journal in Next 24 Hours Massive Corruption Will Be Exposed
I wonder if Flynnis referring to this a Chinese (spy) professor at the University of Rhode Island
Chinese social media opening up public debate, university study finds
Stav Dimitropoulos
Yinjiao Ye, associate professor, Department of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island
Chinese social media systems are fostering a more open public debate within the country on political and social issues such as corruption, new research from the University of Rhode Island has found.
Yinjiao Ye, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the university, who co-produced the study, told Global Government Forum that: “Social media are providing a platform for Chinese citizens to monitor and discuss state corruption and other political issues.” People using social media feel relatively safe to criticise decisions on corruption and policy, she added; and the increasing use of social media may suggest that people’s freedom to criticise state decisions is growing.
The study was based on a survey of 1202 Chinese internet users, and analysed by Ye along with fellow researchers Ping Xu and Mingxin Zhang.
The Chinese government’s internet censorship systems bar residents from access to western social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, but native systems such as Wechat, Weibo and Baidu Tieba enjoy huge audiences. “The research found this kind of platforms to be positively associated with public discourse and civic engagement, while users with higher political interest tended to favour a heavier social media use,” said Ye. “Social media are used by Chinese citizens as a space for a relatively free public debate, and are providing a platform for them to monitor and discuss state corruption and other political issues.”
For instance, she said, in August 2015 subscribers of the popular online portal of the People’s Daily, Qiangguoluntan, shared heated discussions on issues such as the anti-corruption movement, territorial disputes with Japan, health care reform, the reform of state-owned enterprises and pollution. And a discussion panel named ‘Monitor by the People’, which called for ordinary Chinese citizens to expose misconduct by government officials, attracted over 200 responses.
The Chinese government has long tried to influence public debate via social media. The first systematic study of China’s online propaganda workers, known as the Fifty Cent Party, which was led by Harvard University, found that the government fabricates about 488 million social media comments a year in a massive effort to draw citizens’ attention away from “unsettling” news and delicate political debates…
https://dev.globalgovernmentforum.com/chinese-social-media-opening-up-public-debate-university-study-finds/
I think Flynn will reveal some serious corruption in URI
URI gets close to a Billion dollars in funding from state and fed research, this does not include Federal educational funding. The URI endowment fund had $130 million in 2017
University of Rhode Island seeks tuition hike, more state aid
Sept 30, 2021
URI is also seeking a $7.5 million in new state aid, which would bring the total state appropriation to $89.9 million. The university’s overall budget for the 2022-2023 fiscal year would be $874.2 million.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/30/metro/university-rhode-island-seeks-tuition-hike-more-state-aid/
Research
Researchers awarded $100.9M in competitive grants
Federal funding: $77.7M (approximately 85%)
34 patents issued in 2019
Leading the way
URI to lead $94 million NOAA-funded Ocean Exploration Institute, under the direction of Professor Robert Ballard, Titanic discoverer.
URI awarded $20 million from National Institute of Health to further expand Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program over the next five years.
The URI College of Nursing ranked No. 1 in New England in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health, rising to 37th in the nation.
URI was recently added to the National Science Foundation’s prestigious list of CyberCorps universities, becoming one of only 84 universities in the nation offering the generous scholarship for service program to qualified students.
URI’s Digital Forensics and Cyber Security Center is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education and Research by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
https://www.uri.edu/about/facts/
State of Rhode Island
Search domain omb.ri.govwww.omb.ri.gov › documents › Prior Year Budgets › Operating Budget 2022 › Capital-Budget › 0_FY 2022 Capital Budget.pdf
• The Governor recommends $51.6 million for asset protection at the University of Rhode Island. • Rhode Island Collgee (RIC) RICAP funding totals $8.44million, including $4.92 million for asset protection projects. • The Community College of Rhode Island(CCRI) RICAP funding totals $72.4 million, including