Agenda47: The American Academy

November 01, 2023

2:31

President Donald J. Trump will endow the American Academy with the billions we will collect by taxing the large endowments of private universities plagued by antisemitism.

TRANSCRIPT

In recent weeks, Americans have been horrified to see students and faculty at Harvard and other once-respected universities expressing support for the savages and jihadists who attacked Israel. We spend more money on higher education than any other country, and yet they're turning our students into Communists and terrorists and sympathizers of many, many different dimensions — we can't let this happen. It’s time to offer something dramatically different.

Under the plan I’m announcing today, we will take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments, andwe will then use that money to endow a new institution called the American Academy.

Its mission will be to make a truly world-class education available to every American, free of charge, and do it without adding a single dime to the federal debt. This institution will gather an entire universe of the highest quality educational content, covering the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills, and make that material available to every American citizen online for free.

Whether you want lectures or an ancient history or an introduction to financial accounting, or training in a skilled trade, the goal will be to deliver it and get it done properly, using study groups, mentors, industry partnerships, and the latest breakthrough in computing. This will be a truly top-tier education option for the people.

It will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that's going to be allowed.

Most importantly, the American Academy will compete directly with the existing and very costly four-year university system by granting students degree credentials that the U.S. government and all federal contractors will henceforth recognize. The Academy will award the full and complete equivalent of a bachelor's degree.

In addition to help the 40 million Americans who have some college education but no degree, the American Academy will grant credit for past coursework at legacy institutionsand give you the chance to complete your education at the American Academy for free and much more quickly than is now possible or available.

This will be a revolution in higher education and will provide life-changing opportunities for tens of millions of our citizens.

Enjoy it, learn from it, and thank you.

Fantastic

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3 Jan, 2024 12:46

US secretly prolongs military base deal with Qatar – CNN

American troops will remain in the Gulf state for at least another decade, sources told the broadcaster

Washington and Doha have quietly signed a deal to extend the presence of American troops at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base, CNN has reported, citing unnamed US officials.

The Americans will remain at the base, located in the desert southwest of Doha, for at least another ten years in line with the agreement, the broadcaster reported on Wednesday.

Al Udeid, which has been the biggest US military installation in the Middle East since 2003, can host up to 10,000 servicemen. It is also used by the Qatari and British air forces.

The deal, which hasn’t been announced publicly, was struck “at a time when Qatar has come under growing scrutiny for hosting senior Hamas leaders,” CNN stressed.

Officials in Doha responded to criticism by reminding that the Palestinian armed groupHamas was only allowed to open a political office in Qatar in 2012 at the behest of then-US President Barack Obama.

According to the broadcaster, the extension of the American presence at Al Udeid “highlights Washington’s reliance on the tiny Gulf country,” which played a key role in mediating the release of US captives held by Hamas.

Washington has stood behind Israel amid its military operation in Gaza, which was launched in response to the October 7 Hamas attack on the country in which some 1,200 people were killed and 240 others taken hostage. However, US President Joe Biden has criticized the IDF for its “indiscriminate”bombing of the Palestinian enclave, saying that Israel risks losing international support over such policies. The death toll from the Israeli attacks on Gaza has surpassed 22,000, according to the local health ministry.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Al Udeid in December, but said nothing about the extension deal. He only stated that Washington and Doha “will formally take steps forward to expand and reinforce our bilateral defense relationship.” According to Austin, this will happen through “Qatar’s commitment to contribute significant resources to increase capabilities here at Al Udeid Air Base, and that will support both of our forces for years to come.”

https://www.rt.com/news/590069-us-qatar-base-hamas/

Illegal Alien Invasion Maps Exposed

BY THOMAS HICKS

Muckraker has obtained multiple maps, handed out by non-government organizations across South and Central America, that detail the routes to take to the U.S. and where to cross the U.S. border. These maps are hardly reported on by the mainstream media since illegal aliens usually lose the maps along their way.

We were able to obtain these blueprints by directly visiting numerous NGOs along the mass migration route through South and Central America. The collapse of the U.S. southern border is the result of a carefully planned and deliberately executed industrial mass migration program. MAP

#1 - Distributed by the NGO Amigos Del Tren (Friends Of The Train in English).This NGO aids illegal aliens in riding the "Train of Death", (also known as "La Bestia"), a freight train that U.S.-bound illegal aliens ride on top of to reach the U.S. border. The front shows the train routes across the country of Mexico. The back lists numerous hostels that can be found along the train routes and also shows the distances between Mexican cities.

MAP #2 - Distributed by the Red Cross. The front shows the freight train routes across Mexico (similar to the Amigos Del Tren map) and lists 80 different stops from Panama to the United States. The back gives advice on navigating the mass migration trail. One piece of advice given is how to safely ride a freight train. It is advised to avoid riding a freight train if ". . . you are under the influence of alcohol, drugs or medication that can make you drowsy." …

More at link

https://www.muckraker.com/articles/illegal-alien-invasion-maps-exposed/

Jan. 6 defendants have received combined 847 years in prison

by Ashley Oliver, Justice Department

January 01, 2024 06:00 AM

Judges overseeing cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot have handed down a combined 847 years’ worth of prison sentences to more than 450 defendants as of the end of 2023.

Sentences spanned from a few days to 22 years, according to court filings and Department of Justice data.

Quentin Cantrell, a practicing attorney of more than two decades, received one of the lightest prison sentences at six days, which the judge allowed him to serve intermittently on weekends.

Cantrell had marched past barriers on Jan. 6 with his two cousins and lingered in restricted areas of the Capitol for about 20 minutes. The lawyer did not directly injure anyone or damage any property. He was found guilty of two misdemeanors, and his home state of Indiana suspended him from practicing law there.

By contrast, Enrique Tarrio, a former national chairman of the Proud Boys, holds the record for the longest prison sentence. He was not in Washington on Jan. 6, but he organized a group of more than 200 to breach the Capitol that day.

“Mr. Tarrio was the ultimate leader of that conspiracy," the judge said at his sentencing hearing in September. "I don’t really think this is super debatable."

Tarrio was convicted of a rare seditious conspiracy charge, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, destruction of government property, and other related charges, for which he received 22 years in prison.

The government has arrested 1,237 people in connection with the riot, according to the most recent update from the DOJ.

The United States attorney’s office in Washington and the FBI’s Washington field office have been leading the investigations and prosecutions, and they are continuing them “at an unprecedented speed and scale,” according to the DOJ.

“The Department of Justice’s resolve to hold accountable those who committed crimes on January 6, 2021, has not, and will not, wane,” department officials said.

The most common charges have included entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds, obstructing an official proceeding, assaulting or impeding police officers, and destruction or theft of government property. A portion of those charged also were found in possession of deadly weapons.

The DOJ estimated that 140 police officers were assaulted on Jan. 6 and that Capitol damages exceeded $2.8 million.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/january-6-defendants-combined-847-years-prison

Claudine Gay's defenders have embarrassed themselves

by Zachary Faria, Commentary

January 02, 2024 05:04 PM

Harvard University President Claudine Gay has finally resigned, embarrassing Harvard and her defenders in the process. Their judgment should not be trusted anymore.

Gay’s resignation on Tuesday came after it was revealed that yet another of her published academic works was facing plagiarism accusations, bringing the total of questionable works to eight. Given that Gay only had 17 works published, that means that half of her works are facing plagiarism accusations. Now, she has finally stepped down.

It is embarrassing for her but even more embarrassing for those who pushed the university to keep her and dismissed any and all accusations of plagiarism or other criticisms.That includes former President Barack Obama, who reportedly lobbied for Gay to retain her jobafter she was unable to say that calling for the genocide of Jews is a violation of Harvard’s student code of conduct.

It alsoincludes several in the establishment liberal media, who were far more concerned with protecting one of their ideological allies than they were with breaking open this plagiarism story in the first place.Axiosdecided to make the focus of Gay’s resignation about racistemails she received.Jonathan Martin of Politico belittled peoplepaying attention to the most recent accusation of plagiarism, which appeared to be the straw that broke the camel’s back.On MSNBC, Alex Witt even took a small victory lap, noting that Gay would remain at Harvard as a professor.

Therein lies the biggest problem.Gay’s biggest defender wasn’t a former president or a group of journalists. It was Harvard. The university refused to fire her, leaving her to resign on her own and still retain a position on staff. Gay was backed by the Harvard Alumni Association Executive Committee and 700 faculty members. If they had their way, Gay would still be the president of Harvard.

That means their judgment is critically flawed. They cannot be trusted to prioritize academic integrity or even any basic form of honesty. Nor can they be trusted to prepare students for the future, given their outright rejection of meritocracy in going to the mat for a mediocre scholar who became president of Harvard only to fill self-imposed diversity quotas. They tied their reputation to Gay as scandal after scandal followed her, and they thus exposed themselves as race-obsessed ideologues who care little for honest achievements or discussions.

Some left-leaning observers had a different reaction.

Marc Lamont Hill, a commentator, activist, and City University of New York professor,demanded that the next president of Harvard be a black female.

"The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman," he wrote.

(The MSM is never embarrassed though)

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/claudine-gays-defenders-have-embarrassed-themselves

‘Sound of Freedom’ Edges Taylor Swift at Box Office to Finish in Top 10 for 2023

Michael Foust

Angel Studio’s Sound of Freedom finished No. 10 at the box office for 2023 with a gross of $184,177,725, edging Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which landed at No. 11 with $179,635,196, according to data at BoxOfficeMojo.com. For 2023, Sound of Freedom topped movies with significantly bigger budgets, including No. 12 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ($174 million), No. 13 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One ($172 million) and No. 17 Elemental($154 million). Indiana Jones and Elementalboth are Disney films.

Sound of Freedom was the surprise hit of the summer, opening at No. 1 on the Fourth of July and grabbing the top spot three more times. The PG-13 film tells the true story of government agent Tim Ballard, who quits his job at the Department of Homeland Security so he can dedicate his life to rescuing children in other countries from sex trafficking. Jim Caviezel portrays Ballard.

It received an A+ CinemaScore grade from moviegoers.

Sound of Freedom is the only wide release in Hollywood history to have a second-weekend increase greater than 35 percent at the summer box office. Movies typically decrease in revenue from their first weekend to their second weekend.

Barbie ($636 million) was the No. 1 grossing movie of 2023, followed by The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($574 million), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($381 million), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($358 million), Oppenheimer ($326 million), The Little Mermaid ($298 million), Avatar: The Way of Water ($283 million), Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($214 million) and John Wick: Chapter 4 ($187 million) at No. 9.

Producer Eduardo Verastegui told Fox and Friends the movie represents eight years of his life.

“I put my life in this movie because this movie is bigger than ourselves,” he said.

At first, he made a deal with Fox. But that deal disappeared when Disney bought Fox. Verastegui said Disney told him, “This material doesn't resonate with us.”

He eventually partnered with Angel Studios.

“I was praying to God for an angel to come and rescue this film,” Verastegui said. “And what are the odds that from all the studios, the one that picked this movie is called Angel Studios?”

https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/sound-of-freedom-edges-taylor-swift-at-box-office-to-finish-in-top-10-for-2023.html

(Notice Hannity doesn’t mention PDJT)

Sean Hannity Announces He’s Left New York and Moving to Florida Full Time

Sean Hannity announced on Tuesday afternoon’s radio show that he is taking his talents to Florida — or, that is to say, he iofficially relocating from his home in Long Island to the Sunshine State.

Hannity revealed to listeners of his iHeartRadio talk show that he was broadcasting live from his new studio in Florida, where he has taken full-time residence.

Hannity opened Tuesday’s show with the “breaking news,” saying:

If anybody is listening to this program for any length of time, been threatening now to do this for quite a while. But we are now beginning our first broadcast of my new home, and that is in the free state of Florida. I am out. I am done. I’m finished. New York, New York. Goodbye. Florida. Florida. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But it’s great to be here. And I will tell you, one of the things that I was told either before, Linda, but feeling good tonight, by the way, and I’m that because she entertains everybody. I bet she was entertaining every day working or not working. And no, she worked a number of days. But and she’s such a good entertainer and such a great host is that anyone would want her back as soon as we can. I was told even before this that it just it just the time was right. I was able to put the final exclamation points on what needed to be done. And here I am.

And finally, for the first time that I can think of in my adult life, I actually have representatives in in the state that I’m living in that share my values.I have a governor by the name of Ron DeSantisand Senators Marco Rubio and Senator Rick Scott. So I’m feeling a lot better about it, and I’m not going to go through the whys. The how comes because it’s obvious this migration out of the blue states with high taxes, burdensome regulation, high crime, horrible school districts is real. And if anything, I’m probably late and behind the curve and and many others have made the move beforehand.

Of course, these are many of the political talking points of the massive migration of New Yorkers to Florida for any number of reasons one sees and regularly hears on Fox News right-of-center opinion programs.

Hannity has regularly hosted his Fox News show from his Long Island compound, which includes a full television studio, except for when he hosts live studio audiences at the Fox News broadcast headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. One can only assume that Hannity and Fox News have the means to fly the top-rated host to and from his Florida residence to continue live shows.

Hannity is, of course, not the only cable news star to decamp to Florida. Former Fox News star Tucker Carlson regularly hosted his show remotely, either from a compound in rural Maine or an estate on the Western coast of Florida. And anyone who watches MSNBC’s Morning Joe knows that hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski regularly host their show from studios at their home in Jupiter, Florida.

It’s no secret why so many high-earning individuals move to Florida: the tax code saves citizens a ton of money on state and local taxes compared to New York.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-sean-hannity-announces-hes-left-new-york-and-moving-to-florida-full-time/