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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/comrades-monday-june-2-2025-c-and

The Journal marveled that China’s communist party prefers to send its officials to US institutions for governance training. What does it mean when our premier colleges are the top finishing schools where up-and-coming communists learn how to be better Marxists?

Most humiliating of all, Harvard has become the new home of Alpha Kappa Marx, the revolutionaries’ party-school pick:

For decades, the party has sent thousands of mid-career and senior bureaucrats to
pursue executive training and postgraduate studies on U.S. campuses, with Harvard
University a coveted destination described by some in China as the top "party school"
outside the country.

Not coincidentally, the story also reported that last Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the Administration will soon severely restrict visa applications from China, and “aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”

According to the story, Harvard-trained comrades include Xi Jinping’s top trade negotiator, a former vice president of China, and several sitting Politburo members. In 2010, President Xi’s daughter even attended under an alias. While her daddy prepared to rule the world’s largest dictatorship and assume the reins of America’s geopolitical enemy, get this: Harvard helped hide her.

“Harvard administrators and some faculty members,” the Journal coolly reported, “were aware of her identity.” Thanks a lot, Harvard.

While American manufacturing collapsed, IP theft soared, and the U.S. lost entire sectors to China’s strategic trade practices, America’s top universities enthusiastically invited CCP officials into the inner sanctum— training new communists in public policy, governance, negotiation, and national development. ...

In other words, it’s been lies all the way down. The same schools that have long claimed to stand for “liberal democracy” are actually training the next generation of Chinese Communists— on how to outcompete liberal democracies using our own tools against us.

Nor does the academic tolerance extend both ways. In Democrats’ America, if you’re a domestic dissenter —say, a parent questioning school boards, a scientist skeptical of pharma funding, or a Facebooker posting unapproved memes— you’re labeled a threat to democracy, deplatformed, and probably put on a watchlist.

But if you’re a high-ranking Chinese Communist official, you’re no threat to democracy at all. You get a Harvard fellowship, a guided tour of the State Department, and trained seal-like applause from the Kennedy School faculty for your “innovative governance.”

Commencement Speaker at Harvard is Mainland Chinese Student with familial and NGO ties to CCP
Selecting Luanna Jiang as #Harvard’s graduate speaker was not a wise decision. The choice presumably aimed to showcase the benefits of internationalisation and diversity in American higher education. It had the opposite effect: it has unintentionally reinforced the stereotype of elite U.S. institutions as serving global elites (criticism particularly arose from those of authoritarian regimes) while appearing indifferent, if not complicit, to malign foreign influence.

Jiang’s address centred on the concept of a “shared future of humanity,” a phrase that mirrors the ideological framework of “人類命運共同體,” or “community with a shared future for mankind,” first introduced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2017. The underlying premise is clear: the Chinese Communist Party seeks to expand its global influence under the guise of promoting the common good, all while rejecting accountability within international mechanisms. This vision of a shared future rests on a unipolar, Sino-centric worldview designed to allow Beijing to bypass democratic norms and scrutiny. The goal is not cooperation, but dominance through coercion or inducement.

We fail if we don’t take the threats from malign actors seriously. Under Xi, the People’s Republic of China has intensified its authoritarian expansionism and increasingly undermines the international order. Whether we wish to view Xi as “an enemy” is beside the point; what matters is that his regime decided to act like one long ago.

What concerns me most is how these sugar-coated pacifist messages can blur the judgment of even the most intelligent minds. It will ultimately lead to more suffering around the world because dictators don’t get as much scrutiny and accountability. This speech delegation decision may deepen public scepticism toward institutions like Harvard, casting them as naive (or worse, complicit) in the face of obvious danger.
https://x.com/nathanlawkc/status/1929485955049873727

On her connections with the CCP:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/harvard-slammed-for-choosing-chinese-student-with-family-ties-to-ccp-affiliated-ngo-as-speaker/articleshow/121546916.cms

Watch how fast Harvard Security leaps into action to stop protesters... protesters against the CCP.




All six actual Harvard students were disciplined within hours.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/auto-penmanship-thursday-june-5-2025

Reuters ran a story headlined, “Trump suspends entry of international students studying at Harvard.” Not only that, but according to a leaked cable “seen by Reuters,” the State Department ordered all its consular missions to enforce additional vetting of visa applicants looking to travel to Harvard for any reason. ...

Harvard can cry all it wants about the First Amendment and retaliation, but foreign nationals have no constitutional right to enter the U.S., and institutions like Harvard have no constitutional right to demand visas be granted to their applicants. Courts have explicitly ruled this. Not only that, but Harvard is deep underwater right now in the public’s jaded eye: antisemitism scandals, imploding diversity deans, corpse controversies, plagiarism problems, lying ethics professors, remedial math classes, Chinese cash pipelines, and widespread mockery over grade inflation and ideological monoculture.

https://babylonbee.com/news/massive-terrorist-sleeper-cell-discovered-in-massachusetts

Looks like there's no more Federal money going to Harvard/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-admin-finds-harvard-in-violation-of-civil-rights-act-threatens-funding-loss/ar-AA1HHJXA?pc=EDBBAN

I say up the stakes and file criminal "Hate Crime" charges against some admins.

Harvard is still fucking around trying to keep its DEI crap going. If they keep this up, Trump will have its tax exempt status revoked going back to 2016.

Wanna guess what the tax bill would be for 9 years of gains for a $53 billion endowment ??? Then having to pay tax on all the billions it received from foreign governments and organizations.

A lot of its endowment coin is tied up in private equity and private debt. A forced sale of those holdings would certainly show price discovery that is currently being shielded under "Mark to Model".

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/connecting-dots-tuesday-august-12

Harvard’s research patents are its crown jewels. That collection of prized intellectual property is Harvard’s biggest boast and its most financially valuable asset. It also turns out that its patents are its greatest weakness.

The woke Ivy League school can only blame itself. Under a long-standing federal law, 1980’s Bayh-Dole Act, all patents developed using federal grant money are required to be aggressively pursued for U.S. manufacturing, be fully and timely disclosed to the government, and must “maximize public benefit.” If a federally-funded patent holder fails to check Bayh-Dole’s boxes, then the government can confiscate the patent.

On Friday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent Harvard a stinker of a letter —also, hilariously, posted to Twitter— announcing an “immediate comprehensive review” of Harvard’s patent portfolio to ensure Bayh-Dole compliance. Lutnick gave the University one month to submit a complete list of patents tied to federal funding, including Bayh-Dole disclosure dates, current use, and full licensing terms.

But it didn’t take a month. Not even close. It only took one weekend.

Just like that, the #Resistance folded. Yesterday, the New York Times ran a resigned story headlined, “Harvard Nears a Deal With the Trump Administration to Restore Funding.” By Monday, Secretary Lutnick’s “comprehensive patents review” had been folded into a “potentially landmark legal settlement” framework between the Academy and the White House.

According to the Times, Harvard is now —suddenly— prepared to commit $500 million dollars over the next few years to agreed-upon “vocational and research programs.” The amount is twice Columbia’s settlement and ten times what Brown University paid in its deal. In exchange, the Administration would restore frozen research funding, end the Bayh-Dole patent probe before it bites, and call off the rest of the school’s many pending federal investigations.

The settlement’s details, obviously, remain fluid. The Times noted that the Administration seeks a painful stipulation in the deal requiring Harvard to cough up detailed admissions data, including on race and gender, grade point averages, and standardized test scores. “It was not clear on Monday,” the Times explained, “how any agreement between the government and Harvard would resolve that demand.”

Trump may have finally found the right leverage. It was only a matter of time.

Until now, Trump’s campaign against the Ivies has relied on tools that schools could posture against, like Title VI discrimination probes, DEI crackdowns, foreign student visa fights, and endowment taxes. All of those sting, but they’re either politically deniable (we’re standing up for academic freedom!) or slow-burning enough to drag out in court and maybe run out the clock.

But meanwhile, for decades behind the scenes, elite universities have treated the Bayh-Dole Act’s patent rules like polite suggestions, confident the government would never actually wield its “march-in” power to seize federally funded inventions. By suddenly threatening Harvard’s crown-jewel patent portfolio, Trump turned that dusty clause into a live grenade that blows straight through endowment walls and PR shields. Now, they’re talking about real money.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/higher-ed-bottoms-out

Harvard, apparently, can never learn. It has made itself the poster-child for all the failures of contemporary education, including the racketeering around endowments, government grant grifts, race and gender hustles, and intellectual surrender to ideas that would make medieval astrologasters burst out laughing.

Case in point: the university lately announced the hiring of a Boston-area drag-queen to teach a course in the spring semester of 2026 about the TV show known as Ru Paul’s Drag Race. The show features contestants vying for prizes and crowns based on “Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent” (C.U.N.T.). Get the picture? Reach into your Jungian psychology tool-bag. ...

Please understand: when you are watching drag-queens, you are not really seeing men posing as women. You are seeing men portraying women as monsters. ...

Harvard’s drag-queen du jour demonstrates all that nicely. Kareem Khubchandani, his legal name, is a professor of theater, dance, and performance studies at Tufts University. He also teaches “Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.” As a drag star, he goes by the stage-name LaWhore Vagistan. This is how he describes himself to the news media: “[M]y preferred pronouns are ‘she’ or ‘aunty.’ I chose ‘LaWhore’ because my family traces its origins to Pakistan: Lahore is an important city in Pakistan, and well, I’m a bit of a whore. And Vagistan because I see the subcontinent as one, big, beautiful Vag … istan.”

Of course, his fascination with female genitalia, of seeing a whole nation in that guise, is a bit odd considering that A) he is a homosexual performer who is ostensibly not attracted to female sexual characteristics and lacks experience with them, and B) he is a male of the species who does not possess such organs himself. Therefore, on what basis would he have gained so much knowledge of female genitalia and developed such a powerful obsession around them as to imagine the whole country of his ancestors that way? Possibly, it has something to do with mommy. . . something that made her appear. . . unforgettably monstrous. ...

Other questions do present, though. For instance, did Harvard’s President Alan Garber know about this hire and sign off on it, and how would he say it fits Harvard’s mission? Or Provost John Manning? Or Hopi E. Hoekstra, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences? Or Harvard’s Board of Governors?

All this underscores an important lesson that America has apparently managed to unlearn, something that we once knew quite well: that marginal behavior belongs on the margins, not in the center of our national life. The celebration of vulgarity for its own sake is arguably not the highest aspirational ideal for the best-and-the-brightest of our society, however amusing it might be in their hours of leisure, when people are free to pursue whatever lights their imaginations.

"Education" as it is currently practiced in the US is about obedience and conformity above all else.

One must sit down, shut up, and learn to regurgitate what one is taught. Questioning the teacher does not lead to "academic success".

The most "educated" are perforce the most obedient and the least questioning. Those blessed with critical thinking or an independent streak are ruthlessly eliminated to protect the power of "educational" institutions.

The apex of this system is Harvard. Doctors too are selected for obedience and conformity. This is how we ended up with nearly all doctors simply going along with the worst crime in human history, the mandates to inject dangerous and defective mRNA without question.

Doctors with all of the lengthy education and delayed gratification and debts are some of the most locked in to fearing the slightest threat to their licenses and status, so they conform to the dictates of the democidal protocols. I imagine they believe they are just following orders of higher established authorities in the medical field, and getting rich from conformity isn't hypocritical.

My internist at Kaiser (now retired, or fled, however you may choose to see it) apologized because his computer screen was telling him what to do and he had to do it: all that eduction and pride and work just to be controlled by the dictates of a computer screen bent towards profit.

The computer also gives the doctors the scripts for inducing fright if the patients are resistant to the 'advice' or protocols or vaccines or whatever, with 'studies'.

Speaking of doctors and politicians showing ritualized contempt for the populace and glorying in inflicted maiming and death. Some of the most audacious and murderous lethal lies 'for profit' one can imagine.:

https://rumble.com/v6ztori-pritzker-put-doc-on-tv-to-proclaim-vaccines-and-tylenol-dont-cause-autism.html

https://rumble.com/v6zti5o-autism-is-not-an-epidemic.-its-a-difference-in-how-the-brain-works..html