[BIZPACREVIEW] First Lady Jill Biden’s press secretary, Michael LaRosa, was forced to resign after it surfaced he was taking male dates to his room on a secure floor of the hotel the president was staying at during a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... summit in Madrid. Decency is on the ballot
This is just one of the many inappropriate relationships involving Democrat staffers happening on government property.
LaRosa, 40, attempted to take a male date to his room on the floor not once, but twice according to sources. He was stopped by the Secret Service, the Daily Mail reported. The gay couple passed through three security checkpoints before getting stopped at approximately 9 p.m. The Secret Service confirmed the incident happened.
He was accompanying First Lady Jill Biden to the NATO Summit where the president was speaking in Madrid, Spain when this occurred in June 2022. The Daily Mail wrote that this was "part of a pattern of behavior that led to his forced resignation the following month."
[HotAir] So most of you know who Bill Ackman is, but for those of you who don’t, he’s the billionaire Harvard alumni who’s been the most vocal and, frankly, most outspokenly aggrieved about what transpired throughout the entire revolting Claudine Gay debacle.
The last word that Ackman had on the subject was an incredibly thoughtful 4000 word essay he posted on X. It concerned what he found at Harvard after he “went up to campus to see things with my own eyes.”
Also today, this big Business Insider scoop hit on Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman. It’s a lurid mess of accusations, gossip, and hyperbole against both Oxman and Ackman.
Well, fair’s fair if it’s true, right?
Billionaire hedge fund manager and major Harvard donor Bill Ackman seized on revelations that Harvard president Claudine Gay had plagiarized some passages in her academic work to underscore his calls for her removal following what he perceived as her mishandling of large protests against Israel’s bombardment of Gaza on Harvard’s campus.
An analysis by Business Insider found a similar pattern of plagiarism by Ackman’s wife Neri Oxman, who became a tenured professor at MIT in 2017.
Oxman plagiarized multiple paragraphs of her 2010 doctoral dissertation, Business Insider found, including at least one passage directly lifted from other writers without citation.
Her husband Ackman has taken a hardline stance on plagiarism. On Wednesday, responding to news that Gay will remain a part of Harvard’s faculty after she resigned as president, he wrote on X that Gay should be fired completely due to “serious plagiarism issues.”
…An architect and artist who experiments with new ways to synthesize materials found in nature, Oxman has been the subject of profiles in major outlets such as the New York Times and Elle. She collaborated with Björk, exhibited at MOMA, and had paparazzi stake her out after Brad Pitt visited her lab at MIT in 2018.
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In the first place, I’m sure BI wasn’t counting on Ms. Oxman coming straight out re: the issues with her work they address in the piece…nor the part about BI only giving her “until 4 p.m.” to answer their pretty bold insinuations of intentional academic fraud.
Her tweet on X is a prime example of grace, unwinding a situation calmly, and how to immediately address an issue.
I was forwarded an email this morning from a reporter at Business Insider who noted that there are four paragraphs in my 330-page PhD dissertation: “Material-based Design Computation,” which I completed at @MIT in 2010,https://t.co/6LE1O4FiiL
…Unfortunately, because some of the original sources are not online, and Business Insider was unwilling to give me beyond 4pm to review these citations, I cannot confirm whether Business Insider or the sources I referenced for this paragraph are correct.
When I obtain access to the original sources, I will check all of the above citations and request that MIT make any necessary corrections…
[AFRICANEWS] Sierra Leone's former President, Ernest Bai Koroma, has been charged with four offenses, including treason, for his alleged involvement in a failed military attempt to overthrow the government in November.
The charges come amid heightened tensions following the attempted coup and a disputed June 2023 election, where President Julius Maada Bio secured a second term.
The election's outcome faced rejection by the main opposition candidate and skepticism from international partners.
In November, gunmen attacked military barracks and a prison, leading to over 2,200 inmates' release and more than 20 deaths. The government attributed the incident to a foiled coup, mainly involving Koroma's bodyguards.
The ex-president, charged with treason, misprision of treason, and harboring, condemned the attacks. His lawyer called the charges a "political vendetta." Koroma was granted bail, and the case is adjourned until January 17. Twelve others, including a member of Koroma's security detail, were also charged with treason in connection with the coup attempt.
[AFRICANEWS] Nigeria has announced an expansion of its suspension of degrees accreditation, encompassing additional countries such as Kenya and Uganda.
This decision follows the recent suspension of accreditation for degrees obtained from institutions in Benin ...Benin, a French-speaking West African nation, that they put where Dahomey used to be. It is a birthplace of voodoo and zombies. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom’s past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!... and Togo.
During an interview on Nigeria's Channels Television channel, Education Minister Tahir Mamman stated on Wednesday, "We are not going to stop at just Benin and Togo. We are going to extend the dragnet to countries like Uganda, Kenya, even Niger here where such institutions have been set up."
This move is a response to the revelation of fraudulent qualifications from foreign degree mills, as exposed by the Daily Nigerian newspaper. In an undercover investigation, news hound Umar Audu detailed how he acquired a degree for a four-year program from a Benin university in under two months.
Expressing his firm stance, Mr. Mamman asserted, "I have no sympathy for those with fake certificates from foreign countries. They are not victims but part of the criminal chain that should be arrested."
Nigeria has initiated a formal investigation into the ministries and agencies responsible for accrediting academic qualifications obtained abroad. Mr. Mamman emphasized that this measure aims to safeguard Nigeria's employers and maintain the integrity of the country's qualifications.
The government's decisive action is in response to the urgent need to curb the proliferation of counterfeit qualifications, as revealed by the Daily Nigerian's exposé.
This broader suspension reflects Nigeria's commitment to maintaining the credibility of its educational system and protecting employers from potential fraudulent practices.
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Quality control batch tests.
The storage stuff that's been going to Russia hasn't been getting good reviews.
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Like back in the day when they'd light a tiny mortar straight up to see how far it traveled, so they'd know how the powder would behave and range that day.
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The quality control test for USN subs is innovative. There is a rep from each union shop onboard for the first five. Maybe that doesn’t happen anymore.
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When Roman engineers in charge of building arches for aqueducts supervised the removal of the scaffolding, they would stand underneath while doing so. Skin in the game is the best quality control.
[WIRE] After nearly three years, federal officials are still looking for a suspect as part of the investigation into a pair of pipe bombs that were planted outside the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) and Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) offices in Washington, D.C., in January 2021.
A bulletin issued by the FBI on Thursday said a $500,000 reward, which would be given in exchange for information leading to an individual’s arrest and conviction, "remains in effect." The bureau also said "identifying the perpetrator of this attempted attack remains a priority" for law enforcement and offered information on how to contact investigators, including through anonymous tips.
Federal authorities say a pair of pipe bombs were planted outside the RNC’s and the DNC’s offices in Washington, D.C., on the evening of January 5, 2021, the night before the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6. Surveillance video of the suspect previously released to the public shows a hooded figure carrying around a backpack and, at one point, sitting on a bench looking at what appears to be a phone.
Prioritized behind the Epstein and Seth Rich investigations, though.
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Question: OK I'll ask, given the 100's of CCTV cameras in DC, and collected Cell Phone videos. Surely they have a better PIC's of him that could be released.
So Here is a A.I. challenge.
Using available pictures and a Photo editor app. How long would it take the A.I. to piece together a better facial imagine?
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The Pipe Bomber was in the prep meeting with Epps and the other bus loads of feds dropped off on Jan 6. Maybe all those folks should be interviewed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Benin, a French-speaking West African nation, that they put where Dahomey used to be. It is a birthplace of voodoo and zombies. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom’s past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!...
