Michael Wade

Let the Royal Navy Patrol the English Channel open.substack.com/pub/michaelwad… Immigration is a greater threat.

Amazing letter by @Cornell President rejecting the resolution. Should be read by all: Dear Zora, Thank you for conveying SA Resolution 61: Calling for the Termination of Cornell University’s Partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology While Preserving Cornell Tech. I reject this resolution, which fundamentally conflicts with Cornell’s principles of academic collaboration and our core commitment to academic freedom. Cornell Tech is not a political entity. It is an academic partnership, created through shared investment by Cornell University, the Technion, and the City of New York for the benefit of the city and the state, according to a negotiated set of conditions that govern its development and the terms of its 99-year ground lease on Roosevelt Island. As one of Cornell University’s many international partnerships and collaborations, Cornell Tech deepens, enriches, and strengthens the ability of our students, faculty, and staff to pursue knowledge and advance the university’s academic mission. The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, the core international partnership upon which Cornell Tech is based, is an extraordinarily valuable collaboration focusing on education and research in health tech, media tech, and urban tech, and supporting the development of new startup companies. Severing our relationship with the Technion—or with any entity affiliated with governments, institutions, or enterprises with which some of our community members disagree—as a statement of political protest, would not only hinder our research, teaching, and public engagement; it would imperil our academic principles. Our university, like all of our peer institutions, regularly faces pressure—from across the political spectrum, from within and beyond our own community—to make academic decisions according to political priorities. The phenomenon is not a new one: universities have grappled with such pressures from governments and societies for as long as the institution of the university has existed. When we yield to these pressures and proscribe specific collaborations or collaborators on grounds other than merit, we compromise our principles of academic freedom, undermine our own institutional excellence, and damage public trust in our work.   Moreover, this resolution inaccurately asserts that “the continued operation of Cornell Tech as a Cornell University campus does not require an ongoing partnership with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.” Cornell Tech, while part of Cornell, is a joint effort of the university, the Technion, and the City of New York. It is no more possible for Cornell to unilaterally terminate that effort and claim full control of the campus than it would be for the Technion or the City of New York to do the same. Finally, I am deeply troubled by the selective manner in which this resolution singles out the Technion, alone of Cornell’s many international partners, for censure. Cornell currently maintains 159 active agreements with institutions in 59 nations and regions; all of these institutions have some government affiliation, and many conduct research with military and security applications. Cornell itself has military research contracts, conducts research with potential military applications, and has relationships with companies whose products are used in military contexts. Cornell also has relationships with institutions in countries whose governments have been accused of human rights violations—as our own has been.  None of these publicly available facts are mentioned in the resolution; only our partnership with an Israeli institution is targeted for erasure. The political bias evident in this selective approach is deeply disturbing, and the resolution is incompatible with both the Student Assembly’s purpose and Cornell University’s core values. I reject it fully and forcefully. Sincerely,   Michael Kotlikoff President and Professor of Molecular Physiology Cornell University

An 18-year-old Japanese classical guitarist, Haruna Miyagawa, performs Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 24, a technically demanding violin piece arranged for guitar, highlighting its sequence of variations and arpeggios in a contemporary concert hall setting.

Acabo de saber que he perdido otro cliente que ha preferido recurrir a la IA (no doy más detalles). Cada vez que subo imágenes como esta a las redes de mi proceso de trabajo me siento como un viejo artesano a punto de desaparecer, como un calafate o un tonelero...

That famous match cut in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) almost wasn’t the moment we know. David Lean originally planned a slow dissolve. Editor Anne V. Coates suggested a hard cut instead, inspired by the French New Wave.

Whoa! Now CBS is doing the Nick Shirley investigation thing… and finding massive fraud in Los Angeles! Hell has frozen over!

This should have been on the front page of The New York Times. I speak to students in America and most have no idea that more than 30,000 Iranians were killed for protesting and demanding freedom. No names. No faces. No coverage. This silence kills me.💔 Thank you, Australia.

Cuba is proof that socialism is the surest way to freeze an economy in time and impoverish its people.

Gen. PETRAEUS: The future of warfare—not yet seen in the Gulf—is Ukraine producing 7 million drones per year. Last year they made 3.5 million, enabling 9–10 thousand drones per day. These are still remotely piloted. But autonomous systems are coming, and that means drone swarms. They're already being introduced at mission end. Defending against swarms is really hard—you'll need high-powered microwaves or similar. We're not where we should be, despite what we should have learned from Ukraine for a very long time. They're making software changes every week or two, hardware changes every 2–3 weeks.

'What the US is doing at the moment is degrading that capability of Iran, and I think that's very important,' NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said, backing US-Israeli strikes on Iran

What a beautiful brutal dunk on bad journalism this is. Written by Ayn Rand 70 years ago in Atlas Shrugged; relevant as if it was written yesterday.

New York Gov Kathy Hochul: 2022: [to Republicans] "jump on a bus and head down to Florida, you don't represent our values, you are not New Yorkers." 2026: "maybe the first step is to go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home, our tax base has been eroded." 🤣

CBS NEWS INVESTIGATION: A salon, a modeling agency, and 89 hospices? We visited a 3-story LA building being called "ground zero" for fraud. We went to look for ourselves. cbsn.ws/4bmB3Kg

“The New York Times coverage of Mamdani is one of the top 25 outrages of media bias I’ve ever seen,” says @MarkHalperin about the Gray Lady and the Gotham mayor. “It’s phenomenal the way they cover him. They bend over backwards every day to paper over not just his outrageous affiliations and statements — connected to, but not only to, Jews — but they’re also not covering the fact that the city’s not running very well.” @LarryOConnor @melissadderosa @2waytvapp

Wow. Douglas Murray. A single minute. Give yourself a single minute to listen to this. This man is something else 👏🏽

Dr. Oz reacts to Nick Shirley’s expośe on Medicaid fraud: “Los Angeles has ONE THIRD of all hospice centers in the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Is everyone dying in LA?”

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Another close run race in North Korea.

It’s like the Soviet Union again.

“Since 1945, the British state has taken a society that was homogeneous, safe and secure, and through reckless policies of mass migration it has destroyed all that. It’s turned the whole country into Northern Ireland.” @ShipleyWrites on the Sceptic. Full episode👇