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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
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The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
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2. Born in New Haven, CT
Moved to Texas in 1948
Philips Academy in Andover,
Mass
Baseball and Cheerleading?
Attended Yale (History) (1964)
Denied to Texas Law
Texas Air National Guard
Arrested for DUI in 1970
Harvard Business School
MBA-Harvard University
4. • Joins Arbusto Energy w/
$10,000 investment
• Sells that for $650,000
• Invests in Texas Rangers
• Sells for $15 million
• Political Career
– Ran for Texas House in 1978
(lost)
– Governor of Texas (1995-2000)
• Executed a record 152 prisoners
in 1998
7. • “Peace is Earned
Through Strength”
– Increased Military
Budget
• Global War on Terror
• Bush Doctrine
– Authored by Cheney &
Paul Wolfowitz
– Actions that will protect
the security and
democracy of
Americans are justified
8. New President-Hu Jintao
April 1-US Spy Plane collides
w/Chinese fighter
Emergency Landing on
Hainan Island
Held for 12 Days,
US paid $34, 567.89
Plane returned 2 months
later
In over 100 boxes!
9. • 8:45am-American
Airlines 11 from Boston
hits WTC (North)
• 9:08am-United 175 from
Boston hits WTC
(South)
• 9:43am-American 77
from Dulles hits
Pentagon
• 10:10am-United 93 from
Newark crash lands into
Somerset, PA
10. 2,999 people died, 24 are still missing
246 on the 4 Planes, 2603 in NYC, 125 at Pentagon
All Civilian International air traffic was banned from
landing for 3 days
“Terrorism can shake the foundations of our tallest
buildings but it can’t shake the resolve of the
American people.
Approval Rating hit 86%, highest ever
11. • October 7- US invasion of
Afghanistan
– Destruction of Terrorist
training camps
– Capture of Al-Qaeda
Leaders (bin Laden)
• Nov. 21-Battle of Tora
Bora-remove Taliban from
Kabul
• President Hamid Karzai
• Operation Mountain
Thrust (2006)-renew
attacks against the Taliban
13. President Vladimir Putin
Consolidation of
Democratic Power? Next
Tsar of Russia
SORT Treaty signed May
24, 2002
Limits Nuclear arsenals
to 1700 by 2012
No longer recognizes
ABM Treaty
14. UN Resolution 1441-No tolerance or defiance of
international law (WMD)
Reasons for War-WMD and ties to 9/11
CIA was continuing to investigate “allegations of
yellow-cake uranium sales in Niger”
Thomas Wilson and Valerie Plame (CIA)
No real connection was ever found…
Hans Blix was never aware of any indications of a
nuclear program that could attack the US
15. • Invasion began on March
20, 2003
• Led by General Tommy
Franks
• Baghdad falls on April 9
• Successes
– Operations over May 1, 2003
– Uday & Qusay killed,
Saddam Executed (Dec. 30,
2006)
– Iraq becomes a democracy
in 2004
– Current leader-Prime
Minister Nouri Al-Maliki
16.
17. Rumsfeld Doctrine
Lighter, Faster Military
w/supporting air strikes
Lack of Ground Forces to
Secure Borders & Cities
Debaathification
Removal of Saddam’s
personal army & anyone
involved within his former
government
Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal
18. • Troops-680,000 invasion
• 540,000 US
• 148 US Dead (36 Friendly
Fire)
• 30 Supporting Nations
– 52,000 Saudi Arabia
– 43,000 United Kingdom
– 33,600 Egypt
• Cost $61 Billion ($7
Billion to US)
• 6 Weeks of Combat
• Troops-300,000 invasion
• 165,000 Pre-Surge
• 4400US Soldiers Dead
• 17 Supporting Nations
– South Korea 933
– Romania 397
– El Salvador 280
• Cost $400 Billion to US
• 3 Months of Active
Combat
19. Kim Jong –Il
Walked away from 1994
Agreement
$4 Billion, Oil, Light-water
reactors
Oct. 6, 2006-Detonated Nuclear
Device (Underground)
May 7, 2007-Agreed to shut down
reactors for release of frozen bank
funds
US, China, North Korean Deal
September 2, 2007-Agreed to
dismantle nuclear program by the
end of 2007.
20. Bush’s Desire for a
Palestinian State by 2005
Denounced Arafat (Died
in 2003)
Israel PM-Ehud Olmert
Palestinian President-
Mahmoud Abbas
Israel must halt West Bank
activity
Palestinian must halt and
dismantle all terrorist
activities
21. Colonel Muhammar
Quadhafi
Agreed in 2003 to disarm
all of their WMD
Allowed weapons
inspectors in (UN)
In 2006, agreed to full
diplomatic ties with the
US (off Axis of Evil…)
22. President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad
US calls for a stop to
production of all nuclear
weapons
In 2003, Iran stopped
making a bomb
Continued enrichment
of uranium
Continued long range
missile system
23. Tax Cuts-3 major cuts so far…
In 2001, he cut taxes by $1.35 trillion
In 2003, he cut taxes by $350 billion
Tax cuts were set to expire in December 31, 2010
Spending
Federal Spending up 28%
2006-Budget was $2.4 trillion, defense was $480 Billion
2007 Deficit-Approximately $400 Billion
National Debt as of today-$17.2Trillion
What does it all mean?
24. US Patriot Act
Act greatly increased the authority
of US intelligence agencies
Search Emails, telephone calls,
medical, financial records
Loss of civil liberties???
Dept. of Homeland Security
Secretary Tom Ridge (R, PA)
Cabinet level position that secures
America from terrorist attacks and
natural disasters
Director of National Intelligence
John Michael McConnell
Currently collects information from
16 agencies and reports directly to
the President
25. Jan 2002-No Child Left
Behind Act Passed
All students will take tests to
prove that they are proficient
in math, science, and reading
Has it been adequately
funded? Funding has gone up
14%
Parents in school districts
that are failing can send their
kids to other schools
By the year 2014, all children
are supposed to be advanced
or proficient
Sex Education & Intelligent
Design???
26. November 2003
Bans abortions during
the 2nd
Trimester of a
Pregnancy
Polls
Available-39%
Available w/stricter
limits-38%
Not available-23%
Poll-CBS(2006)
27. November 2003
$534 billion over the
next 10 years
Benefits were given to
companies to not
eliminate prescription
drug coverage
Government will not
negotiate discounts with
drug companies
28. Appointed July 19, 2005
Replaced Sandra Day
O’Connor
3rd
Youngest ever to be
Chief Justice
Has turned the court
into a 5-4 balance
towards the
conservatives
29. Demanded a “Guest-
Worker” Program
would allow 12 million
illegal immigrants to
obtain legal status
Deployed 6000 National
Guards to border
700 Mile Fence created
along US/Mexico
Border
30. Withdrew from Kyoto Protocols
Worldwide Pollution standards that would lower the
amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
To date, 170 countries signed, US & Afghanistan have
not
Bush did not sign because of China and India’s level of
commitment
Social Security Reforms
Privatization means that individuals would be free to
invest their FICA taxes into secured investments
Up to $1000/year could be invested
32. Hurricane
Katrina
August 23-28, 2005
1836 Killed
$81.2 Billion in Damages
Criticisms-Michael
Brown as director of
FEMA, also President of
Arabian Horse
Association
Iraq War had stretched
response to thin…
Bush denied that he
received warnings about
the levee system