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China Paid UK University to Silence Human Rights Professor

It’s a remarkable story, where the professor exposed the extent to which her university was selling out.

…in early 2025, university administrators told her that she could “not continue with her research into supply chains and forced labour in China”.

She initiated legal action against the university for failing in its duty to protect her academic freedom and she submitted a “subject access request” demanding Sheffield Hallam hand over any relevant internal documents.

The documents she obtained showed the university “had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,” she told the BBC.

She added: “I’d never seen anything quite so patently explicit about the extent to which a university would go to ensure that they have Chinese student income.”

Now consider this: Palantir, under the influence of American ACTS 17 extremist preacher Peter Thiel, displays a similar yet more sinister anti-education tactic tested on Koreans.

The anti-democratic private intelligence firm told high-school kids to skip education for “teachings” likely from Thiel’s father, who fled Germany in 1968 specifically to block the college movement and education of Peter.

These lesser educated and therefore lower income kids are then feted by Palantir as better off for it. A foreign intelligence service is telling kids to trade academic freedom for access to fast money.

Imagine if China, like this Palantir plot, had paid students in a foreign country to skip University, and instead take shock doctrine authoritarian propaganda courses.

Mateo Zanini, 18, gave up entering Brown University, a prestigious Ivy League school in the United States, and chose the Palantir internship. Zanini was notified of acceptance to the internship almost at the same time as his acceptance to Brown. At the time, he had already secured a full scholarship from the Ministry of National Defense.

Zanini told the New York Times, “No one told me to do this fellowship,” and “friends, teachers, even college counselors unanimously said, ‘Don’t do it.’”

Indeed. Don’t do it.

The UK professor wouldn’t have had a case against this far more insidious and destructive foreign intelligence operation to undermine the free thought of higher education.

Palantir, like China, doesn’t want kids taught the usual things that would make them hate Palantir, like China.

The more you know…

NHTSA: Tesla Deathtrap Doors Continue to Suck

The fact that emergency responders now need specialized training on “how to open a Tesla door” is a catastrophic failure of basic design. It’s the engineering equivalent of making fire extinguishers that operate by solving a Rubik’s cube.

Tesla knows this. They have the data, they know the deaths they’re causing. They have the growing stack of complaints.

They just keep shipping deathtrap doors.

Bloomberg apparently is trying to do something about it, though.

…NHTSA is proceeding with an investigation launched days after Bloomberg News uncovered a series of incidents in which people were injured or died after they were unable to open the doors of Teslas following battery-power losses or crashes. […] NHTSA opened the defect investigation on Sept. 15, citing nine complaints submitted as far back as July 2023. In several cases, parents told the agency they were unable to reopen the doors of their Tesla to retrieve a child from the back seat, or to place a child in the back seat.

The regulator received seven more complaints in the 10 days after opening the probe.

Tesla’s approach is truly the worst engineering in history. Emergency door design goes back hundreds of years, so it’s a solved problem that Tesla has unsolved.

Firefighters arriving at a scene shouldn’t need to know the specific manual release procedure for a 2021 Model Y vs a 2024 Cybertruck. And a bystander with a fire extinguisher shouldn’t need a Tesla owner’s manual.

Of course a parent putting a child in a car seat shouldn’t become trapped outside when the battery dies. And a crash victim shouldn’t burn to death after surviving the impact because the door release is… hidden.

Tesla has grotesquely positioned itself as a “safety leader” based on all their crash test ratings and autonomy promises, while knowing their crash survivors burn to death at an alarming rate.

Tesla causes severe danger to infants, who cook in 104°F cars while parents watch helplessly. Good Samaritans can’t even help because the door design failures are so severe.

Tesla’s conduct rises to the level of “conscious disregard” for human safety.

Police Say Tesla Driverless “Looked At” Because Crash Into Donut Shop

For years we have seen police reluctant to admit driverless technology is at fault in Tesla crashes.

Leave it to a damaged donut shop to turn police sentiment against the defective car maker.

Police in Middletown Twp., Bucks County said that a “self driving issue” was being looked at as the cause for a single accident on the 900 block of South Woodbourne Road. A Tesla operated by a New Jersey resident plowed into the side of a Dunkin Donuts, at the corner of Trenton and Woodbourne Road.

Since 2016 hundreds have died, thousands have been injured, and many more are still grieving… yet the threat to donut safety is what finally pushed Tesla driverless software under more appropriately harsh scrutiny?

The two donut shop workers in this latest Tesla driverless crash suffered only minor injuries. The uniquely Tesla explosive battery design fortunately did not ignite upon impact. And yet, police say they “looked at” driverless, finally.

The tone is a notable escalation from just five months ago, when a Tesla that destroyed a donut shop in Long Island didn’t even make the news.

Source: Reddit