Tea at Trianon: Johns Hopkins Slashing 2K Jobs After Losing USAID Funds

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Johns Hopkins Slashing 2K Jobs After Losing USAID Funds

From Newsmax:

Johns Hopkins University is feeling the brunt of the Trump administration's efforts to streamline the federal government, announcing Thursday it will slash more than 2,000 jobs in the U.S. and abroad.

The private university in Baltimore said it will cut 1,975 positions in 44 countries and 247 in the U.S. from its global public health nonprofit Jhpiego, its Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs, and its medical school, The Wall Street Journal reported.

U.S.-based workers have at least 60 days before the job changes take effect, the Washington Post reported, adding the university said it also furloughed roughly 100 more workers. (Read more.)

One of the programs being slashed is Jhpiego, a beneficiary of the Gates Foundation, which deals with "women's health" in developing countries.We know that depopulation is one of the main agendas of Gates, so no doubt "women's health" involves abortion and "family planning."

From The Jerusalem Post:

In addition to attacks on the US foreign aid agency, the Trump administration is also probing 60 American universities, including Hopkins, over pro-Palestinian protests on campuses. The Trump administration alleges protesters are antisemitic. Demonstrators deny the allegations and say the US government is conflating their criticism of US ally Israel's military assault on Gaza with antisemitism. Last week, the US canceled $400 million in grants and contracts to New York's Columbia University. (Read more.)