For some REAL entertainment...

...watch as asakazad (and, I've noticed of late, Lerner, too) tries(try) to distance himself(themselves) around here from his(their respective and unrelated) past(s).

Good, clean fun for the whole family.

Hey... do they sell popcorn around here?

 

It's an interactive game too....

 

Mr Azad's blizzard of posts must NOT be construed as degreeinfo or anybody in particular endorsing the truthfulness of any of his statements. If the lack of specific rebuke or questioning may be construed by any dimwit or scoundrel as approval, speaking at least for myself I say that I rebuke his effort in all of his posts to use this as a weird form of group therapy and I question every statement of ostensible fact Mr Azad chooses to make. Every blasted one.

If Mr Azad is prepared to lie about so obvious a matter of public record as the godsandgoddessesawful slowness of the Indian courts (as he is), I find it impossible to grant any prima facie truthfulness to any statement made by Mr Azad.

Of course, this includes Mr Azad's Nuremberg style "I vas only followink orders" apologia for his quite possibly ongoing involvement in several less-than-wonderful enterprises.

 

When the bad guys start shooting each other it can be a most entertaining thing to watch. I suggest that we try to just sit back and enjoy. There's no need to blast away ourselves (too much) at least not while the bad guys still have ammunition left.

 

Just so, Bill. Since nobody knows either what women want or what Mr Azad wants,
I simply wanted to make it impossible for Mr Azad (or anybody back of Mr Azad)
to claim that his repetitive posting was granted any automatic credence or anything even remotely construable as endorsement at degreeinfo.

That done, I am content to let Mr Azad do his thing. Whatever it is. Or isn't.

Have a swell day, Bill. Your incisiveness is a model for us all.

Janko

 

Azad...

I, for one, enjoy asking Azad pointed questions since I've seen his photo and his presence around diploma mills since 2002. I first noticed him, and remember him probably because of his unusual (to me, anyway) name, associated somehow with Instant Degrees when a friend of mine showed me the web site and asked if the program was "legitimate" in any way.

Though Azad's picture never appeared on the Instant Degrees website, a little "google" research quickly revealed the underlying "institutions" - Canterbury, Earlscroft, and the Cambridge International University. CIU actually was so brazen as to get included in some registry of legitimate universities and colleges based out of Colorado.

Azad's name and picture were revealed as one of the instructors on some cached web site I found for Canterbury and CIU.

Later on, when St. Regis was in its "build up phase" (2003), Azad came on board that institution as a "new professor" with a blurb about his former relationship with Canterbury, and how much SRU was glad to have his services. That blurb only lasted a couple of days because someone (actually one of my friends again, acting as a "mole" into the SRU discussion board) pointed out back to Instant Degrees that the name of one of their institutions was being advertised on the SRU website on Azad's biography. Instant Degrees has this "condition" that no one can ever utter the name of one of their institutions in public - and Azad had violated that by letting SRU post his biographical and background resume on their web site.

So it is a twisted and tangled web of intrigue indeed. Azad claims he NEVER was associated with Canterbury or Instant Degrees, yet the evidence was plain and open for a period of time that he WAS involved. He was also heavily involved in setting up the SRU India office, and his name was used there too. He may claim he knew nothing of all this and was just a simple web designer (mein fuehrer! I know NOTHINK! NOTHINK!!!! I hear NOTHINK!!!!), and Janko's use of the "Nuremberg analogy" is apt and completely dead on.

My own opinion? He is and was heavily involved, and only now is trying to create a new public personna on the web to distance himself from a set of criminals who are only a few steps ahead of the law, as opposed to where they were a year or two ago - operating flagrantly and openly without fear of prosecution. Part of their lack of fear is based on Instant Degrees "legal loophole" - the UK act that permits degree/fraud/mills to operate on their soil so long as they claim incorporation or legal structure in some foreign territory (like the Seychelles, or Dominica).

Maybe galanga knows more of the story, and will share what he knows too.... I believe that the time to reveal all information about these dubious "academics" and thieves is now.

 

Like with "russ," it is a game of Whack-a-Mole. They just keep popping up. As Unk said, if one or more of their repetative and vacuous statements happens to go unrefuted, it should not be perceived as a tacit endorsement--no one got around to smacking it, that's all.

 

Uncle: What do women want?

"Lunch, mostly."

-Anna O Cookbook