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Black Magic

Why are UK schools so desperate to hide what they're teaching kids about sex from parents?

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Sat, 04 Nov 2023 17:42 UTC
clare paige sex education school
© Geoff PughClare Page is one of a growing group of parents who say they are worried about what is being taught without parental consent or consultation
One day, Clare Page's 15 year-old daughter returned home from school reporting that a recent sex education lesson - which was supposed to be about consent - had taught that 'heteronormativity' is harmful and 'sex positivity' is a good thing.

Clare was understandably alarmed. The Education Act 1996 imposes a duty on schools "to prevent political indoctrination and secure the balanced treatment of political issues", and this was a clear example of a contested - and indeed harmful - ideology being presented to her daughter as fact.

The lesson was provided by a charity called School of Sexuality Education (SoSE), which at the time had what Clare describes as "inappropriately explicit lesson plans" on its website, including links to a private company "which advertises sex toys, pornography and anal masturbation techniques to young people".

Comment: Kudos to Ms. Page for going up against the mob. The original Telegraph article is worth reading in full.

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World's largest shipping company cuts additional 10,000 jobs, warns of subdued global trade for years ahead

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:45 UTC
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The shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S reported a slide in profit and revenue for the third quarter, forcing the company to take a defensive position by eliminating upwards of 10,000 jobs as falling container rates and waning demand batter the global shipping industry, which could last through 2026. However, the shipper maintained its full-year guidance at the lower end of the previously stated guidance.

"If you look at the order book and what is going to come over the next couple of years, I think we're probably settling in for a very subdued and pressured environment for two to three years ahead," Chief Executive Officer Vincent Clerc told Bloomberg TV's Mark Cudmore and Tom MacKenzie on Friday morning.

Maersk, which controls about 17% of global container trade, started reducing its workforce from 110,000 in January and will be below 100,000 by the end of the year - this will result in a $600 million cost savings. Clerc said about 6,500 positions have already been eliminated.

Comment: With the Panama Canal announcing its intention to reduce traffic in the coming months due to an ongoing drought, and with the burgeoning conflict in the Middle East threatening the Suez Canal, it's inevitable that commodities will not only become more expensive, but that there will also be significant shortages up ahead:

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Black Magic

Justin Trudeau's nihilistic, sick society: 4.1% of ALL deaths in Canada last year caused by government 'assisted suicide'

Ben Bartee
Armageddon Prose
Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:43 UTC
assisted suicide canada qualifications
© GettyStarting March 2023, Canada's medically assisted suicide eligibility expanded even further, allowing people who do not have a physical ailment to receive one.
I have written extensively at Armageddon Prose and elsewhere about Canada's liberal and loving "Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) program designed to help the serfs off themselves in an orderly, state-sanctioned fashion.

Trudeau's governing authorities have gone as far as advocating the state killing of infants in the name of Equity™ or whatever. The government even produced a MAID coloring book for children to understand the merits of having the state kill you.

Via "Medical Assistance in Dying: A Paediatric Perspective":
"Ensuring that newborns, children and youth receive the highest possible standard of care as they are dying is a privilege and a responsibility for physicians and allied professionals. Bringing a thoughtful, respectful and personal approach to every end-of-life situation is an essential and evolving duty of care, and the process should meet each patient's (and family's) unique social, cultural and spiritual needs."

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No Entry

Teachers kick off strike in Portland, Oregon, over class sizes, pay and resources


Associated Press
Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:13 UTC
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© theguardian.comPortland Oregon teachers strike
Teachers in Portland, Oregon, walked off the job on Wednesday for the first day of a strike that will shutter schools for some 45,000 students in Oregon's largest city.

Concerns over large class sizes, salaries that haven't kept up with inflation and a lack of resources prompted the strike, one of the latest signs of a growing organized labor movement in the U.S. that's seen thousands of workers in various sectors take to the picket lines this year.

The Portland Association of Teachers, which represents more than 4,000 educators, said it was the first-ever teacher's strike in the school district. The union has been bargaining with the district for months for a new contract after its previous one expired in June.

Portland Public Schools did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. Schools are closed and there is no classroom or online instruction during the strike.

Mike Bauer, a union representative and special education teacher at Cleveland High School, said teachers were stressed about the strike but felt it was the right way to advocate for their students. He said that smaller class sizes would both lighten educators' workload and help them give students more individualized attention if they're struggling.

"It's about the kids," said Bauer, who's been teaching in Portland for nearly 20 years. "It's about the sustainability of the job and the longevity of our jobs."

Comment: A strike is rarely the first resort to solve an issue. It is more often the last resort to prevent collapse.

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People 2

Ukrainians believe corruption country's main problem - poll


RT
Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:27 UTC
Vyshyvankas
People wearing Vyshyvankas, a traditional Ukrainian embroidered blouse, walk through Independence Square in Kiev
More than half of Ukrainians consider corruption to be their country's most pressing problem aside from the ongoing military hostilities, a fresh poll has revealed.

The researchers from the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KMIC) asked people to name three things that worry them the most besides the conflict with Russia.

According to the results of the poll, which were published on Wednesday, 63% of those surveyed named the high level of corruption as the biggest problem faced by Ukraine. Low wages and pensions were singled out by 46%.

Between 20% and 24% out of the 2,007 people who took part in the study also said that they are concerned about high utility bills, demographic issues that might be caused by Ukrainian refugees not returning from abroad, and high unemployment.
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90% of meat eaters ignore 'cigarette style' catastrophe labels on meat

Jo Nova
joannenova.com
Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:34 UTC
Warning Label
© joannenova.comWho believes the UN anyway?
A few academics want to add apocalyptic climate labels to meat to turn people off their steaks

The aim, apparently, is to shame and harass people into buying the vegeburgers they aren't voluntarily buying, and thus make the Weather Gods less angry in 2100 AD. Fortunately, in the trial, 90% of would-be meat-eaters just ignored the label and chose the meat anyhow. This must have disappointed the new prohibitionists.
Climate labels similar to cigarette packet warnings could cut meat consumption

The Conversation

To gauge the impact of graphic warning labels on the number of people opting for meat, we split participants into four groups. One group saw a warning label beneath the meat option depicting a deforested area and the phrase "eating meat contributes to climate change". Another group saw the meat option labelled with an image of a man having a heart attack and the text "eating meat contributes to poor health". A third group saw a label below the meat option depicting caged animals in a wet market, alongside "eating meat contributes to pandemics". The final group saw the four meal options with no labels.

When no warning label was presented, participants chose the meat options about two out of three times (64%). This figure dropped to 54% with the pandemic warning labels, 55% with the health warning labels and 57% with the climate warning labels.
Judging by the blatant comparison to cigarette smokers, the aim is not so much to connect the supposed cause and effect of climate change, but mostly to tar meat eaters with the same social opprobrium. After all, if the academics just wanted to raise awareness of the so-called "science", they could write Beef causes Droughts, or Burgers cause Bushfires or Chicken-sticks melt the Arctic. But since that sounds so stupid, because it is, they can't connect those dots. What they need instead are the catastrophic photos of a landscape that looks like lung cancer. It's the feeling that matters — a feeling like leprosy.
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Piggy Bank

Dem mayors begging Biden for help with migrant surge reject $1.4 billion aid, want $5 billion instead

Lawrence Richard
Fox News
Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:28 UTC
Migrants rest at a makeshift shelter in Denver
© AP Photo/Thomas PeipertMigrants rest at a makeshift shelter in Denver, Jan. 6, 2023. Five mayors from around the U.S. want a meeting with President Joe Biden to ask for help controlling the continued arrival of large groups of migrants to their cities.
Several mayors who welcomed a surge of migrants into their sanctuary cities are now requesting the Biden administration give them billions of dollars in federal aid to help support these new residents.

The mayors of Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles and New York have urgently requested to meet with President Biden about getting federal support or resources in managing these migrants.

In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, the Democratic leaders told the Biden administration on Wednesday that they appreciate the $1.4 billion in proposed aid but that they need much more — a whopping $5 billion — to ease the new burden on their cities.

"While we are greatly appreciative of the additional federal funding proposed, our city budgets and local taxpayers continue to bear the brunt of this ongoing federal crisis," the letter says. "Cities have historically absorbed and integrated new migrants with success."
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EU lost $1.5 trillion in revenue due to anti-Russia sanctions


Sputnik
Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:59 UTC
Ruble/EU banknote
© Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File
The total losses of the European Union from the imposed sanctions and curtailment of economic relations with Russia amount to approximately $1.5 trillion, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko stated on Friday.

"The total losses of the European Union — these are the most conservative estimates — from the imposed sanctions and decisions made in economic areas to curtail cooperation with Russia amount to approximately $1.5 trillion," Grushko told on the sidelines of the Eurasian Economic Forum. In 2013, the volume of EU trade with Russia was $417 billion, in the absence of sanctions this year, it could have been $700 billion, but in 2022, it was $200 billion, the diplomat said, adding that in the first half of 2023, trade was $47 billion, and will be less than $100 billion by the end of the year.

"Next year, [the trade] will be $50 billion, and then will tend to zero," Grushko said.

Comment: Not only has the West lost its proxy war in Ukraine, but its economic warfare, intended to destroy the Russian economy has also backfired; and the West's fire-starting in the Middle East is likely only going to accelerate its demise, and life for the people of Europe will only get increasingly worse:

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Bullseye

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Blinken's US Senate testimony


RT
Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:56 UTC
code pink israel blinken funding protest
© Getty Images / Drew AngererCode Pink head Medea Benjamin is forcibly removed from Anthony Blinken's hearing on additional funding for Israel's military
A hearing on aid requests for West Jerusalem and Kiev has been repeatedly halted by demonstrators demanding a ceasefire in Gaza

A US Senate hearing on emergency aid requests to back Israel and Ukraine in their conflicts with Hamas and Russia, respectively, has been repeatedly disrupted by protestors demanding that President Joe Biden's administration press for a ceasefire in Gaza.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had to pause his testimony during Tuesday's hearing several times as protestors screamed, chanted, held up signs, and were eventually removed by security officers. In one case, a man yelled at Blinken to "stop supporting the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the people of Palestine."
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Russian Flag

If the army says 'fight the war', Russians agree - If the Kremlin says 'stop', Russians agree on conditions the army decides

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:25 UTC
putin russia security council meeting
© Kremlin pool/EPA/EFERussian President Vladimir Putin (C) chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council, the Government and the leadership of law enforcement agencies at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, 30 October 2023.
Russians have never had a higher level of confidence in the Army since the end of World War II, according to a national poll just published by the independent Levada Centre of Moscow.

This also means a record level of confidence in the General Staff to outwit the principal enemy of the country, the United States, and defeat it and its allies on the Ukrainian battlefield. Most Russians now believe this war will take the Russian Army at least another six months, and more likely a year to finish.

This new poll signals that most Russians believe it prudent not to fight the US with the same intensity in two long wars at the same time - in the Ukraine and in the Middle East — because the Army has decided so. This is despite the overwhelming Russian support for the Palestinians in their fight for survival against Israel. No poll is allowed to measure and publish this support, and the emotional reaction the majority of Russians feels towards the operations of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the US military to destroy the population of Gaza.
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