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UK exams must avoid 'offensive' & complex language and negative stereotypes to help disadvantaged students, watchdog says


RT
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:46 UTC
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© Getty Images / izusekStudents taking an exam.
School exams must avoid language that "may cause offence" and not use complex or context-specific terms that could create "unnecessary barriers" for non-native English speakers, the UK's exams regulator has recommended.

On Monday, England's Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) published new draft guidelines aimed at addressing how some students are "unfairly disadvantaged by irrelevant features" in the education system. The proposed guidance also advises how exams can be made more "accessible, clear and plain" for students who are not familiar with the cultural "context" of questions that are based on social customs or life experiences.

In addition, the proposals recommend that exam boards avoid source material, context, images or colours that present "unnecessary negative, narrow or stereotypical representations of particular groups." The regulator also said exams must not "advantage or disadvantage any group" of pupils and have harder questions placed towards the end in order to avoid "demotivating" students.

Comment: That last statement from Williamson hits the nail on the head. All this 'inclusivity' is just a guise for lowering the standards of education and dumbing down the curriculum. It would be nice if a study was done to see if anyone is actually disadvantaged by non-inclusive language on exams.

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Best of the Web: Ice Age Farmer Report: Farmers panic, can't get supplies to grow food


Ice Age Farmer
Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:18 UTC
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Around the world, farmers are panicking as they are unable to get the supplies they need to produce food, from fertilizers to herbicides to tractor parts. India has setup a "War Room" for fertilizers after China stopped exports of DAP, prompting farmers to riot to obtain the product they need. Many nations are now limiting exports of food and these inputs, so that they may feed their own people. This was all foreseen by the Food Chain Reaction Game, which--like Event 201--announced this engineered crisis, and pre-scripted the solution. Christian breaks it down in this important Ice Age Farmer broadcast.


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QAnon believers claim JFK Jr. will 'reappear' in Dallas, declare Donald Trump President

Anders Anglesey
Newsweek
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:57 UTC
QAnon JFK Jr.
© GettyJFK Jr. is a popular figure in QAnon lore and has been predicited to reveal himself on numerous occassions. JFK Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999.
QAnon followers have gathered in Dallas, Texas, where they believe John F. Kennedy Jr. will reappear and announce Donald Trump is president.

A large crowd of QAnon believers descended on the AT&T Discovery Plaza on Monday, ahead of the supposed return of the deceased JFK Jr. before midnight today.

The Daily Beast contributor Steven Monacelli shared several photos that showed a dozens-strong crowd, with some wearing t-shirts that said "Trump: JFK Jr. 2024."

Comment: While Intel agencies (and the media lapdogs that peddle their talking points) love to paint the QAnon movement as a unified collection of domestic terrorists with absolutely insane beliefs, the truth is more likely that it's a collection of conservatives with a penchant for conspiracy theories, easily lead astray by savior rhetoric, with a great heterogeneity in their absolutely insane beliefs. But the QAnon label has become a convenient smear for any conservative expressing views counter to the mainstream liberal dogma.

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Panopticon: How mass imprisonment was normalized by mainstream academia

Joaquin Flores
strategic-culture.org
Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:36 UTC
The panopticon of the Smart City is a system set up so that free citizens police, interrogate, and report on each other.

Academia, with its woke newspeak, is a god-awful thing. Only through the complete destruction of language can actually fascist policies, which threaten to eradicate humanity, be passed off as progressive, even social-democratic. Our aim is to build upon our previous chapters to show that these were not intellectual fishing expeditions - we're here with the receipts.

Comment: Keep in mind that most things that enter post secondary institutions will find their way into society.

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NBC mocked for spinning 'Let's Go Brandon' as threat of violence against Biden after gun sellers use meme as marketing ploy


RT
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 22:31 UTC
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NBC, the media giant that helped give rise to "Let's Go Brandon" chants as a synonym for "F**k Joe Biden," has drawn ridicule for asking the Secret Service if the slogan's use on firearms is being investigated.

"I called to ask the Secret Service whether they consider 'F**k Joe Biden' emblazoned on an assault rifle to represent a security threat to the president," NBC reporter Ken Dilanian said on Sunday. Facing backlash for what some commenters saw as an attempt to demonize an anti-Biden meme, Dilanian defended the query as a "reasonable question."


He tweeted his comment linking the anti-Biden message to a threat of violence after authoring an article noting that gun dealers were engraving variants of "Let's Go Brandon" on firearm parts and ammunition to boost sales. For example, he wrote, a dealer in South Carolina is marketing a lower receiver for an AR-15 assault rifle as a "LETSGO-15."
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Australians fired for refusing Covid vaccine search social media for 'welcoming' employers

Cait Kelly
The Gaurdian
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:56 UTC
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Unvaccinated Australians who have lost their jobs for refusing to comply with Covid vaccine mandates are using social media to find and share employment opportunities at workplaces where the new rules are not being enforced.

Telegram and Facebook have had an influx of people searching for paid jobs after states and territories implemented mandates covering a range of industries from health and aged care workers, teachers and police to construction and hospitality workers.

On some job boards, businesses that are happy to accept unvaccinated people advertise that they are "welcoming of everyone".

Beauty therapists, childcare workers, disability support workers and accountants are among 20,000 people who are members of the largest Facebook group for unvaccinated jobseekers in Australia.
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Multiple people injured after 2 passenger trains collide inside tunnel near Salisbury, Britain


RT
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 21:42 UTC
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© Reuters/Henry NichollsEmergency services personnel inspect the site where two trains crashed near Salisbury, Britain October 31, 2021
Two passenger trains collided inside a tunnel in the southwestern English city of Salisbury, with multiple fire trucks and ambulances working at the scene of the crash.

The incident reportedly happened after one train derailed and "knocked out all of the signaling in the area" after hitting an object on its approach to Salisbury station. Another train then collided with it.

Comment: The derailed train was a sitting duck as warning signals to the accident ahead were absent:
The incident happened near Salisbury station in Wiltshire on Sunday night when the rear carriage of a Great Western Railway (GWR) service from Portsmouth Harbour to Bristol Temple Meads derailed. At least 17 people were injured, with passengers being thrown around pitch-black carriages. Firefighters and paramedics rescued around 120 people, including a three-week-old baby girl.

BTP confirmed there were no fatalities, but a "small number" of people, including the driver of one of the trains, were taken to hospital to have their injuries assessed. One of the drivers was cut free having suffered a suspected broken ankle.

A senior Network Rail engineer told MailOnline that when the GWR service derailed, there should have been an automatic obstruction warning to stop any train entering the same mile-long stretch.
"There has been a major flaw within the signalling system within Network Rail. The system says that the line is not safe for the passage of another train because there is an obstruction on the line.

"According to my system, the signalling system was aware seven minutes before impact. It should've automatically stopped the train. It should've automatically set all signals to red. If the driver didn't see the signal, the system should've made the train stop."
A statement released on Monday read:
"At around 6.45pm, a Great Western Railway service from Southampton to Cardiff collided with a South Western Railway service from London to Honiton as they both entered the Fisherton Tunnel in Salisbury.

"Both trains were travelling in the same direction and one train struck the side of the other, causing it to derail whilst in the tunnel. The front few carriages remained upright while the back tipped on their side.

"Ninety-two passengers were on both train services. Around 30 people attended a casualty centre which was set up in a nearby church, the majority of who were walking wounded and assessed at the scene."

"Unfortunately, the driver of the train was more seriously injured and his injuries are believed to be life-changing. He remains in hospital in a stable condition this morning, and his family have been informed.

"We have now moved out of the rescue phase of the operation and into the investigation which will involve the trains remaining in situ for some time. The investigation remains at an early stage but a senior detective has been appointed to lead the enquiries as we work to establish the full circumstances of how this incident came to happen.

"This will no doubt have been an incredibly frightening experience for all those involved and our thoughts are with them and their families today.

"Specialist officers and detectives remain on scene in Salisbury and we are working closely alongside the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) and the Office of Rail and Road to establish exactly how these two trains came to collide.

"We are keeping an open mind but at this early stage there has been nothing to suggest the train struck an object or that there was any significant delay between the trains colliding and then one derailing.

"This has been a large scale, multi-agency operation and I would like to pay particular to thanks to our emergency service colleagues for their efforts in safely evacuating passengers, and to the many members of the local community who reached out with offers of help."


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Compulsory Covid vaccines for NHS workers could trigger winter staff crisis

Laura Donnelly, Ben Butcher
The Telegraph
Mon, 01 Nov 2021 02:47 UTC
Sajid Javid
© Hollie Adams/Getty ImagesHealth Secretary Sajid Javid
Compulsory coranvirus vaccines for NHS workers should be delayed until spring in case the move fuels a winter staff shortages crisis, health chiefs have said.

A fifth of frontline healthcare workers are still unvaccinated in some areas, even though they were in the first priority group at the start of the rollout.

The latest NHS figures show that 90 per cent of staff have been double-jabbed. However, around 120,000 workers are not - and at some trusts, including major hospitals in London and Birmingham, uptake is as low as 80 per cent.

Barts Health NHS Trust, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust all have an uptake of 80 per cent or less, according to NHS figures for the week ending Oct14.

Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, last week said he was "leaning towards" making jabs compulsory for frontline health workers.
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Iowa's GOP governor signs bill allowing those fired for refusing Covid-19 vaccine to get unemployment benefits

Jon Dougherty
BPR
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Kim Reynolds
© Mario Tama/Getty ImagesGovernor of Iowa Kim Reynolds
Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, signed legislation on Friday that allows her residents to receive unemployment benefits if they are dismissed from their jobs for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

The GOP governor has been staunchly opposed to government vaccine and mask mandates and said that "no Iowan should be forced to lose their job or livelihood over the COVID-19 vaccine," according to remarks reported by The Associated Press. On Thursday, the Republican-led Iowa legislature passed the legislation during a special one-day session on a 68-27 vote.

The AP noted further that Reynolds has been an advocate for the vaccines, saying that she believes they are the best means of protection from the virus. She just doesn't favor the mandates, however.

Citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the AP reported that Reynolds' state is 23rd in the country for the percentage of its population who are fully vaccinated — 55.4 percent. Roughly one-third of Iowans have not gotten at least one dose of the vaccine "and most of the state continues to experience a high level of community spread of the virus," the newswire added.

But despite that, the governor said she will direct her attorney general to file a lawsuit against the federal government to challenge President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for private employers that have more than 100 workers as soon as the rule is published by the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nearly two dozen other GOP-led states are teeing up to file suit against the mandate as well, according to reports.
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One brave ICU physician reporting Covid-19 vaccine injuries leads to a dozen more

Aaron Siri
aaronsiri.substack.com
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00 UTC
Maddie
© UnknownPfizer vaccine victim Maddie de Garay
One act of bravery begins to snowball. Dr. Patricia Lee "risked it all" to step forward, after being ignored by public health officials, to reveal the serious series of harms she witnessed from Covid-19 vaccines in her intensive care unit. With that one act, my firm has now been contacted by more than a dozen other physicians. Attached are 11 declarations from physicians across the country attesting to serious harms from Covid-19 vaccines.

These physicians, like Dr. Lee, reached out to public health authorities at the CDC, FDA, and NIH for over ten months only to have their concerns dismissed or ignored. These agencies typically respond by saying that VAERS is not showing a safety signal so there is nothing to worry about. If you don't already know, VAERS is the system that the CDC and FDA say cannot show that a vaccine causes an injury, but yet can show a vaccine is safe. Meaning, heads they win, tails you lose.

Worse, many of these physicians were injured by a Covid-19 vaccine themselves and despite being physicians, the physicians from whom these injured physicians sought treatment also typically dismissed their injuries. And they are physicians seeking help from fellow physicians!

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