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Maryland School District Announces Policy to Push ‘Anti-Racist Thinking’ In Preschool
Daily Wire: The Montgomery County Public School district in Maryland spent more than $450,000 on an “anti-racist audit” for the 2020-21 school year, which resulted in the district tentatively adopting policies that push “anti-racist thinking” in preschool.
According to a copy of the school district’s “tentative action policy” obtained by The Daily Wire, the district will now provide a “culturally responsive Prekindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum that promotes equity, respect, anti-racist thinking, and civility.”
The curriculum will also teach students that “the impact of racism on mental health has been deemed a public health crisis.”
The school district, which is one of the largest in the nation, announced in November that it would partner with the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium for $454,680 to conduct an “anti-racist audit.” The audit was designed to “examine [the district’s] systems, practices, and policies that do not create access, opportunities, and equitable outcomes for every student’s academic and social emotional well-being.” According to Bethesda Magazine, the contract was awarded despite anticipated budget cuts of up to $155 million.
In a review of the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium’s financial filings, the Washington Free Beacon discovered that the group had raked in $17 million in taxpayer dollars between mid-2018 to mid-2019. The group has not reported a private donation in four years and has received its government financial backing through a partnership with the Department of Education.
The audit is ongoing, but its reach is already being seen in curriculum changes, policy changes, school board meetings, and parent-teacher association (PTA) meetings. In a powerpoint presentation delivered by the district in a PTA meeting, the district stated its newfound goal “is to be an anti-racist school system.” Read More
Dow jumps 470 points, posts best day since November as the GameStop trading mania unwinds
mped on Tuesday, building on a strong rally in the previous session as concerns about a speculative retail trading frenzy continued to ease.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed about 475.57 points, or 1.6%, to 30,687.48 for its best daily performance since November. The S&P 500 gained 1.4% to 3,826.31, pushing its two-day rally to 3%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite popped 1.6% to 13,612.78, bringing its week-to-date gains to more than 4%.
The back-to-back advance in the broader market coincided with a sharp reversal in GameStop, the video game stock that captivated Wall Street with its massive short squeeze coordinated by a band of retail investors on social media. Read More
Scottish Churches Ask Court to Overturn Order Criminalizing In-person Services
The New American: A group of Scottish church leaders is taking their government to court over recent coronavirus regulations that outlawed holding or attending an in-person worship service.
On January 8, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon “made it a criminal offense in the highest tiers for churches to hold services in-person,” according to a press release from the London-based Christian Legal Center, which is supporting the churches’ request for judicial review of the order. Sturgeon also forbade individuals to leave home to attend worship services.
While the order bans in-person services, it permits churches to be open for funerals, very small weddings, and “essential voluntary services or urgent public support services” such as providing food banks or serving as blood-donation or vaccination centers.
On January 15, 27 church leaders from a variety of denominations sent a pre-action letter to the Scottish ministers, urging them to reopen churches. Their pleas fell on deaf ears, so they are now asking the courts to intervene. Read More
Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to kill anyone who might oppose him
Jihad Watch: The Palestinian attempt to appease the Biden administration by holding Palestinian elections threatens to reveal the flabbiness and collapse of Fatah, which lies at the heart of the Palestinian Authority.
Recently, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened Fatah members who opted to run outside the Fatah list with death. This apparently occurred last week during a Fatah Revolutionary Council meeting in Ramallah.
Abbas had barred members of the Fatah Central Committee, Revolutionary Council, and Consultative Council from running in the upcoming legislative elections. This ban also included current ministers, ambassadors, governors, security officials, and former members of the Legislative Council.
Abdel Fattah Hamayel, a senior member of Fatah and former governor of Bethlehem, posted a message on Facebook in which he indicated that Abbas would be responsible if he were killed. “This [post] is an official complaint to all legal departments and human rights institutions,” he added. Read More
Fatah: Murder of 11 Israeli athletes at Olympics was “quality operation”
Eight Palestinian terrorists from the terror organization Black September, a secret branch of Fatah ...
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Report: Iranian attack against Israeli embassy in African state foiled
Israel Hayom: An Iranian terror attack targeting an Israeli embassy in one of Africa’s eastern countries was thwarted in January, Kan 11 News reported on Monday.
Citing Western intelligence sources, the report said that Tehran sent agents to the unnamed country for the purpose of gathering information about the Israeli, American, and Emirati embassies in order to carry out an attack against one of them.
Kan 11 News did not stipulate which agencies foiled the terrorist operation but mentioned that some of the Iranian agents were arrested in the African state and some in other locations.
Several agents were of European nationality, besides their Iranian citizenship, the report noted.
The sources cited by Kan further said that the operation was conducted in part as an attempt to avenge the killing of top Iranian commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and nuclear project chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3, 2020. Fakhrizadeh was assassinated on Nov. 27, 2020 in the outskirts of Tehran. Read More
Ultra-elite Prep-school Parents Rage Against Racial, Anti-white Curriculum
The New American: Be careful what you wish for — you just may get it. Some wealthy New York City parents may be learning this the hard way now that their prep school has begun ramming a racialized, anti-white curriculum down their children’s throats.
Perhaps they should have seen this coming at Manhattan’s posh Dalton School. After all, it was reported last year that the small institution planned to hire 12 diversity officers (hey, Yale University already has 150 full-time ones), which partially explains why it charges $54,180 in yearly tuition.
Regardless, a group of Dalton parents is now rebelling against the social engineering and has “circulated a letter of protest, seeking to ensure that Junior and Muffy will not be dumbed down and radicalized in the name of avenging the death of George Floyd of a drug overdose while in custody of the Minneapolis Police,” writes American Thinker.
“It is notable that the parents backing the letter remain anonymous; such is [the] power of casual accusations of ‘racism’ today,” the site continues. “Nonetheless, at least when their privacy is protected, parents can recognize that the demands of the racialists can harm their offspring, curtailing the breadth and depth of their education, degrading their ability to think and be aware of the intellectual heritage of our civilization, and maybe even cheapening the value of the education they receive.” Read More
Elon Musk says his start-up Neuralink has wired up a monkey to play video games using its mind
CNBC: Elon Musk said in an interview that a monkey has been wired up to play video games with its mind by a company he founded called Neuralink.
- Neuralink put a computer chip into the monkey’s skull and used “tiny wires” to connect it to its brain, Musk said.
- “It’s not an unhappy monkey,” he said during a talk on Clubhouse, a new social media app gaining popularity that allows people to have informal voice chats while others listen in. Read More
Is Peace Between Iran and Israel Inevitable?
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh ..."
Iran’s FM suggests path to overcome impasse with US
Arutz Sheva: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday suggested a path to overcome the impasse with Iran over who first returns to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Speaking to CNN and quoted by Reuters, Zarif said, “There can be a mechanism to basically either synchronize it or coordinate what can be done.”
Zarif noted the agreement created a Joint Commission coordinated by the European Union foreign policy chief, a role currently held by Josep Borrell.
Borrell, said the Iranian Foreign Minister, “can … sort of choreograph the actions that are needed to be taken by the United States and the actions that are needed to be taken by Iran.”
The commission includes Iran and the six other parties to the deal: Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.
Former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 agreement nearly three years ago and reimposed sanctions on Iran. The Islamic Republic, in turn, has gradually scaled back its compliance with the 2015 deal. Read More
Inflation Galore at Manufactures, amid Massive Shifts in Demand, Supply-Chain Snags, Shortages, Lack of Shipping Capacity
Wolf Street:
For now, the story is that it’s just temporary.
For now, the story is that the sudden and massive shifts in the economy in 2020 have caused shortages and distortions in the goods-producing sectors and in shipping and trucking, as consumer spending has shifted from services – such as flying somewhere for vacation and spending oodles of money on lodging and restaurants and theme parks – to goods, particularly durable goods.
The story is that prices are rising because components and commodities are in short supply, and supply chains are dogged by production issues, and are facing transportation constraints, as demand for those goods has suddenly surged. And that all this is temporary.
And the Fed has said it will ignore inflation for a while, that it will allow it to overshoot, and only when it overshoots persistently for some unknown amount of time and becomes “unwelcome” inflation – “unwelcome” for the Fed – that it will try to tamp down on it.
Meanwhile, inflation pressures are building up. Read More