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In a major push to seize control of the public’s financial freedom, Canada is radicalizing its banking system by linking citizens’ bank accounts to a tyrannical social credit score.The Canadian banking system will soon be transformed by a so-called “open banking” framework.Proponents are framing this as a more “inclusive” way for banks to easily share information and access user data.However, the move will merge social standings with banking to provide governments and unelected bureaucrats with complete control over our finances.The organization Open Banking Excellence (OBE), a World Bank partner that originated in the UK, boasts that it will incorporate social...

Queen‘s Roger Taylor has been made an OBE in the New Year Honours list. The list, which was drawn up and approved during Theresa May’s premiership, rewards a lineup of well-known figures from the worlds of art and sport. But the vast majority (72%) of the 1,097 to be recognised were people who work in their communities. Taylor, best known as the drummer of Queen, has campaigned for the awareness of Aids, launched a musical featuring Queen’s greatest hits and is one of the few living people to appear on a Royal Mail stamp. The 70-year-old multi-instrumentalist, born in King’s...

Ben Breedlove, 18, succumbed to a heart condition on Christmas night

Mayor Daley suggested Thursday that high school be extended for a fifth year to defray college education costs now squeezing working poor and middle-class families.

MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- England’s Prince Andrew awarded Capt. John Peterson the Honorary Order of the British Empire (OBE) during an investiture ceremony Jan. 25 at the British Embassy in Manama, Bahrain. Peterson, chief of staff for Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, was given the prestigious award for his leadership of coalition forces, which included a large number of Royal Navy sailors and marines, in the campaign to secure Iraqi oil assets during the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Prince Andrew, who is the Duke of York, knight commander and aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, congratulated Peterson...

I’ll bet you think that the problems with our nation’s schools are a fairly recent phenomenon. Wrong. It dates backs to the 1960’s. Those that have implemented the subversion of our educational system have sought to fly well below the radar of public awareness, depending on stealth and duplicity to achieve the wreckage that has already stunted the lives of thousands who have passed through it. In this and three other commentaries, I will walk you through the history of the problem with the help of an extraordinary book, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. The...

LONDON (Reuters) - The "arcane" system of honouring citizens with knighthoods should be scrapped, a parliamentary committee says. Racial diversity should be better reflected in the awards and the inflammatory word "Empire" should be dropped from honours such as Order of the British Empire (OBE), the Public Administration Committee said in a report published on Tuesday. "The current system is terribly secretive ... It's over-complicated and it's certainly out of date," Labour committee member Anne Campbell, told BBC radio. "We need a system that really accords more with the modern day," she added. Obscure honours such as "Orders of...

Seattle Doctor Specializes In Near-Death Experiences The NBC 10 Investigators tracked down a doctor in Seattle whose research may come closer to anyone else to answering the question, is there life after death? Dr. Melvin Morse is a pediatrician who used to think that people who were interested in near-death experiences just wanted to be on television talk shows. But something happened to one of his patients that changed his opinion. Now he believes the evidence points to something after life. Most scientists will explain that near-death experiences are caused by the lack of oxygen in the brain in the...

Things My Math Teacher Did Last Year: 1. Forgot how to find the slope of a line. 2. Tried to express the difference between ( 2 Sin x) and ( 5 Sin x) by yelling out what they would sound like if you turned them into sounds. 3. Pointed the overhead projector out the window instead of at the screen. 4. Taught us the difference between vertical and horizontal. 5. Took a little bit too long to reduce 36/108 to 4/12, and just as long to reduce that to 1/3. 6. Made sure that we were fully aware that Moses...

As more and more people come forward with accounts of near-death experiences, new research is about to examine the out of body experience to see whether mind and body really do separate at the point of death. It is only 30 years ago that the term near-death experience was coined. An American researcher, Raymond Moody, used it to describe the reports of a large number of people who, whilst apparently dead, had seen deceased relatives, tunnels of light, life reviews and felt an overwhelming sense of peace, before being resuscitated. Recent studies have shown that one in 10 people who...

Rasta Poet Rejects Honor From Britain's Queen With Harsh Words for Monarchy, Prime MinisterBy Jane Wardell Associated Press WriterPublished: Nov 27, 2003 LONDON (AP) - Rastafarian poet Benjamin Zephaniah has rejected an honor from Queen Elizabeth II, describing it Thursday as a legacy of the "brutality" of British colonialism. Zephaniah, one of Britain's best-known contemporary poets, announced he was spurning the invitation in an article published in The Guardian newspaper, breaking the convention that those who reject honors do it privately. The poet, who grew up in England and Jamaica, was recommended for an OBE award, or Officer of the...

OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION The World According to Student Bloopers One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere,...

Every parent thinks their youngster is an academic Michael Jordan, or at least a Scottie Pippen. That is, until they see the report card. Parents can feel just as deflated by poor grades as their child, especially as the family deals with the transition from elementary to middle school and the looming importance of high school grades. ... One way the Portland School District has addressed the esteem issue is by creating a new grading system at middle schools that abandons A's and B's for grades of "always" and "often." Students in some schools, such as Harriet Tubman and Hosford...

Public education in America is a mess. No amount of money or fixing is going to turn it around. Humanists, cultural Marxists, the psychologically oriented social engineers and gurus are in charge. Those who seek to deconstruct America, its values, its institutions and its history, as well as its future as a sovereign state, are running the show called American public education. The Intellectual 'Gods' of the American Educational WastelandIn order to achieve a temporary teaching certificate back in the late '80s, I experienced what nearly every teacher in the U.S. today has to learn or absorb. Included in my...

July 5, 2002 The SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) has been used by colleges for many years to predict the success of students in college. Colleges have found SATs to be an effective tool in measuring college aptitude, that is, the ability to do college work. Since colleges are interested in admitting those students who will be successful in post-secondary work, the SAT has been one of the most widely used college aptitude tests in the nation. An aptitude test is different from an achievement test. An achievement test looks at what a student has accomplished. An aptitude test tries to...