National Curriculum The national curriculum works against teachers, it denies them the freedom to teach their pupils what would actually benefit them. The national curriculum is not decided by teachers, it is part of the Education Act, which our government enforces.
The "GCSE machine" you are talking about is also the fault of the government. Introducing league tables for schools based on what exams the pupil's achieve, and designating school funding in correspondence to this table. The higher results you get, the more funding you receive. The lower, the less. Hence the worst school are essentially fucked, which puts a straitjacket on the teachers in these schools, and effectively chucking the kids on a scrapheap before they've even started. It's a sign that New Labour truly is hardly better than the Tories.
Anybody read the paper? :wink:
Just wondering what everybodys main source of news is. I check BBC website occasionally, also www.indymedia.org.uk and www.schnews.org.uk for the kind of take on things I mostly agree with.
In terms of newspapers I favour the independant generally, the guardian is alrite, it's a bit "champagne socialist" though.
Local Authorities – WEST BERKSHIRE COUNCIL Legal Advice please
My incapacity increased over time and that means my rate of housing benefit and council tax benefit would have increased.
I informed them at the time 2 years ago and didnt get the thing stamped to say received.
Ive given the info 3 times recently and they wont backdate my hosing claim since it is an "advantageous thing for me".
Anyone else have the same experience?
Im back to work now and i really can do with the money.
I keep apealing and not getting no further.
Im going back in with a letter and all documentation to resolve
Any tips or pointers who I should go too?
Elliot
We are talking about 1300 quid BTW
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
Potentially Lost and down the toilet
SMASH EDO – SCOTLAND. The film the police are trying to ban is being shown in Edinburgh on the 17th of April, and Glasgow on the 18th April, as part of a UK-wide info-tour. The tour documents the four year campaign to shut down the Brighton bomb-makers EDO MBM.
Police have intervened across the country to censor 'On the Verge', the film about the Smash EDO campaign.
So far establishments in Southampton, Chichester, Bath and Oxford as well as Brighton have come under police pressure to cancel film showings.
In Brighton police prevented a showing at the Duke of York's Cinema, just one hour prior to the scheduled premier, although the showing moved to a local pub.
There has been no reported attempts to suppress the film in Scotland.
The film and info-tour documents one of the longest running campaigns to emerge out of Britains anti-war movement, a campaign which aims to shut down the Brighton bomb-makers.
The film uses activist, police and CCTV footage plus interviews with activists from the campaign. Organisers say that it will give those involved the chance to discuss tactics, get feedback, and organise for the future.
The 'Smash EDO' campaign started in 2004 when Brighton peace activists, disgusted by the Iraq war, held a noise demonstration outside their local arms company, and they have held regular demonstrations ever since.
Methods of protest have included road blockades, roof occupations, and attempted weapons inspections. Activists from the campaign say that they have cost the company millions, and have tested our right to protest.
EDO MBM manufacture, amongst other things, the carriage and release mechanisms for bombs and missiles that are mounted on British military aircraft.
The info tour will take place in Edinburghs Forest Cafe (3 Bristo Place), on the 17th of April, and the Carnival Arts Centre (34 Albion Street) on the 18th.
Why do they hate drugs? This may have been discussed already but, really...
really, why do governments spend so much time and money "fighting the war on drugs", and why do people vote for politicans who promise to?
I think we all know that the reasons they give, that drugs are harmful and cause crime are not their real reasons, because they go out of their way to manufacture phony evidence that drugs that are basically harmless are harmful and tobacco is legal everywhere (and we all know from experience that none of them are as bad as the government claims) and as was shown with the repeal of prohibition in the US, driving something underground funds criminal organisations, legalizing it destroys them.
If it was simply a matter of anticipating lost work hours from using drugs, then why allow alcohol which takes people out of work a lot more than many drugs (it certainly messes people up a lot more the following day than weed).
The explanation that alcohol and tobacco companies are simply too powerful and thats why they're the exception also doesn't make sense if you consider that other drugs had even more powerful cartels historically. I mean, the British actually faught a war to defend their opium market!
The same is true of the argument that alcohol and tobacco are tolerated because they are so well integrated into the culture; opium and cocaine were similarly part of the culture in the 19th century and used by all social classes.
So, any theories as to motives?
MAYDAY-Glasgow. Work getting you down?
Sick of your boss?
Then call in sick of it all this May first!
May Day is nearly upon us once again and as usual we will be meeting outside Buchanan street underground station at high noon on May Day. This year the plan is to transform the celebration of consumerism and capitalism that is Glasgow city centre into something a lot more sociable so bring along anything you think will make Buchanan street a more hospitable place.
Whilst the centre of the city is aimed at encouraging us to spend what little we earn it is hardly a place to socialize and meet others who live in the city. We must rectify this situation, bring along food to share, games to play, furniture and cushions to lounge around on and most of all bring yourselves.
Nearly every day of the year we sell our labour to our employers or struggle to get by on the dole when we can't get work but not May Day! May Day is our day not our bosses and it's definitely not the governments!
This year we also celebrate the tumultuous events that rocked the world forty years ago in 1968; with nine million French workers out on strike, resistance to the Vietnam war and many, many other outbreaks of resistance to capital.
BBC Documentary On Bill Hicks [GOOGLE]3009028088829804234[/GOOGLE]
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The Truth According To Wikipedia [YT]WMSinyx_Ab0[/YT]
Dutch filmmaker Isbrand van Veelen stirred a lot of controversy last week at the Next Web conference when he premiered the documentary above, The Truth About Wikipedia. It has now been posted to YouTube and is worth watching when you have a spare 45 minutes. The film pits Andrew Keen, the disapproving author of The Culture of the Amateur, and Bob McHenry, former editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica, against Wikipedia co-founders Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales, and Web 2.0 guru Tim O’Reilly, among others. The film is masterfully made and shows many points of view, but it ends up being more than anything else a vehicle for Keen to put forth his diatribes against Wikipedia. You definitely get the sense that he wins the argument in the movie. And, in fact, when I asked van Veelen afterwards on stage who he personally agreed with the most (I was the conference MC), he admitted it was Keen. This siding with the enemy, as it were, actually makes the documentary more thought-provoking. People in the audience were seething, and one man came prepared with a speech denouncing the filmmaker.
In the film, Keen actually argues that we need gatekeepers for the truth, and those gatekeepers should be experts. Of course, he misses the point that the relatively small handful of people who do most of the writing and editing on Wikipedia may very well be experts in their topic areas, or become experts by writing and researching Wikipedia articles. That is not to say that controversies do not arise all the time about factual inaccuracies, edit wars, and companies trying to conduct PR campaigns by changing their Wikipedia entries. But the film also misses the point that Wikipedia is very much a market of ideas. Like any market, information at any given point in time can be wrong, but in the end it turns out to be right more often than not. Whether you agree with Keen or with the Wikipedians depends on your definition of truth. Keen is an absolutist. There is Truth, and everything else is fiction. Experts are the guardians of that truth. But the truth is that Truth itself is always evolving, even the experts’ notion of it.
Uzbekistan http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0330.html
I found this an interesting read... boiling people alive :yakk: And to think both the US and UK are more than happy to ally with them and deny their horrible methods of punishment!
we’re not really that bad, are we yes shit loads need improving, theres fuckloads wrong with this world.
but lets not paint a picture of england slipping into shit and dissaray, with people gettin stabbed left right and centre. i'll always support activism for the better, but it doesnt mean i'm a completely pessimist and think its all gone to shit.
honestly, fucking scare mongering most of it!
we've got a great education system, our nhs is still pretty good despite the faults, we still have lenient drug laws, we dont have guardia or civil guard etc.
i dunno. sometimes i think people just love hyping stuff up. and usually it's the wrong stuff that needs to be hyped up.
hype up the terrible hypocrisy of our foreign policy for example, rather than the speculation that there is a pedo waiting on every corner and a kid waiting to spread your entails over the street.12
Do you know what the Nazis did? I was talkin to a 19 yr old student yesterday about holocaust memorial day. an she said 'oh yeah, the nazis, they killed some jews didnt they?'
she was a university student, she was very nice but she really wasnt sure what the nazis had done
I found this really surprising, i had thought that everyone knew what happened
it made me think, i'm not knocking her (schools teach what they teach)
I'm just wondering if its a common attitude or perhaps a generational thing (i'm old enough to be her mum) and World War 2 is slipping out of living memory now, my grandad fought in the war but she may not have any family history you know?
so is it a usual attitude or is it unusual, i'd be interested to know?12…45
KLM Nazi Airlines After the war KLM allegedly was the airline that transported senior SS & Nazi war criminals to South America. It actually turned a blind eye to the fact and when the US government asked them to vett there German passengers they refused.
There is to be an enquiry into this by the Dutch government.
Whilst I think its time to stop all the Nazi hunting as all the major players of the Holocaust have been caught or are dead. Theres a few old men who were guards or something in my opinion they should be left now but this KLM thing needs investigating.
Also IG Farben chemicals & Ikea also need to come clean on a few things involving forced labor during WWII...
*IG Farben ceased in November 2003 it basically ran & profited of Auschwitz.
History repeating itself Over the years, loads of imimgrants came to East London, and set up in essential industries such as food logistics and distribution.
Produce was brought in at Tilbury Docks etc, warehoused and distributed from places like Leytonstone. After world War II, the automatic telephone and long distance dialling made it a lot easier for these businesses to take orders from a wider customer base as far as Essex and Suffolk...
Today whilst cycling to work I noticed a big van on Norwich Road, delivering "specialist East European Groceries" (actually I had to ride round it as it was half parked in the middle of the road)
their telephone number was something like
020 8539 0023 (actually the last four digits are made up
or 020 8 LEYtonstone 0023
I must have a look in that shop one day, they are good for cheap food and booze (if you don't know what the foreign names are, just ask the people there or look them up on the internet :laugh_at:)
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