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Warning to all Muslims the world over seeking asylum and protection from the manifestations of their faith.
Do not under any circumstances come to Australia, for we are a Nation founded upon Judeo Christian Law and principles and as such Australia is an anathema to any follower of the Paedophile Slave Trader Mohammad's cult of Islam.
There is no ideology more hated and despised in Australia than Islam.You simply would not like it here.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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Those who demand you believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace also demand you believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Aussie News & Views Jan 1 2009
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"But Communism is the god of discontent, and needs no blessing. All it needs is a heart willing to hate, willing to call envy “justice."
Equality then means the violent destruction of all social and cultural distinctions. Freedom means absolute dictatorship over the people."
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Take Hope from the Heart of Man and you make him a Beast of Prey
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“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves”
Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
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This matters above everything.
—Confucius
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'a socialist is communist without the courage of conviction to say what he really is'.
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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world... thus have I made it.
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Voltaire said: “If you want to know who rules over you, just find out who you are not permitted to criticize.”


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When those sworn to destroy you,Communism, Socialism,"Change you can Believe in" via their rabid salivating Mongrel Dog,Islam,take away your humanity, your God given Sanctity of Life, Created in His Image , If you are lucky this prayer is maybe all you have left, If you believe in God and his Son,Jesus Christ, then you are, despite the evils that may befall you are better off than most.

Lord, I come before You with a heavy heart. I feel so much and yet sometimes I feel nothing at all. I don't know where to turn, who to talk to, or how to deal with the things going on in my life. You see everything, Lord. You know everything, Lord. Yet when I seek you it is so hard to feel You here with me. Lord, help me through this. I don't see any other way to get out of this. There is no light at the end of my tunnel, yet everyone says You can show it to me. Lord, help me find that light. Let it be Your light. Give me someone to help. Let me feel You with me. Lord, let me see what You provide and see an alternative to taking my life. Let me feel Your blessings and comfort. Amen.
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"The chief weapon in the quiver of all Islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. To complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “Islam means Peace” thereby keeping non-Muslims from actually reading the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. Islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-Islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for Muslims to slay and subdue infidels"

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Showing posts with label Australia's Socialist Education System. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 02, 2014

"WHAT you're seeing is how a civilisation commits suicide," Hey come on after all Girls are just Little Boys and Boys are just Big Girls arn't they?

In pursuit of manly equality

Bari Weiss
The Wall Street Journal
January 1,2014

"WHAT you're seeing is how a civilisation commits suicide," says Camille Paglia. This self-described "notorious Amazon feminist" isn't telling anyone to Lean In or asking Why Women Still Can't Have It All. No, her indictment may be as surprising as it is wide-ranging: The military is out of fashion; Americans undervalue manual labour; schools neuter male students; opinion-makers deny the biological differences between men and women; and sexiness is dead. And that's just 20 minutes of our three-hour conversation.



When Paglia, now 66, burst on to the American stage in 1990 with the publication of Sexual Personae, she immediately established herself as a feminist who was the scourge of the movement's establishment, a heretic to its orthodoxy. Pick up the 700-page tome, subtitled Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, and it's easy to see why.

"If civilisation had been left in female hands," she wrote, "we would still be living in grass huts."

The fact the acclaimed book - the first of six; her latest, Glittering Images, is a survey of Western art - was rejected by seven publishers and five agents before being printed by Yale University Press only added to Paglia's sense of herself as a provocateur in a class with Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern.

But unlike those radio jocks, Paglia has scholarly chops. Her dissertation adviser at Yale was Harold Bloom, and she is as likely to discuss Freud, Oscar Wilde or early Native American art as to talk about Miley Cyrus.

Paglia relishes her outsider persona, having previously described herself as an egomaniac and "abrasive, strident and obnoxious". Talking to her is like a mental CrossFit workout. One moment she's praising pop star Rihanna ("a true artist"), then blasting ObamaCare ("a monstrosity", though she voted for the President), then it's global warming ("a religious dogma"), and the idea that all gay people are born gay ("the biggest canard", yet she is a lesbian).

But no subject gets her going more than when I ask if she really sees a connection between society's attempts to paper over the biological distinction between men and women and the collapse of Western civilisation. She starts by pointing to the diminished status of military service.

"The entire elite class now, in finance, in politics and so on, none of them (has) military service - hardly anyone, there are a few. But there is no prestige attached to it any more. That is a recipe for disaster," she says.

"These people don't think in military ways, so there's this illusion out there that people are basically nice, people are basically kind, if we're just nice and benevolent to everyone they'll be nice too. They literally don't have any sense of evil or criminality."

The results, she says, can be seen in everything from the dysfunction in Washington (where politicians "lack practical skills of analysis and construction") to what women wear.

"So many women don't realise how vulnerable they are by what they're doing on the street," she says, referring to women who wear sexy clothes.

When she has made this point in the past, Paglia - who dresses in androgynous jackets and slacks - has been told that she believes "women are at fault for their own victimisation". Nonsense, she says. "I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters." She calls it "street-smart feminism".

Paglia argues that the softening of modern American society begins as early as kindergarten. "Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys," she says, pointing to the most obvious example: the way many schools have cut recess.

"They're making a toxic environment for boys. Primary education does everything in its power to turn boys into neuters."

Paglia is not the first to make this argument, as she readily notes. Fellow feminist Christina Hoff Sommers has written about the "war against boys" for more than a decade. The notion was once met with derision, but now data backs it up: almost one in five high school age boys has been diagnosed with ADHD, boys get worse grades than girls and are less likely to go to college.

Paglia observes this phenomenon up close with her 11-year-old son, Lucien, whom she is rearing with her former partner, Alison Maddex, an artist and public school teacher who lives close by. She sees the tacit elevation of "female values" - such as sensitivity, socialisation and co-operation - as the main aim of teachers, rather than fostering creative energy and teaching hard geographical and historical facts.

By her lights, things only get worse in higher education. "This PC gender politics thing - the way gender is being taught in the universities - in a very anti-male way, it's all about neutralisation of maleness." The result: upper-middle-class men who are "intimidated" and "can't say anything ... They understand the agenda."

In other words, they avoid goring certain sacred cows by "never telling the truth to women" about sex, and by keeping "raunchy" thoughts and sexual fantasies to themselves and their laptops.

Politically correct, inadequate education, along with the decline of America's brawny industrial base, leaves many men with "no models of manhood", she says. "Masculinity is just becoming something that is imitated from the movies. There's nothing left. There's no room for anything manly right now."

The only place you can hear what men really feel these days, she claims, is on sports radio. No surprise, she is an avid listener. The energy and enthusiasm "inspires me as a writer", she says, adding: "If we had to go to war," the callers "are the men that would save the nation".

And men aren't the only ones suffering from the decline of men. Women, particularly elite upper-middle-class women, have become "clones" condemned to "Pilates for the next 30 years", Paglia says. "Our culture doesn't allow women to know how to be womanly," adding that online pornography is increasingly the only place where men and women in our sexless culture tap into "primal energy" in a way they can't in life.

A key part of the remedy, she believes, is a "revalorisation" of traditional male trades - the ones that allow women's studies professors to drive to work (roads), take the lift to their office (construction), read in the library (electricity) and go to gender-neutral restrooms (plumbing).

"Michelle Obama's going on: 'Everybody must have college.' Why? Why? What is the reason why everyone has to go to college? Especially when college is so utterly meaningless right now, it has no core curriculum" and "people end up saddled with huge debts", says Paglia.

What's driving the push towards universal college is "social snobbery on the part of a lot of upper-middle-class families who want the sticker in the window".

Paglia, who has been a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia since 1984, sees her students as examples. "I have woodworking students who, even while they're in class, are already earning money making furniture and so on. My career has been in art schools 'cause I don't get along with normal academics."

To hear her tell it, getting along has never been Paglia's strong suit. As a child, she felt stifled by the expectations of girlhood in the 1950s. She fantasised about being a knight, not a princess.

Discovering pioneering female figures as a teenager, most notably Amelia Earhart, transformed Paglia's understanding of what her future might hold.

These iconoclastic women of the 30s, such as Earhart and Katharine Hepburn, remain her ideal feminist role models: independent, brave, enterprising, capable of competing with men without bashing them. But since at least the late 60s, she says, fellow feminists in the academy stopped sharing her vision of "equal-opportunity feminism" that demands a level playing field without demanding special quotas or protections for women.

She proudly recounts her battle, while a graduate student at Yale in the late 60s and early 70s, with the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band over the Rolling Stones: Paglia loved Under My Thumb, a song the others regarded as chauvinist.

Then there was the time she "barely got through the dinner" with a group of women's studies professors at Vermont's Bennington College, where she had her first teaching job, who insisted that there is no hormonal difference between men and women.

"I left before dessert."

In her view, these ideological excesses bear much of the blame for the present cultural decline. She calls out activists such as Gloria Steinem, Naomi Wolf and Susan Faludi for pushing a version of feminism that says gender is nothing more than a social construct, and groups such as the National Organisation for Women for making abortion the singular women's issue.

By denying the role of nature in women's lives, she argues, leading feminists created a "denatured, antiseptic" movement that "protected their bourgeois lifestyle" and falsely promised that women could "have it all".

And by impugning women who chose to forgo careers to stay at home with children, feminists turned off many who might have happily joined their ranks.

But Paglia's criticism shouldn't be mistaken for nostalgia for the socially prescribed roles for men and women before the 60s. Quite the contrary.

"I personally have disobeyed every single item of the gender code," says Paglia.

But men, and especially women, need to be honest about the role biology plays and clear-eyed about the choices they are making.

Sex education, she says, simply focuses on mechanics without conveying the real facts of life, especially for girls:

"I want every 14-year-old girl ... to be told: 'You better start thinking what do you want in life. If you just want a career and no children you don't have much to worry about. If, however, you are thinking you'd like to have children some day you should start thinking about when do you want to have them. Early or late? To have them early means you are going to make a career sacrifice, but you're going to have more energy and less risks.' Both the pros and the cons should be presented."

For all of Paglia's barbs about the women's movement, it seems clear that feminism - at least of the equal-opportunity variety - has triumphed in its basic goals. There is surely a lack of women in the C-Suite and congress, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a man who would admit that he believes women are less capable.

To save feminism as a political movement from irrelevance, Paglia says, the women's movement should return to its roots.

That means abandoning the "nanny state" mentality that led to politically correct speech codes and college disciplinary committees that have come to replace courts. The movement can win converts, she says, but it needs to become a big tent, one "open to stay-at-home mums" and "not just the career woman".

More important, Paglia says, if the women's movement wants to be taken seriously again, it should tackle serious matters, such as rape in India and honour killings in the Muslim world, that are "more of an outrage than some woman going on a date on the Brown University campus".

Thursday, April 04, 2013

Marxiist's now demanding even more money to "fix" the problems they have created in our schools ------The Gonski illusion


The Gonski illusion

Miranda Devine –
Daily Telegraph
Tuesday, April 02, 2013 (7:52pm)

THE most despicable thing about the “I give a Gonski” ads on TV is their dishonest use of a young boy struggling to read. This struggle is a tragedy going on in our classrooms every day.


As many as 30 per cent of Australian children leave school functionally illiterate. Children of normal intelligence can’t read because their teachers have not been taught the most effective way to teach them - which is systematic, explicit phonics instruction, linking the letters in our alphabet to sounds.

If these children are unlucky enough to come from a home where their parents can’t overcome the schooling deficit, they are doomed to illiteracy and consigned to the margins.

The militant left-wing Australian Education Union that pays for the ads offers a self-serving lie for a solution. It pretends that more money will magically fix the problems.

“If public schools don’t get urgent funding more of our kids will get left behind,” intones the narrator, exhorting parents to “give a gonski”.

The noun in that catchphrase refers to businessman David Gonski, whose report into school funding has become a magic wand of mythical proportions. It recommended the federal government spend $6.5 billion a year extra on smaller classes and more specialist 
teachers.

Julia Gillard, who wants to be known as the “education prime minister”, will finalise funding with the states on April 19, at the Council of Australian Governments meeting, trying to create the illusion of Gonski billions, despite the fact the government is broke.

But the fact is that more money does not equal better education. It’s how you spend the money that counts.

Australia increased spending on schools by more than 40 per cent last decade and the results are a disgrace . The reading skills of our Year 4 students are the worst of every English-speaking country tested in the first Progress in 

International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) last year of 325,000 students. One quarter of our students couldn’t even manage to read at the basic minimum standard for their age group.

These are children whose entire school life has been under the Labor government, which promised an education revolution and instead provided some overpriced school halls and laptop computers.

The revolution needed is not in bricks and silicon chips. What’s needed is the destruction of the progressive education ideology that has held sway at teacher training institutions for more than 40 years.

The man who you might genetically design for that brutal job is Christopher Pyne, who is likely to become the federal minister for education after the next election, if the polls are any indication. Unlike most of his predecessors, Pyne is unlikely to be bullied or 
hoodwinked by the education establishment into accepting its most destructive intellectual fads.

For Pyne, 45, the reading wars - between phonics advocates and whole language devotees - is deeply personal.

His father, Dr Remington Pyne, was an eye surgeon who took a special interest in dyslexia when Christopher’s oldest brother was diagnosed with reading problems - and helped found SPELD, a non-profit group to help people with learning difficulties.

Pyne also has four children of his own at school in Adelaide, from kindergarten to Year 7. His 12-year-old twins, Eleanor and Barnaby, are dyslexic , and he says his life experience has “given me a particular insight into education”.

He says Gonski has been a “distraction from the real debate which is the quality of education (which is) determined by the quality of teachers, parental engagement, a robust curriculum and decisions being made as locally as possible by principals and leadership teams”.

On teacher quality he says: “We need to recognise that teacher training in the last 10 or 20 years not been what the market tells us we need… There’s been a battle in education departments and universities since the 1970s about the direction of education, and one side has been winning.”

That winner is, “the progressive side that rejects traditional teaching methods and a traditional curriculum. Student-centred learning is part of that and an acceptance of lowest common denominator outcomes, a specific rejection of excellence and a view schools are not about knowledge but about skills, which I think is poisonous. Students have to be about knowledge first and skills second”.

“This is a very hard row to hoe in Australia because most educators today have been trained in this progressive approach to education and nobody wants to disagree.”

As a model for the rest of the country, he points to Western Australia, where the Barnett government has given schools the option to take control of their budgets. Principals now have the power to choose the best teachers and spend their money the way that suits 
students.

“This is anathema to anyone who wants central control of education ... my intention, should I be fortunate enough to become education minister, will be to radically alter the way we think about education in Australia, to place competition, the individual and 
self-reliance at the centre of our education system,” he says.

To do any good, Pyne will have to nuke the progressive education establishment. But if anyone has the courage and cunning to win that war, it’s him.

UPDATE: In comments, below, teacher-librarian Sandra claims that “at no time have I ever come across a teacher who has not included phonics as part of their Reading program in any Primary school in which I have taught.”

This is one of the most insidious developments of the so-called reading wars - the incorporation of incidental phonics as a sop to shut up the critics. It has led well-meaning teachers down the wrong path.

The evidence-based research on reading shows that “including” some token phonics instruction in what is essentially a whole language program is not optimal. What is needed, as found by the National inquiry into the teaching of literacy ,chaired by the eminent late Professor Ken Rowe, is: “[early] systematic, direct and explicit phonics instruction so that children master the essential alphabetic code-breaking skills required for foundational reading proficiency.” Systematic. Direct. Explicit. Not incidental.

(I was a member of the inquiry committee.)

Miranda Devine 
Wed 03 Apr 13 (02:21pm)

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Australi : Casey Heynes, The Patient Man Speaks

 
 
 
 
 
 
God Bless you Casey, Hang in there Mate, I hated school from the first day to the last day,at fifteen I was free, school was nothing but a source of misery and at times torment and humiliation, mostly from the arse hole, mongrel bastard, godless New Age Hippy Peace and Love, all behaviors are equal  FUCKING SEXUAL PERVERTS and Drug FUCKED THUGS that passed for  SCHOOL  Teachers.
You Go Casey, you Fuck em over big time, by been you, one of you is worth a hundred of those slime that bashed you, teased you over the years, I am sure there is a lot more to your story, based on the video, we have not heard.
Learn how to speak,(I am not saying you cannot already), you can look a man in the eye, I see it in this video,never stop doing that, let your YES mean YES and your NO mean NO, read and write,QUESTION at every opportunity that it is SAFE to do so, and don’t listen to anyone who tells you  THEY  / the Government, a SCHOOL TEACHER knows what is best for you.
Learn how to fight,defend yourself, shoot, ride a horse and read the Bible, you have the right to DEFEND yourself , but most of all THINK and never again accept the SHIT you have been dealt with up to now.
You Casey, are as GOOD AS ANYONE, NEVER, EVER FORGET IT.
Beware the Fury of the Patient Man, victim fights back UN CUT

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