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Trigon

The Republicans in the house have voted to help keep Trump's tax returns a secret: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58b54393e4b0a8a9b785cf56?

Lustful Bride

Quote from: Trevino on February 28, 2017, 04:22:59 PM
The Republicans in the house have voted to help keep Trump's tax returns a secret: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58b54393e4b0a8a9b785cf56?

That's not suspicious at all ::)

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Quote from: Lustful Bride on February 28, 2017, 04:45:18 PM
That's not suspicious at all ::)

and anyone who thought so should defeinitely be regarded as a crazy person.

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Kythia

Bit of good news. Compulsory sex education for all children starting from age four.
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Lustful Bride

Quote from: Kythia on March 01, 2017, 07:45:56 AM
Bit of good news. Compulsory sex education for all children starting from age four.

Wait what? ???

In other news, seems IS is now sending threats to China.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bloody-islamic-state-video-puts-china-in-cross-hairs/ar-AAnF8E6?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

Kythia

Yup. On my phone so can't really provide a link but (UK) government have been thinking about it for decades now. Keep getting closer then backing off. But its official now.
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Oniya

Quote from: Kythia on March 01, 2017, 08:36:09 AM
Yup. On my phone so can't really provide a link but (UK) government have been thinking about it for decades now. Keep getting closer then backing off. But its official now.

I'd love to see a link for what the plan is, when you have a chance.  I know that a lot of people stumble over the 'what do we tell them and when?'
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Quote from: Kythia on March 01, 2017, 07:45:56 AM
Bit of good news. Compulsory sex education for all children starting from age four.

4? Or 14? I can't comprehend the first... French public schools had that awful no good course in 7th grade... But the problem was the course, not the grade.
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Quote from: RedRose on March 01, 2017, 12:33:49 PM
4? Or 14? I can't comprehend the first... French public schools had that awful no good course in 7th grade... But the problem was the course, not the grade.

Presumably, the 'age 4' course would deal with names of body parts and the expectation that those parts are private areas - to help prevent both child abuse and kids 'showing each other'.   (What used to be called 'Playing Doctor.')
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Kythia

Yeah, of course. I mean, it's from four, not at four if that makes sense.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-39116783
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Kythia

Ill be getting the full guidelines soon (I help run a youth club) so I'll share once I get them
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Oniya

Quote from: Kythia on March 01, 2017, 01:15:17 PM
Ill be getting the full guidelines soon (I help run a youth club) so I'll share once I get them

Cool!  I like what I see so far.  Learning healthy relationships and personal safety was interesting to see on the list - very welcome, but not what most people would class as 'sex ed'.  (Apparently, talk about actual sex is still something that parents can exempt their children from when it comes around.)
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Kythia

Quote from: Oniya on March 01, 2017, 01:28:55 PM
Cool!  I like what I see so far.  Learning healthy relationships and personal safety was interesting to see on the list - very welcome, but not what most people would class as 'sex ed'.  (Apparently, talk about actual sex is still something that parents can exempt their children from when it comes around.)

Kind of. The actual nuts and bolts of what goes where and what happens when it does is part of the science curriculum and is compulsory. However, anything other than the strictly physical can be opted out by parents, yes. But that will go soon now that this is in place.

I used "sex ed" as a broadly international term. It's actually "sex and relationship education" - SRE - so does have a slightly broader remit.
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Avalon29

Some more positive news a treatment using gene therapy was successful in helping a teen with sickle cell disease.

https://www.apnews.com/d2ec01c4ff504e388ed9b302a5acbca2/Gene-therapy-lets-a-French-teen-dodge-sickle-cell-disease

Lustful Bride

Bees continue to become endangered. 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/hundreds-of-north-american-bee-species-face-extinction-study/ar-AAnGP3P?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

I wonder how many people actually realize how important bees are to food production?

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Trigon

And the drama revolving around the Russian ties to the Trump administration continues: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-intelligence-committee-trump-russia_us_58b779c8e4b023018c6cf744

You know, now that I think about it, I wonder if Trump is selling either business deals or secrets over to the Russians...

TheGlyphstone

Highly unlikely, as fun as it is to attribute all manner of evils to him. It's not like he needs money - to quote one of my favorite books, "there's a point at which wealth stops having meaning and becomes just a means of keeping score". He's in the job to boost his ego, not his bank account.

His staff is a different question. That's not "if" any of them are on the Russian payroll, but "how many".

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Quote from: Trevino on March 01, 2017, 11:32:32 PM
And the drama revolving around the Russian ties to the Trump administration continues: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-intelligence-committee-trump-russia_us_58b779c8e4b023018c6cf744

You know, now that I think about it, I wonder if Trump is selling either business deals or secrets over to the Russians...

My theory, combination of his eating in on the cash to be had in Moscow and they own a large chunk of all that unaccounted debt that his empire runs on

Lustful Bride

Not sure if this is accurate or just sensationalism, but apparently Sweden might be bringing back Conscription.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rattled-by-russia-sweden-plans-to-bring-back-conscription/ar-AAnHwEK?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

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Quote from: Lustful Bride on March 02, 2017, 09:46:35 AM
Not sure if this is accurate or just sensationalism, but apparently Sweden might be bringing back Conscription.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rattled-by-russia-sweden-plans-to-bring-back-conscription/ar-AAnHwEK?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15
Not completely new news, according to this Guardian article from last fall: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/sweden-bring-back-conscription-2018

If Russian foreign policy had anything to do with it, it certainly wasn't any very recent moves by Russia.
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Quote from: Lustful Bride on March 02, 2017, 09:46:35 AM
Not sure if this is accurate or just sensationalism, but apparently Sweden might be bringing back Conscription.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rattled-by-russia-sweden-plans-to-bring-back-conscription/ar-AAnHwEK?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

Yep, compulsory military training was phased out about ten years ago but the efforts to supply the armed forces only with paid and professional soldiers have been *cough* a failure. We're not getting near enough manpower (remember, this is a fairly large country and the eastern coast alone is as long as the US east coast!). Besides, the military has been rather underfinanced and with this kind of drain of personnel, it's got to a point where some of the snazzy military material we do have can't be redily used in action because there aren't enough soldiers!  :-( Sweden hasn't been in an open war for two hundred years but there's a perception now that the future could be less peaceful.

The decision to bring back ground training was expected, but it has to be said that it won't really include all or even half of the kids reaching eighteen years in the future. We simply don't have a need for a million-strong trained army or the kind of hardware to field that kind of numbers into effective action, so it's more or less going to mean a return to the state of affairs before "conscription" was phased out: a minor portion of each year class will be getting training and it will depend a good deal on who is interested and seems right for it (and they won't be getting the kind o pay that pro soldiers are getting, of course). The units of professional soldiers that exist now will be cooperating with the new man supply and some of the pros will most likely be trained as officers.

Another change: the new layout will bring women recruits into the military on a draft basis; girls will be viewed as just as natural recruits as guys. Earlier, the only way for girls to enter regular units of the military in Sweden on was to specifically ask to be drafted and trained, and even that was fairly recent. I haven't seen much in detail about the new "system" but from what I understand, the basic idea is to go for a double-gender army (and I hope, a TG-friendly army). There will likely be some exceptions in what kind of units women can apply for though.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-sessions-press-conference-live-updates/

Sessions has officially recused himself from the investigation into Russian election interference, though he still denies that he lied under oath.

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Sessions defended his answers on Russian contact during his confirmation hearing, calling “the idea that I was part of a ‘continuing exchange of information’” between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government “totally false.”

“My reply to the question of Sen. Franken was honest and correct as I understood it at the time,” he said.

I'd rather read about his complete dismissal from the job, but hopefully this is a step in the right direction.
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