Open mike 02/05/2025

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    Almost all new houses in the UK are to be fitted with solar panels Labour PM Starmer is announcing today.

    Come on Hipkins let's hear this from you.

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      The Irish might find that funny, they pray for overnight rain so they rise to a rainbow at the dawn – thus they know it will be raining in England later during the day.

      But sure it is something to
      consider, some input from the industry would be required.

      The practical issues would have to be quantified.

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      Won't be long before Big Brother.

      Well dear leader has arrived..

      Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum created by Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters (R).

      The new curriculum includes a section that requires students to "analyze contemporary turning points of 21st-century American society." That requirement includes the following:

      Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of “bellwether county” trends.

      In March, Walters said the purpose of this section was to teach "students to think for themselves" and "not be spoon-fed left-wing propaganda." According to Walters, there are "legitimate concerns" about the integrity of the 2020 election that were "raised by millions of Americans in 2020."

      https://popular.info/p/new-oklahoma-curriculum-includes

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        What would an NZ version of 'patriotic' education look like? Peters and Seymour might already know.

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      There's a lot I could say about "Sir" Bob, but I'll confine myself to saying that he won't be mourned in this household.

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