Father Pulls Daughter Out Of Private $53,000-A-Year Brearley School

A father has pulled his daughter out of an expensive Upper East Side private school in outrage over the school’s extensive anti-racism policies that include training for parents, and which he said is teaching children to hate their own people.

Andrew Gutmann wrote a harsh letter against The Brearly School, an all-girls school in Manhattan where the fees are $53,000 a year, which he sent to more than 600 other parents.

It mapped out what he described as Brearley’s critical race theory, which he said was advocating that Blacks should forever be seen as helpless victims.

One of the examples he gave was the schools sophomoric and simplistic anti training sessions for parents and the fact that materials that have been taught for years are now suddenly deemed offensive in light of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

He didn’t say which books had been pulled but said it applied to his daughter’s fourth-grade class.

Andrew Gutmann ranted that the girls were being taught to hate their own country and that white scholars were being judged for the colour of their skin.

He further denied that there was systemic prejudice in the US, saying there hadn’t been since the 1960s, and he said that systemic racism, correctly understood, was segregated schools and separate lunch tables.

And that it was the interning of the Japanese and the slaughtering of Jews, and that systemic prejudice was unequivocally not a tiny amount of remote incidences over decades.

He also called out the school for claiming to care about diversity with its race stances while also prioritising legacy students, siblings of other scholars or families with, particularly deep pockets.

And he said that he couldn’t allow a school that not only judges his daughter by the colour of her skin but supports and instructs her to prejudge others by theirs.

He continued that by viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin colour and race, that they were dishonouring the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, and completely infringing the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought and died.

Andrew Gutmann, a 45-year-old investment banker, went on to say that the school was brainwashing the girls into a single mindset that was most reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

This is destructive with this race agenda and they should get back to learning math, the sciences and reading, and they should defund schools that work on Critical Race Theory.

We shouldn’t be hammering away non stop at skin tones, and where a school does this, they’re exercising fascism, and are too blinded by skin tone, and labelling people to see it – we should not be judged by the colour of our skin!

And if Andrew Gutmann disagrees with the ethics of what his daughter’s school is teaching about racism and elimination of specific books, then he’s certainly in his right to notify other parents who also have children at said school about his findings, and he’s also in his right to remove his daughter from the offending school.

Russia Arrests Ukrainian Diplomat In St Petersburg

Russia has detained a Ukrainian diplomat in St Petersburg for purportedly obtaining classified information from the main security agency, as tensions between the two countries develop.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) said Oleksandr Sosonyuk, Ukraine’s consul, was taken into custody during a meeting with a Russian in which he obtained information of a classified nature contained in the databases of law enforcement agencies and the FSB.

The claims come amid raised tensions between the two ex-Soviet nations with concerns the situation could worsen into conflict.

The security service said Oleksandr Sosonyuk was caught red-handed and added his activities were incompatible with his standing as a diplomat.

The FSB said in a statement that the foreign diplomat will be handled following the criteria of international law and that he has a clear antagonistic nature with Russia.

Oleksandr Sosonyuk headed the Ukrainian consulate in St Petersburg, Russia’s second city.

It comes as Russia has massed around 100,000 troops on its borders with Ukraine in recent days, which springs fears of a full-scale invasion, but Moscow denies inflaming the tense stalemate on the frontier.

Ukraine has demanded NATO membership as a protection against its neighbour, threatening to return to building a nuclear arsenal if it’s refused.

Earlier this week the head of US forces in Europe, General Tod Wolters, said there’s a low to medium chance of a Russian attack on Ukraine in the next few weeks.

He was giving evidence to the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington when he was asked about the risk of invasion in that timeframe.

The general insisted the odds were low to medium, adding that it would depend on many factors, but based on the prevailing trajectory and disposition of Russian forces, that possibility would start to fade.

Kiev earlier blamed Moscow for openly intimidating Ukraine with destruction by placing 80,000 men along its eastern border, with thousands more arriving by the day, as it called on western allies to intervene.

Dmytro Kuleba, the country’s foreign minister, warned of extremely unpleasant consequences if Vladimir Putin attacks. And he said that words were not enough and allies would need to give practical support.

He spoke following a meeting with the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, NATO allies in the region, saying that the four of them condemn the exacerbation of the situation by Russia.

Dawn Breaks Over Windsor On The Day Of Prince Philip’s Funeral

A golden radiance fell over the grounds of Windsor Castle this morning as sunrise broke on the day HRH Prince Philip will be laid to rest.

The eyes of the world will be on the royal residence now as the Queen says her last goodbye to the Duke of Edinburgh, her husband of 73 years.

In pre-pandemic times thousands of mourners would have gone to the Berkshire town to pay their respects, but the Royal Family, the Government and police are urging people to stay away.

Early this morning members of the armed forces, police, security and the media were taking up their posts around the castle ahead of this afternoon’s ceremony.

While much of the usual pageantry has been stripped back, Buckingham Palace says the funeral will still reflect Philip’s life of service and the plans he spent years fine-tuning.

Right down to the bespoke Land Rover hearse to carry his coffin, the event, code-named Operation Forth Bridge, will be done with military precision, leading up to the 3 pm service at St George’s Chapel.

The first glimpses inside the chapel reveal the Duke’s insignia, Field Marshal’s baton, RAF wings and decorations from Denmark and Greece resting on cushions at the altar.

The Queen, 94, will say a private farewell to her husband, who she once called her strength and stay, before his body is transported to the chapel tailed by a meagre procession including Philip’s four children and three grandsons.

Sources say she’s been the epitome of dignity this week, and the Archbishop of Canterbury paid tribute to her remarkable dignity and strength.

Justin Welby, who will praise Philip’s life of service to the nation and Commonwealth at the service, added that he hoped the nation prays for her and hopes for her to find strength in what must be an anguished moment.

The Dean of Windsor, in the Bidding, will commemorate his unfaltering loyalty to our Queen, and his service to the nation and the Commonwealth, by his courage, fortitude and faith.

It was a crisp Spring day at Windsor this morning, with sunshine forecast for most of the day, and signs have been erected about the town asking members of the public to stay away from Windsor and other royal residences.

Police patrols have been stepped up to enforce COVID rules, which ban large gatherings. Marshals have also been drafted in to assist and were observed trooping through the town in high vis jackets.

Peloton Challenges Federal Safety Recall

Peloton fights federal safety recall of all their $4K treadmills after one child died and other customers were injured in accidents last month.

Federal regulators told a news outlet that the Consumer Products Safety Commission had issued an administrative subpoena ordering Peloton to identify the child with family contact information within 24 hours so the agency could continue investigating.

Jessica Kleiman, a spokesperson for Peloton, said that the company didn’t provide personal information about the child to the agency because it respects its customer’s privacy.

The child’s family asked them not to give the information to the CPSC, Jessica Kleiman said. However, officials maintained that the company complied.

Peloton, which is worth $34 billion, has been consulting with regulators on the wording and timing of an alert to customers concerning the possible dangers posed by the $4,300 Peloton Tread+, officials told a news outlet.

The safety warning from the agency concerning the expensive treadmill is expected to come as early as Saturday.

An official familiar with the case told the outlet that this didn’t occur with other treadmills, but the official said regulators were worried that the Peloton treadmill seemingly had a different hazard pattern than was typically seen.

A news outlet reported that regulators were alarmed that people purportedly had injuries including broken bones and head trauma after they were pulled under the exercise machine.

A news outlet has reached out to Peloton for more information and further comment, but Peloton didn’t think a recall was needed.

The company said its treadmills were safe for use when the warnings and safety guidance they provide were followed.

Kleiman further noted that the company had issued repeated safety warnings to its customers since reports of incidents concerning the treadmills, and Kleiman said in a statement that Peloton is still endeavouring to jointly work with CPSC to urge its customers to follow all warnings and safety guidance.

Peloton CEO John Foley announced that the company was raising safety concerns regarding its treadmill in an email to consumers last month, and John Foley wrote that while they were aware of only a small handful of incidents involving the Tread+ where children had been injured. Each one was devastating to all of them at Peloton, and that their hearts go out to the families affected.

John Foley, who is also a co-founder of Peloton, went on to share the company’s standard safety warnings, amongst them keeping children and pets away from exercise machines at all times and removing the safety key from the treadmill at the end of a workout.

And what was a child doing near this machine unattended anyhow? After all, a parent wouldn’t allow a child into a workshop with machines, would they? Because it’s dangerous!

A treadmill isn’t a toy! It’s perfectly safe when safety guidance is followed correctly, and it’s a product for adults who can read and follow the safety guidelines, therefore, children should not be allowed near it.

You shouldn’t have small children or pets around when using exercise machinery, as children are curious and these devices should be switched off or the safety clip removed so that it can’t power on without an adult present.

Fred And Rose West’s Son, 40, Who Saw Serial Killer Parents Beat His Sister To Death When He Was Only Seven Died Of An Overdose

An inquest learned that the son of Fred and Rose West died of a painkiller overdose after telling a doctor his life wasn’t worth living.

Barry West was only seven years old when he watched his parents beat his sister Heather to death at their Cromwell Street home in Gloucester.

He died at the age of 40 on August 28 last year after being discovered slumped over a table at his supported living accommodation in Maidstone, Kent.

An inquest into his death this week learned how Barry West, who was too frightened to give testimony at his mother’s 1995 trial, had a complicated medical history.

It was told he tried to commit suicide in 2015, and that he had taken numerous overdoses, besides suffering from PTSD, anxiety, depression and chronic pain.

Barry West also fought with dissociative identity disorder, in which people may feel the presence of other identities with their own names, voices and mannerisms.

Coroner Patricia Harding, sitting at Maidstone Coroner’s Court, learned how Barry West felt abandoned by the NHS and died after injecting himself with pain-relieving medication.

Fred West killed himself in jail in 1995 while awaiting trial on twelve murder charges. His wife, 67, was jailed to life in prison without parole for ten murders.

The couple killed West’s stepdaughter Charmaine, as well as Heather.

The inquest heard how Barry West, who changed his name to Michael Moore, had an addiction to opioids, as well as a history of heroin abuse dating back nearly twenty years.

The hearing was told how he was living in supported accommodation in Maidstone after being discharged from St Martin’s mental health hospital in Canterbury on August 3.

Giving evidence at the inquest, Nicholas Esson, a mental health manager at Kent County Council, said Barry West was having trouble coping with pain and believed he had no quality of life.

He said that when he met with a social worker on August 26, just two days before he died, he said he felt abandoned by mental health services.

Nicholas Esson said that in the wake of Barry West’s death an internal investigation had been started into how better to help people during the COVID 19 pandemic.

The inquest learned how Barry West had argued with his doctor about the most suitable medicines to manage his chronic shoulder and back pain, with the serial killer’s son saying he wanted to be put on opioid medication, which he said made him happier and the most pain-free.

But the poor man never actually stood a chance, and he just became the invisible victim, and no one can perceive the pain and suffering this poor man endured.

Sadly he was born to monstrous parents, and he saw too much at a young age. Although you could hardly call them parents by any stretch of the imagination.

Anger Over No 10’s Un-British Proposals To Spank Calorie Counts On Beer, Wine And Spirits

Number 10 plans to spank calorie counts on all alcohol served in pubs was today branded un-British and an attempt to nanny the nation.

Documents leaked last night revealed health chiefs want to force larger chains to reveal the number of calories for every beer, wine and spirit ordered in their bars.

The scheme, drawn up by Matt Hancock’s Health Department, could see calories displayed on pump labels and menus at franchises such as Greene King and Fullers.

Critics characterised the proposals as madness and disruptive for pub chains that are already fighting to claw back losses from the pandemic.

The Adam Smith think tank told a news outlet that everyone already knows if you put away a few jars a day you’re likely to get fatter and that the cost is going to fall on businesses who will now need to redo their labelling.

And it seems that the Department of Health has spent the whole time, during COVID on a campaign against food and drink when it should be concentrating on the pandemic, which it’s done a poor job of responding to.

Matt Lambert, CEO of the Portman Group alcohol regulator, told a news outlet that the labelling changes would put a further financial strain on an industry that has been put under relentless pressure by the COVID pandemic.

As part of the proposals, leaked to a news outlet, all alcohol sold in stores could also be legally obliged to publish the same nutritional information.

Health chiefs have proposed including an alcohol warning on every bottle from the chief medical officer Chris Whitty, who has gained a cult following during the pandemic.

As well as details of how fattening the alcohol can be, the plans would additionally see labels include information on the risks of drink driving.

A pint of Guinness contains 210 calories, approximately the same as a KitKat Chunky. A large glass of white wine is slightly more calorific (240), the same as a pack of Starburst sweets.

Matt Lambert, CEO of the Portman Group said that the alcohol industry is committed to giving consumers detailed information to help them make well-informed decisions about drinking and that they welcome the consultation and its aims.

And this will ultimately be dictated by a digital ID on your smartphone and a cashless culture – had too many calories – transaction declined! The Government says no! And bad citizens will be controlled and restricted!

This is a huge problem because the Government will be able to see precisely what we’re consuming through smartphone apps and payment methods – twenty units of alcohol this week – no train tickets or cinema for you! And don’t forget your junk food shops, Pizza, McDonald’s et cetera.

“I’ll have a bottle of Malbec – no hang on, there’s five calories less in the Shiraz”. Sounds absurd, that because it is – a waste of time, effort and money.

Fauci Warns Women Who Received The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine In The Last 13 Days To Be Alert To Symptoms

Dr Anthony Fauci has advised women who’ve had the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to be alert for symptoms of an adverse reaction, as US agencies warn against the vaccine’s usage until more investigation can be done.

On Tuesday the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson jab.

Their recommendation was made after six people, out of the 6.8 million to receive the jab so far, reported blood clots. All were women aged 18-48.

Johnson & Johnson announced that they were further hampering the rollout of their vaccine in Europe, and halting clinical trials.

Fauci appeared on CBS News on Tuesday night and said that people who’d received the Johnson & Johnson jab in the last 13 days should be alert to warning signs, and he said that if anyone had it a month or two ago, then they didn’t need to worry about anything.

He said that if they were in the time frame of inside a week or two of having been vaccinated, that they should remember one thing – that it was a pretty isolated event, and it was less than one in a million, but he said that having said that, people still needed to be alert to some symptoms, such as severe headaches, some difficulty in movement, or some chest pain and trouble breathing.

Asked by Norah O’Donnell whether women should be especially aware, he said yes, adding that they were now examining whether the reaction was hormonal, and he said that there have been similar types of happenings that have transpired during pregnancy, and those clotting abnormalities are known in women who take birth control pills, so certainly there could be a hormonal aspect to it.

Scientists will be looking at whether birth control pills could have played a part in causing blood clots in the women who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and fell ill.

One patient, a 45-year-old woman in Virginia, died following her Johnson & Johnson vaccine in March, and authorities announced on Tuesday that the CDC was investigating the woman’s death.

The CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) system notes that the woman who died started having headaches six days following vaccination and was then hospitalised once the headache worsened and she had begun dry heaving.

A head CT scan showed haemorrhaging, extending up to 1.6 centimetres and finally, cortical vein thrombosis, as recorded in the six other cases. She died on March 18, 12 days after getting a vaccine dose administered by a school.

Fauci needs to ideally warn all women who are being prescribed and currently taking any kind of Contraceptive medication, and anyone who gets the vaccine has to understand that this is one big clinical trial that they’re volunteering into, and one that has no recourse against the developer if things go awry, and sadly this is what occurs when things are rushed and the public are being used for beta testing.

End Of An Iconic Eyesore

An iconic south London shopping centre built in 1965 on a bomb-damaged 1890s estate is being ripped down to pave the way for a £1 billion town-centre regeneration.

It was originally believed that the three-storey Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre in Southwark would become a commercial hub for south London, with its 115 shops taken on mostly by local traders.

But, as the capital expanded and swanky indoor shopping malls sprung up citywide, the 55-year-old shopping arcade quickly became redundant, before later falling into disrepair.

Now, Keltbray, a specialist construction and engineering company, is set to demolish the 2.5-acre site and replace it with a £1 billion development, including approximately 1,000 new flats – 116 of which are social rental homes, a new tube station for the Northern Line, and two new university buildings.

One of the sites best-known features an elephant with a castle on its back, was taken away to be restored but is set to be put back once construction begins.

When the construction is finished, the sculpture will take pride and place in the new town centre, along with old signage and artefacts from the shopping centre.

Campaigners have blasted the lack of affordable homes, inexpensive retail space and council housing in the new plans.

In November, a judge granted permission to appeal Southwark Council’s decision to grant Keltbray planning permission to tear it down.

Images taken at the site show walls pulled down as the demolition begins, with the area blocked off to the public.

The shopping centre was opened in 1965. The building was built on the sight of the Elephant and Castle Estate, built in 1898, which was later damaged by bombs in the Second World War.

The £21 million shopping centre was designed to bring Londoners away from the busy roundabout below to carry out their shopping.

Ray Gunter, then minister of Labour, unveiled the iconic statue of an elephant carrying a castle on its back which was taken from a since demolished pub.

The new plans, which were granted planning approval in 2019, strive to keep noise and disruption to a minimum throughout construction.

The demolition process is estimated to finish in the summer of 2021, with construction commencing the same year.

The new Northern line station to be constructed on the demolished zone is future-proofed for the Bakerloo line extension with significantly enhanced capabilities.

Two new structures, one for the University of the Arts London and another for London College of Communication, will also be built, and Keltbray said the project will bring substantial employment to the region.

But is this going to be the amazing place they say it is, or is it going to be in five years a total mess hidden in graffiti? Because sometimes nothing changes, whatever it costs because usually, it’s the people that make the area and not the buildings, and it will probably end up being a bleak, grey, soulless, miserable wind tunnel with no eco-credentials, like they all are.

Over 10 per cent of the flats are being earmarked for social housing, and I’m sure it will be marvellous for those turning up on boats to get housed in a brand new development in the heart of one of the most costly cities in the world, and all for free.

And it’s no surprise that some people don’t want to work or do anything in this country. The others, however, just carry on laying down in front of the steamroller one by one.

But it’s about twenty minutes walk from the city, and of course, they will sell, but they will have to live alongside boat people.

Student, 18, Studying Animal Management Wins Battle With College

A vegan student studying animal management has won a fight with her college over the right to skip a farming module that would have included a trip to an abattoir, forcing tutors to find her a more suitable assessment.

Fiji Willets, 18, didn’t expect the topic of farming to come up when she signed up for the BTEC National Extended Diploma in Animal Management in South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.

She joined after reading it was excellent for people who like animals but was horrified to learn that the animal management course could see her work on a farm and perhaps visit an abattoir.

The teenager complained to tutors, who told her the unit was compulsory, so she enlisted the aid of vegan rights advocates to upturn their decision.

After many complaints, and despite assurances from the college that the module would be ethically planned, she’s finally been told she can do a more suitable unit instead, while other students stay with the original course.

The 2021 prospectus for the BTEC course says it’s ‘Great for people who love animals, want a career within the animal care industry, are passionate about conversations and the countryside, like hands-on work and varied responsibilities and like being outside in all weathers.’

Fiji, from Downend, Bristol, said that she’s a vegan because she loves animals, so to visit a farm where she would be supporting a farmer would be wrong and that she would have been denied a college education.

And she said that she couldn’t just break her way of living solely to pass a course and that she hopes she can now be an example to other vegans so they don’t have to go through the distress she went through.

But after joining, she realised she had to take and pass, a module on farm industry, the branch of agriculture which centres on breeding animals for produce.

Students were expected to visit working farms and an abattoir visit was also discussed, according to the Vegan Society, which supported Fiji’s case.

The society claims that Fiji began suffering from anxiety and raised concerns with her tutor, but was told she had to complete the module or fail.

It’s alleged that she tendered a formal grievance to the college, which maintained a backup module was not available.

A similar complaint was issued to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), who supported the college. However, the case was escalated to the awarding body for non-compliance with equality law, and college tutors subsequently changed their minds.

Being vegan is up to the individual, but actually, we can’t eat anything without ending its existence, and plants are just as viable as animals and humans, so all we can do is eat mindfully and not to excess, although some people might say that plant life is nothing like an animals life or human life, simply because plants don’t have a brain or nervous system – hence they can’t feel pain and animals can.

Plants might not be alive in the human sense, nor do they have a nervous system or feelings, well not that we know of, and some people have difficulty eating dead animals but have no problem having a fun day out fruit picking, can you spot the difference?

What it boils down to is some people can eat vegetables, someone else might eat meat, and both are fine as long as we don’t eat people, and you should see how many animals are sacrificed to harvest vegan crops – rodents, birds, insects et cetera, and all because they’re not large ruminant animals, but that doesn’t mean they don’t count.

Why Making Women Retire Later Comes With Hidden Costs

A study has found that reforms that pushed back the age women can claim the state pension have not saved the taxpayer money, and it said that women who stay working into their sixties compensate by reducing the care they provide for their parents.

Researchers said in a report that for every woman working 30 hours a week in her sixties, it costs £5,600 to make up for the care she would otherwise have provided for older relatives.

It points to a serious downside to pension reforms that swept away women’s retirement age of 60 and pushed back the point at which women can claim the state pension by six years or more.

Academics led by Ludovico Carrino of King’s College London said that women in the United Kingdom who work more hours due to the rise in their state pension age reduce free caregiving to older parents, who get less overall care as a result.

The paper, presented at a conference of the Royal Economic Society, weakens ministers and civil servants assumption that later retirement benefits the country.

The study was based on more than 7,000 women aged 55 to 65 who were tracked from 2009 to 2018 in the Understanding Society project.

Many stayed working in their sixties which researchers said had a significant impact on the £130 billion-plus yearly cost of care for the elderly given free mainly by middle-aged daughters.

The study found the likelihood that a woman would give more than 20 hours a week of care to her older relative dropped by half if she worked after the age of 60, and a woman working 30 hours a week would decrease the care given to her parents by 330 hours a year.

That makes the cost of taxpayers of replacing the hours of care lost for each working middle-aged woman £5,600 a year, a sum determined from a standard pay rate for carers of £17 an hour.

The study didn’t account for the income for the nation generated by women working in their sixties who wouldn’t have been paying much less in income tax had they retired, and the report said parents who get less help from their daughters do not get more help from other family members or formal services as a counterbalance.

Consequently, care for older parents narrows when their daughters work longer due to deferred state pension age, and researchers said reforms could incorporate more free care for old people whose family carers have jobs, or subsidies for employers to allow adjustable hours for older workers who have caring responsibilities.

Although it’s not actually retirement age, it’s state pension age because there’s actually no retirement age in the United Kingdom, implementation of retirement went out with the dinosaurs.

But never the less many women can’t afford to retire to care for elderly relatives because they can’t claim state pension, particularly single women.

However, this then becomes sexist because why can’t a man provide care for the elderly, and why is it always women’s work?

Times are evolving and men should be stepping up to care for their elderly, and it appears that this research has been extremely sexist, and this is just gender typing and we women should be irritated by the lack of equality.

This is blatantly sexist because it says that a woman’s role is to care for the elderly, and it seems that only women are competent in caring for someone!

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