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In a rare instance the succdem-led Danish regime has decided to do something that has the possibility to end up improving society somewhat. It is a planned reform of secondary education.

Today, after graduating from 9th or 10th grade, students can choose between different kind of high school and trade schools. High schools are for the more academically inclined and gives students access to attend "long" five-year university education or "medium-length" academy educations like teaching and nursing. Trade schools are more practical and students learn a trade by going back and forth between school and an apprenticeship.

For a long time there has been issues with this two-tier system, especially the trade schools. Trade schools require students to pick a trade very early which can be a big decision to make if you're just out of school. The early specialisation of trade schools also mean that students there does not experience the same youth milleu with parties and possibilities to socialise with peers that high school students have. This has some of the blame for high dropout rates. As there are many different kind of trades, students often find themselves having to commute for longer than high school students or even relocate. Finally, going to trade school and becoming a journeyman does not give you an easy way for further study if you decide you want to move in a more academic direction although some progress has been made with a programme that allows students to get a high school diploma and do an apprenticeship simultaneously. Trade schools has also suffered from classism and snobbery with people seeing high school as the right choice for intelligent young people.

The proposed reform seeks to remedy some of these discrepancies by creating a new form of secondary education that is directed towards the trades but is less specialised. Students will go to schools closer to home and with more students their own age. When they graduate they can choose between doing an apprenticeship or a "medium-length" education. Should they choose to go the academic route after all, a short supplementary course will allow them to go to university.

There are probably lots of devils in the details and the reporting on the proposal doesn't deal with issues like apprentices being tied to their employers, the lacking pedagogical skills of employers tasked with a lot of the practical education or the lack of a guarantee that you can get an apprenticeship that especially affect racialised minorities. However this seems like a move in the right direction.

Really funny seeing the Venezuelan opposition in the cold rain literally without anything to do. Honestly I was expecting more people than what the videos are showing.

Over 100 West Tex@$$ earthquakes in the last week ~~wrecking havoc~~ "delivering Freedom" on houses

Are there any reports on where the missile that hit Haniyeh came from? I would imagine Iraqi Kurdistan is the main suspected launch site, followed by Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.

Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader, said that her coalition already has 84% ​​of the electoral records from the presidential elections.

But she didn't post the correct fake results with 84% of the votes counted. She posted the one with 75% counted and they claim to no longer have 70% or 80% of the votes, but just 67 x maduro with 29.

Nakedcapitalism with a handful of links and stories about Iranian retaliation and further Israeli escalation. I really hope this conflict doesn't go nuclear

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/08/israel-armageddon.html

I wanted to respond to @[email protected] and @[email protected] but the previous thread got locked. https://hexbear.net/comment/5186705

In regard to Putin. Putin wasn't put in this position from his own will. He was forced into it.

Up until 2007-2008 he was the golden boy for the West(TM).

Putin though they were gonna let him (and Russia) in the club. He was gonna be one of the (imperialist) boys.

But West(TM) had other plans. The USA is not gonna let a country with 20k nuclear warheads become a member.

What if Russia starts having demands? USA can handle their little lapdogs (Germany, UK etc.) but a power like Russia?

So they played good old mediocre liberal boy Vlad like a fiddle all these years (he even admitted it in an interview, it was the one of the 4 hour long interview-address to the nation, last question from the audience for those that want to see it).

They were putting CIA NGOs all over the former USSR and its' satellites, they openly bribed politicians, they brought Poland into NATO, Czechia into NATO, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Croatia even the freaking Baltics right next to his border. They started shit in Georgia, they staged a coup in Ukraine that brought literal Nazis into the front that were killing ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine for years and it took an open and direct threat of turning the Black Sea into NATO sea to finally get him to do anything. And even after that, it took him 8 years to realize that they played him about the Minsk agreement too! Then it dawned on him that maybe they don't like him that much...

He keeps criticizing Lenin and Stalin but he is not good enough to clean their boots, while at the same time he has to draw from the legacy of USSR in order to keep the ship together because deep down he knows that was the best period in Russian history.

If today's Russian movements wants to win, they need to follow this line of thinking instead of tailing the liberals.

What I'm still afraid of is if USA does a U turn and starts shaking its' tail and playing friends to Russia, the liberal elite in Russia might still fall for it. There are still voices inside Russia that think friendship with USA is possible...

I don't know anything about Venezuela but the difference is baffling between what is said on Hexbear and what I see on Twitter (sorry), being Venezuelan teenagers drawing crying cartoon characters with their flag and writing threads about how Maduro isn't a real socialist and his army is killing people right now(?)

The Venezuelan electoral system, run by the CNE, is so reliable, and was so solid on election day, that the Machado opposition themselves are depending on it, or the idea of it, to derive voting data and then produce a result using their parallel Miami tally. (???)

• The Venezuelan opposition won't present evidence because their intention is to generate doubt, not certainty

• How can you have a parallel result to the CNE when you participated under the rules of the CNE?

• They sang fraud long before even going to elections

I have seen this in both Bolivia and Brazil. Seems like the CIA got lazy and is just a reused coup plan that didn't work before.

On the topic of the PCV conflict with the PSUV, this is something I hadn't seen before:

Orinoco Tribune - 8/11/23 - Communist Party of Venezuela Expresses Solidarity With Far-Right Politician María Corina Machado

My friend’s Venezuelan roommate is saying that his family is calling him and telling him Maduro was sending police to indiscriminately murder people last night at protests, and the police murdered some people in their neighborhood. What’re the possibilities this is true? I googled it and found nothing which is surprising because I feel like the media would eat that up

NYT:

Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official.

The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, according to five of the Middle Eastern officials.

All of the officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details about the assassination.

Edit: See rebuttal here

In the interview, Lula da Silva said that he will recognize the result in Venezuela when the electoral records are released by the Venezuelan Goverment.

After note about Maduro, Lula says that PT does not need to ask him for permission. The head of the Executive was asked if the party had been hasty in releasing a note recognizing Nicolás Maduro's victory in the Venezuelan elections.

“I think the PT did what it had to do. The PT does not have to ask the government to do things. The PT is a party that has autonomy, although it is my party, it does not need to ask me for permission: 'Lula, can I do this?'. No. Do what you feel best doing. And the government does what it feels best doing”, said the president.

Pretty well-written article in CounterPunch: Venezuela: An Attempted Coup By Any Other Name

is suing TikTok because THINK OF THE CHILDREN! As if any social media or app isn't doing worse.

Was there any hard evidence of Iranian drones or cruise missiles being used in the previous strikes against Israel in April? I can't find even a shred of anything concrete. No wreckage or distinctive engine sounds caught on video.

I believe there were some videos from Iranian sources of drones launching, but that could have been intentional misdirection.

I remember there being some discussion that Israel might have exaggerated the size and scope of the attack in order to divert attention from the fact that some of the ballistic missiles got through.

Edit: I should have clarified that I was not referring to the normal usage, but rather the exceptions.

So the red flag has been raised six times, one was the murder of Soleimani and the most recent was current news.

All I’ve been able to find was that it was also raised for three COVID death milestones. Is that accurate or are those a different count?

It would appreciated if anyone could chime in if the missing sixth instance was a fourth Covid milestone or if it was something else. Or if the Covid ones aren’t included in the count and what the other 4 flag raising were.

Brian Nichols: "We reject calls by Maduro & his inner circle for the arrests of Venezuelan opposition leaders, Gonzalez and Machado. Venezuelans have the constitutional right to express their views freely & without reprisal. Actions to detain or arrest members of the democratic opposition show that lacking any evidence to back Maduro’s electoral claims, he resorts to repression."

The White House and State Department have spoken: They want Maria Corina Machado to administer Venezuela on their behalf and they’ll accept nothing else.

The Israel strike on Beirut was basically planned around getting drowned out by the coverage, right? Or am I being too conspiracy brained?