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What is clear once reading about what is happening in Russia compared to West when excluding the mass media propaganda it is clear that there is really nothing to tell them apart. Names and places have been changed to protect the guilty but the same totalitarian program is proceeding at full speed.

I take some solace in the fact that total reliance in technology will be the downfall of the technocracy, imagine if every person had just one kind of ID. Then the system would have all the secret police in every country generating countermeasures and ways to subvert it because they will not trust their criminal friends and it must at least look like they have an enemy. These vulnerabilities will LEAK and a moment (repeatedly) will come when the system is totally compromised and people can expose truths or manipulate their own freedoms. Like the Russian state media was hacked and Finnish mental health patient details reached the internet so too will all other centralised systems be vulnerable.

Their hubris is bigger than they believe and it will be their downfall.

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The odd solar storm will help too. They appear to have not taken one of those into account unless they have secretly built some kind of shield around the globe with all the trillions they have embezzled via the fake space agency NASA?

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Riley, there you are, i was getting worried not seeing anything from you in a couple of weeks. Whew! Thanks for this look at Russia's "alternative" mode of education, sounds just like over here in the States. :-) Reminder that i've posted several times about Pavel Luksha, a leading transhumanist who is in charge of restructuring not only Russia's education system, but the systems of the BRICS bloc, to prepare for the Great Reset/4IR. Look him up, his outfit Global Education Futures and the Ervin Laszlo Foundation which he sits on the board of, Laszlo being one of the original transhumanists.

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Hey Jeffrey! thanks for the tip, will look into it

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Nov 8, 2022·edited Nov 8, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

(With apologies to the Gershwins …)

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From Pskov to the Okhotsk Sea

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love it!

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Nov 8, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Hi Riley, you are probably aware of the work of Alison McDowall at ´´wrenchinthegears.com´´.

She has often highlighted the fact that Russian education and finance specialists are heavily involved in developing global pilot cyber educational programmes that will work in tandem with AI development on one hand and banking ´´impact investment´´ product rollout on the other.

´´Human data´´ will be the new ´´oil´´ feeding an alternative derivatives ponzi investment scheme, a new fun space for investors/bankers to place their bets on impacts/outcomes (´´negative´´ as well as positive impacts) of various intervention programmes in health, education etc . Poorer communities of course (like the ´´rural´´ ones you mention in Russia) are already being targeted for the first phases of experimentation in data harvesting through virtual reality classrooms (headsets for teachers) and their accompanying trial investment programmes.

I attach a link to one of Alison´s recent posts

https://wrenchinthegears.com/2022/08/24/eves-fabulous-social-impact-finance-zine-please-share/

This is brilliant for introducing the impact investment concept IMO. If any of you think so..share it around

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thanks, very interesting

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Nov 8, 2022·edited Nov 8, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Yey, Riley is back and keeps fearlessly exposing globalists in Russia! And I was beginning to worry if the Tbilisi Hill or maybe too much khachapuri has finally gotten to him. Yes, those Gref & Co. in Russia are not losing any time. While the population is being distracted with the ongoing not-a-war in Ukraine, they keep pushing various schemes related to education, total digital control and the continued lucrative business of not so harmless injections. Not to mention scheming behind the backs of the fighting troops on how to exchange Kherson for a "peace" deal, a "dogovorniak" (dirty backroom deal) as Russians call it. But, on a positive side - Russia is pregnant with change. The situation defined by Lenin as when "the lower class doesn't want to live as before and the ruling class can't" is approaching rapidly. The hope is only on the "Western partners of Russia", as Putin calls them. He also called Zelensky and his clique "our Ukrainian partners" at a recent press conference. Was it a Freudian slip of a tongue? Dear Western partners of Russia, dear President Zelensky - don't let the pressure up, don't agree to any concessions, don't propose any half-baked deals - you are the agents of change for Russia. Help Russia change, give the world a hope!

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Nov 8, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Who knew "Public-Private Partnerships" were so multi-polar!

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Excellent. The Kleptocracy, Mars bars the WEF, the Huffington Post, Animal Face Recognition technology and the devolution of humanity, it’s history and education all in the same post? Such riches!

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🤡🙀😿

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Ah yes, the classic government lie.

Say you can't afford a vital public service and then spend billions on a war, digital mass surveillance and your mate's buddy's friend's COVID-19 testing kit services down the pub.

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Good to read you Riley, hope you are fine.

In France there is a doctor in neuroscience who has specialized in screens and childhood. He has written two books, one called TV lobotomie and the other one, La Fabrique du crétin digital (the factory of digital moron). The result of his research and all the researches worldwide lead to the same unambiguitous conclusion: computer schooling just doesn't work! No way, no debate. During a conference I attended two years ago, one guy in the audience tried to argued but Michel desmurget just told him that there existed no experiment demonstating otherwise. It is a failure.

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Things are a bit more complicated... Early in my IT career in the early nineties I held position of a technology director for a company producing digital education content. The firm, where I was one of the founders, was about digital form of education using multimedia (sound, video, graphics) and on-screen interaction with the student, that can be extremely effective as both, our own studies and universities' research has shown. The efficiency of retaining material by a student, especially when followed-up by an abridged version of the course in 2 weeks, is higher by 200%-300%, depending on the type of material. Now, does this type of study replace the socialization skills that are gained by interaction between the students (live physical contact)? No, it doesn't. Does it completely replace the teacher figure that can and should, among other things, help students with consuming digital content? Not, it certainly doesn't replace the teacher. So, digital education by itself can be a very effective tool, but it is important to understand that it is not a panacea and not a replacement for a physical interaction student to student and student to teacher.

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Hey Stanley,

I hope you are fine. I won't be able to debate this subject since I am not Michel Desmurget. I can only repeat what his research has led him to write and say in many conferences and from my knoledge he has never been contradicted. As I wrote he has written his book after having read all the available data from worlwide researches.

I don't know the age of the students who were involved in the research you refer to but I know that for young children, the material using cartoon characters to teach them skills, the kid's minds was more captivated by the animation than the pedagogic content.

From my knowledge, the kids who have had to work online in France during the 'covid mass house arrests', called lockdown (confinement) have not properly acquired the knowledge they should have.

Anyway, we both agree that as you wrote the best way to learn, the most human and efficient is with student to student and student to teacher.

That being said, I just haven't had any time to keep on writing about the situation in France since I had my daughters at home and my job take sme a lot of time. I will try to write some lines tomorrow which i will send in the follow up of the space you opened for that purpose.

Meanwhile, take care.

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Perhaps we are talking here about different things, but agree in principle. If I would express my view on it eloquently, it boils down to the following - digital technology used as a teaching aid is invaluable, but used as a sole method of delivering education is unacceptable.

And yes, when you have time - drop your further thoughts and analysis on French politics. I'll be happy to repost it on my blog as this is a subject of interest to me as well as to some of the subscribers.

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This is interesting because I have always believed that Mars is a CIA front company of some sort. When I saw your headline, I knew the candy bar company would be Mars.

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Are we sure that it's a "Western Education system"? Really? Whose ideology lays behind that? In the West, McKinsey focuses on "improving education". But McKinsey does exist in Russia, it has only changed its name for "YAKOV AND PARTNERS" (Яков и Партнёры).

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The current fratricide in Ukraine has laid bare the veritable rot that pervades the Russian Federation, an entity borne out of the illegal and capricious dissolution of the USSR 31 years ago. Despite the geopolitical kabuki theatre taking place worldwide, what we're witnessing IMHO is an updated version of the inter-imperialist rivalry which culminated in 1914 with the outbreak of WWI. Whether it's the "G7" or "BRICS" and their affiliated satrapies, it is above all a competition among leading gangster states over who will preside over the updated, digitalized version of imperialist rapine.

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Charlotte Isserbyt wrote a huge tome entitled "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/

“The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America — A Chronological Paper Trail”, will change forever the way you look at your child’s education. Written by whistleblower Charlotte T. Iserbyt, it is the result of what she discovered while working in the US Department of Education and her subsequent research on the subject. First published in 1999, the original edition of the book contains 743 pages replete with documentation of the policies, conversations and events that led up to the way our educational system is run today.

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Riley, you're back! Yes! And just as insightful and wry as ever.

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