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PISA results

Finland’s PISA-crash is a wake-up call for Swiss education policy

by Carl Bossard,* Switzerland

(18 January 2024) “Can you buy Finnish schools?” an education expert from the Middle East is said to have asked. After the first PISA assessment, he too made a pilgrimage to the promised land of the world’s best schools – with the intention of copying and pasting. Such educational trips were made possible by the PISA rankings.

The “Programme for International Student Assessment” (PISA) compares the ability of 15-year-old students in the subjects of reading, mathematics, and science. The results are recorded on a points scale and categorised into competence levels.

India-Russia ties get a makeover

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(11 January 2024) The visit by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to Russia on December 24–29 presented an extraordinary spectacle reminiscent of the halcyon days of Indo-Soviet relations.

There was an unnameable ecstasy in Jaishankar’s words on Russian soil. He even took a walk on the Red Square in the middle of Russian winter. But the minister is anything but a sentimental diplomat, who can handle emotions not necessarily as encumbrance but turning them instead into great optics.

States without governments

Governments managed through BlackRock & Co

by Robert Seidel

(11 January 2024) The impression is growing that elected governments no longer determine the fate of a state, but that other forces are increasingly shaping politics. This is reflected in the political, economic, military, and financial lockstep of Western governments. Examples are the case of the Ukraine conflict – including the negligent abandonment of Switzerland’s neutrality by the Federal Council in spring 2022, as well as the ghost-like confrontation course against China or the gradual suspension of democratic freedoms through new WHO or environmental regulations.

Trolls that control the narrative in media and Internet

How to track down robots, bots and “sea lions” that try to neutralise uncomfortable news

from an episode of Solutions’s Watch by James Corbett

(11 January 2024) Let’s face it: the “comments” at the end of videos or articles are often dreadful. But who’s to say they’re even real? And what’s the solution to these abominable posts? Not to read the comments, of course. But those who wade into this info war battlespace should at least be aware of the various tactics that trolls*, bots*, spies and “sea lions” are using to derail them from taking meaningful action.

About the non-reappraisal of the Covid-19 pandemic

Death by WHO recommendation?

by Professor Konstantin Beck,* Switzerland

(29 December 2023) During the Covid-19 pandemic, Switzerland deviated from WHO recommendations and thus avoided thousands of deaths. If the “Pandemic Treaty” had already been in force, the death toll would probably have been as grim as in the United States.

The “World Health Organisation” (WHO) probably made its biggest mistake at the start of the pandemic. At that time, thousands of doctors around the world were looking for ways to fight Covid-19, a learning process took place. Vitamins D and C, “Ivermectin” and the antimalarial “Hydroxychloroquine” (HCQ) were promising candidates.

Uranium ammunition contaminates the world

Deadly dust “made in USA” contaminated, poisoned, covered up

by Frieder Wagner,* Germany
Speech given on the German peace manifestation in Cologne, 26 November 2023

(29 December 2023) Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, on 6 March this year, the British Secretary of State Annabel Goldie declared that the Challenger 2 tanks announced by the British government would also be delivered to Ukraine including uranium shells. What does that mean?