The transatlantic collaboration

As if the Named Person scheme, joined-up governance arrangements and the total view of the citizen were not big enough impositions on individuals in Scotland, these systems are only a small part of a much larger plan.

Here`s one example: Sitra are building a successful Finland for tomorrow`s world, they say. Actually their ambitions go much further than that, as documented in Governing the welfare state and beyond: Solutions for a complex world and uncertain future written by Eeva Hellström and Mikko Kosonen [The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra]

They advise: "Support the transition of the ‘welfare state’ towards a ‘welfare society’, with more shared responsibilities and coordinated activities by public, private and civil society actors for the best solutions as a whole." That has more than a bit of Carnegie and John Elvidge about it.

They are not lacking in confidence either. By following their ambitions and recommendations, they claim that the EU and its member states have the potential to become forerunners in modern governance. [That is, `scientific management` and rule by administrative and unelected boards.]

https://www.sitra.fi/julkaisut/Esitteet/2016/Governing_the_welfare_state_and_beyond_brochure.pdf

Sitra has a lot to say about education as well.

"How do we enable students, schools and communities to become building blocks of a sustainable well-being society? Meet the authors of Sitra’s Education for a Changing World research project..."

"At Sitra, we have developed a societal model organised around the central theme of sustainable well-being. Building on the achievements of the welfare state, the sustainable well-being society will be oriented toward the central aim of human well-being. Planetary limits will form the basis of all human activity while robust systems of human and social capital will be realised alongside more efficient economic and governance models. A structural transition such as this is immensely complex and will touch every sector, organisation and institution – including education..."

"The project is organised as a transatlantic collaboration, combining interdisciplinary Finnish and North American perspectives on teaching and learning. One of the project goals is to produce a high-value publication that is timely and applicable to the international, interdisciplinary discourse through an interactive process. The project will also seek to form an international network of thought leaders working to renew education for the future."

https://www.sitra.fi/en/news/education/meet-authors-sustainability-well-being-and-future-education

I think people in Scotland are beginning to see what a trap the well-being agenda is. I mean, who believes that a Named Person for every child and a single police force with guns and surveillance cameras, is improving anything ? Well-being, sustainability, climate change, global citizenship and all the paraphernalia that goes along with a dumbed down education system are fundamental elements of the indoctrination programme called Curriculum for Excellence. Put the pieces together and it is easy to see what this is. How come a party which proclaims to be for Scottish independence is preparing Scotland`s children for the New World Order when that means all autonomy will be lost? How come the opposition parties do not point out the audacity of the SNP doing that?

Rather than the silence which is deafening !

At one time those who spoke out against Agenda 21, the UN action plan for sustainable development, were accused of being conspiracy nuts. Strange that, when it is being rolled out according to plan and the evidence is there in the policies and in the multiplicity of documents sprouting from all directions.

Rosa Koire gives a very clear exposition of what Agenda 21 is about.