"Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, An Introduction Programming Manual was uncovered quite by accident on July 7, 1986 when an employee of Boeing Aircraft Co. purchased a surplus IBM copier for scrap parts at a sale, and discovered inside details of a plan, hatched in the embryonic days of the "Cold War" which called for control of the masses through manipulation of industry, peoples' pastimes, education and political leanings. It called for a quiet revolution, putting brother against brother, and diverting the public's attention from what is really going on. "
"In 1954 this was the issue of primary concern. Although the so-called "moral issues" were raised, in view of the law of natural selection it was agreed that a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent."
"Consequently, in the interest of future world order, peace, and tranquillity, it was decided to privately wage a quiet war against the American public with an ultimate objective of permanently shifting the natural and social energy (wealth) of the undisciplined and irresponsible many into the hands of the self-disciplined, responsible, and worthy few."
"In order to implement this objective, it was necessary to create, secure, and apply new weapons which, as it turned out, were a class of weapons so subtle and sophisticated in their principle of operation and public appearance as to earn for themselves the name `silent weapons.`"
"In conclusion, the objective of economic research, as conducted by the magnates of capital (banking) and the industries of commodities (goods) and services, is the establishment of an economy which is totally predictable and manipulatable."
"In order to achieve a totally predictable economy, the low-class elements of society must be brought under total control, i.e., must be housebroken, trained, and assigned a yoke and long-term social duties from a very early age, before they have an opportunity to question the propriety of the matter. In order to achieve such conformity, the lower-class family unit must be disintegrated by a process of increasing preoccupation of the parents and the establishment of government-operated day-care centers for the occupationally orphaned children."
"The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintain some measure of social order, peace, and tranquillity for the ruling upper class..."
Diversion Summary
"Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance. "
"Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history. "
"Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level."
"Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals."
http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml
Now a ruling elite, interested in this kind of deception, would find a Named Person scheme useful for elbowing parents out of the way and GIRFEC useful, too, in order to get close to children from the earliest age. Profiling and surveillance would follow as a matter of course.
Insisting that knowledge is unimportant and transforming education to a more skills based and psychosocial learning experience would dumb down children and offer better opportunities for behaviour modification.
Calling these policies Getting it Right for Every Child and Curriculum for Excellence would be suitable ways to disguise their true intentions.
Just a thought.
bowling
Wednesday, 6 January 2016
The eyes and ears of the community
Taxi drivers, dinner ladies, lollipop men and women - just about anybody - has a duty to pass on information about a child`s wellbeing to the Named Person, if there is a concern.
This is not referring to broken bones, burns, starvation and the signs of physical abuse which are matters for the police and social services.
No, this is about SHANARRI.
Taking the information from the Highland pilot:
How are taxi drivers, scout masters and swimming instructors meant to understand this when nobody else does? A system that is set up as carelessly as this does not have anybody`s wellbeing in its sights. It is marching two steps behind the Chinese, ripe for spreading third party gossip and false allegations. It is difficult to understand why Bill Alexander does not see it.
So here we have the Highland Council Service Delivery Model. At the base of the triangle, universal services are responsible for supporting all children and families. Whereas there used to be only health and education, nowadays everything is considered to be a family support, including health and education. It`s as if families are helpless and hopeless and need the assistance of every passing service and charity worker in their parenting role.
Because a wellbeing concern is such an `airy fairy` concept, and so many different workers are involved in information sharing, no child can be guaranteed a private life, free of state interference. Worse than that, there are few safeguards when Named Persons get it wrong.
It is only at the top of the triangle where compulsory measures are taken by the panel members at a Children`s Hearing, that legal safeguards are in place. Panel members are ordinary members of the public who act as a check and actually make the decisions. The reporter ensures that the meeting is conducted appropriately and that social workers are following procedures. The law defines what can and cannot be done, how long measures will be in place, appeal processes, and so on. It is not a perfect system because it takes place behind closed doors. But still, there are checks.
Compare that with what happens below this line on the triangle. Children and families are supposed to be encouraged to have an input in decision making whenever the Named Person gets involved, but there are no legal procedures to refer to when things get out of hand, only a complaint process that could take a year before there is a resolution. Even then, the Ombudsman cannot enforce his decision.
According to Bill Alexander, we are supposed to believe that out of nearly 8,000 child plans from a small population in the Highland Council, each decision made about a child was so apt and to the point, that no complaint was ever made. That is despite the nebulous nature of SHANNARRI wellbeing and the numerous workers and their various interpretations.
It is almost impossible to believe.
As it is, you do not have to go far before finding a different story. Look at this comment in the Herald:
This is from a parent with special needs children who might have appreciated a single point of contact.
Think about the rest.
This is not referring to broken bones, burns, starvation and the signs of physical abuse which are matters for the police and social services.
No, this is about SHANARRI.
Taking the information from the Highland pilot:
A concern may be expressed about anything that affects or has the possibility of affecting the wellbeing, happiness or potential of the child. It may relate to a single event or observation, a series of events, or an attribute of the child or someone associated with them.In other words, a wellbeing concern is impossible to pin down.
How are taxi drivers, scout masters and swimming instructors meant to understand this when nobody else does? A system that is set up as carelessly as this does not have anybody`s wellbeing in its sights. It is marching two steps behind the Chinese, ripe for spreading third party gossip and false allegations. It is difficult to understand why Bill Alexander does not see it.
Because a wellbeing concern is such an `airy fairy` concept, and so many different workers are involved in information sharing, no child can be guaranteed a private life, free of state interference. Worse than that, there are few safeguards when Named Persons get it wrong.
It is only at the top of the triangle where compulsory measures are taken by the panel members at a Children`s Hearing, that legal safeguards are in place. Panel members are ordinary members of the public who act as a check and actually make the decisions. The reporter ensures that the meeting is conducted appropriately and that social workers are following procedures. The law defines what can and cannot be done, how long measures will be in place, appeal processes, and so on. It is not a perfect system because it takes place behind closed doors. But still, there are checks.
Compare that with what happens below this line on the triangle. Children and families are supposed to be encouraged to have an input in decision making whenever the Named Person gets involved, but there are no legal procedures to refer to when things get out of hand, only a complaint process that could take a year before there is a resolution. Even then, the Ombudsman cannot enforce his decision.
According to Bill Alexander, we are supposed to believe that out of nearly 8,000 child plans from a small population in the Highland Council, each decision made about a child was so apt and to the point, that no complaint was ever made. That is despite the nebulous nature of SHANNARRI wellbeing and the numerous workers and their various interpretations.
It is almost impossible to believe.
As it is, you do not have to go far before finding a different story. Look at this comment in the Herald:
Just about fell off my chair after reading the comments by Bill Alexander. As a parent of 2 children with special needs, living in the Highlands, I can`t believe that he has forgotten already the 3 pages of complaints regarding poor implementation of GIRFEC which I copied to him at the end of January. I may not have complained about the principle of having a named person but I have been complaining since May 2013 about the misinformed actions of a named person in particular.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13145429.A_worthy_policy_has_caught_out_ministers/
This is from a parent with special needs children who might have appreciated a single point of contact.
Think about the rest.
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Thousand of children on council housing waiing lists
"Figures obtained through Freedom of Information by the party revealed that 138,164 people, 54,244 of which were children, were on council waiting lists at the start of October."
"The statistics revealed that many local authorities have people on waiting lists who have been there for up to 50 years."
"Fife has the highest number of teenagers and children waiting for social housing in the country although other high population areas like Glasgow and Edinburgh are not included because they do not hold the data."
http://www.scottishhousingnews.com/7200/over-54000-scots-children-on-council-house-waiting-lists/
Gamification
"China has gamified being an obedient citizen with the creation of Sesame Credit. The game links to your social network and gives you a score for doing things that the government approves of, but it also reduces that score for doing things the government disapproves of. Even your friends' scores affect your own, and being friends with people who have a low score will drag your score down as well. This insidious system applies social pressure on people to ostracize their friends with lower scores, either forcing those friends to change their ways or effectively quarantining their rebellious ideas. "
"While many sci-fi visions of a dystopian future have centered around a bleak government that controls through fear, Sesame Credit shows us that a government can use gamification and positive reinforcement to be just as controlling. And it's real. While currently the system is opt-in, the government plans to make it mandatory in 2020. Once mandatory, it may give rewards for good scores or penalties for bad ones. And in the meantime, making it opt-in has already set the tone for the game: people participate willingly, so they find it fun, and they set a very high standard for what the "average" score should be. Already people have begun sharing their scores on social media."
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Monday, 4 January 2016
George Adam MSP - named person debate
It is deeply offensive when politicians use the death of a child as a political football. Who knows what that does to the families concerned? It is even more sickening when politicians misconstrue the facts.
In the December debate in the Scottish Parliament about the Named Person policy many objections were made about Ruth Davidson`s article in the Scotsman in which she wrote about her fears that the Named Person scheme could overstretch staff who might then fail to spot signs of abuse, leading to another case like Baby Peter or Victoria Climbie.
George Adam MSP was one of the objectors. He found Ruth Davidson`s column on the issue, inexcusable.
He then went on to use the same `inexcusable` tactic himself; this time about the death of Declan Hainey in Paisley.
"When I read the reports of the Declan Hainey case," he says, "Both when I was a councillor and later, it became apparent that no one took responsibility for that child. Both health and social care services were to blame at various points in the case. I read the reports from cover to cover, and no one was technically to blame; the problem was that no individual was responsible for making sure that the child was okay. That shows the need for the named person."
He claims to have read the reports cover to cover, but I would defy anyone to come to the same conclusion as George Adam after reading the Determination by Sheriff Ruth Anderson QC following an Inquiry held at Paisley into the circumstances of the death of Declan Hainey.
She has this to say:
I did not accept the submission made on behalf of Renfrewshire Council that the professional judgments which were made during the assessment process up to the post-birth meeting were ‘reasonable professional judgments’. Despite the lack of full information gathering, those involved in making those judgments were well aware of the history of the pregnancy, Kim Hainey’s complete failure to prepare for the birth of her child, her reluctance to cooperate in the assessment process itself, the fragility of family relationships, her chaotic drug history and the instability of her life and housing situation up until only a few weeks prior to the birth of Declan. They were aware of her consumption of alcohol on the day of her discharge from RAH on 29 January (to such an extent that she was smelling of alcohol the following day) and her refusal to accept the risks of such consumption while on a methadone programme, which had started only 6 days earlier. In addition, it was known that Kim Hainey refused to stay in for the first visit by Hugh Madden on 21 February 2008, despite the risk of her losing care of her child being explained to her by Hazel Martin. Had reasonable professional judgment been exercised, then Child Protection measures would have been taken.
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgments/judgment?id=bcb1a7a6-8980-69d2-b500-ff0000d74aa7No child protection measures were ever taken and this was a group of professionals who specialised in the field of drug addiction.
Now just because a group of specialists fail to follow protocols and exercise reasonable judgment does not mean that a Named Person should be foisted on every child in Scotland who does not need one. On the contrary, it looks like it is specialist workers who are overstretched and need all the help they can get.
The debate: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/sp/?id=2015-12-02.18.0
Sunday, 3 January 2016
The open and transparent National Pupil Database
According to the Westminster government: "The National Pupil Database (NPD) forms a significant part of the evidence base for the education sector and supports accountability and school improvement."
"Extracts of the data from the NPD can be shared (under strict terms and conditions) with named bodies and third parties who, for the purpose of promoting the education or wellbeing of children in England, are:
• Conducting research or analysis;
• Producing statistics; or
• Providing information, advice or guidance."
"The [Department of Education] wants to encourage more third parties to use the data for these purposes and produce secondary analyses of the data. Interested parties can now request extracts of data from the NPD using an improved application process accessed through the department’s website..."
The National Pupil Database: user guide
Defend Digital Me challenges the government`s claims that the National Pupil Database supports accountability and that pupil data is shared under strict terms and conditions.
They have pointed out to the Department of Education, despite its proclamations to the contrary, that identifiable personal data is passed to commercial third parties and press without informed consent.
As if that was not bad enough, they have said that this is done without sufficient criminal record checks of the persons receiving the data and with no regard at all to any other persons who might have access to the data thereafter. In other words, once unleashed into the `wild` there is no accountability.
In their written evidence they have urged the DfE to be transparent about its policies and practices.
"Extracts of the data from the NPD can be shared (under strict terms and conditions) with named bodies and third parties who, for the purpose of promoting the education or wellbeing of children in England, are:
• Conducting research or analysis;
• Producing statistics; or
• Providing information, advice or guidance."
"The [Department of Education] wants to encourage more third parties to use the data for these purposes and produce secondary analyses of the data. Interested parties can now request extracts of data from the NPD using an improved application process accessed through the department’s website..."
The National Pupil Database: user guide
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They have pointed out to the Department of Education, despite its proclamations to the contrary, that identifiable personal data is passed to commercial third parties and press without informed consent.
As if that was not bad enough, they have said that this is done without sufficient criminal record checks of the persons receiving the data and with no regard at all to any other persons who might have access to the data thereafter. In other words, once unleashed into the `wild` there is no accountability.
In their written evidence they have urged the DfE to be transparent about its policies and practices.
Big data uses must assess privacy risks, and measure the benefits of data use, set against the burden of collection, storage and sharing. As regards ‘big pupil data’ specifically in the National Pupil Database, "collect it all", is neither a strategy nor solution. The DfE current policies and practices place the burden of risk of Big Data on our children, without measured benefit.
December 2015
http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/science-and-technology-committee/big-data-dilemma/written/25380.pdf
Saturday, 2 January 2016
The child protection register
Rob Ess tells people that the Child Protection Register is just a `register` and has no legal status. For instance, being on the child protection register does not give social workers an automatic right to remove children from their families.
By putting their signatures to letters and documents, mothers and fathers are deceived into contracting with social workers. These documents then do have legal status.
The general advice must be: Never sign anything under duress. Always seek the best legal advice available before signing anything.
Barnevernet adoption plans
"Norwegian child services have begun the adoption process for five children who were seized from a Romanian Pentecostal family in November after concerns were expressed about the parents' Christian faith, the family says.""As previously reported by the Christian Post, the five children of Ruth and Marius Bodnariu were seized by the Barnevernet (Norway's child services agency) on Nov. 16 after the principal of the middle school their two oldest daughters attend cited concerns about the children's religious upbringing and how the parents were teaching their kids that God punishes sin."
"Although the principal only asked the Barnevernet to offer the family counseling services and never requested that the children be removed from the home, the agency removed all five kids from their parents custody on the claim that the children were being physically abused..."
"The children, including a nursing infant son, have now been placed in three separate foster homes while their parents have been given extremely limited visitation rights. Although both parents can see their infant son twice a week, only Ruth can visit with her two oldest sons once per week while neither parent can visit their daughters... "
"The Bodnarius are not alone in fighting the Barnevernet to get their children back. Ionescu stated that the Barnevernet has a history of abusing its power. Ionescu cited the Radulescu family, who beat the agency in a case before the Supreme Court of Norway two years ago. Although the family won the case, Barnevernet is still going to list their children for adoption."
"Barnevernet is going ahead with the process of adoption because they say that such a long time has passed and now it is going to be traumatic for the children to be returned to their parents," Ionescu said."
"As hundreds have already gathered for protests at Norwegian embassies in Romania and Spain, and protests are planned for January at embassies in London, Washington, Canada, Germany, India, Poland, Belgium, and the Czech Republic, Ionescu stated that the Bodnariu case is the best opportunity yet to build international awareness about the Barnevernet's abuse of power."
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/norway-five-christian-children-seized-government-foster-care-adoption-process-153771/#xJh8xg8F0PjCqGgY.99
Operation Ore
"It was the UK's biggest ever computer crime investigation. Thousands of people were accused of downloading images of child abuse - some were found to be innocent. The legacy is controversial....
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"Critics, however, raised questions about the police's handling of the inquiry. Some said potential credit card fraud had not been properly investigated and the reputations of innocent men had been destroyed as a result. Others feared the inquiry had contributed to an atmosphere of moral panic in which paedophiles, or potential paedophiles, lurked in every corner."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20237564
"Critics, however, raised questions about the police's handling of the inquiry. Some said potential credit card fraud had not been properly investigated and the reputations of innocent men had been destroyed as a result. Others feared the inquiry had contributed to an atmosphere of moral panic in which paedophiles, or potential paedophiles, lurked in every corner."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20237564
Friday, 1 January 2016
The Mazars report and beyond
A report was "commissioned by NHS England (South) following the death of Connor Sparrowhawk in July 2013 in a unit in Oxford run by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust."
"The report now recommends further action... in particular that its findings should be shared across England to ensure that deaths are investigated properly..."
https://www.england.nhs.uk/tag/mental-health/
"Jeremy Hunt is facing calls for a nationwide inquiry into the deaths of highly vulnerable patients in NHS care after it emerged that just one in seven such fatalities in hospitals in England have been investigated. "
"Data released to the Guardian under freedom of information laws shows that hospitals in England have investigated just 209 of 1,436 deaths of inpatients with learning disabilities since 2011..."
"The data appears to show that recently exposed failings at the Southern Health NHS trust in the south of England are widespread. At that trust, just four of 93 unexpected deaths among people with a learning disability were looked into. Trusts are meant to look into and learn from unexpected deaths under tougher NHS-wide patient safety rules introduced since the Mid Staffs scandal to reduce the risk of mistakes being repeated..."
"Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, last week criticised the lack of leadership at Southern Health for failing to investigate unexplained deaths, but he will now face pressure for a wider inquiry..."
"NHS England said it recently wrote to every trust asking them to review and report on avoidable mortality rates. "This places England as the first ever country to monitor the extent of avoidable deaths."
"A government-funded inquiry reported in 2013 that an estimated 1,238 children and adults with learning disabilities die every year in England as a result of getting poor care from the NHS."
http://guardian.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
From Justice for LB
"The report now recommends further action... in particular that its findings should be shared across England to ensure that deaths are investigated properly..."
https://www.england.nhs.uk/tag/mental-health/
"Data released to the Guardian under freedom of information laws shows that hospitals in England have investigated just 209 of 1,436 deaths of inpatients with learning disabilities since 2011..."
"The data appears to show that recently exposed failings at the Southern Health NHS trust in the south of England are widespread. At that trust, just four of 93 unexpected deaths among people with a learning disability were looked into. Trusts are meant to look into and learn from unexpected deaths under tougher NHS-wide patient safety rules introduced since the Mid Staffs scandal to reduce the risk of mistakes being repeated..."
"Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, last week criticised the lack of leadership at Southern Health for failing to investigate unexplained deaths, but he will now face pressure for a wider inquiry..."
"NHS England said it recently wrote to every trust asking them to review and report on avoidable mortality rates. "This places England as the first ever country to monitor the extent of avoidable deaths."
"A government-funded inquiry reported in 2013 that an estimated 1,238 children and adults with learning disabilities die every year in England as a result of getting poor care from the NHS."
http://guardian.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
From Justice for LB
It is now 16 days since NHS England published the Mazars report... Despite the horror that it contains, the responses by the Secretary of State and by the triumvirate that is NHS England, CQC and Monitor, are unanimous in their feebleness and lack of urgency.
Southern Health are holding two extraordinary meetings in the next ten days. The first is of their Governors, which takes place in Southampton on Tuesday 5 January from 10-12noon... The second meeting is of the Board, and that takes place in Southampton on Monday 11 January from 8.30-9.30am... Members of the public can ask questions at both meetings, you can submit them in advance if you wish, but there is no requirement to do so.
It is almost like Southern Health don’t want people to know about the meetings. They’ve not advertised them on their news pages or via any of their social media platforms, despite being big fans of viral leadership. We are hoping as many JusticeforLB’ers as possible will attend both meetings...
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