"As police admitted for the first time last week that there was an `epidemic` of institutional child sexual abusein church institutions, children’s homes, borstals, schools and foster families in the 1970s and 80s, chief constable Simon Bailey, the national lead for child protection and abuse investigations, said: `We do not understand the true scale of it … untold damage has been done to victims and survivors.` On 11 February a damning report by the all-party parliamentary group on Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse will be highly critical of the support and resources available to these children, now in their 50s, 60s and older, many of whom have spent a lifetime with their experiences not believed and redress unobtainable."
"The report is titled Can Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Access Justice and Support? and the conclusion is an emphatic `no`. Based on two years’ work, it finds all the major services, including police, health, crown prosecution and courts, are failing to address a potential national crisis, with support services struggling to meet demand."
"The Office for National Statistics estimates that 3.1 million people aged 18-74 were sexually abused in childhood. However, one in seven callers to the helpline of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood hadn’t told anyone before."
"Our most recent child maltreatment data tell us that 60 percent of victims have a finding of neglect only."
"There are different types and definitions of neglect around the country. Neglect can take the form of failing to attend school and not keeping up with necessary medical care. It can also take the form of not meeting the emotional needs of a child. More times than not, poverty and struggles to meet the basic, concrete needs of a family are a part of the equation in all types of neglect. Substance use and or mental health challenges can exacerbate or perpetuate these challenges, but these conditions are not always present."
"Rather than seeing these root causes with clear eyes, calling them out, and taking them on with intention, we remain stuck as a system and society that focuses on the harmful after effects, often casting blame on vulnerable families for their very vulnerability. Rather than trying to prevent poverty and the many challenges associated with poverty, such as social isolation and lack of meaningful opportunities and support, we search for increasingly sophisticated evidence-based interventions to treat the trauma or “fix” the symptoms arising from a family’s inability to meet their children’s fundamental needs."
David Scott reported on the recent account in the Sun concerning MSP David Mackay and his persistent text messages to a teenage boy. [about 22 mins into the programme]
There were over 200 texts sent to the boy, Scott pointed out, and among them Mackay offered to take the boy to a rugby game even though Mackay himself had no interest in rugby, but the boy was interested. He also offered to take him canvassing and dinner afterwards amongst other things. Scott emphasised that this went on and on and on, despite the fact that Mackay knew the boy was only sixteen because he had asked him directly.
"Now the Scottish conservatives in parliament," according to David Scott, "Actually called this very accurately, and somewhat unusually...They quoted the NSPCC guidelines to what is grooming."
"And NSPCC goes on to explain how this happens and it talks about authority figures being involved, social media and networks of text messages being a medium of information being passed around. And it talks about the groomer giving advice, showing understanding, giving attention, taking the young person on trips, outings, holidays, this sort of thing. So all of this, it seems to be a classic case of child grooming."
"Now the mother found out about this last week and I would have to say played it exactly right. She didn`t go just to Police Scotland; she didn`t go to the politicians; she went to the press... They put her on the front page and Mackay had to go..."
"Of course there are other stories coming out. Here`s one reported in the Daily Record."
"A married SNP activist last night told how disgraced Derek Mackay bombarded him with messages for almost four years, including one asking: `Got any naughty pics?"
"Of Course, Nicola Sturgeon claimed she knew none of this; it was a shock to her; she never saw any of this coming, despite having actually banned him from drinking at a party conference because of his behaviour some years ago. I`m not quite sure what the behaviour was. Maybe we`ll find out."
"When the information was brought forward by the Sun they went to the Scottish government looking for comment, the Scottish government wasn`t actually shocked. In fact, they tried to... suppress the information."
"So the Scottish government said:
"`Given you yourself state that there is nothing illegal or unlawful in the messages, can you advise on your justification for publication, given the intrusion into private and family life, and correspondence, including digital communication.`"
David Scott: "Do you see the implied threat of law breaking? `Oh you`re accessing digital communications; you could be breaking the law. Do you see where they`re pushing? It`s private life. So grooming a sixteen year-old boy is private family life..! "
"They were asked did they obtain this information by legitimate means. They were asked for the name of the boy but the Sun did not give in to any of this pressure and published anyway." "The reaction was quite stunning in Scotland. The degree to which people quickly realised that this was part of a bigger malaise in the SNP was very striking. But also, the reactions of the true believers within the SNP to defend the utterly indefensible was equally striking. The most egregious example is on the next slide where an SNP councillor - so this is someone with some responsibility, to some extent, in child protection issues - heard about this and her view was: `It`s all a nasty British establishment unionist plot.` She said: `Stupid man, probably a honey trap set up by the British establishment and he`s walked right into it.`" There were others who considered that the mother and boy did not even exist, to which David Scott commented: "No, I`m sorry, this is a predatory homosexual going after a young sixteen year-old boy. That`s what it is. We have to face reality here."
"Now of the various people who looked at the wider implications, one of the best, yet again, was the Wee Flea. This is a blog by a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, formerly in Dundee and he`s looking at it as if it`s the end of the Scottish government and I don`t think this is hyperbole. This is absolutely existential because this gets to the heart of everything the Scottish government is doing. The concentration on children, the concentration on very often 16 year-old children, the whole woke pro-gay agenda, all of this starts to play into this particular little drama."
"Now this also plays into the pushing of both the queer agenda and queer theory in schools and also some very troubling developments where the Scottish government is pushing sexual education of a most alarming nature into schools." "And so the next video we`ll just play in the background. This is from a Dundee school which is one where the Wee Flea blogger had direct involvement... " Quoting from the Wee Flea blog:
"This video suggests that it is the children themselves who are leading this sexual revolution which is as nonsensical as saying that Mao`s little Red Brigades were spontaneous uprisings in favour of the great leader and had nothing to do with him or the communist party. The children on these videos are being indoctrinated... they have a shallow and cheap view of love... and they even have their own `pupil led` committee to ensure that everyone else is on song." "The deputy head teacher, an LGBT activist, is responsible for this - along with my old sparring partner Gregor Murray, the former head of Dundee Education - who was fired because of his abusive tweets against feminists. Gregor is a radical exponent of queer theory. This leads to confused children and is in my opinion a form of child abuse and it is a kind of grooming - preparing children for sexual activity in [not too] later life. The trouble is, as parents told me, if they raise concerns about this, they are frightened of being labelled homophobic or transphobic." "Now this ties in with the experience recently in Birmingham where Christian, Muslim and Jewish parents stood up against the education being forced on the children and they were labelled homophobic and transphobic... So some of the comments on Twitter have been truly excellent on this. I mean some of the analysis that has actually been delivered on Twitter has been far in excess of anything coming out of the mainstream press." "So here`s Malcolm Clark."
"It`s easy to dismiss this story as just another one about a politician blowing up his career with dodgy behaviour. But if the Scottish government isn`t careful it could become emblematic." "For too long any criticism of its deepening obsession with LGBT issues has been denounced as homophobic and any concern that`s expressed about a failure to take seriously the safeguarding of children is dismissed as bigotry." "But maybe Derek Mackay has inadvertently opened a little window into the shared culture of some top level Scottish politicians. Maybe we should ask how seriously they really take the risks to 16 year-olds and other children from some of their key policies." "And he then talks about: `There`s been a 3,000% explosion in school age kids being referred to gender identity clinics in less than a decade, in what some experts think is a social contagion spiralling out of control`. [A similar organisation in Glasgow has seen an 80% increase.] "When critics warn Scottish ministers all this is a child safeguarding nightmare they roll their collective eyes. They`ve taken advice they say. But who are their experts? The government has taken advice almost exclusively from a tiny clique of LGBTQ lobby organisations."
"Stonewall Equality Network LGBT Youth & Scottish Trans Alliance form a magic circle of influence. Personnel are best buddies with leading politicians and by an amazing coincidence these organisations then obtain huge funding from the same administration their mates run." He then lists some of this funding...
"It totals something like two million over three years. So the government pay the lobbyists to lobby the government to make the change. That`s how it works, and the change is rapid. Parents are not being asked. And this brings us to an excellent article by Bruce Scott in the Scottish Review. He`s talking about the crisis of consent in Scottish schools." "Exposing children or adults to a spurious ideology based on dubious scientific methods is a form of abuse or adversity if consent is not obtained. The ACE* `movement`s` cry for ACE aware schools for example, is effectively a psycho-educational treatment based on theoretical facets of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); i.e. resilience indoctrination in schools under RSHE (relationships, sex, health education). This programme is nothing more than inappropriate focussing of a child`s mind on their own mind, creating issues where none are, creating distress in children who do not have the maturity to introspect to such a degree, and manufacturing `mental health` difficulties due to iatrogenic effects of the `treatment`."
*ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) which are meant to dominate the rest of [a child`s] life.
"He goes on:"
"This brings me to another area where consent and/or consultation with parents are being disregarded even further with plans to roll out LGBT inclusive education in Scottish schools. Supposedly the driving force behind this policy drive in Scotland (supposedly, as it is argued that it is in fact a United Nations driven agenda) is the TIE Campaign (Time for Inclusive Education) in Scotland. TIE, along with the Scottish government and their LGBT Inclusive Education policy working group are proposing that every aspect of the school curriculum, from nursery/primary one upwards, is to include LGBT focussed materials. What is the drive behind this?"
"So he finishes off by saying:" "Children are precious and vulnerable. We must get this right now, rather than realising in 10 or 20 years from now that we have harmed children. No doubt due to reports in the media of psychologists resigning from the Tavistock Gender Clinic in London over worries of pressuring children into gender transition, and the skyrocketing of referrals of 4-10 year-olds to gender identity clinics, it may be that the tide is turning, and people are waking up."
"More people need to wake up, especially parents. If parents do not fight for their children, who will? Chief Mammy and the Scottish Government? I don`t think so." "So he`s seeing this as a rising tide of state sponsored abuse and I think he`s absolutely correct." "The Highland Times here looked at the sort of sex education materials that are being introduced by the Scottish government into Scottish schools."
"If you`re a parent, and already alarmed, I warn you to prepare to be enraged. Schools are currently rolling out a radical new SNP Scottish Government sex education policy."
"I use the term radical because it is nothing like the sex education anyone reading this article will have undergone."
"When I was at school, in second-year science class (I was 12 or 13 then) I was first introduced to our `bits`. My class had to wait a whole year to find out what those `bits` were used for and it was still taught in a science lab."
"Now, under the SNP Scottish government`s new policy, the mood has shifted dramatically to include discussions on genres of pornography (lesbian, interracial, facial); utilising porn in masturbation, paying for a prostitute; oral and anal sex... The accompanying `learning materials` are extremely graphic and sick."
"So that is what is being introduced into schools. We don`t see grooming simply by one member of the Scottish government; we see grooming of children by the entire state, the SNP, by Scottish government and my concern is that this will be the next Rotherham; this will be the next wave of child abuse and we`ll be talking about how did we not see it happen, ten or twenty years from now when in fact this time more obviously than ever before it is in fact the state that is pushing it." Brian Gerrish: "Perhaps we should add to that for listeners and viewers south of the border that the Scottish government under its Named Person scheme said that the Scottish government would nominate people to be the guardians of children from conception, I think, [true, it appears in some documents] but certainly from birth. So the same Scottish government who said it was capable of looking after children, we now start to see what type of agenda the Scottish government has got. Not just planned, it has actually implemented this." "So the squashing of the Named Person scheme, [was] a very important step forward." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOCdbu6Y-Ts
A Community Aware Scotland Discussion of I.C.N.I.R.P. (International Commision on Non Ionising Radiation PROPAGANDA!) so-called 'safety' Guidelines and the Adverse Health Effects of using WIFI in Schools in the UK. This is a discussion between Cllr Paddy Hogg and Simona Panaitescu who set up Community Aware Scotland, seeking to provoke discussion and debate on these issues..."
"Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is getting her own TV series about the environment." "The 17-year-old has signed up to take part in the programmes which will follow her journey around the world as she campaigns against climate change, and finds out more about what can be done about it." "The series will also document her personal journey as she deals with growing up in the spotlight, as well as other challenges such as writing speeches and meeting world leaders." "The series is being made by BBC Studios' Science Unit, but there are no details yet on when or where we might be able to see it. Rob Liddell who is the Executive Producer for BBC Studios said:" "Climate change is probably the most important issue of our lives so it feels timely to make an authoritative series that explores the facts and science behind this complex subject." https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51456549 ====================
Rob Liddell from the BBC appears in the background towards the end of the video. He had followed Greta and her family to Canada.
It should be noted that the presenter in the video refers to Greta Thunberg as having a mental illness. Although depression and eating disorders may be classified as mental illnesses [from which Greta seems to have recovered] there are many in the neurodiversity movement who would object to those on the autistic spectrum being classified this way.
------------------------- "Conservative MPs have voted down a House of Lords amendment to Boris Johnson’s Brexit legislation, which would have guaranteed family reunion rights for unaccompanied child refugees after EU withdrawal." "Despite appeals from children’s charities, MPs rejected the safeguards in the Withdrawal Agreement Bill by a margin of 342 votes to 254 – a majority of 88. All of those voting against the measure were Tories." "Tabled by Lord Dubs, who was himself a child refugee taken in by the UK after fleeing the Nazis, the amendment was passed by peers by 300 to 220 on Tuesday..." "Oxfam described the outcome of the vote as `a very sad start to the future of Britain outside the EU`, while Save the Children said it would `put some of the world’s most vulnerable and desperate children at even greater risk of harm`..." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/22/government-condemned-for-rejecting-lords-child-refugee-dubs-amendment
Brian Gerrish says: "Well we`re lucky to be here because coronavirus is getting ever more deadly in the UK. Let`s have a look at the Guardian headline... `Coronavirus: number of confirmed UK cases rises from four to eight,` and if you go into the article it actually says that it`s doubled. So it`s got the reinforcement: it has doubled from four to eight as the government announced new powers to detain people suspected of having the virus. And this is the key point of UK Column reporting this: we`ve got alarmist reports across the whole of the UK press but now we`re seeing something very, very sinister coming in which is on the back of that alarmist reporting. The government is seizing more powers, placing basic freedoms of the public at risk."
"Well this is the man behind it, Matt Hancock, `Under the measures announced on Monday, the Department of Health said people with coronavirus could now be forcibly detained and sent to isolation if public health professionals believe there is a reasonable risk an individual may have the virus..." "So this is the hype around the virus, not around what the real facts are, but you can now be picked up and detained. `The incidence or transmission of novel coronavirus constitutes a` serious and imminent threat to pulic health. So I`m taking action to protect the public and isolate those at risk of spreading the virus. Clinical advice has not changed about the risk to the public, which remains moderate`." "So it hasn`t changed; it remains moderate, but basically we are going to start detaining people against their will. But interesting to see this man, Matt Hancock, tweeting out: `Clinical advice has not changed about the risk to the public, which remains moderate`. So on the one hand we`re saying it`s serious and an imminent threat and on the other hand he`s clearly saying that it`s a moderate risk to the public. So lots of confusion here as to what`s going on and where this is leading us?" "Well if you go and have a look at Public Health England it gets even more confusing. It says four patients in England have tested positive, so Public Health England doesn`t even know how many cases there are, as of the present time. `If more cases are confirmed in the UK it will be announced as soon as possible by the Chief Medical Officer of the affected country`, which I found quite interesting." Mike Robinson: "Yes because we`ve got four countries in the Union now. We`ve got four Chief Medical Officers." "Well that`s good, and then it says, `Based on the World Health Organisation`s declaration that this is a public health emergency of international concern, the UK Chief Medical Officers have raised the risk to the public from low to moderate. This permits the government to plan for all eventualities. The risk to individuals remains low.` " "So we are not driving this as a nation. We are now simply cowtowing to the World Health Organisation and what we`re seeing is still alarmist reporting on what`s actually happening..."
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Here is another indication from the Telegraph that there is an agenda behind the alarmist reporting, bigger than the coronavirus:
[Telegraph]
"Posting anti-vaccine propaganda on social media could become a criminal offence - even if those promoting it believe the pseudoscience, the UK’s new criminal Law Commissioner has said." "In her first interview since taking up the role, Penney Lewis, revealed she is considering whether laws should be amended to `lower the threshold` of criminality for posting false information online that endangers lives." "It comes as the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in September he was `looking very seriously` at making vaccinations compulsory for state school pupils after the UK lost its official measles-free country status due to a steady fall in MMR immunisation rates." ======================= It looks like `all eventualities` might one day lead to `detained and forcibly vaccinated.` No resistance allowed.
UK Column News reported recently on the clash between Greta Thunberg and Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum: "Well the younger advising the old." "Absolutely. Well Greta at Davos as we mentioned on Monday. `Let`s be clear," she said, "We don`t need a low-carbon economy. We don`t need to lower emissions; our emissions have to stop and to stay if we are to have a chance to stay below the1.5 °Ctarget`." "So our emissions have to stop. We`ve got to stop breathing, Brian, is basically what it`s all about. Right?" "Right. And this young lady is trained in climate change and she`s trained in economics as well, presumably." "Well at the age of 16, 17, yeah incredible. She said. `Until we have the technologies that, at scale, can put our emissions to minus, then we must forget about net zero - we need real zero`." "So I can`t imagine what that means other than no humanity at all. So there you go. That was her position. Well Mark [Carney] was there as well, although impossible to find him on the World Economic Forum website, or the YouTube channel. But he was reiterating once again the things that he`d been saying in the run-up to this. Basically you need to change [and have regard to carbon emissions] if you`re a business or in the financial sector, or else. `At the core of the system these questions are being asked, if you`re on the right side or the wrong side, and if you`re on the wrong side, what are you going to do about it?` So this is his position." Brian Gerrish: "So no more discussion; it`s you`re either in or you`re out. If you`re out we`re going to deal with you. You will fail." "Yes, you will fail. .. So this is becoming the question: what`s your plan to get to net zero carbon emissions? That will determine where capital is flowing, obviously influenced by public opinion, pressure and government policy as well. So government policy comes last. Public opinion comes first. Pressure in the meantime." "So, you know, as I say, Mark Carney`s contribution wasn`t really highlighted terribly strongly on the World Economic Forum website or on the YouTube channel. So I had a look in the mainstream media to see what they were saying about it... Well there was a little report in the Telegraph and there was a little report on Yahoo News but other than that, there was only an interview with him from Bloomberg, because Bloomberg has now set up a green section on its website and as you can see there it tells us down the left-hand side how naughty we are being. So, you know, it tells us about carbon emissions ... But it`s a scrolling sidebar at the left there all coloured green, all about how many billion tons of CO2 we`re pushing into the atmosphere. It tells us how many soccer fields of forests that we`re cutting down. So it is really good. As you can see the numbers change. So it`s fantastic. I`m really impressed with that." "So anyway... it was doom and gloom at Davos with I have to say... with one exception and that was Donald Trump who in typically Trumpian style - I leave it to everybody to decide for themselves what everybody thinks about this - but while everybody was saying, you know, the world is ending and we`ve got to stop breathing, this is what Trump had to say:"
"So that was his position. I don`t know what you think about that." Brian Gerrish: "It`s very interesting, Mike, because just when you get to the point where you think that Trump is completely off the rails he comes in and what comes out of his mouth makes common sense. What he`s talking about is real. We`ve got special interests; we`ve got all of these gloom and doom merchants who predicted that we`re going to be wiped off the face of the earth. It was HIV at one stage... Millions of people were going to be dying and, of course, we haven`t seen it because it`s fake news. And he`s highlighting it in front of these very dangerous people ...who are the special interest group he`s just been talking about. But is he just playing to the world stage or does he actually believe what he`s saying? " Mike Robinson: "Oh, if he`s playing to any stage, it`s a domestic stage. He is, of course, heading into an election year and that`s a key part of everything he says, I suppose... but, you know, it was a pretty strong message that would find itself at 180 degrees to everything else that Greta and Mark Carney and the rest were saying." "So we`ll see what the response to that is. I know that BBC did a big section on... whether there [were any facts] in his speech." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amCW3Zz868Y =================================== Photosynthesis Politics aside, there are benefits for plants from increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Do we want a greener earth?
Nature achieves a balance Humans and other animals breathe in oxygen for respiration and breathe out carbon dioxide as a waste product. Plants use carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for photosynthesis and give off oxygen as a by-product. It was plants that put oxygen into the earth`s atmosphere in the first place so that life as we know it has evolved.
"The implementation of Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence has left educators facing myriad unintended consequences, says Barry Black." "On Wednesday evening, the Scottish government suffered a rare defeat in Holyrood when MSPs called for a full review of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE). First minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that the government will take this forward, `whether or not [they] consider that, that is necessary`." "The emerging evidence, however, points to a range of unresolved and unintended consequences which exist as a result of CfE’s implementation." "Issues within the senior phase are well-documented. Whether it is the narrowing number of subject choices, particularly in poorer areas, the progression and structure of new qualifications or the prevalence of multi-qualification teaching in classrooms, there are numerous issues which clearly impact upon young people’s choices and chances." https://www.tes.com/news/why-parliament-was-right-want-curriculum-review
