Trial set in Illinois foster parent abuse case
A 29-year-old southern Illinois foster parent will be tried in July on charges he had inappropriate sexual relations with 2 of his female foster children.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Fresno Co. ends contracts with foster agency
Fresno Co. ends contracts with foster agency
Fresno County supervisors are ending all major contracts with a troubled nonprofit since the agency's co-founders were convicted of embezzlement.
Fresno County supervisors are ending all major contracts with a troubled nonprofit since the agency's co-founders were convicted of embezzlement.
Troubled youth headed to Utah facility
Troubled youth headed to Utah facility
A grandmother’s heart broke and her tears flowed inside a Halifax courtroom when a judge told her that love is not enough to help her 14-year-old troubled grandson.
A grandmother’s heart broke and her tears flowed inside a Halifax courtroom when a judge told her that love is not enough to help her 14-year-old troubled grandson.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
A great little article I found in a directory. Tell me CPS doesn't do this... Go ahead!
Great Propaganda Tricks of Today
by kieron mcfadden
Great Propaganda Tricks of Today (Propaganda: falsifying, altering or modifying information so as to produce a response in the recipient other than what would have resulted from a supply of totally factual, unadulterated information.)
NUMBER ONE: In order to get people thoroughly upset with someone, just accuse that someone of something. You don't have to prove your accusation. Just allege it. Repeat until it sticks in the public mind. The repetition of highly emotive words assists this process: for example by inserting the adjecyive "sinister" into every utterance.
NUMBER TWO: To assist you in number one above, spread the falsehood that "there's no smoke without fire." This is a handy false datum that has been around a long time and "everybody knows," and everybody misses the fact that a fire and a piece of information are entirely different things obeying entirely different laws. In any case, there is smoke without fire, as any chemist or movie special effects expert will tell you.
NUMBER THREE: Use harmless sounding euphemisms to make your most horrible crimes sound innocuous. Examples: "a change of regime," which means using military might to depose a dictator we originally installed and replacing him with a dictator who will do what we tell him; " our democracy" when you mean, "our corporate oligarchy;" "freedom" when you mean "doing what we tell you;" and "new world order," which actually means "profitable chaos."
Or "collateral damage," which means "we killed 'em but we don't care."
NUMBER FOUR: Accuse others of what you yourself are doing. Employ a great deal of moral outrage. That way everybody will be so busy looking where you have pointed your finder, they will not be looking at you. Impressed by your moral outrage they will never suspect that you are doing whatever it is you are outraged about.
NUMBER FIVE: Get your media busy cooking up one crisis after another so as to keep public attention thoroughly away from what they should really be worried about.
NUMBER SIX: Flood the marketplace with conspiracy theories, many of which should sound completely barmy. Create such a bewildering storm of conflicting messages as to become intellectual white noise. Overwhelmed and confused, the public will sink into an apathy below understanding. This is called the "wood-for-the-trees-gambit." The actual truth about what you are up to, should it surface, will become lost in the noise and discredited by association with all the half truths, blind alleys and exaggerations.
I invite my readers to send in their own suggestions. The best will be printed. The very best will receive a free book.
I should add that what is required for propaganda to be effective in manipulating mood in large numbers if people, is a multiplicity of sources. One newspaper for instance slagging off some minority in an effort to elect them the Devil will not ususally be enbough.
But several newspapers, various politicians, "spokesmen," "experts," "scientists," " and so forth all emanating the same message is a different matter. The ordinary citizen tends to receive information as an indovidual, a single viewpoint. he is rarely the recipient of a propagandized message as tthe meber of a powerful and numerous group with its own set of agreements. As such he is therefore eadily overwhelmes by a messgae that appears to come from very many sources.
Creating this multiplcity of sources is therefore an ingtedient of all successful propaganda and you will see it in all successful propaganda campaigns.
by kieron mcfadden
Great Propaganda Tricks of Today (Propaganda: falsifying, altering or modifying information so as to produce a response in the recipient other than what would have resulted from a supply of totally factual, unadulterated information.)
NUMBER ONE: In order to get people thoroughly upset with someone, just accuse that someone of something. You don't have to prove your accusation. Just allege it. Repeat until it sticks in the public mind. The repetition of highly emotive words assists this process: for example by inserting the adjecyive "sinister" into every utterance.
NUMBER TWO: To assist you in number one above, spread the falsehood that "there's no smoke without fire." This is a handy false datum that has been around a long time and "everybody knows," and everybody misses the fact that a fire and a piece of information are entirely different things obeying entirely different laws. In any case, there is smoke without fire, as any chemist or movie special effects expert will tell you.
NUMBER THREE: Use harmless sounding euphemisms to make your most horrible crimes sound innocuous. Examples: "a change of regime," which means using military might to depose a dictator we originally installed and replacing him with a dictator who will do what we tell him; " our democracy" when you mean, "our corporate oligarchy;" "freedom" when you mean "doing what we tell you;" and "new world order," which actually means "profitable chaos."
Or "collateral damage," which means "we killed 'em but we don't care."
NUMBER FOUR: Accuse others of what you yourself are doing. Employ a great deal of moral outrage. That way everybody will be so busy looking where you have pointed your finder, they will not be looking at you. Impressed by your moral outrage they will never suspect that you are doing whatever it is you are outraged about.
NUMBER FIVE: Get your media busy cooking up one crisis after another so as to keep public attention thoroughly away from what they should really be worried about.
NUMBER SIX: Flood the marketplace with conspiracy theories, many of which should sound completely barmy. Create such a bewildering storm of conflicting messages as to become intellectual white noise. Overwhelmed and confused, the public will sink into an apathy below understanding. This is called the "wood-for-the-trees-gambit." The actual truth about what you are up to, should it surface, will become lost in the noise and discredited by association with all the half truths, blind alleys and exaggerations.
I invite my readers to send in their own suggestions. The best will be printed. The very best will receive a free book.
I should add that what is required for propaganda to be effective in manipulating mood in large numbers if people, is a multiplicity of sources. One newspaper for instance slagging off some minority in an effort to elect them the Devil will not ususally be enbough.
But several newspapers, various politicians, "spokesmen," "experts," "scientists," " and so forth all emanating the same message is a different matter. The ordinary citizen tends to receive information as an indovidual, a single viewpoint. he is rarely the recipient of a propagandized message as tthe meber of a powerful and numerous group with its own set of agreements. As such he is therefore eadily overwhelmes by a messgae that appears to come from very many sources.
Creating this multiplcity of sources is therefore an ingtedient of all successful propaganda and you will see it in all successful propaganda campaigns.
For all my free articles, free books and much more, go to http://www.howdohub.com
Ruby Ridge Documentary
Note: Just some other OT examples.
Foster Children Medicated Without Consent
Foster Children Medicated Without Consent
Nearly one in six children in the Florida foster care system who had been prescribed psychotropic medication were given the drugs without parental consent or authorization from a judge, despite the state's increased scrutiny of the drugs' use.
Nearly one in six children in the Florida foster care system who had been prescribed psychotropic medication were given the drugs without parental consent or authorization from a judge, despite the state's increased scrutiny of the drugs' use.
'Severe shortage' of social workers for N.L. foster children, review says
'Severe shortage' of social workers for N.L. foster children, review says
Newfoundland and Labrador's child and youth advocate says there's not enough social workers for the province's foster children.
Note: And the ones they do have probably aren't worth a piss hole in the snow either.
Newfoundland and Labrador's child and youth advocate says there's not enough social workers for the province's foster children.
Note: And the ones they do have probably aren't worth a piss hole in the snow either.
State's hurting kids cannot be forgotten
State's hurting kids cannot be forgotten
The state foster care system was not on the agenda for this week's annual gathering of southeast Michigan business and political leaders on Mackinac Island, although most of the kids in foster care come from the Detroit area.
The state foster care system was not on the agenda for this week's annual gathering of southeast Michigan business and political leaders on Mackinac Island, although most of the kids in foster care come from the Detroit area.
After child's death, DCF will do better
After child's death, DCF will do better
Note: Yeah, we've heard that before.
When I learned about the death of 7-year-old Gabriel Myers, who apparently hanged himself in his foster parents' home in Margate, I was stunned. It is incomprehensible to understand how a child so young may have deliberately and consciously made a decision to end his life. Anyone who heard of Gabriel's story was in disbelief; parents everywhere are wondering to themselves: How could this happen?
Note: Yeah, we've heard that before.
When I learned about the death of 7-year-old Gabriel Myers, who apparently hanged himself in his foster parents' home in Margate, I was stunned. It is incomprehensible to understand how a child so young may have deliberately and consciously made a decision to end his life. Anyone who heard of Gabriel's story was in disbelief; parents everywhere are wondering to themselves: How could this happen?
Ex-DCF employee on probation for lies in porn case
Ex-DCF employee on probation for lies in porn case
A former employee with Florida's child welfare agency is on probation for lying to authorities investigating the agency's former spokesman in a child porn case.
A former employee with Florida's child welfare agency is on probation for lying to authorities investigating the agency's former spokesman in a child porn case.
Social workers' caseload warning
Social workers' caseload warning
Increasing pressure on social workers is putting vulnerable children at serious risk, according to a union.
Note: That, incompetence, lack of experience and their power trips.
Increasing pressure on social workers is putting vulnerable children at serious risk, according to a union.
Note: That, incompetence, lack of experience and their power trips.
Child protection systems need full review — paediatrics college
Child protection systems need full review — paediatrics college
Child protection systems across the UK should undergo a fundamental review, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
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Baby P and abuse scandals make mockery of child protection, says Lancet
The baby Peter case and other child abuse scandals have sparked calls from The Lancet for a national commission to deal with the “disastrous mess” in child protection in the UK and Ireland.
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Balls under attack for scapegoating social workers after Baby P
Local government leader lashes out at children's secretary Ed Balls for pandering to tabloid 'feeding frenzy'
Child protection systems across the UK should undergo a fundamental review, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
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Baby P and abuse scandals make mockery of child protection, says Lancet
The baby Peter case and other child abuse scandals have sparked calls from The Lancet for a national commission to deal with the “disastrous mess” in child protection in the UK and Ireland.
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Balls under attack for scapegoating social workers after Baby P
Local government leader lashes out at children's secretary Ed Balls for pandering to tabloid 'feeding frenzy'
Abuse tests sometimes wrong
Abuse tests sometimes wrong
A special program run by the Washoe County district attorney's office that examines children to determine whether they have been sexually abused has come under fire recently by critics who say that in some cases, the nurses' conclusions were wrong.
A special program run by the Washoe County district attorney's office that examines children to determine whether they have been sexually abused has come under fire recently by critics who say that in some cases, the nurses' conclusions were wrong.
Child welfare workers, parents, agree to settle lawsuit over search of children
Child welfare workers, parents, agree to settle lawsuit over search of children
A federal civil rights lawsuit against a social worker who searched under children's clothes during a 2004 abuse investigation has been settled, according to court documents.
A federal civil rights lawsuit against a social worker who searched under children's clothes during a 2004 abuse investigation has been settled, according to court documents.
Sacramento County supervisors ready to hire group to help CPS
Sacramento County supervisors ready to hire group to help CPS
Sacramento County officials are set to initiate sweeping changes at Child Protective Services today in response to mounting criticism of the agency over a recent spike in child deaths.
Sacramento County officials are set to initiate sweeping changes at Child Protective Services today in response to mounting criticism of the agency over a recent spike in child deaths.
Child “Too Clever” For Mother
Child “Too Clever” For Mother
A British mother is taking her fight to the European Court of Human Rights after she was forbidden from seeing her seven-year-old daughter because the child was deemed “far too smart to be brought up by an ordinary British person.”
A British mother is taking her fight to the European Court of Human Rights after she was forbidden from seeing her seven-year-old daughter because the child was deemed “far too smart to be brought up by an ordinary British person.”
Girl was molested while in foster care
Girl was molested while in foster care
One of three girls molested by a South Carolina man who killed himself after being charged with seven sex crimes involving children was in foster care at the time the offenses allegedly occurred, according to her grandmother.
One of three girls molested by a South Carolina man who killed himself after being charged with seven sex crimes involving children was in foster care at the time the offenses allegedly occurred, according to her grandmother.
Foster kids caught in state dispute
Foster kids caught in state dispute
Abused children may be the latest victims of New Mexico politics as a lawsuit accuses a health services provider of cutting corners to hoard cash after losing a state contract.
Margo does it for the money. $3300 a month!!!
Abused children may be the latest victims of New Mexico politics as a lawsuit accuses a health services provider of cutting corners to hoard cash after losing a state contract.
Margo does it for the money. $3300 a month!!!
Former CPS worker arraigned on 3 felony charges
Former CPS worker arraigned on 3 felony charges
A former Sutter County Child Protective Services employee has been arraigned in Sutter County Superior Court on three felony charges of forging a document.
A former Sutter County Child Protective Services employee has been arraigned in Sutter County Superior Court on three felony charges of forging a document.
Nevada partners law to enable registered couples to adopt children
Nevada partners law to enable registered couples to adopt children
The Nevada domestic partners bill, approved by a veto override this weekend, will ensure equal rights for couples who wish to adopt children -- making both legal parents -- and will require child support payments if the couples split, a lawyer said Monday.
The Nevada domestic partners bill, approved by a veto override this weekend, will ensure equal rights for couples who wish to adopt children -- making both legal parents -- and will require child support payments if the couples split, a lawyer said Monday.
More Boo Hoo for Poca
Investigators: Foster family fighting for Poca
Tuesday, a foster family heads to court to fight for the child who lived with them for nearly four years until the state took her away from them.
Tuesday, a foster family heads to court to fight for the child who lived with them for nearly four years until the state took her away from them.
600 more foster families needed, study says
600 more foster families needed, study says
The state-run Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare must recruit nearly 600 foster families - about four times the number of new foster homes that child welfare officials have vowed to add this year - if it is to keep abused and neglected children from being placed in unstable homes, according to an independent study commissioned by the bureau and released Monday.
The state-run Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare must recruit nearly 600 foster families - about four times the number of new foster homes that child welfare officials have vowed to add this year - if it is to keep abused and neglected children from being placed in unstable homes, according to an independent study commissioned by the bureau and released Monday.
Foster Kids Put On Drugs At Alarming Rates
Foster Kids Put On Drugs At Alarming Rates
A new report by the state finds that hundreds of kids in foster care have been placed on psychiatric drugs by their caregivers in Northeast Florida. What’s especially shocking is that no one gave authority for these drugs to be used on the children, and most of the drugs are not even approved for use in children.
A new report by the state finds that hundreds of kids in foster care have been placed on psychiatric drugs by their caregivers in Northeast Florida. What’s especially shocking is that no one gave authority for these drugs to be used on the children, and most of the drugs are not even approved for use in children.
Monday, June 01, 2009
Former CPS supervisor to spend 90 days in jail
Former CPS supervisor to spend 90 days in jail
A judge Monday sanctioned a former CPS supervisor who pleaded guilty last month to making a false report of abuse to 90 days in jail.
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Former CPS Worker Receives Jail-Time
A former CPS worker gets 90 days in jail for filing a false report about a child molesting case.
Two weeks ago, Grizelda Lopez-Hess pled guilty to the crime in exchange for probation hoping to avoid doing any time. However, the judge still had the option of sending her to jail.
A judge Monday sanctioned a former CPS supervisor who pleaded guilty last month to making a false report of abuse to 90 days in jail.
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Former CPS Worker Receives Jail-Time
A former CPS worker gets 90 days in jail for filing a false report about a child molesting case.
Two weeks ago, Grizelda Lopez-Hess pled guilty to the crime in exchange for probation hoping to avoid doing any time. However, the judge still had the option of sending her to jail.
Keep suit, custody actions separate, state asks
Keep suit, custody actions separate, state asks
Efforts by lawyers for jailed evangelist Tony Alamo to gather what they claim is evidence for a civil suit against the state in federal court are really an attempt to interfere in state-court custody actions involving the children of Alamo followers, according to lawyers for the state.
Efforts by lawyers for jailed evangelist Tony Alamo to gather what they claim is evidence for a civil suit against the state in federal court are really an attempt to interfere in state-court custody actions involving the children of Alamo followers, according to lawyers for the state.
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