This scares the crap out of me...

Just when you think that Cameron, Clegg and the other loathsome, slimy pig-fu<king perverts who make up our unelected UK Conservative-coalition 'government' can't get any more evil and fascistic..... we hear about this shit:

Anti-abortion group drafted in as sexual health adviser to government | Society | The Guardian


Yes, it's actually real, not some revenant from April the 5th.

To sum up, the government is going to abolish the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV and set up in its place a new group to help with policy. This new panel consists largely of right wing Christian groups, homophobes and other assorted f<kheads, who advocate abstinence in place of contraception. The anti-abortion group Life is actually one of the more mainstream voices on the new panel. Other proposed members include the usual bunch of moronic fundamentalist Christian pressure groups, and abstinence-only lobbyists.

Of course.. you might think that all this is fine, as it's only an advisory group, that has to reflect all points of view in order to provide a balanced outlook. It doesn't affect real-world issues does it?

In Richmond, south-west London, the Catholic Children's Society has taken over the £89,000 contract to provide advice to schoolchildren on matters including contraception and pregnancies. Another Christian-run charity, Care Confidential, is involved in providing crisis pregnancy advice under the auspices of Newham PCT in east London.

Newsflash: ABSTINENCE-BASED EDUCATION IS A CROCK OF UTTER SHIT. It DOES NOT WORK!

NOT EVER!

END OF!


For those who have doubts, consider the fact that the UK, and US - both strong advocates of abstinence, rather than contraceptive-based education number among the highest rates of unwanted teenage pregnancy.

As George Monbiot (who I occasionally-but-not-always agree with) wrote:

The two western countries at the top of the disaster league, the United States and the United Kingdom, are those in which conservative campaigns are among the strongest and sex education and access to contraception are among the weakest.

The United States, the UN Population Fund’s figures show, is the only rich nation stuck in the middle of the Third World block, with 53 births per 1000 teenagers – a worse record than India, the Philippines and Rwanda. The United Kingdom comes next at 20.

The nations the conservatives would place at the top of the list are clumped at the bottom. Germany and Norway produce 11 babies per 1000 teenagers, Finland eight, Sweden and Denmark seven and the Netherlands five.

George Monbiot &ndash; Waging War with the Virgin Soldiers


This whole abstinence-based, 'sex is a sin, so don't do it' form of 'education', which ignores proven facts in favour of simplistic moral posturing is not only a crock of pure shit.. it's a supremely dangerous crock of shit.

Want to know what causes unwanted teenage pregnancy? Here's a hint, its not caused by witholding information about contraception in the ostrich-like belief that what the little darlings don't find out about won't hurt them. It's caused largely through ignorance, lack of proper education, and lack of support facilities.


Oh well, hats off to the Torys once again. We all know how they feel about universal education.

And when they aint busy helping bomb the crap out of thousands of innocent civilians in Libya, depriving the weakest and most vulnerable members of society of income, boosting bonuses for banking fat cats and helping them avoid taxes.... or arming paramilitary death squads in the Congo... they are acting as the nation's moral guardians!

Yaaaaay... fu<king hooorayyyyyy!!

[GreyB]

On the other hand (and just to play devil's advocate) I've just been reading Bill Bryson's book "At home" and it makes you realise that, however bad you may think your life is right now, it would almost certainly have been immeasurably worse (unless you were lucky enough to be born into the tiniest fraction of the top 1% of the population) at any time in the past.

[Snidcyco]

Ffabbia: "The way that our media is exclusively dominated by three rabidly right wing press barons who pedal the sensory equivelant of crack and ketamine directly into the collective veins of public consciousness is certainly a very alien concept, and one that is very difficult to explain as there are few common parallels."

Hmm... North Korea? Just replace "right wing" with "left wing" and you'll find that your quote describes a country not parallel with but much worse than Britain.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a leftie all the way. But extreme left wing becomes just as bad as extreme right wing, and they start to resemble each other so much it's hard to tell the difference. Ideologies may be different, but in a practical sense the citizens end up doing exactly what those in power want them to do.

I imagine the political "spectrum" more like a round clock face with centrists at 12 o'clock, right wing on the right side and left wing on the left side. As you get closer to 6 o'clock on either side, the nutcases start to appear - Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il... etc. etc. ad nauseam - until they are indistinguishable and the circle is complete.

[TonyMiller]

Originally Posted by Dave Fountain

Tony, Caligula had a brilliant idea. Just for one day he once replaced all the money in the market place with spunk. Basically if you wanted to buy a pot from a stall you had to be wanked off by the stall-holder (sadly these were mixed sex so took no favour for orientation). Many people went out of business that day but most men had a smile on their face.

Sounds good, but I think I'd avoid lawn mower repair men. Rotating blades... owwwww!!!

[Lodato]

Originally Posted by TonyMiller

... and anyone who has a few bob stashed away in the bank might as well spend it, because money is going to be worthless very soon...

Money is worthless now.

[LIQUID]

...and here was me expecting this thread to be depressing

[Rosemarie]

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[Rosemarie]

A couple of years ago, I started doing some research that made my head spin. In many different places I found information that makes all of the issues our world faces, from the BS war on drugs, increased police brutality, perpetual war, 9/11 investigations, TSA molestations and naked scanners, wicked unemployment, lowering wages, financial collapse and even the "pro-life" movement refusing to teach birth control make sense. All the problems fit together in a scary story of domination and control of human livestock that think they are free men.

Information I've read says in the States, we are registered at birth with a number that can be researched on the NY stock exchange to provide our value. I've also read that our social security numbers are listed as collateral on the national debt. All this "conspiracy theory" is released in a way to pit people against each other in a divide and conquer strategy, with information mixed with misinformation and disinformation.

The organized church supports anti-abortion laws, insisting life begins at conception even though God breathed life into Adam, indicating the soul enters the body upon first breath. Then churches get their members all riled up, using guilt-ridden women who regretted having an abortion to attack women who want them and murder doctors who provide them in this righteous show of violence. If the livestock theory is true, it would make sense to teach abstinence because it doesn't work and there are more children to grow up in poverty, taught by fewer teachers, learning to obey and not critically think so they can grow up and fight for jobs at lower wages ...

When I first read all this garbage, it scared the living crap out of me. Then I realized that fear is used to control us. In fear, we are helpless, divided, violent and useless. There is only one way for individuals to protect themselves from whatever the elite is planning. That is to "blow off fear, hate, shame and rage", recognize all of us, no matter how opposed we are in fabricated divisions (religious, political, nationality, racial, sexual orientation, economic class, employment type, etc.) need to come together and peacefully resist. Divisions will fragment the cause. Violence will get us killed/used as an example. Peaceful, global resistance will spoil the plans and usher us into a new paradigm where we are the free people we always used to think we were, intentionally co-creating a world that works for the all the people and the planet.

The first step is awareness. Thanks for becoming aware and telling others.