Reaping What You Sew, or I Told You So.

Anger courses failing violent inmates: "Anger management is only going to assist people who have difficulty in regulating their emotions, such as in cases of domestic violence," Riley, the man who heads psychological services in our prisons, said. He said Corrections has been re- thinking its approach and has developed high intensity programmes that will be more effective with people with anti-social tendencies who have histories of violence. "

... and indeed, superficially anger management is to do with helping those with impulse problems, not those for whom it is a calculated means to an end ... but then, how effective is the former (anger management) before looking at adding what must, in large part, be another talk therapy of further questionable effectiveness? Can these people really be 'talked' out of their extreme behaviour ... it would appear that teachers are quite unsuccessful at doing this ... it would also appear that psychological services in our prisons are quite unsuccessful at doing this as is testified by a reimprisonment rate of 29% after 12 months and 37% after 24 months following release ... and
Serious violent/sexual offenders constitute about 40% of the prison population at any one time and it is well known that criminal behaviour passes down through the different generations of a family?

... and the genesis of this extreme behaviour?
Sweden's no-smacking Nivarna had produced an increasingly violent child population since it's introduction. Direct child to child violence had increased by 489% since Sweden criminalised parental smacking of children for the purposes of discipline. What's worse, is that Sweden "now has one of the worst assault and sexual violence rates in the EU" according to a European Crime and Safety Safety Report commissioned by the UN and European Commission.
This empowerement of children through legislation that correction for unacceptable behaviour is illegal has already resulted in ...
Children too young to be prosecuted have been implicated in more than 8500 crimes in one year, and police say they are often powerless to intervene. It is consequently little wonder that this problem is manifest across other situations - Teachers meet over violence - in which those in charge of their care are powerless to effect that responsibility ("Police were called after a nine-year-old boy went berserk at a Palmerston North primary school leaving teachers fearing for their safety").

... and at the same time as this disempowerment of caregiver, logically one would expect an increase in impulsive excess, hence ...
According to The Swedish Daily, there has been a 14% increase in child abuse cases in 2006 compared with 2005 figures.
This backs up earlier research showing that child abuse increased 489% in the 13 years following a ban on smacking, and assaults by minors against minors increased 672%. Which of course provides a substantive base for effective functioning as a 'constructive member of society,' probably something to do with having acquired a reasonable level of 'rule governed behaviour,' which is sort of basic to society ... instead we have a 'vicious circle' establishing as is evidenced by dad4justice (on NZ Conservative) ...
My friend works in a child care center - pre school kids in Christchurch and they have had to call police three times this year to help them settle out of control children ? What the hell is going on ?
Monday, October 1, 2007 4:58:00 PM NZDT

But then Christchurch is the 'heart' of ritualised child sexual abuse in NZ ... and unfortunately this concern for the consequences of their actions in intervening on themselves, before intervening to protect the welfare of their charges, this abrogation of basic responsibility as a teacher or caregiver, will at some time have horrendous ramifications ... this action or inaction violates one of the principal requirements of schools, 'to provide a safe environment.'
... and of the future?

Violent crime increasing - police figures
Offences involving violence were up by 4 per cent in the 12 months to June, while offences against property rose by 8 per cent ... Murders dropped from 59 in the year to June 2006, to 50 in the year to June ... this is no cause for glee at all however, for while there remains a high and increasing level of violence, a decrease in murder rates can only be fortuity ... and while there are people, who appear to have the 'ear of our politicians,' who feel they can talk these people out of their excesses at the same time as protecting them (as children and mitigatory factors) from explicit consequences for their excesses ... then violent crime will keep increasing ... we have sewn the seeds in such fertile fields, it is inevitable.

Oh Yes.

Compared with non-smokers, men who smoked up to 10 cigarettes per day had a 27-per cent greater likelihood of erectile dysfunction; those who smoked 11 to 20 butts a day had a 45-per cent greater likelihood of erectile dysfunction; and those who smoked more than 20 cigarettes daily had a-65 per cent greater chance of suffering erectile dysfunction .... but in China?

We certainly know that cigarette smoking has a strong likelihood of resulting in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ... but we also know that,

China's Air Pollution Still SeriousIn 1999, carbon dioxide emission reached 18.57 million tons, air pollution emission reached 11.59 million tons and industrial dust emission reached 11.75 million tons and ...

Satellite data has revealed that the city (Beijing) is one of the worst environmental victims of China's spectacular economic growth, which has brought with it air pollution levels that are blamed for more than 400,000 premature deaths a year ... and that both are bronchoconstrictors and impede blood flow and that this results in erectile failure as much as does premature death ... difficult to control for I would have thought.
China's air pollution levels are among the world's highest.

Transparency In All Things...

Japanese scientists have bred transparent frogs, whose internal organs can be seen through their skins, giving researchers who study diseases such as cancer insight into organ growth and development ... now just imagine the benefits of this to the human animal as well ... being able to see that 'rush of blood to the head,' that over indulgence on the Big Mac, the genesis and travel of flatulence, that anal retentive personality ... being able to assess attraction and health by the increased beat of the heart, all valves opening and to whence the blood was being directed - no longer a need for fine discriminations ... interesting.

Small testicles a sign of ill health

Aha ... so there is a basis in fact for all those denigrating statements and songs relating 'balls to mettle.'
"Small testes can indicate there is a testosterone deficiency. This can make a man feel tired, lose muscle, gain fat, lose sex drive."

Abandoned Qian Xun

Professor Chris Goddard, director of the National Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse, said, As harsh as it may seem, abandoning ... Qian Xun Xue ... may have saved her from further trauma and possibly saved her life.
Well, yes.

Her father's actions reflect a man who was desperate, possibly depressed.
Well, yes, desperate to get away ... desperate to avoid raising the alarm before effecting his escape, desperate to avoid the consequences of his actions.

For her, it's terrible circumstances ... depression was an illness that clouded people's judgment and decision-making.
Oh, yes ... so he wasn' responsible for his actions? Mmmm.

If you are depressed, severely depressed, you can certainly see things in a jaded way ... A depressed person may have a different version of the world and themselves. People may see themselves as a burden on the world and that it would be a better life if they weren't in it.
Oh yes ... but didn't this chappy allegedly repeatedly beat his wife and then kill her and then hide her? So really, she was the burden?

... depressed people could do things they later regretted because they were not thinking clearly.
Mmmm, not responsible, diminished capacity?

... her father had "deep down, feared for the girl's well-being".
Mmmm ... not for his own well-being? Did he not take her to provide that delay in raising the alarm, providing that 'window of opportunity' that enabled his escape and as soon as this was achieved she was an encumbrance, an impediment to effecting a 'clean get away' and maintaining anonymity?

Perhaps, simply very very calculated?

wine enhanced metacognitions

This evening's meta cognitions enhanced by fruit from the Bay ... an abundance of 'full-bodied, ripe-fruit-driven warmth,' both reflecting the artistry of their respective makers ... the lovely Kate Radburnd and affable Peter Robertson ... and of course all in anticipation of the upcoming cold southerlies.

More Baseless And Potentially Disasterous Green Principle.

Posted at 8:22pm on 21 Sep 2007
The Green Party says there is no sense of urgency in a proposed emissions trading scheme announced by the Government.
Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says the scheme lets the farming sector off scot-free until 2013 and by the time it is fully operational, it may be too late ... but too late for what?

Too late to institute changes that will potentially crucify our export sector?
Too late before this 'hot anthropogenic pyroclastic flow' of "fear of catastrophic man-made global warming “bites the dust” and the scientific underpinnings for alarm may be “falling apart.”

New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming. A progression of peer-reviewed studies have been published which serve to debunk the United Nations, former Vice President Al Gore, and the media engineered “consensus” on climate change.

This really is the Greens at their irresponsible best.