eugenics
The term eugenics, for most, conjures images of Nazi death camps, Dr. Mengele, propaganda images of a fictitious and well-scrubbed Aryan race, etc. But what’s less commonly understood is the long and continuing history of the ideology that humanity should place the control of its numbers, its genetic heritage, and even its future evolution under the technocratic control of a scientific class. In fact, a quick look at the history of the movement – funded and advanced by American and British elite interests and only later exported to Germany – should give any rational person pause to consider the folly of such coercive hubris. Indeed, the divisions between ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ eugenics are still debated today within medical ethics disciplines. Global populations, meanwhile, are experiencing precipitous declines in fertility as we eat genetically modified foods off plastics proven to impact the endocrine system, line up to have our genomes sequenced, and seriously discuss the suddenly pressing need for overt population control measures on the model of China’s one-child policy. In his 1952 work, “The Impact of Science on Society”, Bertrand Russell forecast the principles and practices technocratic, authoritarian societies would take to implement a modern version of Plato’s Republic, averring that “Gradually, by selective breeding the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organised insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.”
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2010
Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commissioners Pleased With Outcome of First National Event | Native residential school forgiveness granted | Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality | 3 Namibian women with HIV say they were sterilized | UK: DNA from millions of newborn babies is secretly stored on NHS database | Living cell powered by artificial DNA code points to designer industrial microbiology | Storage of newborns’ blood samples raises privacy concerns | N.B. aboriginal group sues over ‘genocide’ | Bisphenol A remains off toxic list as Ottawa reviews mystery complainant’s objection | China To Coercively Sterilise 10,000 To Curb Births | The Psychiatric Drugging of Children: Inventing Disorders | Assisted suicide voted down by MPs | Mercury still plagues Ont. First Nation: report | Boston news item on problem additive to Chinese fluoride neglects mention of fluoride toxicity | Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest | The curse of Fallujah: Women warned not to have babies because of rise in birth defects since U.S. assault | Residential school graves research a daunting task | Suit possible over baby DNA sent to military lab for national database | For many aboriginals, the truth of residential schools is irreconcilable: commissioner | Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included | The government has your baby’s DNA | Gene Patents Under Legal Attack | Hitchens: North Korean’s stature, worldview stunted by authoritarian hate and ignorance | UK: 50 years on, an apology to thalidomide scandal survivors | Toxic cadmium taints kids’ jewelry | Shock study: 12% of kids sexually abused in govt. custody | DNA matches solve only a fraction of crimes, police admit
2009
The future of the residential school commission — An interview with Judge Murray Sinclair | Eyewitness Recounts Forced Organ Removal in China | Copenhagen: Global Population Control Program Suggested To Stop Climate Change | Diane Francis: We need a global one-child policy | Obama’s ‘Science Czar’ John Holdren Friend of Climate Deception Lab | UK Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims | UK: Two-year-olds at risk from ‘gender-bending’ chemicals, report says | Judge OKs Challenge to Human-Gene Patents | Deaths Associated With Swine Flu Vaccine Reported In Europe | GG relaunches Truth and Reconciliation Commission | IBM Building Personal DNA Reader | BPA in womb linked to aggression in girls | HPV vaccine ‘As deadly as the cancer’: Cervarix designer | UK: Pilot project for DNA, isotope analysis of immigrants ‘deeply flawed’ | Public Health: Mystery tumour ‘likely’ killed British girl after HPV shot | British schoolgirl dies after HPV vaccination | Immortality only 20 years away says scientist | The Case for Killing Granny | UK: Question a doctor about HPV shot and lose your child | UK: Sentenced to death by the National Health Service | Canada to order 50.4 million H1N1 vaccine doses — with adjuvant additive | Reduce fetal exposure to BPA and phthalates, experts say | California fertility clinic offers celebrity look-alike sperm | Baby emissions fuel global warming | Washington Post: Swine Flu Vaccine Will Contain Mercury | Fast-tracked swine flu vaccine will be safe, officials insist | Aging Shanghai pushes for more babies | UK: Man refused liver transplant by NHS dies | Obama Science Advisor Called For “Planetary Regime” To Enforce Totalitarian Population Control Measures | Bisphenol A traces found in baby food: Health Canada | Rwanda denies sterilisation plans | Did leak from a laboratory cause swine flu pandemic? | Scottish parliamentarians seek answers as cervical cancer vaccine injuries mount | Chemical ban targets toys, rubber duckies | HIV positive women in Africa sterilized, stigmatized | Aspartame-laden diet pop kicked out of Toronto schools | Study finds genetic discrimination by insurance firms | UK: Police ‘arrest innocent youths for their DNA’, officer claims | New members tapped for residential school commission: report | Elevated BPA levels in people drinking out of plastic bottles, study finds | Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation | Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests | High-fructose sweeteners linked to obesity, diabetes | David Attenborough becomes patron for population reduction | BC Court Tells Ottawa to Amend Status Rules for Natives | UK population must fall to 30m: Optimum Population Trust | Australians refused insurance because of poor genes | ‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually Impossible | Tests find Bisphenol A in majority of soft drinks | Designer baby row over US clinic | Chair to have final say as residential schools commission jobs rewritten | Officials investigate how bird flu contaminated vaccines in Europe | Vaccine Court: Autism Debate Continues | Vaccines ‘not to blame for autism’, U.S. court rules | Hepatitis C sufferers haven’t received promised federal money | Remaining 2 members resign from residential schools commission | Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury | Health Canada silent on cellphone risks for kids | As in Canada, gender-bending chemicals in UK rivers grow more potent
2008
Did Pharma Giant with Gardasil HPV Patents Buy Nobel Prize? | Chemicals feminizing males, study suggests | Has your child been CAFed? How the Government plans to record intimate information on every child in Britain | Major report to reveal male gender under threat from pollutants | Baby Teething Gel Poisoned in Nigeria | FDA Reluctantly Admits Mercury Fillings Have Neurotoxic Effects on Children | Sick babies denied treatment in DNA row | “Trace amounts” of Melamine found in Canadian infant formula | FDA finds traces of melamine in U.S. infant formula | End water fluoridation, U of T dental professor says | Cities, States Questioning Wisdom of Adding Fluoride Chemicals to Public Water Supplies | CBC broadcasts “The Disappearing Male”, an expose of hormone-disrupting plastics | Experts set to revisit global cloning ban | Commission to Probe Graves at Native ‘Residential School’ Sites | Government to hold talks over future of residential-schools commission | Chairman quits troubled residential-school commission | Health Canada adds bisphenol A to list of toxic substances | Truth commission tied too closely to government: aboriginal groups | Plastics ingredient linked to feminization in children | Tests find melamine in candies, milk, infant formula from China | Useless seniors burdening the state have duty to die: British Baroness | Govt. Report: Fluoride in Water Supply Harms Thyroid Function | Air freshener chemicals could impact fertility: study | Do Swiss parents need a childrearing licence? | Bisphenol tied to lower brain function | Revealed: The serious health concerns about the cervical cancer jab | Chemical Industry Source of Hyped FDA Study ‘Exonerating’ Plastic Bottles | Study links aggression to wide faces | Computer scientists revive eugenics tool to spot brain damage | Population control thinktank to Britons: Have less children | The evolution of baby-making | Don’t blame right-wing thugs for eugenics – Socialists made it fashionable | Newborn Blood-Storage Law Stirs Fears of DNA Warehouse | Crimestop: UK Police Now Expected to Collect Social, Dietary, Sexual Information | Forced chemo treatment of child ‘heavy-handed’ decision: bioethicists | Families will make case for vaccine link to autism | Location of Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed for the First Time; Independent Tribunal Established
2007
Bush To Veto Ban On Mercury In Vaccines | The Legacy of Native American Schools
2003
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
1997
Alberta Barren: The Mannings and forced sterilization in Canada
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