Following are some examples of ongoing "health" campaigns which have the effect of reducing the populations or fertility of traditionally eugenically targetted populations via toxic food or drugs, life-altering psychiatric labels or brain damage, iatrogenic infections, direct sterilization or misdiagnosing of HIV. While some of these human rights catastrophes may not be intentional, some of them seem to lack obvious economic motivations and the overall pattern is certainly suggestive. ===================== Eugenics in medical research The following demonstrates a campaign of disinformation or incompetence which targets "difficult" children, attributing various behavioral problems to genetics while ignoring the abundant evidence for the overwhelming dominance of environmental inputs, per eugenics ideology: http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=83832 "Slower brain maturity seen in children with ADHD" "Crucial parts of brains of children with attention deficit disorder develop more slowly than other youngsters' brains, a phenomenon that earlier brain-imaging research missed, a new study says. ... That was the finding of researchers, led by Dr. Philip Shaw of the National Institute of Mental Health, who reported the most detailed study yet on this problem in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ... Between 3 percent and 5 percent of school-age children are thought to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Louis J. Kraus, chief of child psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said "what is really important about this study is it shows us there is clearly something biologically driven for children with ADHD." http://sciencenews.org/articles/20071201/note11.asp ADHD kids show slower brain growth A new brain-scan investigation indicates that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder involves substantial delays in children's brain development. http://sciencenews.org/articles/20071201/note13.asp Additives may make youngsters hyper Common food colorings and the preservative sodium benzoate have the potential to foster hyperactivity and inattentiveness in children, a new study finds. My letter to sciencenews.org: The juxtaposition of the articles "ADHD kids show slower brain growth" and "Additives may make youngsters hyper" in the Dec 1st issue is a glaring indication of the sorry state of medical science in this country, and how children are paying for it. A careful reading of the first paper, at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/49/19649 shows that 66% of the "ADHD" children had received "prior stimulant treatment", with no apparent attempt to control for this factor. Stimulants are well known to stunt a wide variety of maturation measures in children. This is unworthy of taxpayer-funded research. Meanwhile, as the second article shows, we continue to feed kids random chemicals never before encountered in millions of years of evolution. It's not at all implausible that genetic variations account for variations in children's ability to cope with this equally uncontrolled experiment. But apparently it's more expedient to blame and scan their brains for defects than feed them real food. Who is babysitting american medicine? ================ Eugenics against poor children http://www.nypost.com/seven/02032008/news/regionalnews/medicaid_kids_in_psych_rx_urge_702469.htm MEDICAID KIDS IN PSYCH-RX $URGE "New York state's Medicaid program paid $82.8 million in 2006 for two dozen psychiatric drugs for tens of thousands of children - with many of the meds not FDA-approved for kids, records obtained by The Post show. ... Use of the powerful antipsychotics, anticonvulsants and antidepressants once prescribed only for adults has skyrocketed as more New York kids are diagnosed with mental illnesses and behavioral disorders But state Health Department officials say they do not know what illnesses the children in the Medicaid program are suffering. "Pharmacy claims do not require a diagnosis," a state Health Department spokeswoman said. ================ Eugenics against foster children http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/505/31/ "The chemical abuse of U.S. children in foster care represent the collapse of civilized medicine. "The Associated Press report (below) provides but a glimpse into a world of wontonly prescribed psychotropic drugs for children. Children are being chemically assaulted under the guise of "treatment." Psychiatrists under the influence of drug manufacturers are misusing their prescribing license all across the U.S when they prescribe toxic combinations of psychotropic drugs for helpless children. "''The picture is bleak, and rooted in profound human suffering.'' That was the stinging verdict of a report on psychiatric treatment of foster children, including the misuse of medication issued by outgoing Texas state comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn in December. The report recommended hiring a full-time medical director for foster children and requiring prior approval for certain prescriptions. http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/hccfoster06 "In New York--''Children who are having normal reactions to the trauma of being separated from their families are often misdiagnosed or overdiagnosed as suffering from psychiatric problems, and the system is too quick to medicate,'' said Mike Arsham of the Child Welfare Organizing Project. ' "'It's a chemical sledgehammer that makes children easier to manage.'' " ====================== Eugenics in a baby bottle "Parents Concerned Over Potentially Toxic Baby Bottles "Dozens of environmental health organizations in the United States and Canada are calling for an immediate moratorium on the use of a chemical, bisphenol A - or BPA - in food and beverage containers, including baby bottles. They say a new study found that, when exposed to heat, baby bottles release a chemical that, researchers say, has been linked to obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab animals." http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/021108HA.shtml Babies who can breast feed don't have this problem. This is specific to mothers who aren't paying attention to the research showing the immunological, nutritional, intellectual and psychological deficits suffered by formula-fed babies, or who work outside the home in anti-family jobs where they can't breast feed. Medical hubris has managed to insert a profitable, exploitative junk food industry between babies and their natural, free birthright to complete nutrition and physical affection. Deliberate or not, the demographic targetting is similar to that of a eugenics campaign: working and poorly educated families suffer disproportionately. Also note that europe removed BPA from baby bottles years ago. Check out the following links to BEGIN to get a feel for the massive fraud and child abuse perpetrated on this country by its own health care system. This is just the tip of the iceberg. http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20081102-16879.html http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=586 http://www.babymilkaction.org/shop/pcards.html#twins ================ Eugenics in vaccines As you'll see below, they now know how to screen children for the genetic trait which makes them vulnerable to thimerosal (Hg) toxicity, but they aren't screening and they haven't removed the Hg from multidose flu vaccine vials, only from the single-dose syringes. Demographically this means that children who go to clinics that can't afford the single-dose syringes are vulnerable to being brain damaged. The precedent being set in new jersey for the forcible vaccination of children over their parent's objections http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2007/12/14/west_milford_messenger/news/6.txt is especially chilling in this context. Presumably free public vaccination campaigns will be using multidose vials. This is the missouri law concerning mercury in vaccinations. It's typical in the US: http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/c100-199/1910000235.htm It leaves the door wide open for children over 3. Here's a table of Hg content of common vaccines. Among the flu vaccines, if you follow the links you'll see that only the single-dose packaging contains no Hg. The multidose contains the historical concentration. http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm And note that flu vaccine is given every year. It's now possible for children to get even more Hg from vaccines than ever before! http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050416/note14.asp "In a study of the blood of some apparently healthy children, the biochemistry of one sample stood out. It came from an autistic boy. Curious, James got blood samples from 20 other autistic children. All exhibited a similar, unusual biochemical fingerprint, which James has now confirmed in an additional 75 autistic children. None in a comparison group of 75 neurologically healthy kids carried the fingerprint in his or her blood. ... The autistic youngsters had unusually low concentrations of the antioxidant glutathione in their cells. Their ratio of active glutathione to its inactive breakdown products also was unusually low. ... This pattern is consistent with an inability to detoxify [poisons], especially heavy metals, such as mercury or lead, James says. That's because the antioxidant normally binds to heavy metals, and the body then targets the molecular complex for elimination." In other words, if you have the trait, you get autism. If you don't have the trait, you don't get autism. As you'll see below, the problem is widespread in this country. Bush actually vetoed a bill that would have mandated the removal of all Hg from vaccines, as europe (and american veterinary medicine) did some time ago. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/334006_flu03.html "The two vaccines available to the public are: The traditional injectable flu vaccine, which contains inactivated (killed) virus, is for anyone age 6 months and older. Some patients experience soreness at the injection site lasting less than two days, but serious side effects are extremely rare. This vaccine may come in a multiple-dose vial or in single-dose syringes. Syringes for children 3 and younger are thimerosal-free. ..." http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/State_s_flu_shots_have_mercury_options "The Department of Health ordered about 170,000 doses of flu vaccine this year, of which 97,440 doses are formulated without thimerosal, the preservative that contains mercury. The mercury-free version is available to both adults and children. "All the flu vaccine ordered for children 6 to 35 months of age is mercury-free, said department spokeswoman Deborah Busemeyer. In addition, the state purchased 17,450 mercury-free doses for children ages 3 to 18, and 20,000 mercury-free doses for adults 18 and older. ..." ===================== Eugenics in WHO vaccination campaigns http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/10/27/MN52NEE.DTL&type=printable "For decades, researchers warned that contaminated syringes could transmit deadly viruses with cruel efficiency. But efforts to defuse the crisis were failed, and today, it has become an insidious global epidemic, destroying millions of lives every year. ... In de Quadros' hand was a chilling internal report: 10 million people a year were contracting lethal diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS through the reuse of contaminated syringes. ... De Quadros rose to his feet and implored his colleagues to keep the findings confidential -- at least until the numbers could be reviewed once more. ``These figures are so incredible,'' he said, ``that if they are released, they will make the front pages of newspapers around the world.'' But an earlier internal WHO study had revealed an even more alarming figure: Every year as many as 1.8 million people infected by contaminated syringes, mostly children, would die -- about one every 20 seconds." Another eugenics campaign, functionally speaking: poor communities which utilize such free services are less likely to have access to enough disposable (or single-dose) syringes or good sterilization equipment. And africa has the double-whammy of an ongoing HIV epidemic, multiplying the chance of infection. It's also important to note that this was utterly predictable. The WHO had actually been warned of this problem years before, but had somehow never managed to deal with it. ================= I saved this from the royal society of medicine (UK) website several years ago. I've put it online at: http://www.math.missouri.edu/~rich/concern/www.rsm.ac.uk/new/pr126.htm Press Release 20 February 2003 Unsafe healthcare "drives spread of African HIV" Since the 1980s most experts have assumed that heterosexual sex transmitted 90% of HIV in Africa. In the March International Journal of STD and AIDS, an international team of HIV specialists presents groundbreaking evidence to challenge this consensus, with "profound implications" for public health in Africa. In a series of articles, Dr David Gisselquist, Mr John Potterat and colleagues argue that the spread of HIV infections in Africa is closely linked to medical care. In their unique study of existing data from across the continent they estimate that only about a third of HIV infections are sexually transmitted. Their evidence suggests that "health care exposures caused more HIV than sexual transmission", with contaminated medical injections being the biggest risk. Sexual behaviour * HIV and STDs: According to the authors' data, African HIV did not follow the pattern of sexually transmitted disease (STD). In Zimbabwe in the 1990s HIV increased by 12% a year, while overall STDs declined by 25% and condom use actually increased among high-risk groups. * Infection rate: HIV spread very fast in many countries in Africa. For the increase to have been all via heterosexual sex, the study claims, it would have to be as easy to get HIV from sex as from a blood transfusion. In fact, HIV is much more difficult than most STDs to transmit via penile-vaginal sex. * Risky sex? Several general behaviour surveys suggest that sexual activity in Africa is not much different from that in North America and Europe. In fact, places with the highest level of risky sexual behaviour, such as Yaounde in Cameroon, have low and stable rates of HIV infection. "Information#from the general population shows most HIV in sexually less active adults". Did medical care spread HIV? * Children and injections: Many studies report young children infected with HIV with mothers who are not infected. One study in Kinshasa kept track of the injections given to infants under two. In one study, nearly 40% of HIV+ infants had mothers who tested negative. These children averaged 44 injections in their lifetimes compared with only 23 for uninfected children. * Good access to medical care: Countries like Zimbabwe, with the best access to medical care, have the highest rates of HIV transmission. "High rates [of HIV] in South Africa have paralleled aggressive efforts to deliver health care to rural populations". * Riskier to be rich: Most STDs are associated with being poor and uneducated. HIV in Africa is associated with urban living, having a good education, and having a higher income. In one hospital in 1984, the rate of HIV in the senior administrators was 9.2%, compared with the average employee rate of 6.4%. "People often see what they wish to see" The authors suggest several reasons why evidence has been ignored until now, including the West's preconceptions about African sexuality, the fear that people might lose trust in healthcare, and simple disbelief that medical practices could be so unsafe. They conclude: "a growing body of evidence points to unsafe injections and other medical exposures to contaminated blood" as an explanation for the majority of the spread of the epidemic. "This finding has major ramifications for current and future HIV control programmes in Africa" . ends - 20 February 2003 Read the articles (in PDF format): Mounting anomalies in the epidemiology of HIV in Africa: cry the beloved paradigm http://www.math.missouri.edu/~rich/concern/www.rsm.ac.uk/new/std144intro.pdf Let it be sexual: how health care transmission of AIDS in Africa was ignored http://www.math.missouri.edu/~rich/concern/www.rsm.ac.uk/new/std148main.pdf Heterosexual transmission of HIV in Africa: an empiric estimate http://www.math.missouri.edu/~rich/concern/www.rsm.ac.uk/new/std162stats.pdf ---------- These articles lay out a compelling case for a massive breakdown of scientific objectivity wrt HIV etiology (and consequent public health measures) in africa. ==================== More eugenics in WHO vaccination campaigns http://thinktwice.com/birthcon.htm "During the early 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) had been overseeing massive vaccination campaigns against tetanus in a number of countries, among them Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines. In October 1994, HLI received a communication from its Mexican affiliate, the Comite' Pro Vida de Mexico, regarding that country's anti-tetanus campaign. Suspicious of the campaign protocols, the Comite' obtained several vials of the vaccine and had them analyzed by chemists. Some of the vials were found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), a naturally occurring hormone essential for maintaining a pregnancy. ... However, when introduced into the body coupled with a tetanus toxoid carrier, antibodies will be formed not only against tetanus but also against hCG. In this case the body fails to recognize hCG as a friend and will produce anti-hCG antibodies. The antibodies will attack subsequent pregnancies by killing the hCG which naturally sustains a pregnancy; when a woman has sufficient anti-hCG antibodies in her system, she is rendered incapable of maintaining a pregnancy.(1)" ==================== Research papers on HCG/tetanus antipregnancy vaccine The use of HCG-laced tetanus vaccine (as per above) to render women sterile has been intensively researched for decades. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gonadotropin+tetanus&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search The above search yielded 1,940 hits on feb 25 2008, of which the first 10 were all directly concerned with or relevant to the use of this concoction in pregnancy control. One of the links notes a total of 5 antipregnacy vaccines under development as of sept 2006. The specific vaccine here is called Pr-beta-HCG-TT in the literature. ==================== Profit-driven eugenics (again, note the demographic) http://www.ect.org/electroconvulsive-therapy-causes-permanent-amnesia-and-cognit ive-deficits/ "In a stunning reversal, an article in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology in January 2007 by prominent researcher Harold Sackeim of Columbia University reveals that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) causes permanent amnesia and permanent deficits in cognitive abilities, which affect individuals' ability to function. "[T]his study provides the first evidence in a large, prospective sample that adverse cognitive effects can persist for an extended period, and that they characterize routine treatment with ECT in community settings," the study notes. "For the past 25 years, ECT patients were told by Sackeim, the nation's top ECT researcher, that the controversial treatment doesn't cause permanent amnesia and, in fact, improves memory and increases intelligence. Psychologist Sackeim also taught a generation of ECT practitioners that permanent amnesia from ECT is so rare that it could not be studied. He asserted that most people who said the treatment erased years of memory were mentally ill and thus not credible. "Since the mid-1980s, Sackeim worked as a consultant to the ECT device manufacturer Mecta Corp. He never revealed his financial interest in ECT to NIMH, as required by federal law, and, until 2002, did not reveal it to New York officials as required by state law. Neuropsychopharmacology has endured negative publicity over its failure to disclose financial conflicts of journal authors, resulting in the editor's resignation and a promise to disclose such conflicts in the future; yet there is no disclosure of Sackeim's long-term relationship with Mecta, nor did Sackeim disclose his financial conflict when his NIMH grant was renewed to 2009 at approximately $500,000 per year." =================== Eugenics in US foreign policy http://web.archive.org/web/20041214025505/http://www.africa2000.com/BNDX/BAO112.htm BRAZIL LAUNCHES INQUIRY INTO U.S. POPULATION ACTIVITIES The charge: millions sterilised to meet U.S. political objectives "A U.S.-sponsored program that resulted in the sterilisation of nearly half of Brazil's women has prompted a formal congressional inquiry, sponsored by more than 165 legislators from every political party that is represented in the Brazilian legislature. The investigation was initiated after information about a secret U.S. National Security Council memorandum on American population control objectives in developing countries was published in the Jornal de Brasilia, Hova do Povo (Rio de Janeiro), Jornal do Brasil, and other major newspapers in early May. ... "Brazil's Ministry of Health, which had begun an investigation into the sterilisation program even before the American population strategy documents were disclosed, has revealed that 44 percent of all Brazilian women between the ages of 14 and 55 have been permanently sterilised. The older women apparently had the operation done when the program started, nearly two decades ago. News reports charge that many of these women underwent the operation without their knowledge or consent. ... "According to some reports, as many as 90 percent of all Brazilian women of African descent have been sterilised. If true, this would nearly eliminate future generations of black people in Latin America's largest nation. Brazil's black population is reported to be second in size only to Nigeria's. At least half of Brazil's 154 million people are believed to be of African ancestry. " ====================== The plot thickens: The WHO is using different (and scientifically unfounded) HIV diagnostic criteria in africa from the criteria used in rest of the world. The african criteria functions as a dragnet for false-positive HIV diagnoses among africans. This can be seen to serve several functions: it reduces sexual behavior among false positives, it diverts public attention from the murderous effects of IMF-imposed poverty as a major driver of mortality in africa, and it reduces breast feeding rates since WHO guidelines recommend HIV+ mothers not breastfeed. This will result in higher mortality rates, compromised immune systems, malnutrition and lower IQ's among babies who might otherwise be healthy. http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/277.html ============================ George HW Bush authored the "Family Planning Act" authorizing federal funds for sterilization campaigns. 42% of native american women of childbearing age were sterilized under this act, according to this video. http://brasschecktv.com/page/278.html Given Prescott Bush's close ties to fascism in the 30's http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html the question arises: how accepted is eugenics in elite policy circles today? The movement's flagship "Journal of Eugenics" only changed its name to "Social Biology" and is published to this day. =============================== Vaccine boycott in Nigeria http://www.whale.to/vaccine/vaccine_boycott.html "Two more states in Nigeria's Islamic north joined a boycott Tuesday of a massive polio immunization campaign, demanding government proof the vaccines don't spread AIDS or sterility as Islamic leaders contend." =============================== Feedback on the above from concern-l: > Perhaps I am missing some piece of this discussion because I think I > came into it after it had already started, but my unlearned > understanding of eugenics is that it contains an element of conscious, > malicious judgment about who should thrive and who should die out in > order to "strengthen" the overall population of humans. The issue of structurally or unconsciously driven population selection came up earlier. I can only speculate about conscious or unconscious motivations. Some of the problems could be attributed to sheer incompetence, although the overall pattern seems to be suggestive of something else. To the best of my knowledge the eugenics movement is alive and well among western ruling elites and some academic circles, and given the ever-growing environmental catastrophe and the constraints placed on "feasible" solutions to it (which preserve existing power structures) it's not hard to see why. The only question in my mind is whether they have the means to pull this off under the radar in an organized way, and it seems to me they might. Medicine is extremely hierarchical and authoritarian in its structure, and it has a history of publically promoting eugenics before it became impolitic to do so after WWII. Many doctors carry out standardized procedures without fully understanding what they are doing or why. This delegates trust to remote hierarchies of authority which may (and historically, often do) have other agendas. And of course no one really knows what they're injecting except those who formulate it. Our society is based on trust in strangers. This is not a sustainable structure for large scale social relationships. > Do I misunderstand the use of the word, are you using the term > differently in your subject header or am I just not seeing a clear > indication of who would be the "judge" in the case laid out in the > article below? Aside from any deliberate campaigns such as the tetanus-HCG vaccine or the brazilian campaign I already mentioned, one mechanism of "judgement" involves an interaction between socioeconomic inequalities and health care, which happens to serve the eugenic agenda by eliminating socially disadvantaged populations, for example via differences in access to sterile needles. (although it's important to point out here that the iatrogenic infection scandal was utterly predictable. The WHO had actually been warned of the problem years before but had somehow never managed to deal with it) The genetic variation issue is a bit more subtle. I would argue that social darwinism is a type of religion, with the state or the status quo taking on the role of God or nature. Given this outlook, weeding out genetic variations which conflict with the needs of the state (i.e. the convenience of using cheap vaccine preservatives or cheap food) would seem only natural. > It seems to me like wiping out the more educated, well > to do, "healthier" members of any society would be counter to the > intentions of eugenics. Racism and imperialism is implicit in the whole social darwinist outlook. Better educated black people might be seen to be more of a threat than poorly educated black people. Or perhaps expendable in the service of the larger project (collateral damage). "Natural" selection (whether through neglect or malicious intent) would be inherently probabilistic, after all. Social darwinism essentially functions as is a "self"-selecting religion of the powerful involving an atrophy of the neural reward circuits associated with human empathy, a pathology which is promoted (indeed, often surgically imposed via circumcision) and selected for by the social structure itself, in order to enhance its "fitness" in a darwinian sense. ================== http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/index.html 31 March 2006 "Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims told me about a speech he heard at the Texas Academy of Science during which the speaker, a world-renowned ecologist, advocated for the extermination of 90 percent of the human species in a most horrible and painful manner. Apparently at the speaker's direction, the speech was not video taped by the Academy and so Forrest's may be the only record of what was said. Forrest's account of what he witnessed chilled my soul. Astonishingly, Forrest reports that many of the Academy members present gave the speaker a standing ovation. To date, the Academy has not moved to sanction the speaker or distance itself from the speaker's remarks. ..."