including
Global gag order
aka Mexico City Policy
Malthus
eugenics
new phyllum
P opulation
CONTROL
#16 Human genome project opens door to
ethnically specific bioweapons

  Top 25 censored media stories of 2001 Project Censored
    In-depth evaluation of sustainable development ¹  
    3.27.01   UN Office of Internal Oversight Services rpt E/AC.51/2001/2
per Gen.Assembly res. 48/218B & 54/244. Reviews sustainable development subpgm and presents findings: support to intergovt processes, monitoring & coordinated approaches to implementation of sustainable development goals, dialogue with major groups, and support to intl cooperation & national pgm. Incl recommendations

    depopulation
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  NatSec Study memo 200
  4.24.74   Henry Kissinger ¹ ª ²

Implications of world wide population growth for U.S. security & overseas interests

Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the NSC that "depopulation should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the 3rd world." He quoted reasons of national security, and because `The US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries...Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and to the economic interests of U.S." …

World depopulation is top NSC Agenda
Club of Rome & Haig-Kissinger depopulation policy
3.10.81   Lonnie Wolfe EIR

    reading
The Evolution of Desire   David M. Buss
Strategies of human mating

The Mating Mind   Geoffrey Miller
How sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature

Sperm Wars   Robin Baker   ƒ
Science of sex
"less than 1 percent of sperm is actually designed to fertilize an egg (the rest are there to block other men's sperm), and that 4 to 10 percent of all children born to married couples are in fact the offspring of other men, usually of higher socioeconomic status, with whom the mother had a short-term relationship"

"Men, he says, pursue 4 reproductive strategies: bisexuality, pursuit or avoidance of sperm warfare and a balancing of this pursuit/avoidance, which strategy a male is programmed to adopt will depend largely on his rate of sperm production."

Red Queen   Matt Ridley
Sex and the evolution of human nature
… sex? One of the main biological reasons, contends Ridley, is to combat disease.

By constantly combining and recombining genes every generation, people "keep their genes one step ahead of their parasites," thereby strengthening resistance to bacteria and viruses that cause deadly diseases or epidemics.
Called the "Red Queen Theory" by biologists after the chess piece in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass which runs but stays in the same place,

… men are polygamous for the obvious reason that whichever gender has to spend the most time and energy creating and rearing offspring tends to avoid extra mating.
Women, though far less interested in multiple partners, will commit adultery if stuck with a mediocre mate.

In Ridley's not wholly convincing conclusion, even human intellect is chalked up to sex: virtuosity, individuality, inventiveness and related traits are what make people sexually attractive.

On the Genealogy of Morals ¹ and Ecce Homo
  Friedrich Nietzsche   sequel to Beyond Good & Evil, Nietzsche's 8th book; 3 essays revealing his opposition to Christian morality
… aristocratic radicalism, in which he sets up an opposition between the morality of the masters and what he terms "slave morality".
It is this "slave morality" motivated by a spirit of resentment that Nietzsche seeks to overcome by a return to the morality of the masters.

Nietzsche is firmly opposed to the Judeo-Christian tradition, which he views as the culmination of slave morality. According to Nietzsche, slaves sought to revolt against their masters by supplanting the morality of the masters with their own which glorifies the weak, meek, and sickly.
Instead, Nietzsche advocates a revaluation of all values with a return to the morality of the masters, who are proud, strong, and heroic.

The preface notes the slave rebellion in morality, in which a morality of pity came to replace the morality of the masters. Nietzsche references the work of Schopenhauer, his great teacher, who he believes has made possible a new Buddhism for Europeans, nihilism.
Jews have come to conquer Rome through the slave revolt in which today in Rome they bow before 3 Jews and a Jewess (Jesus, Peter, Paul, and Mary). Nietzsche claims that the Renaissance represented a return to the classical idea;

however with the Reformation motivated largely by resentment and the French Revolution the slave revolt was made complete.

… The targeting agency for the operation is the National Security Council's Ad Hoc Group on Population Policy. Its policy-planning group is in the U.S. State Dept's Office of Population Affairs, established in 1975 by Henry Kissinger.
This group drafted the Carter administration's Global 2000 document, which calls for global population reduction, …
Thomas Ferguson, the Latin American case officer for the State Dept's Office of Population Affairs (OPA). "Either they [govts] do it our way, through nice clean methods or they will get the kind of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran, or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control it requires authoritarian govt, even fascism, to reduce it.

"The professionals," said Ferguson, "aren't interested in lowering population for humanitarian reasons. That sounds nice. We look at resources and environmental constraints. We look at our strategic needs, and we say that this country must lower its population-or else we will have trouble."
"So steps are taken. El Salvador is an example where our failure to lower population by simple means has created the basis for a national security crisis. The El Salvador govt failed to use our programs to lower their population. Now they get a civil war because of it. … There will be dislocation and food shortages. They still have too many people there."

Civil wars are somewhat drawn-out ways to reduce population, the OPA official added.
"The quickest way to reduce population is through famine, like in Africa or through disease like the Black Death," …
Ferguson's OPA monitors populations in the Third World and maps strategies to reduce them. Its budget for FY 1980 was $190 million; for FY 198l, it will be $220 million.
The Global 2000 report calls for doubling that figure.

The sphere of Kissinger In 1975, OPA was brought under a reorganized State Dept Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs, a body created by Henry Kissinger. The agency was assigned to carry out the directives of the NSC Ad Hoc Group.
According to an NSC spokesman, Kissinger initiated both groups after discussion with leaders of the Club of Rome during the 1974 population conferences in Bucharest and Rome. …

"For a long time," Ferguson stated, "people here were timid" They listened to arguments from Third World leaders that said that the best contraceptive was economic reform and development.
So we pushed development programs, and we helped create a population time bomb."
"We are letting people breed like flies without allowing for natural causes to keep population down. We raised the birth survival rates, extended life-spans by lowering death rates, and did nothing about lowering birth rates. …

Accordingly, the Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs has consistently blocked industrialization policies in the Third World … According to an NSC spokesman, the U.S. now shares the view of former World Bank President Robert McNamara that the "population crisis" is a greater threat to U.S. national security interests than "nuclear annihilation."
"Every hot spot in the world corresponds to a population crisis point," said Ferguson who would rename Brzezinski's arc of crisis doctrine the "arc of population crisis."

This is corroborated by statements in the NSC Ad Hoc Group's April 1980 report. There is "an increased potential for social unrest, economic and political instability, mass migration and possible international conflicts over control of land and resources," says the NSC report.
It then cites "demographic pressures" as key to understanding "examples of recent warfare in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, El Salvador. Honduras, and Ethiopia, and the growing potential forinstability in such places as Turkey, the Philippines, Central America, Iran, and Pakistan."

Through extraordinary efforts, the Ad Hoc Group and OPA estimate that they may be able to keep a billion people from being born through contraceptive programs. …


By the end of this week India will have become only the second country in the history of humanity to be home to 1 billion people. Indians are greeting the milestone, and the inevitable comparisons with China, the first nation to pass the billion mark, with ambivalence. India has mixed feelings about its swollen population. On the one hand, the sheer numbers ensure that basics such as clean drinking water, education and hospitals remain inaccessible to many.
On the other, India's claim for a larger role in world affairs rests largely on its being the world's second most populous country. In political circles, "you can't ignore a sixth of humanity," is an oft-heard refrain.

At current rates, India will overtake China as the country with the biggest population some time in the next few decades. But catching up in other areas may take longer. On average, Chinese are better educated than Indians, live longer and are less likely to endure dire poverty. Indians acknowledge this, but are quick to point out that human-development statistics aside, they have reason for pride.
"India is a democratic, open society, and we have maintained our diversity," says B.G. Verghese at the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think-tank. "We are ahead of China in areas such as federalism, stockmarkets, banking, a legal system and the use of English."
As India's 600 million voters head to the polls in general elections next month, they may find solace in the fact that while two of the world's countries are now home to more than a billion people, only one elects its leaders.

UN adopted the Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, more commonly known as the 1948 Genocide Convention or "The Genocide Treaty." … Ironically, the first proceeding brought expressly under the banner of genocide is the Arusha trial, the case arising from the mass slaughter in Rwanda that began in 1994. But the Rwanda situation, as utterly catastrophic is it has been, was nonetheless a civil war. And it is not one that differs, except possibly in scale, from a number of other post-colonial conflicts in the southern hemisphere. As Barry Crawford has noted (Submission to the UN Tribunal on Rwanda, London, 1995), "Genocide means more than mass murder. [It] is distinguished from all other forms of killing by the motivation behind it." The critical point is made that western intervention, both military & economic, set the stage for what may be the most memorable mass orgy of human violence in recent times. Rwanda, already impoverished by a World Bank-imposed structural adjustment scheme, had become completely polarized.
… The intent of the Genocide Convention, then, was clearly to separate those in positions of power who engage in planned, carefully-executed & premeditated actions to destroy a group of people from those who act in a random or spontaneous manner, no matter how terrible the outcome of a conflict or how intense the ethnic hatreds that may flare during such a confrontation. Crawford suggests this requirement when he argues: "The idea that the beleaguered Hutu-led govt could plan & execute the deliberate annihilation of an entire people, at a time when it could not even organize to sell the coffee beans on which its economy depended, borders on the incredible." In other words, the organization & competence required for an act of genocide simply did not exist in Rwanda. …

The invocation of the genocide treaty against Rwanda's old-guard military does nothing to prevent similar situations from occurring elsewhere on the continent. It merely criminalizes the unfortunate participants in a vicious upheaval, the battle-lines for which were drawn early by foreign institutions. Even more to the point, the genocide charge conveniently exonerates the west for its provocative activities in the region. In fact, it could be argued that no one could have foreseen the scale & intensity of the fighting or the enormous loss of life it caused with the possible exception of U.S. & British intelligence. And it is obvious that western nations, acting as bilateral donors of aid & arms or through the UN, played a critical role in the events that led up to the war. World Bank policy is controlled by the U.S. through a special oversight unit at the Department of the Treasury. The western nations that aided & abetted the RPF did so in a spirit of mutual collaboration. Everything from the collapse of Rwanda's economy to the Arusha conference demands that the Rwandan govt accommodate the unpopular Tutsi opposition forces was orchestrated by westerners. Thus, one can conclude that if anyone exercised a "monopoly on the means of force" in Rwanda, it was the U.S. & its allies. And they, more than anyone, could be called perpetrators of genocide.

… Hermann Rauschning, who defected from the Nazi party in the 1930s, warned of the plans of German leaders in a 1940 book called The Voice of Destruction. In that text, he recalled a 1934 conversation in which Hitler said about the peoples of eastern Europe: "We are obliged to depopulate … We shall have to develop a technique of depopulation … I don't necessarily mean destroy; I shall simply take systematic measures to dam their great natural fertility … There are many ways, systematical & comparatively painless, or any rate bloodless, of causing undesirable races to die out … By doing this gradually & without bloodshed, we demonstrate our humanity." (Rauschning, 1940, at pages 34-38). … Population Control in the Early Years
The introduction of population control as a global undertaking began quietly in 1945 with the introduction of population change as an official subject for data gathering & analysis, research, & policy study at the newly-founded UN. The move to include demographic issues was promoted by the U.S. & Great Britain, and it passed over the objections of the Soviet bloc. This occurred at a time when western anxiety about low birth rates was at an all-time high. In fact, 2 years before the creation of the UN, Britain's King George the Sixth had established a special panel to look into the matter of falling fertility at home. That panel, which released its final report in June of 1949, concluded that the downward trend in Britain's birth rate was something unique to the wealthy nations, and that it constituted a tremendous danger to western interests.

Among other things, the royal panel noted the extraordinarily high rate of population growth experienced by the European nations in the previous two centuries, and said: "The increase in population provided both a motive for, and a means to, the development of the modern techniques of production, trade & communications on which present day European standards of living are based, for it provided both an expanding market & an expanding labour supply." Furthermore, it advised that "the growth of European population, and the expansion of the economic system of which it was partly the cause & partly the essential condition, were largely responsible for the extension of European control over inhabited tropical & semi-tropical countries & their development as suppliers of food & raw material" (Royal Commission on Population, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1949, at page 7). Noting that population growth continued to take place beyond the borders of the industrial world, the commissioners concluded: "The establishment or continuance among western peoples of sizes of family below replacement level would accentuate a change in relative numbers which threatens in a few generations to be as radical as that between France & Germany in the 19th century, and might be as decisive in its effects on the prestige & influence of the west. The question it should be observed is not merely one of military strength & security; that question becomes merged in more fundamental issues of the maintenance & extension of western values, ideas & culture" (Royal Commission on Population, 1949, at pages 135-136).

In the U.S., too, similar worries were being expressed. Frank Notestein, head of an elite demographic research center at Princeton University, warned in 1944 that the development of industry in nations with high fertility rates would only guarantee that western peoples would "become progressively smaller minorities & possess a progressively smaller proportion of the world's wealth & power." Notestein, who soon afterward was chosen the first head of the UN Population Division, admonished: "The determination of national policy toward the underdeveloped regions must be made in light of that fact" (Notestein, in Demographic Studies of Selected Areas of Rapid Growth, Proceedings, 22nd Annual Conference, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 1944). Western promotion of population control in developing regions began officially with the founding of the UN. Assistance was funneled to "private" family planning groups through large American foundations & non-govermental organizations and even such "secret" bureaus of govt as the Central Intelligence Agency (see, i.e., Gerard Colby with Charlotte Dennett, Thy Will Be Done, The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller & Evangelism in the Age of Oil, Harper Collins, 1995).

After at least two military panels in the U.S. formally & publicly recommended that population control be made part of U.S. aid to developing nations, Congress in 1965 voted to include family planning in the overseas development budget. The amount of money set aside for this purpose, openly described by American legislators as "the population budget", has consistently increased from year to year. By the late 1970s, hundreds of millions of dollars in Congressionally-earmarked population funds were going every year to a variety of projects to train so- called "third world" medical personnel to operate family planning clinics, to establish & equip birth control centers, and to advocate host country policies favorable to population control activities. By the mid 1980s, money allocated for other programs (including Economic Support Funds, the Commodity Import Program, the Sahel Development Fund and African Development Fund) was being diverted to family planning campaigns in Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Middle East. And between 1980 & 1995, the World Bank increased population sector spending from about $100 million a year to over $2.5 billion (a 25-fold increase). All of this suggests that western leaders, particularly those in the U.S., considered birth curbs in developing countries to be a matter of extremely high priority. And there is much on the record to support that assumption.

In 1988, the Department of Defense commissioned a series of studies on demographic trends & their impact on U.S. national security. A summary of the reports, written by an instructor at the National Defense University in Washington and published by the Center for Strategic & International Studies in its Washington Quarterly (Spring 1989) concluded: "As difficult & uncertain as the task may be, policymakers & strategic planners in this country have little choice in the coming decades but to pay serious attention to population trends, their causes, and their effects. Already the U.S. has embarked on an era of constrained resources. It thus becomes more important than ever to do those things that will provide more bang for every buck spent on national security. To claim that decreased defense spending must lead to strategic debilitation is fatuous. Rather, policymakers must anticipate events & conditions before they occur. They must employ all the instruments of statecraft at their disposal (development assistance & population planning every bit as much as new weapon systems). Furthermore, instead of relying on the canard that the threat dictates one's posture, they must attempt to influence the form that threat assumes."
And a 1991 report commissioned by the U.S. Army Conference on Long Range Planning, published in the Summer 1991 edition of the journal Foreign Affairs, came to an even more remarkable conclusion. Noting the relatively rapid increase of populations in other regions and the pending decline of the west in terms of absolute & relative numbers, the document stated: "By these projections a very different world would seem to be emerging. Such trends speak to pressures for a systematically diminished role & status for today's industrial democracies. Even with relatively unfavorable assumptions about Third World economic growth, the share of global economic output of today's industrial democracies could decline. With a generalized & progressive industrialization of current low-income areas, the Western diminution would be all the more rapid. Thus, one can easily envision a world more unreceptive, and ultimately more threatening, to the interests of the U.S. & its allies. The population & economic-growth trends described could create an international environment even more menacing to the security prospects of the Western alliance than was the Cold War for the past generation".

… Literature prepared by USAID contractors, UN agencies, the World Bank, and a host of private & semi- private family planning associations is redundant to the point of absurdity when it comes to the "problems" encountered in administrating population campaigns. And virtually all of the tens or even hundreds of thousands of reports & memos evaluating the "problem" over the last few years deal with the unpopularity of the services & near-universal resistance to population planning. Of course, voluntarism is what these institutions, too, would prefer to see. It would make their work far easier. But where voluntarism does not work, persuasion is tried. And where persuasion fails, bribery, intimidation, and even outright force is sure to follow.
Lest there be any doubt that coercion is an officially-sanctioned part of U.S. population "assistance," the enforcement of strong population policies by "police & military" in developing nations is explicitly endorsed in a 1976 briefing produced by a high-level task force on population within the U.S. National Security Council. Population policies, says that document, are most likely to be effective if three essential conditions are met: there must be "strong direction from the top" (meaning govt officials), "community or 'peer' pressures from below," and "adequate" services that "get to the people." It concludes: "population programs have been particularly successful where leaders have made their positions clear, unequivocal, and public, while maintaining discipline down the line from national to village levels, marshaling govtal workers (including police & military), doctors, and motivators to see that population policies are well administered & executed. Such direction is the sine-qua-non of an effective program" (Attachment to Memorandum for the Chairman, Under Secretaries Committee, National Security Council, January 3, 1977, study by NSC task force May 1976).

… This is not a new observation nor is there anything the least bit unique about the assumption that below- replacement fertility in the west, combined with high birthrates in the south, will ultimately dislodge the current world powers from their coveted place of preeminence. "[W]e must never lose sight of the fact that the world population imbalance is heavily against us and is becoming ever more so," says a fairly typical National Security Council memorandum written back in January of 1959 (NSC 902/1; 1 January 1959). In 1994, former Deputy Director for Intelligence at the CIA Ray Cline wrote an entire book on the topic which was called The Power of Nations in the 1990s: A Strategic Assessment ((University Press of America, 1994). … But population, according to Cline, is the single most important factor. "People exploit the raw economic resources of the territory the live in a develop the political & social traditions that shape national cultures," he wrote. "A large territory, if accompanied by a large population, almost automatically confers the status of power on a nation and will be so interpreted by strategists & makers of foreign policy" (Cline, 1994).
And the nations destined to attain such status in the future are, of course, those now described almost contemptuously as "the third world." … similar reports & essays, literally thousands & thousands of them, produced over the past half-century by govt agencies, powerful "think tanks," and well-connected scholars. In fact, one is virtually assured of finding some reference to the "national security" dimension of world demographics in any U.S. govt study of foreign relations or military power that applies to a region (as opposed to a single country) and takes a long-term view.

Control is being exercised in ever more complex & varied ways. It has become evident since the beginning of the 1980s that the purposeful impoverishment of the developing world has become the essence of the global agenda. Mandatory structural adjustment schemes imposed by western-controlled lenders, the devaluation of currency, inequitable trade practices, and self-serving "aid" projects have all visibly contributed to the breakdown of the world's most vulnerable economies.

With the cold war now over, the old constraints against western intervention have evaporated, and the U.S. & allied nations see themselves as free to intervene politically & militarily in ways that adversely affect local stability. They increasingly pursue policies that lead to situations in which there is a power vacuum, as was the case in Rwanda, knowing the horrendous outcome that is possible in the event some domestic crisis ignites an orgy of spontaneous violence. And the resulting human catastrophe is inevitably exploited as "proof" that the local populace is unfit for self-governance and in need of administrative control (meaning both political &/or military supervision, as well as reproductive control) or even punishment.

To invoke the Genocide Convention as a way to validate this image is a perversion of the intent & meaning of the treaty. It also diverts attention from the genocidal nature of western population programs and military/economic intervention in the less-developed world. Indeed, the combined effect of this exploitation & aggression demonstrates that reproductive interference is at the core of a much larger strategy to impede development and to prevent the rise of other regions & blocs as competitors for power.
  [ No royal jelly for you, little grub. ]

touring grandad's handiwork

Report on European Trip   10.12.39
Mr. W.S. Farish 30 Rockefeller Plaza
Dear Mr. Farish:
… I stayed in France until Sept. 17th. … In England I met by appointment the Royal Dutch (Shell Oil Co.) gentlemen from Holland, and … a general agreement was reached on the necessary changes in our relations with the I.G. Farben, in view of the state of war … The Royal Dutch Shell group is essentially British … I also had several meetings with … the British Air Ministry. …
I required help to obtain the necessary permission to go to Holland … After discussions with the American Amb. Joseph Kennedy … the situation was cleared completely … The gentlemen in the Air Ministry … very kindly offered to assist me later in reentering England. …
Pursuant to these arrangements, I was able to keep my appointments in Holland having flown there on a British Royal Air Force bomber, where I had 3 days of discussion with the I.G. representatives. They delivered to me assignments of some 2,000 foreign patents and we did our best to work out complete plans for a modus vivendi which could operate through the term of the war, whether or not the U.S. came in. …
Very truly yours, Frank A. Howard


Breeding ground for bad ideas
re Better for all the World   2.26.06   SD UT

… NYC based organization called the Pioneer fund … lengthy gilded pedigree. Begun in 1937 "to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences", Pioneer Fund directors were openly sympathetic to Nazi race laws. … Founders incl New England textile fortune heir Wycliffe Preston Draper; Harry Laughlin, Congressional advisor & director of Eugenics Records Office at the Cold Spring Harbor biological research lab then funded by Carnegie Institute, future Supreme Court Justice John Harlan; NY scion of wealth Frederick Osborn.

Today, its directors incl John B. Trevor Jr.. The fund's tax-exempt charitable purpose is to give grants. The Oakton VA based New Century Foundation is among its grantees. This foundation publishes a newsletter called American Renaissance ; …
In 2000, Trevor wrote a letter to American Renaissance praising an article on a writer named Lothrop Stoddard. … Stoddard was author of books w/ titles like The Rising Tide of Color … published in 1920. …


  2.17.01 early morning  
decrepit Cambodian-registered ship "East Sea",
loaded with 1000 Iraqi Kurds packed shoulder to shoulder,
was intentionally beached in sandbank 20 yards off Boulouris Beach near resort of Nice.

from Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail:
" 'There's no 3rd world. No, not anymore. That's only a phrase you coined to keep us in our place. There's one world, only one, and its going to be flooded with life, submerged. This country of mine is a roaring river. A river of sperm. Now, all of a sudden, it's shifting course, my friend, & heading west.' …

At the first signs of flight, my duty demanded that I order the army to take up positions along the coast. The result is that now, should we only choose to do so, we are perfectly able to repulse the invasion & destroy the invader. Assuming, that is, that we are willing to murder, with or without regret, a million helpless wretches. Past wars have abounded in just such crimes, but conscience back then hadn't yet learned to waver. Survival was all, and it condoned the carnage. Besides, those were wars of rich against rich. Today, it's the poor who are on the attack, with their ultimate weapon."   ¹


  We still haven't proved Malthus wrong   Ê
  10.9.98   Donella H. Meadows AlterNet ¹ ² ³   2050

… Both Marxists & capitalists energetically bash that idea. Marxists don't believe people can ever be in excess if the economy is just organized to use them properly. Capitalists mock Malthus for not foreseeing the progress that now allows us to feed six times as many people as there were in 1798. … A new publication by the Worldwatch Institute is full of facts that show Malthus to be not dead, not wrong, maybe not right either. The patterns by which the human race reproduces itself are changing. Over another few decades, we will probably put old Malthus to rest at last. It's up to us to decide whether he'll rest triumphant or discredited.

The most striking global change is that population growth is slowing. The growth rate peaked in 1964 at 2.2 percent. In 1998 it is 1.4 percent. That's an amazing drop. The average number of children born to a woman in India has gone down from 5.3 to 3.6. In China the average woman bears just 1.8 children, fewer than the average in U.S.. In 32 countries, including Japan ¹, France, U.K. and Spain, population growth is at or near zero. … These slow or no-growth countries contain 2 billion people, about one-third of the world population. They are either rich industrial countries or past or present communist countries. What they have in common is not wealth, but education.

But the other two-thirds of humanity is chillingly close to proving Malthus right. These are the countries we like to call "developing," where virtually all population growth is now happening. Birth rates in most of these places are dropping too, but slowly. They are growing by 80 million people a year, the equivalent of a whole new Mexico every 14 months. The UN expects them to add another 3.3 billion people over the next 50 years. The Worldwatch booklet makes that forecast look impossible.
It points out that the world fish catch per person has been stagnant since 1968, and that many great fisheries are now in active decline. Global grain production per person has been dropping for 14 years -- the world's farmers are constantly more productive, but they're not keeping up with population growth. Irrigated agriculture is particularly threatened as aquifers are overpumped and water tables fall. If the rising population and declining groundwater trends continue, Worldwatch calculates, by 2050 there will be only one-fourth as much fresh water per person as there was in 1950. …

[ lebensraum of domestic politics ]
Value voters   excerpted   Henry George "land value tax"
The best indicator of whether a state will swing Red or Blue? The cost of buying a home and raising a family.
2.11.08   Steve Sailer American Conservative

  … First-time readers of Pride and Prejudice frequently remark that Austen’s romance novels are, by American standards, not terribly romantic. She possessed a hard-headed understanding of how in traditional English society, wedlock was a luxury that some would never be able to afford, an assumption that often shocks us in our more sentimental 21st century.
Economic historian Gregory Clark’s recent book, A Farewell to Alms, quantified the Malthusian reality under the social structure acerbically depicted in Austen’s books. The English in the 1200-1800 era imposed upon themselves the sexual self-restraint that pioneering economist Thomas Malthus famously (but belatedly) suggested they follow in 1798.

By practicing population control, the English largely avoided the cycles of rapid growth followed by cataclysmic famines that plagued China, where women married universally and young. The English postponed marriage and children until a man and woman could afford the accouterments suitable for a respectable married couple of their class.
In the six centuries up through Austen’s lifetime, Clark found, English women didn’t marry on average until age 24 to 26, with poor women often having to wait until their 30s to wed. 10 to 20 percent never married. Judging from the high fertility of married couples, contraceptive practices appear to have been almost unknown in England in this time, but merely three or four percent of all births were illegitimate, demonstrating that rigid premarital self-discipline was the norm.

A half-century before Malthus’s gloomy and Austen’s witty reflections on life and love in crowded England, Ben Franklin pointed out that in his lightly populated America, the human condition was more relaxed and happy. In his insightful 1751 essay, “Observations concerning The Increase of Mankind,” Franklin spelled out, with an 18th-century surfeit of capitalization, the first, nonpartisan half of the theory of affordable family formation:

    “For People increase in Proportion to the Number of Marriages, and that is greater in Proportion to the Ease and Convenience of supporting a Family. When Families can be easily supported, more Persons marry, and earlier in Life.”
He outlined the virtuous cycle connecting the colonies’ limited population, low land prices, high wages, early marriage, and abundant children:
    “Europe is generally full settled with Husbandmen, Manufacturers, &c. and therefore cannot now much increase in People. … Land being thus plenty in America, and so cheap as that a labouring Man, that understands Husbandry, can in a short Time save Money enough to purchase a Piece of new Land sufficient for a Plantation, whereon he may subsist a Family; such are not afraid to marry…”
Franklin concluded,
    “Hence Marriages in America are more general, and more generally early, than in Europe.”
The Industrial Revolution broke the tyranny of the Malthusian Trap over food, but the supply of and demand for land never ceased to influence decisions to marry and have children. As America’s coastal regions filled up, affordability of family formation began to differ sharply from state to state, disparities partially masked over the last few years by subprime mortgages and other financial gambits.
CNN reported in 2006:
    “More than 90 percent of homes in [Indianapolis] were affordable to families earning the median income for the area of about $65,100. In Los Angeles, the least affordable big metro area, only 1.9 percent of the homes sold were within the reach of families earning a median income for the city of $56,200.”
When I lived in the Midwest, from age 24 to 34, I attended numerous weddings, but as my social circle matured, the invitations naturally dried up. Yet when I moved back to my native, but now much more expensive, Los Angeles in 2000, I suddenly started being invited to weddings again.
Like male characters in a Jane Austen novel, four of my seven closest friends from my high-school class of 1976 got married and bought houses for the first time in their early forties.

Similarly, the cost of childrearing varies more across the country than ever before. A study of census data by the New York Times found that “Manhattan’s 35,000 or so white non-Hispanic toddlers are being raised by parents whose median income was $284,208 a year in 2005".
Second was San Francisco, where the 50th percentile of income for white parents of small children fell at $150,763. That explains a lot about why the city by the bay is last in the country in percentage of residents under 18, below even retirement havens such as Palm Beach.

GOP “family values” resound more in states where people can more afford to have families. In parts of the country where “Families can be easily supported, more Persons marry, and earlier in Life.” Where it is economical to buy a house with a yard in a neighborhood with a decent public school, you will generally find more conservatives.
It’s a stereotype that marriage, mortgage, and kids make people more conservative, but, like most stereotypes, it’s reasonably true. You’ll find fewer Republicans in places where family formation is expensive. Where fewer people can form families, Republican candidates making speeches about family values just sound irrelevant or irritating.

  … the Dirt Gap: Republican regions simply have more acres of land per person. Even excluding Alaska, counties that voted for Bush are only one-fourth as densely populated on average as Kerry’s counties.
Bush carried the 20 states that have the cheapest housing costs, while Kerry won the nine states that are most expensive. The states with the lowest-cost housing are Mississippi where Bush won an extraordinary 85 percent of the white vote, Bill Clinton home state Arkansas now solidly Republican, and GOP anchor state of Texas.

In recent years, the most expensive state for housing has been California. Although GOP presidential candidates carried California nine out of ten times from 1952 to 1988, they have not come close in the four elections since.
  … 2005 New York Times article focusing on Portland made clear: “Vibrant Cities Find One Thing Missing: Children.”

The Mortgage Gap leads, in turn, to a third factor: the Marriage Gap. Sophisticated voting analysts have long noted that the celebrated “gender gap” is dwarfed by the obscure “marriage gap.” Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg’s multiple regression analysis of the 2004 exit polls revealed:

    The marriage gap is one of the most important cleavages in electoral politics. This is true even when controlling for other demographic and behavioral factors such as gender, age, race, gun ownership, union household membership, party identification, education, income, and church attendance. … In contrast, once other demographic and behavioral factors were controlled for, a voter’s gender had no significant effect on their likelihood to vote for the Democrat.
"Being married” drives voters toward the GOP.

  … The white vote is the decisive swing vote.
The media drones on about supposedly decisive minority “swing voters” such as the small Hispanic bloc, only 6.0 percent of all voters in 2004, according to the census. The white bloc was dominant, casting 79 percent of the vote. Whites are highly diverse politically.
Each state’s overall voting behavior is driven primarily by the divergences in marriage and baby-making among whites. Whites appear more sensitive to cost-of-living calculations about marriage and babies

  … demographer Hans Johnson of the Public Policy Institute of California finds that American-born white women in costly California are having babies at a rate of only 1.6 per lifetime, while immigrant Latinas are having 3.7.
Little media attention has been paid to the relentless surge in illegitimacy. From 2005 to 2006, the number of babies born to married white women declined 0.4 percent, while the number born to unmarried Hispanic women rose an astonishing 9.6 percent.
Across all races, the illegitimacy rate in 2006 was 39 percent, up from 28 percent in 1990. For blacks, it was 71 percent, for Hispanics 50 percent, and for whites 27 percent.

Women in higher social classes are more likely to avoid the troubles of giving birth out of wedlock. They often postpone marriage and children until they can afford the down payment on a house in a neighborhood with good public schools.
  … the late housing bubble, over which Republicans George W. Bush and Alan Greenspan complacently presided, reduced the affordability of family formation, which should help the Democrats in the long run.
This theory suggests that, in order to encourage marriage and children among voters, Republicans should pursue policies that raise wages, lower demand for houses, and keep the public schools from eroding further. The most obvious way to move the country toward a more Republican future is to restrict immigration. This revamped GOP could then position itself as the party of more weddings and more babies, while describing the Democrats, with some accuracy, as the party of dying alone.

eugenics
  U.S. eugenics program ¹   Carl Bajema ß ç
ïndigo çhildren   breeding out color   ISAR

  Howard Garber,   Orange Cty CA eugenicist &
  46th Cong. Dist. candidate ¹ ² ³  

    dysgenics: withholding
  •   nutrition to stunt development
  •   natal attention to stunt social skills
  •   education to stunt maturation

    for sake of establishing
    physical & mental caste inferiority
    Ex.

  •   worker ants & bees
  •   A.Huxley's Brave New World social hierarchy
  perjorative   "alcohol in the test tube womb"
"The [govt] must put the most modern medical means in the service of this knowledge. … Those who are physically and mentally unhealthy and unworthy must not perpetuate their suffering in the body of their children. … The prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over a period of only 600 years, would … free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune."
attrib. A.Hitler
Alfred Rosenberg
"Per capita income gap between developed & developing countries is increasing, in large part the result of higher birth rates in the poorer countries. … Famine in India, unwanted babies in U.S., poverty that seemed to form an unbreakable chain for millions of people; how should we tackle these problems? … It is quite clear that one of the major challenges of the 1970s … will be to curb the world's fertility."
attrib. Geo.Bush pere
Madison Grant
… alliance of Bush family with 3 other families:
Farish, Draper and Gray. Private associations among these families led to the President's relationship to his closest, most confidential advisers. These alliances were forged in earlier Hitler project and its immediate aftermath … (& incl) obsession with supposed overpopulation …

Bush & Farish
When Geo.Bush elected V.President 1980, Texan Wm "Will" Stamps Farish III took over management of all of Geo.Bush's personal wealth in "blind trust". Known as one of the richest men in Texas, Will Farish keeps his business affairs under intense secrecy. Only the source of his immense wealth is known, not its employment. Will Farish long been Bush's closest friend & confidante. He is also unique private host to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II: Farish owns & boards the studs which mate with the Queen's mares. That is her public rationale when she comes to America and stays in Farish's house.
… the Bush family money. Farish's own family fortune was made in the same Hitler project, in partnership with Geo.Bush's father. On 3.25.42 U.S. Asst Atty Gen. Thurman Arnold announced Wm Stamps Farish, grandfather of the President's money manager, pled "no contest" to charges of criminal conspiracy with the Nazis. Farish was principal manager of a worldwide cartel between Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey & I.G. Farben concern. The merged enterprise opened the Auschwitz slave labor camp 6.14.40 to produce artificial rubber & gasoline from coal. The Hitler govt supplied political opponents & Jews as slaves worked to near death and then murdered. Arnold disclosed that Standard Oil of NJ, later known as Exxon, of which Farish was president & chief executive, had agreed to stop hiding from the U.S. patents for artificial rubber which the company had provided to the Nazis. Senate investigating committee under Sen., later U.S. President, Harry Truman D-MO called Arnold to testify at hearings on U.S. corporations' collaboration with the Nazis. Senators expressed outrage at the cynical way Farish was continuing an alliance with the Hitler regime that had begun back in 1933, when Farish became chief of Jersey Standard. …
The Justice Dept laid before the committee a letter, written to Standard president Farish by his vice president, shortly after the beginning of World War II (Sept. 1, 1939) in Europe. The letter concerned a renewal of their earlier agreements with the Nazis: Cold realities behind WWII, which help explain Bush-Farish family alliance and their peculiar closeness to the Queen of England:
Shell Oil is principally owned by the British royal family.

Shell's chairman Sir Henri Deterding helped sponsor Hitler's rise to power, by arrangement with the royal family's Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman. Their ally Standard Oil would take part in the Hitler project right up to the end. When grandfather Farish signed the Justice Dept's consent decree March 1942, the govt had already started picking its way through tangled web of world-monopoly oil & chemical agreements between Standard Oil & the Nazis.

Many patents & other Nazi-owned aspects of the partnership had been seized by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian.

Uncle Sam would not seize Prescott Bush's Union Banking Corporation for another 7 months. Bush-Farish axis began in 1929 the year Harriman bank bought Dresser Industries, supplier of oil-pipeline couplers to Standard & other companies. Prescott Bush became director & financial czar of Dresser, installing Yale classmate Neil Mahlon as chairman. Geo. Bush would later name one of his sons after the Dresser executive.

Wm S. Farish was main organizer of Humble Oil Co. of Texas, which Farish merged into Standard Oil of NJ. Farish built up Humble-Standard empire of pipelines & refineries in Texas. The stock market crashed just after the Bush family got into the oil business. World financial crisis led to merger of Walker-Harriman bank with Brown Brothers in 1931. Former Brown partner Montagu Norman & his protégé Hjalmar Schacht paid frantic visits to NY that year and the next, preparing the new Hitler regime for Germany.

Most important American political event in those preparations for Hitler was infamous "3rd Intl Congress on Eugenics" at American Museum of Natural History 8.21-23.32 in NY, supervised by Intl Fed. of Eugenics Societies. This meeting took up stubborn persistence of African-Americans and other allegedly "inferior" & "socially inadequate" groups in reproducing, expanding their numbers, and amalgamating with others. It was recommended that these "dangers" to the "better" ethnic groups and to the "well-born", could be dealt with by sterilization or "cutting off the bad stock" of the "unfit".
Italy's fascist govt sent an official representative. Averell Harriman's sister Mary, "Entertainment" dir. for the Congress, lived in Virginia fox-hunting country; her state supplied the speaker on "racial purity", W.A. Plecker, VA commissioner of vital statistics. Plecker reportedly held the delegates spellbound with his account of the struggle to stop race-mixing & inter-racial sex in Virginia. Congress proceedings were dedicated to Averell Harriman's mother; she paid for founding the race-science movement in America in 1910, building Eugenics Record Office as branch of the Galton National Laboratory in London. She & other Harrimans were usually escorted to the horse races by George Herbert Walker; they shared with the Bushes & the Farishes a fascination with "breeding thoroughbreds" among horses & humans.

Averell Harriman personally arranged with the Walker/Bush Hamburg-Amerika Line to transport Nazi ideologues from Germany to NY for this meeting. The most famous among those transported was Dr. Ernst Ruaudin, psychiatrist at Kaiser Wilhelm Inst. for Genealogy & Demography in Berlin, where Rockefeller family paid for Dr. Ruaudin to occupy an entire floor with his eugenics "research". Dr. Ruaudin addressed the Intl Federation's 1928 Munich meeting, speaking on "Mental Aberration & Race Hygiene", while others (Germans & Americans) spoke on race-mixing & sterilization of the unfit. Ruaudin had also led the German delegation to the 1930 Mental Hygiene Congress in Wash.DC.
At Harrimans' 1932 NY Eugenics Congress, Ruaudin was unanimously elected president of Intl Fed, of Eugenics Societies. This was recognition of Ruaudin as founder of German Society for Race Hygiene, with co-founder, Eugenics Federation vp Alfred Ploautz. … Components of movement incl groups with overlapping leadership, dedicated to:

Before Auschwitz death camp became household word, these British-American-European groups called openly for elimination of the "unfit" by means incl force & violence. Ten months later, in June 1933, Hitler's interior minister Wilhelm Frick spoke to a eugenics meeting in the new Third Reich. Frick called the Germans a "degenerate" race, denouncing one-fifth of Germany's parents for producing "feeble-minded" & "defective" children. The following month, on a commission by Frick, Dr. Ernst Ruaudin wrote the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases in Posterity", sterilization law modeled on previous U.S. statutes in Virginia & other states.
Special courts were soon established for the sterilization of German mental patients, the blind, the deaf and alcoholics. A quarter million people in these categories were sterilized. Ruaudin, Ploautz and their colleagues trained a generation of physicians & psychiatrists as sterilizers & as killers. When the war started, the eugenicists, doctors and psychiatrists staffed the new " T4 " agency, which planned & supervised mass killings: first at "euthanasia centers", where the same categories first subject to sterilization were now to be murdered, their brains sent in lots of 200 to experimental psychiatrists; then at slave camps such as Auschwitz; and finally, for Jews & other race victims, at straight extermination camps in Poland, such as Treblinka & Belsen.

In 1933, as what Hitler called his "New Order" appeared, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. appointed Wm S. Farish chairman of Standard Oil of NJ (in 1937 he was made president & chief executive). Farish moved his offices to Rockefeller Ctr, NY where he spent a good deal of time with I.G. Farben chairman Hermann Schmitz; his company paid a publicity man, Ivy Lee, to write pro-I.G. Farben & pro-Nazi propaganda and get it into the U.S. press. Now that he was outside of Texas, Farish found himself in the shipping business, like the Bush family.[ Samuel Russell legacy of means to control of intl trade ]
He hired Nazi German crews for Standard Oil tankers. And he hired Walker/Bush/Harriman Hamburg-Amerika Line chairman Emil Helfferich as chairman also of Standard Oil subsidiary in Germany. Hamburg-Amerika board member Karl Lindemann also became a top Farish-Standard executive in Germany. This interlock between their Nazi German operations put Farish together with Prescott Bush in a small, select group of men operating from abroad through Hitler's "revolution", calculating that they would never be punished.

In 1939, Farish's daughter Martha married Averell Harriman's nephew, Edward Harriman Gerry; Farish in-laws became Prescott Bush's partners at 59 Broadway. Both Emil Helfferich & Karl Lindemann were authorized to write checks to Nazi S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler on a special Standard Oil account. This account was managed by German-British-American banker, Kurt von Schroeder. Per U.S. intelligence documents reviewed by author Anthony Sutton, Emil Helfferich continued his payments to the S.S. into 1944, when the S.S. was supervising mass murder at Standard-I.G. Farben Auschwitz & other death camps. Helfferich told Allied interrogators after the war that these were not his personal contributions; they were corporate Standard Oil funds.

After pleading "no contest" to charges of criminal conspiracy with the Nazis, Wm Stamps Farish was fined $5,000. Similar fines were levied against Standard Oil: $5,000 each for the parent company and for several subsidiaries. Farish acquired millions of dollars in conjunction with Hitler's New Order, as a large stockholder, chairman & president of Standard Oil. The U.S. govt sought use of patents his company had given to the Nazis, the Auschwitz patents, but withheld from U.S. military & industry. … Farish went before Senate committee investigating the national defense program. Committee chair Sen. Harry Truman, told newsmen before Farish testified: "I think this approaches treason". Farish began breaking apart at these hearings. He shouted his "indignation" at the Senators, and claimed he was not "disloyal". After March-April hearings ended, more from Justice Dept & U.S. Congress on Farish & Standard Oil:

Communications between Standard & I.G. Farben from outbreak of WWII were released to the Senate, showing Farish's organization arranged to deceive U.S. govt into passing over Nazi-owned assets: They would nominally buy I.G.'s share in certain patents because "in the event of war between ourselves & Germany … it would certainly be very undesirable to have this 20% Standard-I.G. pass to an alien property custodian of the U.S. who might sell it to an unfriendly interest".
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , father of David, Nelson & John D. Rockefeller III, controlling owner of Standard Oil, told Roosevelt administration he knew nothing of day-to-day affairs of his company, that all these matters were handled by Farish and other executives. In Aug., Farish was brought back for more testimony. He was now frequently accused of lying. Farish was crushed under intense, public grilling; he became morose, ashen. Prescott Bush escaped publicity when the govt seized his Nazi banking organization in Oct. 1942 Farish collapsed & died of a heart attack 11.29.42

Farish family was devastated by the exposure. Son Wm Stamps Farish, Jr., Army Air Force Lt., was humiliated by public knowledge his father was fueling the enemy's aircraft; he died in a training accident in Texas 6 months later. With this double death, the fortune comprising much of Standard Oil's profits from Texas & Nazi Germany was now settled upon 4 year old grandson Wm " Will " Stamps Farish III. Will Farish grew up a recluse, most secretive multi-millionaire in Texas, with investments of "that money" in a multitude of foreign countries, and a host of exotic contacts overlapping the intelligence & financial worlds, particularly in Britain.

Bush-Farish axis started Geo.Bush's career. After 1948 Yale and Skull & Bones graduation, he flew to Texas on a corporate airplane and was employed by his father's Dresser Industries.

In a couple of years he got help from his uncle Geo.Walker Jr. & Farish's British banker friends to set him up in the oil property speculation business. Soon thereafter, Geo.Bush founded the Zapata Oil Co., which put oil drilling rigs into locations of great strategic interest to the Anglo-American intelligence community. Will Farish at 25 years old was a personal aide to Zapata chair Geo.Bush in Bush's unsuccessful 1964 campaign for Senate. Will Farish used "that Auschwitz money" to back Geo.Bush financially, investing in Zapata. When Bush was elected to Congress in 1966, Farish joined the Zapata board. When Geo.Bush became U.S. VP in 1980, Farish & Bush family fortunes were again completely, secretly commingled.

"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich."
John Loftus, US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator
& pres., Florida Holocaust Museum
per 11.11.00 Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Only Florida could produce adoption law encouraging abortion   10.22.02   J.Collins Times

… America's Scarlet Letter law, the ultimate double standard law, created by Walter Campbell, a Democratic state senator, and passed in Florida last year. … requires women of all ages (incl minors) who do not know the identity of their child's father to publish in newspapers sexual details about themselves and their possible sexual partners before they are allowed to put the child up for adoption.
Background searches are the first step, but when these fail, the law states that the mother must place legal notices in newspapers in cities where the baby may have been conceived. She must include her name & description, name & description of the possible father, and dates & places where conception might have taken place. The notifications must be published wherever conception may have occurred, even if it is outside the state of Florida.

… completely beyond the realms of logic. The result of this law is that many women who would normally give birth to their babies then give them up for adoption might decide to have an abortion instead. Why should they go through embarrassment & humiliation of having to list their description & their sex partners in the newspapers? Ironically, it is the anti-abortion lobby which came up with this law in the first place.
… law that benefits no one, esp. the unborn child.



    D.C. Policy-makers: marriage is back
    2.28.02   AP
WASHINGTON   Marriage, butt of untold numbers of jokes over the centuries, is back. After years of what one researcher calls an "enforced spell of silence," marriage is the new mantra among Washington policy-makers who want to nudge unwed parents toward the altar to improve their lives and those of their children. "We will work to strengthen marriage," President Bush proclaimed this week in announcing welfare reform proposals that include spending up to $200 million a year on pro-marriage programs. It's music to the ears of conservatives, who've waited decades to hear this tune. Conservative Heritage Foundation sr research fellow Robert Rector says talking about the impact of marriage on social problems became "politically incorrect" in the years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a future senator, prompted charges of racism with his 1965 report on the breakdown of the black family. Dan Quayle got slapped around during the 1992 presidential campaign for criticizing TV's Murphy Brown for delivering a baby sans hubby. But it was President Clinton, whose marriage was a bounteous subject for armchair analysis, who really elevated the issue during the last round of welfare changes 5 years ago. The subject largely drifted off the radar screen again after that. "It's back, now," says Rector, "and it's a more honest discussion this time around."

One reason the welfare conversation is coming back to marriage is that some 80% of child poverty occurs among youth from broken families or unwed parents. Nearly a third of all American children are being born out of wedlock, and children raised by never-married mothers are 7 times more likely to live in poverty than those raised by married, biological parents. Bush says kids in two-parent families are also less likely to drop out of school, become addicted to drugs, have a child out of wedlock, suffer abuse or end up in prison. Conservatives would love to see all those unwed mothers marching down the aisle for moral reasons, too. But some worry the "pro-marriage" camp may get carried away about the benefits of matrimony.
A 3-city study released earlier this month by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found a slight increase in poor children growing up in two-parent households. "I think marriage is overrated as a cure for the problems of children in low-income families," said Andrew Chernin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University and an author of the study. "No one is anti-marriage, but I don't the benefits of marriage policy are as high as some others do."

Bush insists he's a realist. "I understand there are some families that simply aren't meant to be," he said Wednesday. "On the other hand, we ought to aim for a goal, a goal that recognizes the power and importance of two-parent families in America. "Libertarians reject the whole idea of govt trying to steer people to the altar. "It's a bit silly," said Kimble Ainslie, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute. Of course, there are other ways to entice a reluctant parent down the aisle. The Heritage Foundation's Rector, for example, suggests using celebrities to "affirm the linkage between marriage and personal happiness." No less an authority than Donald Trump, two marriages down and perhaps a third to come, is happy to oblige. "Marriage is a great institution if you get it right," he said Tuesday on MSNBC's "Region in Conflict," of all shows. "When you get it right, there's nothing better; when you don't get it right, it is a mistake."


 
    Axis of Evil
    Manhattan Institute slogan in service to NWO
    3.1.02   Robt Lederman  
The man who coined GW's now infamous slogan, "Axis of Evil" was a sr fellow at the Manhattan Institute (MI) before joining the Bush admin. He's just been dropped from the Bush payroll according to Wash.Times. MI also coined the slogan, "Compassionate Conservatism" for GW, who publicly claims the Rockefeller-funded organizations' influence on his thinking is, "second only to the Holy Bible".

What is the Manhattan Institute?
MI is a right wing think tank founded in 1978 by
Wm Casey, Bush/Reagan's CIA dir.   [ & Nixon SEC Dir. ]
Following WWII Casey helped bring thousands of former Nazis involved in eugenics & the Holocaust to the U.S. As CIA director he later funded bin Laden and Co. with billions in arms, terrorist training & cash and was also a key player in arming the Contras.
MI is funded by JP Morgan/Chase bank (owned by David Rockefeller) and by pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer and Lilly) directly connected to Rockefeller, Bush Sr and many of the current Bush administration officials. Bush Sr was Eli Lilly director in the late 70's. Bush Budget dir. Mitch Daniels was also a Lilly sr executive. Donald Rumsfeld formerly headed Searle Pharmaceuticals. All of these companies depend in large part for their products on research originally done by the IG Farben chemical cartel in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller's Chase bank was among Hitler's biggest U.S. supporters before and during WWII. The Rockefeller families' Standard Oil of NJ was half owner of IG Farben, the industrial base of the entire Third Reich. GWBush's grandfather, Prescott Bush and Prescott's father-in-law George Herbert Walker (who GW is named after) were Wall St bankers whose fortune was made operating & financing shipping companies, banks & steel foundries for the Nazi regime.

MI's most famous alumni after Rudy Giuliani is Charles Murray, auth. "The Bell Curve", modern classic of eugenics. The Bell Curve popularized idea that Blacks are genetically inferior in intelligence to Whites as a justification for eliminating welfare, increasing so-called quality of life arrests, limiting parole, taking children from Black families etc. Murray was paid consultant on Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson's welfare program and is a spokesman for the Federalist Society, which has direct ties to a number of current U.S. Supreme Court judges.
Thompson's #2 man on welfare reform was Jason Turner, who Rudy Giuliani later hired to head up NYC's welfare reform. Turner actually quoted the motto from the gates of Auschwitz to explain Giuliani's workfare policy and later forced to apologize.
¹

Rudy Giuliani also claims to get all of his ideas directly from MI. Many of his policy ideas are directly based on Murray's books. MI has spearheaded a decades long effort to make the goals of eugenics respectable again. The Bush family, the Harriman family (the Wall St business partners of Bush in financing Hitler) and the Rockefeller family are the elite of the American eugenics movement.

verif. David Frum assoc. w/ MI "Where Did the Sixties Come From? By David Frum Sr Fellow Manhattan Institute."
search MI website on David Frum; hundreds of documents' pages relate to him.


Why Global Gag Rule undermines U.S. Foreign Policy & harms women's health  
factsheet

Stop the Global Gag Rule
House committee to repeal Bush family planning gag order
5.1.01   PAI

Washington   Population Action International today urged HIRC to pass the Lee Amendment, Rep. Barbara Lee D-CA sponsor, to repeal the global gag rule & reverse President Bush's family intl family planning gag order which banned recipients of U.S. intl family planning assistance from providing abortions with their own funds, counseling women on abortion or engaging in political speech on abortion. "The women who have been gagged by this order need Congress to speak out for them," said Amy Coen, President of PAI. U.S. intl family planning assistance provides women in developing countries with reproductive health services, incl contraception, prenatal care and HIV/AIDS prevention. Already, Intl Planned Parenthood Federation and Ipas have lost millions of dollars in family planning assistance. IPPF reports that they will have to cancel campaigns promoting safe sex & contraception, esp. in Asia & Africa. Ipas has indicated that they will have to cancel programs to train nurses & midwives in poor countries. Result of these cuts will be reduced access to family planning, contributing to higher rates of unintended pregnancies, maternal death & abortion.
The global gag rule also forces family planning providers to withhold potentially life-saving information about safe abortion. More than 70,000 women worldwide die each year from botched abortions, a number that could climb as result of Bush gag rule. Finally the global gag rule forces family planning providers to give up free speech rights by promising not to engage in political advocacy on abortion, an unconstitutional restriction if imposed on Americans. "President claims to have bipartisan support for the gag rule. He's wrong," said Coen. "Republicans & Democrats alike have joined the American people in opposition to this policy." Since … announced, response … European Union immediately blasted the gag rule and is considering increasing assistance for intl family planning to "fill the decency gap." Newsweek poll showed majority of American people disapprove of gag rule. 75+ newspapers across the country have condemned the order; 5 supported it. Senate bill to repeal gag rule has 5 Republicans support, Arlen Specter (PA), Olympia Snowe (ME), Susan Collins (ME), Jim Jeffords (VT), and Lincoln Chafee (RI). Even members of Bush's cabinet spoke out against the policy.

    Bush Sidesteps Congress On Gag Rule
    Legal Sleight-of-Hand
    3.27.01   PAI
Washington   &133; decision to issue Presidential Memorandum imposing the gag rule comes on the heels of an effort in Congress to prevent the restrictions from going into effect. Last week 5 Republicans … and 2 Democrats, Barbara Boxer (CA) & Harry Reid (NV), introduced joint resolution of disapproval on the gag rule. … Amy Coen, PAI president. "It is patently anti-democratic, as is the gag rule itself, and calls into question his stated desire to work with Congress." Last week's bipartisan effort to repeal the gag rule came under the Congressional Review Act, seldom-used law that allows Congress to repeal new regulations within 60 days of their implementation. At least 30 Senators had already sponsored the resolution. … Coen, "Bush has responded by taking procedural steps aimed at stopping Congress from even voting on the issue."

Bush budget silent on overseas family planning
3.9.01   PAI

President Bush's budget blueprint, released last week, leaves little room for the U.S. to meet commitments to increase funds for international family planning assistance. Meanwhile, 3.8.01 PAI & CARE report illustrates the desperate need for basic reproductive health services in the developing world. &3133; Bush budget proposal contains few specifics, broad outlines for funding levels & priority pgms leave little room for much-needed increases in funding for international family planning assistance. The President did propose a modest increase of $1.2 billion for intl affairs spending overall. However, the President also proposed $1.3 billion in new funding for embassy security, $1.3 billion for the drug war in Colombia, and unspecified increases for HIV/AIDS, primary education in developing countries, and military aid to Israel. … makes no direct mention of family planning whatsoever … in stark contrast to earlier promises of support for intl family planning funding. Following global gag rule imposition, Pres.Bush said he "is committed to maintaining the $425 million funding level provided for in the FY 2001 appropriation because he knows that one of the best ways to prevent abortion is by providing quality voluntary family planning services."

… report data on reproductive health in 133 countries … never-before released: one in every 65 women in developing countries will die from reproductive health-related causes during her lifetime, a rate 33 times higher than the risk to women in developed countries. New estimates suggest that about 515,000 women die each year in pregnancy … childbirth, or almost one death every minute, and millions more women become ill or disabled. The new estimate confirms that maternal mortality remains a serious problem, particularly in sub- Saharan Africa where half of all deaths from pregnancy-related causes occur. In countries with the highest teen birth rates, including Angola, Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone, one in five girls aged 15 to 19 give birth each year.
The report identifies universal access to contraceptives, essential obstetric care, and HIV/AIDS prevention programs as 3 keys to reproductive health. The report identifies 2 crucial building blocks for achieving universal access to basic reproductive health care. First, govts in both wealthy & poor countries must increase support & funding for reproductive health services, esp. for family planning, essential obstetric care, and HIV/AIDS prevention. Second, govts must increase support & funding for pgms that create economic & educational opportunities for women. Because reproductive health is linked to a woman's social & economic wellbeing, programs that contribute to her status within her family, and to her knowledge of & access to institutions & ideas, will improve not only her own health, but also the health of her children.

U.S. shirking its commitments
Crippling rates of reproductive health problems in the developing world are doubly tragic given the availability of relatively inexpensive life-saving interventions. Recent analysis by PAI & team of other family planning experts found that $169 million increase in intl family planning assistance (restoring a 30% cut imposed in 1995) would provide 11.7 million couples with access to contraception, resulting in 4.3 million fewer unintended pregnancies, 2.2 million fewer abortions, and half a million fewer miscarriages. Every one hundred thousand dollars in U.S. assistance would buy nearly four million condoms. A safe pregnancy kit costing just 50 cents to American taxpayers is enough to reduce dramatically a woman's chance of dying from complications of childbirth.
… U.S. commitments made at 1994 Intl Conference on Population & Development (ICPD) in Cairo … called for intl spending of $17 billion annually by the year 2000 (rising to $21.7 billion annually by 2015) to achieve universal access to basic reproductive health services. 6 years later, U.S. is allocating barely one-third of its fair share of these costs. By contrast, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway provide 4 times more assistance than U.S. by percentage of GNP.

Powell, Whitman join opposition to Bush global gag rule   Bipartisan bill introduced in Congress to repeal gag order   2.28.01   PAI

… bipartisan family planning supporter coalition in Congress introduced "Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2001" bill that would repeal President Bush's global gag rule on family planning providers in developing countries. … by prohibiting President from refusing to fund organizations solely because they provide services that are legal in their countries & would be legal in U.S. Also blocks President from imposing on foreign orgs free speech restrictions that would be unconstitutional if imposed on Americans. Bill's lead sponsors incl Rep. Nita Lowey D-NY & Nancy Johnson R-CT, and Sen. B.Boxer (D-CA) & Olympia Snowe R-ME. Introduced in Senate 2.15.01, the date that the global gag rule went into effect with impressive bipartisan support. Senate version has 19 original cosponsors, incl 5 Republicans. House version had at least 66 original cosponsors, incl 7 Republicans. Bills referred to Senate Foreign Relations Committee & HIRCommittee. Supporters of family planning might also attempt to repeal global gag rule through amendment to Foreign Operations Appropriations bill later this year.
Sec.State Colin Powell voiced personal opposition to the policy, saying, "It is the policy. I have other views that are my personal views" (This Week, 2/4/01). EPA Admin Christine Todd Whitman used even stronger language opposing the policy on CNN's Crossfire, saying ,"I was sorry he did that, and I obviously don't agree with that" (2/26). … Some of most capable, experienced and committed groups may be unable or unwilling to meet the gag rule's requirements. That was the experience of Intl Planned Parenthood Federation, which lost U.S. funding as a result of the global gag rule from 1984-1993.

more key decisions for Bush
Last week, Pres.Bush appointed Andrew Natsios, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority chair, to head U.S. Agency for Intl Development (USAID), agency that distributes U.S. intl family planning assistance.. Indications are that he is an outstanding administrator; … Bush first budget … Funding was increased slightly last year to $425 million, but remains far below amount provided before 1996 when severe one-third cut was imposed.

Bush decision threatens intl family planning
Gag rule will hurt pgms that reduce unplanned pregnancies & abortion
1.22.01   Intl Planned Parenthood Council IPPF/WHR Announcement today Pres.Bush intends to reinstate Mexico City Policy, known as "global gag rule" …

Global gag rule lifted
Intl family planning assistance bolstered in Foreign Aid bill passed by House
1.25.01   Intl Planned Parenthood Council IPPF/WHR

Washington   … "Today's compromise marks a reprieve from five years of funding cuts, free speech restrictions, audits, accusations, harassment and intimidation," said Amy Coen, PAI president. "It's a victory for women's health & for democracy." Facing a threatened veto by Pres.Clinton, Cong. leaders relented on Global Gag Rule and agreed to first increase in intl family planning assistance since Republicans took control of Congress in 1994.
Bill increases assistance for intl family planning to $425 million from $385 million last year and lifts Global Gag Rule. (Use of U.S. funds for abortion has been illegal since 1973.) As condition of final compromise, bill delays release of funds until 2.15.01   Bush would have power to impose Global Gag Rule by executive action, effectively overturning today's compromise. Similar restrictions were imposed by both Pres.Reagan & Bush.

"Depending on the voters' decision on Election Day, today's compromise may not be worth the paper it's written on," said Lisa Moreno, PAI sr policy analyst. "It's no secret that Governor Bush would likely renew the family planning restrictions of his father's admin." U.S.AID est. tens of millions of couples in developing world have used family planning as a direct result of U.S. assistance, lowering rates of unwanted pregnancies, abortion, maternal death, and HIV/AIDS transmission.

Family planning also helps to protect the environment and reduce poverty by stabilizing population growth. … Coen. "… Family planning is a simple, win-win solution to many complex problems".

  Mexico City policy
  Abortion funding in foreign countries
10.27.00   Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance

In 1984 during UN Intl Conf on Population in Mexico City, Pres.Reagan by executive order announced ban on U.S. govt financial support for U.S. & foreign family planning agencies involved in any way with provision of abortion in foreign countries. This ban totally removed all U.S. govt funding from such agencies even though main part of their budget involved simple contraceptive, family planning ed. & service delivery, and had no involvement in providing abortions. … "During 9 years ban was in effect, funding increased substantially for USAID population planning assistance, and 350 private, foreign organizations received aid." Intl Planned Parenthood Federation & a few other agencies refused to conform to the Mexico City policy. They continued to direct part of their budget to abortion provision, and to political activity to advocate for access to abortion. They were denied all govt funding.

Opposition to the funding ban
Argue main effect is to remove funding from family planning pgms around the world. This increases the unwanted pregnancy rate, inevitably causing an increase abortions. Thus the policy negates its own goals. Legislators who favored a lifting on the funding ban stated in a 1997 joint resolution of Congress …

Support for the funding ban
Legislators who favored continuing funding ban deny contraceptive usage & abortion numbers are related. They stated in a 1997 joint resolution of Congress that: "This vote is about taxpayer funding of abortions in other countries and of lobbying other countries to overturn their pro-life laws. Any claim to the contrary is intellectually dishonest. … U.S. has no business funding elective abortions in other countries, esp. when world opinion is that abortion should never, ever be promoted as a method of birth control; U.S. has no business funding abortions in countries in violation of those countries laws; U.S. has no business paying for organizations to pressure countries to adopt pro-abortion laws in violation of deeply held cultural & religious beliefs of their citizenry."
Argue abortion rates are primarily influenced by improvements in the economy & increases in personal freedom: "During 1980s under Pres.Reagan's & Pres.Bush's leadership, nearly all Latin America moved from dictatorships to free-market democracies, and the Soviet Empire collapsed. Countries that have had greatest amount of economic progress & greatest increase in personal freedom have had the largest decline in the abortion rates. This change can be seen very dramatically in Russia; our colleagues totally ignore the democratic & economic gains Russia has been making when looking at the huge decline in the abortion rate; they instead attribute it entirely to the fact that contraceptive use has gone up by 5% roughly 24%."

Reinstatement of the funding ban
1.22.01   Pres.GWBush reinstated funding ban … rationale somewhat confusing. He wrote to U.S.AID "It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or abroad." But no such funds have been involved. Existing legislation prevents foreign grants from being used to fund abortions. …
[ This is civil liberties issue. Can a federal grantee spend separate non-tax$ as self-determined & speak without censorship by funding? Contra cocaine lords did ]

Reaction was swift
Ann Stone, Republicans for Choice chair "He's supposed to be measuring for drapes on his first day, not interfering with women's rights. To start out like this makes us very sad."
Douglas Johnson, Natl Right to Live Committee leg. dir. "The U.S. govt will no longer be using taxpayer dollars to try to legalize abortion in countries in Latin America, Africa, and Muslim countries in which the people are strongly opposed to abortion and believe in the protection of unborn children."
Kate Michelman, Natl Abortion and Reproductive & Reproduction Rights Action League pres. "Bush made it clear that he will use his presidential powers to undermine the reproductive rights of the world's women"

links
"Congress jettisons 'Mexico City' Policy"
Pete Winn Focus on the Family

"Foreign population aid & abortion (Mexico City Policy)
Joint resolution passed 53 - 46"

8.3.99 Rep. Ron Paul R-TX once again offered his amendment to Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. The "Paul Amendment" is a motion to strike all U.S. funding for intl population control. Although the amendment failed (145-272), this is still a significant pro-life vote. Since there are now fewer pro-life members of Congress, and the House voted only recently to restore funding to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Concerned Women for America (CWA) did not know how well this vote would do. CWA is pleased that the amendment maintained its momentum and will continue to work with Congress to stop U.S. intl population control funding.

2 years ago 9.4.97 Rep. Paul offered his critical amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. This amendment received 147 votes on the floor, and 2 members later changed their vote, for a total of 149 House members in support, a significant pro-life victory. For the first time in history, entire House of Representatives had voted on whether or not to completely defund … population control policies … in developing nations for over 30 years.
Since Feb.1997, CWA has made passage of this amendment one of our top 3 legislative priorities. While "Mexico City Policy" would stop taxpayer funding from being spent to lobby foreign govts to liberalize their abortion laws, …U.S. funds would still be used for
Organizations that perform surgical abortions;
Distribution of abortifacients such as "morning after pill," Norplant, Depo-Provera and RU-486
Fertility experiments on women, or intrauterine device (IUD) insertion, often without a woman's consent or knowledge of the dangerous side effects
Advancement of Planned Parenthood-like models of sex education, that seek to socially re-engineer cultures by undermining family and religion
Massive & wasteful condom distribution to children & unmarried couples to the extent that many children in developing nations use condoms for balloons while doctors have no access to simple penicillin or anti-malarial medication

Examples of U.S.-funded intl population control horrors:
In 1980s, Christina, Costa Rican woman, began to look sick. She became more pale & obviously very ill. When Jim Woodall, Central American missionary (and former CWA Chief Exec. Officer) asked Christina what was wrong, she said, "It's a female problem. My bleeding won't stop." Christina had to travel a long way by boat then by car to reach a doctor. He examined her and found that an IUD had been implanted in her womb, without her knowledge or consent.

1995 BBC documentary entitled The Human Laboratory revealed U.S.AID money been used through local contractors to conduct fertility experiments on poor women in Bangladesh & Haiti slums. They received Norplant but were not told Norplant was experimental or that they were part of a fertility drug trial. "Family planners" refused to remove the Norplant when many of these women went blind, bled severely and had unbearable headaches. "We'll take it out of your dead body," one woman was told. These women said they felt like human guinea pigs. "It's cheaper for them to use Third World women than to use a lab animal in the West," said Farida Akhter, Exec. Dir.r for Research for Development Alternatives in Bangladesh.

USAID gives U.S. tax dollars to population control programs in 67 countries (Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe). In 1995, USAID gave $21,491,811 to the Western Hemisphere region of the Intl Planned Parenthood Federation, and $26,570,160 to Population Services International

intl pro-life organization Family of the Americas filmed interviews with poor women in Guatemala slums. Local Intl Planned Parenthood affiliate encouraged these women to be sterilized yet never told them that sterilization was permanent. Many other women interviewed were given contraception, but never told of the severe side effects.

At 2 intl UN conf., Dr. Margaret Ogola of Kenya testified she cannot get the penicillin she needs to treat dying children, but more expensive IUDs are readily available. She also described how "family planners" have put so many condoms into Kenya that the children use them as balloons and play with them in the streets.

Many nations are regularly coerced into accepting intl "population policies." At intl UN conf., many diplomats told us they tried to refuse money for "population assistance" pgms but were told the funds were inextricably linked to World Bank loans or other types of economic foreign assistance.

U.S. govt participating in population control pgms in Peru since mid-1960s. Dec.1999, Population Research Institute again sent investigators to Peru, who presented findings at 3.14.00 cong, briefing. Although sterilization campaigns had subsided, family planning abuses were still rampant: pressure to choose a contraceptive, threats to withhold health care, bribes, targets and quotas. Family planning is now integrated into general health care. Consequently, women fear they may be sterilized or given birth control without their knowledge. Physicians had also verbally abused women, calling them "stupid" & "animals." Even the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP), along with Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights (CLADEM), acknowledged & documented this fact in its joint report, Silence and Complicity

Pres.Clinton said his 2001 budget proposal will include $169million, 45% increase, for family planning services overseas. U.S. currently contributes $394million toward intl population control, greater contribution than any other country, with $372.5 million earmarked for USAID.

Claim that women around world will die without U.S. "population" assistance is smoke screen for a population control agenda. "We cannot accept a world in which part of humanity lives on the cutting edge of a new economy, and the rest live on the bare edge of survival," said Pres.Clinton. Rather than advocating funding for basic survival needs, clean water, medicine, nutrition, he called for increased "family planning" funds.

    YOUR BILL IS PAST DUE
    3.11.98   PBS NewsHour
KWAME HOLMAN:   Pres.Reagan adopted that provision as part of U.S. foreign policy following a 1984 conf. in Mexico City. The policy banned U.S. financial support for international family planning groups that perform or promote abortions, even if they used their own funds. President Clinton overturned that ban 3 days after he took office in 1993. Now, despite the President's threatened veto, congressional Republicans are trying to re- establish the Mexico City Policy by attaching to the same legislation that contains the money owed the United Nations. At a hearing last month Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Jesse Helms urged Sec. Albright to at least seek a compromise with Republicans on the Mexico City policy. Sen. Rod Grams R-MN, chair Senate Foreign Relations Intl Operations Subcommittee
Rep. Lee Hamilton D-IN HIRC ranking member

HAMILTON   I oppose this conference report for a lot of reasons. It micro-manages all over the place in the State Dept. It intrudes on the president's ability to conduct foreign policy, it doesn't pay our bills that we owe to the UN. It has many, many provisions in it that I think are intrusive in the foreign policy process. It's a bad bill and I think would substantially hurt the President in his ability to carry out American foreign policy.
GRAMS   Well, I have supported Rep. Smith on this. I disagreed with him on attaching it to this package, but, nonetheless, it is on the package. It went to the President last year. He vetoed it. And the one line says "to allow U.S.-funded organizations to lobby to change abortion laws in other countries." That's all that's said. Now, Rep. Smith moved a long ways in the negotiation towards the President. The President refused to move even an inch and decided that U.N. arrears, U.N. reforms, State Dept reorganization, and IMF funding was not as important as that one line in the bill and decided to veto it. He's threatening to do it again. So all that we do might be for naught. But if the President decides that all of those are not as important as allowing our country to or funding for lobbying on the abortion issue, I think this is something the President should really look at because the ball is in his court. We've done our job on the Hill. Now the President has to make that last decision. About the funding, really we're only $54million behind on dues, and that's only because of calendar years. We're not in arrearage on that. The bulk of the money is peacekeeping not owed to the U.N. but to other UN members, such as Britain, France, Fiji, et cetera. So these are funds that are not holding up the activities of the U.N.. We might be making some of our friends a little anxious in getting their money, but it's not stopping any of that, but basically it says if you want the dollars, you're going to have to have the reforms. And it's very basic, very simple.

HAMILTON   Well, they certainly are. It's not that our friends are anxious; they're just outright mad at us. What we're doing is asking the world to take over all these burdens of peacekeeping. We're not going to pay our share. We want them to pay the bill. And they don't like that. And I don't blame them for not liking it. We ought to pay our bills on time in full. With regard to Mexico City, my view is that's a very important issue. Members feel very strongly about it, but linking it to the question of the U.N. and to the other big question, international question, International Monetary Fund, I just don't think makes good sense for American foreign policy. These issues of payment of dues to the UN & payment of the quota for the IMF go right to the heart of the ability of this nation to conduct its foreign policy. They are tough enough issues in & of themselves, as the differences here have made very clear. But to link it to another very difficult issue, no matter whose fault it is, is just putting a great obstacle in the way of the conduct of American foreign policy.
GRAMS   We paid over $2.97 billion last year alone in peacekeeping fees, U.S. taxpayers, $700 million already with the Saddam Hussein issue with Iraq. So we pay more than our fair share. So being a little bit behind on these arrears has nothing to do with our obligation and what we do to help keep peace around the world.

Difficult Straits
Economic Interdependence & Women's Labor in Taiwan
Elizabeth K. Spahn, Prof. Law, N.England Law School

… The women's vote, overwhelmingly pro-choice, is significant enough to the Democrats that Pres.Clinton is resisting Republican efforts to attach an anti-abortion restriction to a bill providing $18billion for the IMF & $1billion past due to the UN.   cf "House GOP puts brakes on IMF Funds; Abortion restriction threatens Clinton veto & another standoff" Eric Schmitt NYTimes 3.12.98 pA10.   In rejecting the Republican proposal, "the White House & its Democratic allies … suggested Pres.Clinton would veto the all important spending bill, despite furious lobbying by his foreign policy advisors … rather than buckle to Republican anti-choice demands."

    More on the Mexico City Policy
    Congress has adjourned until 1998
    11.19.97   Michael Reagan RII
… Pro-life leader Rep. Chris Smith R-NJ agreed to language that would make the Mexico City policy permanent law, but allowing President Clinton to the power to waive exceptions for agencies that perform abortions. Should he exercise the waiver, the $385million in family planning funds would be reduced to $350million, permanently capping all expenditures for those purposes, from any federal account, at that amount. Funding for family planning services overseas comes from govt sources other than foreign operations, increasing the amount far beyond the $385 million of concern here. The compromise was accepted by the Senate but was stopped by House Foreign Operations Subcommittee chairman Rep. John Porter R-IL & Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen R- NJ, both staunch supporters of abortion. When Congress reconvenes in January, these issues will reemerge. In 11.14.97 WashTimes, Rep. Smith said he has been assured the U.N. money will never be paid without the abortion language he wants. Mexico City is absolutely, totally, inextricably linked to U.N. arrearages & IMF, he said. … In the 28 largest recipient countries of U.S. funds, av. number of children per family has dropped from 6.1 in the 1960s to 4.2 today, nearly one-third decline. U.S. govt provides population assistance through 3 channels: bilateral, nongovtal and multilateral. One-third to one-half of the funds are provided directly to govts of about 40 developing countries for projects jointly managed by U.S.AID field missions. Remainder of USAID funds support wide range of population activities in over 100 countries implemented by NGOs. U.S. also been major contributor to UN Population Fund (UNFPA), largest multilateral organization involved in population, since its founding in 1969. Virtually every major innovation in the population   family planning field can be directly or indirectly linked to U.S. support. For example, U.S. pioneered variety of successful approaches to extending family planning through the private sector. Modern technology has also been creatively applied to the population field in the areas of mass communication, demographic data collection & analysis, and biomedical research in the development of new contraceptives.
Staff of career experts on population & related areas within USAID is unique among donor agencies. In addition, strong public-private partnership with U.S. based NGOs been key to USAID's ability to provide high quality technical advice & support to govts & indigenous NGOs in developing countries. … In the 1980s, domestic political debates on abortion spilled over into intl population assistance policy. Foreign aid funds used for abortion or for coercive programs has been prohibited by law since the passage of the Helms amendment in 1973, and support for biomedical research on abortion was banned in 1981. But the Reagan Admin imposed addtl policy restrictions on pgm in 1984 with Mexico City Policy which denied U.S. assistance to a foreign NGO if it had any involvement in abortion, even if paid for with non-U.S. funds. In addition, Reagan & Bush admin withheld U.S. contribution to UNFPA between 1986 & 1992 because of its projects in China.

In 1993, Mexico City Policy was overturned by Pres.Clinton. U.S. contribution to UNFPA was restored after existing law was reinterpreted by the Clinton admin and after Congress approved safeguards disassociating the U.S. from any coercive practices and ensuring that no U.S. funds would by used by UNFPA in China. During 104th Congress, anti-choice opponents of family planning have sought repeatedly to reimpose Mexico City Policy and to cutoff U.S. funding of UNFPA. Congress first appropriated funds for population assistance in 1965. Funding rose fairly steadily to a peak of nearly $600 million in 1995 before suffering a drastic 35 percent funding reduction in 1996. But even before this congressionally imposed funding cut, effects of inflation and increases in the number of women of reproductive age have meant that the growth in U.S. funding for family planning and other reproductive health programs has failed to keep pace with the demand for high quality services around the world.

Wal-Mart ordered to carry 'morning-after' pill   Lawsuit filed over Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy ruling that chain must carry drug
2.16.06   MSNBC

Wal-Mart was ordered this week by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy to carry the morning after pill, commercial emergency contraceptive.  The directive came after 3 women, backed by abortion rights groups, sued Wal-Mart to carry the pill in its Massachusetts stores. Dr. Rebecca Guy, one of those women, w/ her atty Sam Perkins, discuss case w/ Tucker Carlson.

Carlson:  Doctor, why should govt be telling businesses what they can and cannot sell?  Or why should anyone be forcing businesses to sell things they don‘t want to sell?

Dr. E. Guy   , :   Emergency contraception pill is not like stocking Colgate versus Crest tooth paste.  A pharmacy is a medical, it‘s part of the healthcare system.  It‘s dispensing medications that are crucial to patient care.  The prescription that a patient goes to a pharmacy with is part of a physician-patient contract.  A patient, when he goes to the medication, expects to be able to get that medication. 

Carlson    : Wal-Mart is owned by its stock holders.  Why shouldn‘t they get to decide what Wal-Mart sells?

  Dr. E. Guy   :  What they sell on their shelves other than the pharmacy.  The pharmacy is critical to patient care.  Whether stocking medicines to treat diabetes or hypertension, when a woman walks in to a pharmacy, she is getting a medication that she may need.
  (W/) emergency contraception, sooner you take it the more effective it is; time is of the essence.  If a woman goes to a pharmacy and is refused medication, it may not be as effective, if she has to go pharmacy shopping.

  Carlson    : She can go somewhere else and buy it.  Or she can‘t.  But the fact is that it‘s not up to her what Wal-Mart sells. Mr. Perkins, you could make the same argument about grocery stores.  I need to eat to live.  But I‘m not allowed to tell a grocery store what has to sell, and neither is govt yet. 

    [ False.
    Standard corporate argument since at least Ronald Reagan presidency to reverse social regulation to 100+ year old antecedent of permitting soiled of spoiled meat & produce, reducing commercial liability to
    caveat emptor. ]
S.Perkins Esq.   ,:  If Bloomingdale‘s decided it didn‘t like comments you made on your show, (it might) stop stocking bow ties.  That would be one thing that they have the right to do.  But we‘re talking about something that is an integral part of the healthcare system.

Carlson     As defined by whom?

    [ A.   Duly appointed regulatory authority, MA Pharmacy Board. ]
S.Perkins Esq.   :  From doctor‘s point of view, for someone to say, when a doctor has prescribed emergency contraception to a woman who may be at risk of having a baby that is unintended, that‘s the equivalent, if you won‘t give her that prescription at the time she needs it on an emergency basis or turning someone away from an emergency room.  Pharmacies are not Bloomingdale‘s.

  Carlson     : Emergency contraception pill is not a pill that saves a woman‘s life.  The crux of it‘s controversial.  Some people believe this pill is immoral.  This is tantamount to forcing people to perform abortions.  Some people think abortion is fine, and some don‘t.

Dr. E. Guy   :  Emergency contraception is just that.  It‘s contraception that works not through an abortion fashion.  It‘s often confused with RU-486, which is an abortion pill.  But emergency contraception is the same medication that is in most common contraception and works, as you may know, the same way that breast feeding and the IUD and other things work. 

Carlson    : I don‘t have a problem with it.  Some people think it‘s immoral.  They have a right to believe it‘s immoral. You‘re forcing people to commit an act they believe is immoral … the power of the state of Massachusetts to make people sell something they don‘t want to sell.

  S.Perkins Esq.   :  This is a regulated industry.
Dr. E. Guy   :  The Board of Pharmacy unanimously voted under Massachusetts state law pharmacies are required to stock medications that are commonly prescribed and needed by the community, deciding this meets both of those requirements. It requires Wal-Mart to cover this medication.
S.Perkins Esq.   :  They‘re regulated industries of every type.  Hospital emergency rooms have to treat people.  There‘s no way in the world that a corporation that‘s licensed by the state of Massachusetts to provide pharmacy services has the right to pick and choose what kinds of drugs, in violation of state regulations, it can do.  …

Restoration of Mexico City Policy   USAID

"This policy recognizes our country's long history of providing intl health care services, includi