{"id":8334,"date":"2015-05-21T06:51:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T11:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8334"},"modified":"2015-05-21T06:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T11:51:01","slug":"sowing-the-gm-seeds-of-depopulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8334","title":{"rendered":"Sowing the GM Seeds of Depopulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/05\/21\/sowing-the-gm-seeds-of-depopulation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sowing the GM Seeds of Depopulation?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><strong>The Sinister Ideology of the Rich<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainauthorstyle\">If physical violence is to be used only as a final resort, a dominant class must seek to gain people\u2019s consent if it is to govern and control a population. It must attempt to legitimize its position in the eyes of the ruled over by achieving a kind of \u2018consented coercion\u2019 that disguises the true fist of power. This can be achieved by many means and over the years commentators from Gramsci to Althusser and Chomsky have described how it may be done.<\/div>\n<div class=\"main-text\">\n<p>However, one of the most basic and arguably effective forms of control is\u00a0eugenics\/ depopulation, a\u00a0philosophy\u00a0that includes\u00a0reducing the reproductive capacity of the \u2018less desirable\u2019 sections of a population.<\/p>\n<p>There is a growing fear that eugenics is being used to get rid of sections of the world population that are \u2018surplus to requirements\u2019. And it is a legitimate fear, not least because there is a sordid history of forced\/covert sterilizations carried out on those deemed \u2018undesirable\u2019 or \u2018surplus to requirements\u2019, which reflects the concerns of eugenicists who have operated at the highest levels of policy making. From early 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century \u2018philanthropists\u2019 and the Nazis to the nascent genetics movement and rich elites, by one means or another ridding the planet of the great unwanted masses has always been fairly high on the \u2018to do\u2019 list (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/new-eugenics-and-the-rise-of-the-global-scientific-dictatorship\/20028\">this<\/a>\u00a0informative piece)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sowing the GM Seeds of Depopulation? The Sinister Ideology of the Rich If physical violence is to be used only as a final resort, a dominant class must seek to gain people\u2019s consent if it is to govern and control a population. It must attempt to legitimize its position in the eyes of the ruled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5561,5562,4130,373,557,5563],"class_list":["post-8334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-depopulation","tag-eugenics","tag-genetically-modified-organism","tag-gmos","tag-nazis","tag-sterilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8335,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions\/8335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}