--{ The President's Bioethics Camouflages Eugenics: "The President's Council on Bioethics Has Planned Our Future, Drugs, Genetics, While We Guzzled Trivia, Who'd-a-Thought They'd Planned a Future, Minus 'Our Sort,' Outside Their Tall Ivory-Towered Exterior, We Down Below are Deemed Inferior, Don't Fall Prey to Depression, Don't Despair, 'Cause Psychiatry and Big Pharma's There, Now Don't Go Procreating, the Pros Must Screen Every Sperm and Ovum, Each Defective Gene, And Everyone Gets an I.Q. Test To Ensure that Only the Very Best Go Into the Future to Serve the Elite, Obedient, Efficient, Won't Mind Bare Feet" © Alan Watt }-- Broken Eggs, Planned Crisis - Think Tanks, Bypassing Democracy - Foundations, Front-Men, Philanthropy - 100 Years War - Britain, U.S., World Empire, China - Good Producer-Consumers. Council on Foreign Relations, Integration of Americas, 2005-2010 - Old Economy Collapses, Taxpayers Fleeced - Sudbury, Closed Mines, Raw Ore to China. Military Strategy, War on Humankind - ID Card, Elimination of U.S.-Canada Border, Crossing Troops Agreement. "Too Many People", "Defective Genes" - Psychiatric Drugs - Intellectuals, Good Parrots - Political Party Game - President's Council on Bioethics, Eugenics. Drugging "Defectives" - Stimulants, Behaviour Modification, Genetic Engineering, "Enhancement" - Totalitarianism - Fertile "Breeders" - Obsolete Families. Ethics - "Limits of Liberty" - Removal of Children from Parents at Birth - Ritalin, Brain Shrinkage - "Superman" Idea, George Bernard Shaw. Olympics, Athletes, Performance - Plato's Republic, Selective Breeding - "Ageless Bodies" - Alzheimer's, Aging Diseases in Youth, Inoculations. Star Trek series, Immortality - Education to be Employee - Memory Alteration and Blunting - Pharmaceuticals - "Good Life". (Articles: ["Canada, U.S. militaries sign cross-border pact" by David Pugliese, Canwest News Service (at canada.com) - Feb. 23, 2008.] ["Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness" The President's Council on Bioethics, Washington, D.C., October 2003 (bioethics.gov).]) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 19, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

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