Population reduction: who will make it and who won't?

This is no conspiracy theory.

Mark Wallace posted a rather chilling article and accompanying spreadsheet on Conservative Home on the population figures the Optimum Population Trust would like to see in each country of the world.

Mark's article:

The Optimum Population Trust, for those of you who haven't yet come across them, are an odd bunch. Bluntly, they believe the best way to save the planet is to get rid of as many human beings as possible.

On the plus side, at least they are being more honest than most greens in their open contempt for human beings. The reality of many in the environmentalist movement is at core a deep anti-humanism, an arrogant dislike for people who are somehow too stupid to see the problem with their pursuit of a happy life and a healthy family.

On the down side, the OPT's aims are actually pretty worrying - verging on sinister, even. Buried in their website is a detailed spreadsheet [Excel link] laying out their ideal "sustainable" populations for each country. And those "ideal" populations are a little worrying, if you try to imagine the reality of them.

For example, the UK should shrink to 29 million people, from the 60 million we currently have. We are of course a small island, but ask yourself which half of your friends you would rather did not exist?

And we get things comparatively easy in the OPT's dystopian vision of the future.

Only one in six of the current Algerian population should really be allowed. Bosnians are unlikely to be overjoyed that 3 million of their 4 million people are, in the OPT's eyes, an inconvenience. Rwanda should apparently go from 7 million people to only 2 million.

What the OPT seem to forget is that these aren't just statistics. They aren't just "emitters", as their website terms them. They are real human beings, who live, love and laugh. It is peculiar that Sir David Attenborough, the Patron of the Trust, can show so much compassion for animals but is apparently happy to back such a dispassionate dismissal of the value of our fellow humans.
Yesterday, the OPT released the results of a Yougov opinion poll [Excel link] which they trumpeted as showing public support for their aims. "Public want smaller UK population", announces their website. However, when you actually read the tables for the polling results, it turns out that the public are bothered about far more real world, centre right issues than greenie pipe dreams.
It turns out, people are actually perfectly happy for us to be allowed to continue breeding - directly contrary to the OPT's aims.

One major question was, "Do you think people should take the impact on the environment into account when deciding how many children to have?"
The answer is pretty clear. A miniscule 15% say people either should not have any children or should only have one, while 24% either think "the number of children people have won't affect the environment" or that people shouldn't worry about it. Unsurprisingly, the biggest support  - 34% - is for people choosing to have two children, which is just about what people actually do have in real life. Far from endorsing the OPT's views, people are voting for no change, and life as usual.

Most interesting is the question which investigates public support for various policies on population. Most left those surveyed pretty unmoved, with only three gaining majority support:

• Reduce immigration: 69%
• Let people work after the retirement age: 63%
• Better family planning support to reduce unwanted pregnancies: 62%

So, it turns out that far from being radical greens who want to interfere in people's family life, the public are just bothered about high levels of immigration and unplanned pregnancies, whilst wanting to allow pensioners to work. More back to basics than ban the babies.

Iraq inquiry: Inconvenient truths

Some awkward questions need to be asked about the Iraq War and events leading up to it, but I suspect they won't be asked ... at least, not in the public arena.



... which raises questions as to why exactly Saddam Hussein was hounded to death. John Perkins believes he can answer that question.

Honour: The missing virtue of the State

Philip Pullman, infamous for his objection to the vetting of school visitors, such as writers, delivered a keynote speech on The Virtues of the State in February this year - around the time when his Times article on the subject was culled.

He speaks of the missing virtue in State affairs - honour.



Hat tip: Look for a Voice

G20: The truth behind the summit in Scotland

The Corbett Report interviewed Daniel Estulin, who revealed the behind-the-scenes details of the G20 Finance Minister's meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland in early November.

Details were derived from actual G20 documents that his sources sneaked out of the meetings, despite heavy, unprecedented security, "even by Bilderberg standards", according to Estulin. (See BilderbergBook.com).

Estulin says that the main topic of the summit was "the next step in globalisation, which is the creation of the African Union."

This is part of a continuous, long-planned agenda whereby national sovereignty is ceded to unnacountable regional governments which can more easily administer and implement the aims of the financial oligarchs.

One such aim is the elite's exhaustively documented penchant for population reduction, including tying development aid to population control problems. "The creation of the borderless African continent will be spearheaded by the IMF."

One of the smuggled documents shows that an attendee had the IMF articles of agreement at the meeting and highlighted the fact that funds were made available "under adequate safeguards" to member nations. This is code for imposing draconian measures designed to plunge countries into virtual servitude, with the result that in Africa, countries spend five times more revenue on servicing their IMF debts than they do on health care for their own citizens.

The meeting's attendees, identified in the smuggled documents, reads like a who's who of the financial oligarchical elite, including leading Bilderbergers such as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, World Bank President Bob Zoellick, Turkish Finance Minister Ali Babacan and British Finance Minister Alistair Darling and many others. The Trilateral Commission was also represented at the conference by Japanese members Yoshihiko Noda and Masaaki Shirakawa.

In the interview, Estulin discusses the G20's debate on dumping the US dollar which he first revealed would be on the meeting's agenda in a press release in early November. Estulin indicates that while the matter was discussed, it was rejected . "The American and the British delegations tried to persuade the Russian and the Chinese delegates to devalue the dollar and create a basket of currencies or another world currency to take the place of the dollar," he said. "Luckily, both the Russians and the Chinese told the Americans and the British to go pound sand. They were not willing to do this."

The notion that Western financial oligarchs are aiming to dump the US dollar is in keeping with recent reports that Goldman Sachs (whose members are suspiciously well connected to the upper echelons of the US Treasury) actually took up short positions on the housing market - just before the crash. Although a pre-meditated attempt to bring about a financial collapse would appear not to be in the financial oligarch's self-interest, it makes perfect sense when one considers this as a problem-reaction-solution operation - creating a problem in order to get the public to support a pre-determined solution.

Here, the endgame is to use a financial collapse to usher in a New World Order. Now, exactly as predicted, everyone from Kissinger to Soros is using the economic collapse to call for a new financial order of greater international (read: unelected, undemocratic and unaccountable) control over world financial markets.

As the G20 was drawing to a close, talking heads like Damon Vickers began inserting talking points about a new global currency and a "New World Order" onto CNBC. While the dumping of the dollar failed to gain traction at this meeting, this will continue to be pursued by the influential globalist financiers.

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made a show of standing up for the people of the planet by noting that "the recent public policy of privatizing profits and socializing losses is unacceptable to taxpayers," to which someone responded "Do you think they have noticed?" The response provoked laughter from the assembled oligarchs.

Mr. Estulin has a message for the G20 oligarchs: "Gentlemen of the G20, in case you're wondering: Yes, we the great unwashed have definitely noticed."

RFID: How secure are your passcards?

Ethical hacker, Chris Paget, demonstrates a low-cost mobile device that surreptitiously reads and clones RFID tags embedded in passport cards and enhanced drivers' licenses.

He can collect ID's, change IDs and collect complete identities by correlating passcard information with credit card information where both are RFID-chipped.

Anyone with such equipment, costing less than £150, can do this. The kit can be assembled from parts freely available in shops.




... and here, Chris shows how it's done, busting RFID myths in the process. So much for security!



Meanwhile, an RFID presentation was stopped by security technology giant HID Global, which claimed the presentation would violate its intellectual property.

Chris Paget's response:

“There is critical national infrastructure being protected by these things (RFID chips). There is a lot of misunderstanding in the industry regarding the security of these things. Our intent was to disseminate information so that people can make a knowledgeable decision about deploying RFID.”

We're losing our freedoms for less security - because we have totalitarian numpties in government.

7 months to go ...