Jurriaan Maessen - Infowars.com
December 28, 2012
President of the Population Media Center, Bill Ryerson, recently
bragged that its population control brainwashing campaign in developing
nations has been “a smash hit.”
The Population Media Center is an American population group producing
fictional programs for worldwide dissimination purposes. Its mission:
to spread the message of population reduction through works of fiction.
Ryerson, the Center’s president, also heads the Washington-based
Population Institute. Both groups are active in the modern day
“population movement”, striving for worldwide population reduction in
the name of the earth.
During an interview
with PeakProsperity’s Chris Martenson, Ryerson boasted that (radio)
soap-opera’s are the most effective way to cull populations worldwide.
“One of the things that we do – and that is the primary thing we do –
is to use a strategy of communications that has turned out, from
everything we have been able to measure, to be the most cost-effective
strategy for changing behavior with regard to family size and
contraceptive use on a per-behavior change basis of any strategy we have
found on the planet.”
Ryserson explains that fictional platforms have proven to be successful carriers of the crypto-eugenic message:
“(…) the use of long-running serialized dramas, melodramas like soap
operas, in which characters gradually evolve from the middle of the road
in that society into positive role models for daughter education,
delaying marriage and childbearing until adulthood, spacing of children,
limiting of family size, and various other health and social goals of
each country.
And we have now done such programs in forty-five countries.”
Ryerson continues to brag about the Center’s propaganda campaigns, especially those in Nigeria:
“(…) a program we ran from 2007 to 2009 was listened to by 70% of the
population at least weekly. It was a twice a week program. It was
clearly a smash hit. And it was a smash hit because it was highly
suspenseful and highly entertaining. But it had a storyline dealing with
a couple deciding to use family planning, which is almost taboo in
northern Nigeria because less than 10% of the people in that region use
any modern method of contraception. We had eleven clinics have
healthcare workers ask clients what had motivated them to come in for
family planning, and 67% percent of them named the program as the
motivation.”
“That”, Ryerson explained, “is the kind of thing that can
dramatically change demographic trends globally. We need to greatly
expand this type of work.”
The Center is heavily sponsored by the corporate and “philanthropic” elites. On its slick-looking website,
the Center states “contributions from and partnerships with the
following organizations have enabled us to do work which initiates
improved health in people all around the world, while providing engaging
entertainment!”. Their list counts many UN organizations among its
“contributors” as well as USAID divisions operating in so-called
“high-fertility nations”:
“The Population Institute, Population Matters, PSI, RAES, Rare,
Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Save the Children
Norway/ Ethiopia, Save the Children US, Texas A&M University, Tree
Aid, UCLA School of Public Health, UNDP Burkina Faso, UNDP Headquarters,
UNDP Kyrgyzstan, UNDP Papua New Guinea, UNDP Swaziland, UNDP Sierra
Leone, UNFPA Burkina Faso, UNFPA Ethiopia, UNFPA Headquarters, UNFPA
Jamaica, UNFPA Kyrgyzstan, UNFPA Malawi, UNFPA Nigeria, UNFPA Papua New
Guinea, UNFPA Philippines, UNFPA Rwanda, UNFPA Senegal, UNFPA Sierra
Leone, UNFPA Vietnam, UNICEF Ethiopia, UNICEF Headquarters, UNICEF
Kyrgyzstan, UNICEF Sierra Leone, The Unitarian Society, University
Research Co. LLC, UN Women, USAID Jamaica, USAID Kyrgyzstan, USAID Mali,
USAID Niger, USAID Rwanda, USAID Senegal, US Embassy/Department of
State, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.”
In addition, the Center receives funding
from literally all the major foundations including the Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, Bank of America Charitable
Gift Fund, The David Rockefeller Fund, Ford Foundation, and the IMF
Employees’ Fund.
When we take a look at the Center’s program advisory board
we encounter some familiar names, including Paul and Anne Ehrlich, as
well as World Bank luminary Herman Daly (who recently called for
smaller, less “resource-intensive” people top bred into existence).
Interestingly, some names from Hollywood pop up, advising the population
center on how to best convince audiences worldwide to cull themselves.
Among the names mentioned we find director Jeremy Kagan, renound because
of his many film and television projects.
These population reduction propaganda efforts have been going on for a good while. A 1973 UNESCO-publication called Mass Media, Family Planning and Development: Country Case Studies on Media Strategy
proposes the creation of “family planning communication resource units”
for every nation concerned within the UN-system, especially third-world
nations. The reason being, so the report states, that “culturally,
there is an emphasis on fertility, and the birth of children to the
family is celebrated, as a symbol of prosperity and for status for
women.”
“A Communication Resource Unit”, the document reads, “is responsible
for the implementation of media policy for one, or more than one field.”
The document proceeds with outlining the functions of such a unit in
regards to family planning messages:
“The integration of messages is a matter which concerns the
Communication Resource Unit, in that an integrated approach to family
planning needs to be worked out. (…) These (messages) may be ‘family
planning for maternal health’, ‘family planning for family prosperity’,
‘family planning for your figure’, ‘family planning for national
prosperity’, family planning for child development.’ These messages will
be pretested to find those which seem to appeal most to the eligible
age groups.”
conveying the message to unsuspecting audiences: “(…) There are two
ways in which the family planning message can be included in feature
films. The first is for the family organisation to commission a film
specifically for the campaign. (…) if it is to be successful, well known
and popular actors must be chosen, and the scripting and direction has
to be professionally executed. Another method is for the family planning
theme to be introduced into feature films which are already planned and
prepared by local commercial production companies. In this case, the
family planning organisers must be aware of the possible ways in which
the theme can be subtly incorporated, as producers are not likely to
respond to a suggestion which involves the total re-thinking of the
plot. (…) Suitable opportunities can be found in love stories, in
stories based on conflicts between men and women (…).”
As it turns out, these subtle media tactics have indeed proven extremely effective- or, as Ryerson puts it, “a smash hit.”
Jurriaan Maessen’s post originally appeared on his website, Explosivereports.com.