1974

The 1974 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), or the “Mondale Act,” is the federal law signed on January 31st that birthed Child Protective Services (CPS) as we know it today. This law created a new lucrative revenue for the states via federal funds to remove children from their homes based on loosely defined “child abuse,” and place them in foster care where many are placed with real abusers.

National Security Memo 200, dated April 24, 1974, and titled “Implications of world wide population growth for U.S. security & overseas interests,” says: “Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the NSC that “depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.”

Although Richard Nixon was featured on the cover of the June 24, 1974 issue of Time magazine, from a historian’s point of view the most interesting article within that edition was a doom-and-gloom story about the inevitable onset of global cooling. Yep, global cooling–not global warming. The CIA would issue a National Security Threat in August for extreme global cooling.

• UPC codes hit the supermarket shelves
• Henry Kissinger’s Plan for Food Control Population Reduction is Introduced
• Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh Publishes a Story about Operation CHAOS, the Domestic Surveillance and Infiltration of Anti-War and Civil Rights Groups