Topic: Foster Care

Foster Care comes up in 3 chapters across 3 episodes of The Higherside Chats Free Show, from August 2020 to February 2024.

August 2020 February 2024

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Shannon Rowan | Shots Fired, Medical System Sacrifices, & The Techno Dystopia
• 32:13 - 36:29

Shannon Rowan | Shots Fired, Medical System Sacrifices, & The Techno Dystopia

Mass Graves, Medical Experimentation and Foster Care

The discussion details historical and modern instances of medical experimentation on vulnerable children, including HIV trials overseen by Anthony Fauci's team on foster children in New York. Rowan references the 2014 discovery of a mass grave at a mother and baby home in Tuam, Ireland, where hundreds of infants were buried in a septic tank. These events are presented as evidence of a systemic disregard for the lives of children within institutional care.

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Vera Sharav | Medical Tyranny, Child Abuse, & The Alliance For Human Research Protection
• 21:21 - 26:00

Vera Sharav | Medical Tyranny, Child Abuse, & The Alliance For Human Research Protection

Foster Care Over-Medication, Drug Cocktails, Texas Comptroller Report

A 2005 report by Texas Comptroller Carol Strayhorn revealed that 60% of children in the Texas foster care system were prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs like Risperdal and Zyprexa. Sharov explains the "drug cocktail" scheme, where multiple medications are mixed to make it impossible to identify which specific drug caused a patient's harm. This practice is compared to multi-valent vaccines, which she describes as a high-priced marketing scheme supported by government officials.

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Dr. Angela J. Hattery & Dr. Earl Smith | Policing Black Bodies, Prison Inc., & The Poverty Trap
• 14:03 - 18:19

Dr. Angela J. Hattery & Dr. Earl Smith | Policing Black Bodies, Prison Inc., & The Poverty Trap

School-to-Prison Pipeline, Criminalization of Childhood Misbehavior

The discussion explores the "school-to-prison pipeline," where typical childhood misbehavior is treated as a criminal offense. Specific cases are cited, including a child arrested for taking a 65-cent carton of milk and another for sharing chicken nuggets. Dr. Hattery explains that 50% of Black children have contact with the foster care or child protective services system, which often serves as the first point of contact leading toward future incarceration.

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