BILL GATES, ROCKEFELLER
AND THE GMO GIANTS
KNOW SOMETHING WE
DON’T
Svalbard wildlife, National Geographic
" EVERY MARRIAGE IS AN EXPERIMENT IN HEREDITY." ~ Carnegie Institute, 1910
By F. William Engdahl
December 4, 2007
Reposted
December 24, 2011
One thing
Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accused of is sloth. He was already
programming at 14, founded Microsoft at age 20 while still a student at
Harvard. By 1995 he had been listed by Forbes as the world’s richest man from
being the largest shareholder in his Microsoft, a company which his relentless
drive built into a de facto monopoly in software systems for personal
computers.
In 2006 when most people in such a situation might think of retiring to a quiet Pacific island, Bill Gates decided to devote his energies to his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest ‘transparent’ private foundation as it says, with a whopping $34.6 billion endowment and a legal necessity to spend $1.5 billion a year on charitable projects around the world to maintain its tax free charitable status.
In 2006 when most people in such a situation might think of retiring to a quiet Pacific island, Bill Gates decided to devote his energies to his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest ‘transparent’ private foundation as it says, with a whopping $34.6 billion endowment and a legal necessity to spend $1.5 billion a year on charitable projects around the world to maintain its tax free charitable status.
ED: Dear
reader, please realize that it is the author of this piece who is praising
Gates to heck and back, NOT me! I leave it in because I am not one to pick and
choose what sections of an article can be read or not. We all know my stance
regarding the genocidal maniac in sheep’s clothing known as Bill Gates.
A gift
from friend and business associate, mega-investor Warren Buffett in 2006, of
some $30 billion worth of shares in Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway put the Gates’
foundation into the league where it spends almost the amount of the entire
annual budget of the United Nations’ World Health Organization.
So when Bill Gates decides through the Gates Foundation to invest some $30 million of their hard earned money in a project, it is worth looking at.
No project is more interesting at the moment than a curious project in one of the world’s most remote spots, Svalbard. Bill Gates is investing millions in a seed bank on the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean, some 1,100 kilometers from the North Pole. Svalbard is a barren piece of rock claimed by Norway and ceded in 1925 by international treaty (see map).
So when Bill Gates decides through the Gates Foundation to invest some $30 million of their hard earned money in a project, it is worth looking at.
No project is more interesting at the moment than a curious project in one of the world’s most remote spots, Svalbard. Bill Gates is investing millions in a seed bank on the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean, some 1,100 kilometers from the North Pole. Svalbard is a barren piece of rock claimed by Norway and ceded in 1925 by international treaty (see map).
On this God-forsaken island Bill Gates is investing tens of his millions along
with the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and
the Government of Norway, among others, in what is called the ‘doomsday seed
bank.’ Officially the project is named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the
Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard island group.
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The seed bank is being built inside a mountain on Spitsbergen Island near the
small village of Longyearbyen. It’s almost ready for ‘business’ according to
their releases. The bank will have dual blast-proof doors with motion sensors,
two airlocks, and walls of steel-reinforced concrete one meter thick.
It will
contain up to three million different varieties of seeds from the entire world,
‘so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future,’ according to the
Norwegian government. Seeds will be specially wrapped to exclude moisture.
ED: Do you
think they have preserved hemp and marijuana seeds in that small number of
saved seeds?
There
will be no full-time staff, but the vault's relative inaccessibility will
facilitate monitoring any possible human activity.
Did we miss something here?
Did we miss something here?
Their
press release stated, ‘so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future.’
What future do the seed bank’s sponsors foresee, that would threaten the global
availability of current seeds, almost all of which are already well protected
in designated seed banks around the world?
Anytime Bill Gates, the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto and Syngenta get together on a common project, it’s worth digging a bit deeper behind the rocks on Spitsbergen. When we do we find some fascinating things.
The first notable point is who is sponsoring the doomsday seed vault. Here
joining the Norwegians are, as noted:
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;the US agribusiness giant DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, one of the world’s largest owners of patented genetically-modified (GMO) plant seeds and related agrichemicals;Syngenta, the Swiss-based major GMO seed and agrichemicals company through its Syngenta Foundation;
the Rockefeller Foundation, the private group who created the “gene revolution with over $100 million of seed money since the 1970’s; CGIAR, the global network created by the Rockefeller Foundation to promote its ideal of genetic purity through agriculture change.
CGIAR AND ‘THE PROJECT’
As detailed in the book, Seeds of Destruction1, in 1960 the Rockefeller Foundation, John D. Rockefeller III’s Agriculture Development Council and the Ford Foundation joined forces to create the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, the Philippines. By 1971, the Rockefeller Foundation’s IRRI, along with their Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center and two other Rockefeller and Ford Foundation-created international research centers, the IITA for tropical agriculture, Nigeria, and IRRI for rice, Philippines, combined to form a global Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR).
CGIAR was shaped at a series of private conferences held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s conference center in Bellagio, Italy. Key participants at the Bellagio talks were the Rockefeller Foundation’s George Harrar, Ford Foundation’s Forrest Hill, Robert McNamara of the World Bank and Maurice Strong, the Rockefeller family’s international environmental organizer, who, as a Rockefeller Foundation Trustee, organized the UN Earth Summit in Stockholm in 1972. It was part of the foundation’s decades’ long focus to turn science to the service of eugenics, a hideous version of racial purity, what has been called The Project.
To ensure maximum impact, CGIAR drew in the United Nations’ Food and
Agriculture Organization, the UN Development Program and the World Bank. Thus,
through a carefully-planned leverage of its initial funds, the Rockefeller
Foundation by the beginning of the 1970’s was in a position to shape global
agriculture policy. And shape it did.
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Financed by generous Rockefeller and Ford Foundation study grants, CGIAR saw to
it that leading Third World agriculture scientists and agronomists were brought
to the US to ‘master’ the concepts of modern agribusiness production, in order
to carry it back to their homeland. In the process they created an invaluable
network of influence for US agribusiness promotion in those countries, most
especially promotion of the GMO ‘Gene Revolution’ in developing countries, all
in the name of science and efficient, free market agriculture.
GENETICALLY
ENGINEERING A MASTER RACE?
ED: They
call the Monsanto business model as “promotion of use”? I rest my case when it
comes to utter corruption and news-speak.
Now the Svalbard Seed Bank begins to become interesting. But it gets better. ‘The Project’ I referred to is the project of the Rockefeller Foundation and powerful financial interests since the 1920’s to use eugenics, later renamed genetics, to justify creation of a genetically-engineered Master Race. Hitler and the Nazis called it the Ayran Master Race.
The eugenics of Hitler were financed to a major extent by the same Rockefeller Foundation which today is building a doomsday seed vault to preserve samples of every seed on our planet. Now this is getting really intriguing.
The same Rockefeller Foundation created the pseudo-science discipline of molecular biology in their relentless pursuit of reducing human life down to the ‘defining gene sequence’ which, they hoped, could then be modified in order to change human traits at will.
Hitler’s
eugenics scientists, many of whom were quietly brought to the United States
after the War to continue their biological eugenics research, laid much of the
groundwork of genetic engineering of various life forms, much of it supported
openly until well into the Third Reich by Rockefeller Foundation generous
grants.2
The same Rockefeller Foundation created the so-called Green Revolution, out of a trip to Mexico in 1946 by Nelson Rockefeller and former New Deal Secretary of Agriculture and founder of the Pioneer Hi-Bred Seed Company, Henry Wallace.
The Green Revolution purported to solve the world hunger problem to a major degree in Mexico, India and other select countries where Rockefeller worked. Rockefeller Foundation agronomist, Norman Borlaug, won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work, hardly something to boast about with the likes of Henry Kissinger sharing the same.
In reality, as it years later emerged, the Green Revolution was a brilliant Rockefeller family scheme to develop a globalized agribusiness which they then could monopolize just as they had done in the world oil industry beginning a half century before.
The same Rockefeller Foundation created the so-called Green Revolution, out of a trip to Mexico in 1946 by Nelson Rockefeller and former New Deal Secretary of Agriculture and founder of the Pioneer Hi-Bred Seed Company, Henry Wallace.
The Green Revolution purported to solve the world hunger problem to a major degree in Mexico, India and other select countries where Rockefeller worked. Rockefeller Foundation agronomist, Norman Borlaug, won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work, hardly something to boast about with the likes of Henry Kissinger sharing the same.
In reality, as it years later emerged, the Green Revolution was a brilliant Rockefeller family scheme to develop a globalized agribusiness which they then could monopolize just as they had done in the world oil industry beginning a half century before.
Artists's rendition of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the
Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. Sadly noteworthy is that the once pristine silver white of the Arctic night is rather dingy.
As
Henry Kissinger declared in the 1970’s,
‘If you control the oil you control the country;if you control food, you control the population.’
Agribusiness and the Rockefeller Green Revolution went hand-in-hand. They were
part of a grand strategy which included Rockefeller Foundation financing of
research for the development of genetic engineering of plants and animals a few
years later.
John H. Davis had been Assistant Agriculture Secretary under President Dwight Eisenhower in the early 1950’s. He left Washington in 1955 and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Business, an unusual place for an agriculture expert in those days.
John H. Davis had been Assistant Agriculture Secretary under President Dwight Eisenhower in the early 1950’s. He left Washington in 1955 and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Business, an unusual place for an agriculture expert in those days.
He had a clear strategy. In 1956, Davis wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review in which he declared that “the only way to solve the so-called farm problem once and for all, and avoid cumbersome government programs, is to progress from agriculture to agribusiness.”
He knew
precisely what he had in mind, though few others had a clue back then ~ a
revolution in agriculture production that would concentrate control of the food
chain in corporate multinational hands, away from the traditional family
farmer. 3
A crucial aspect driving the interest of the Rockefeller Foundation and US agribusiness companies was the fact that the Green Revolution was based on proliferation of new hybrid seeds in developing markets. One vital aspect of hybrid seeds was their lack of reproductive capacity. Hybrids had a built in protection against multiplication. Unlike normal open pollinated species whose seed gave yields similar to its parents, the yield of the seed borne by hybrid plants was significantly lower than that of the first generation.
That declining yield characteristic of hybrids meant farmers must normally buy seed every year in order to obtain high yields. Moreover, the lower yield of the second generation eliminated the trade in seed that was often done by seed producers without the breeder’s authorization. It prevented the redistribution of the commercial crop seed by middlemen.
A crucial aspect driving the interest of the Rockefeller Foundation and US agribusiness companies was the fact that the Green Revolution was based on proliferation of new hybrid seeds in developing markets. One vital aspect of hybrid seeds was their lack of reproductive capacity. Hybrids had a built in protection against multiplication. Unlike normal open pollinated species whose seed gave yields similar to its parents, the yield of the seed borne by hybrid plants was significantly lower than that of the first generation.
That declining yield characteristic of hybrids meant farmers must normally buy seed every year in order to obtain high yields. Moreover, the lower yield of the second generation eliminated the trade in seed that was often done by seed producers without the breeder’s authorization. It prevented the redistribution of the commercial crop seed by middlemen.
If the large multinational seed companies were able to control the parental seed lines in house, no competitor or farmer would be able to produce the hybrid. The global concentration of hybrid seed patents into a handful of giant seed companies, led by DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred and Monsanto’s Dekalb laid the ground for the later GMO seed revolution. 4
In effect, the introduction of modern American agricultural technology,
chemical fertilizers and commercial hybrid seeds all made local farmers in
developing countries, particularly the larger more established ones, dependent
on foreign, mostly US agribusiness and petro-chemical company inputs.
It was a first step in what was to be
a decades-long, carefully planned process.
Under
the Green Revolution Agribusiness was making major inroads into markets which
were previously of limited access to US exporters. The trend was later dubbed
“market-oriented agriculture.” In reality it was agribusiness-controlled
agriculture.
Through the Green Revolution, the Rockefeller Foundation and later Ford Foundation worked hand-in-hand shaping and supporting the foreign policy goals of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and of the CIA.
Through the Green Revolution, the Rockefeller Foundation and later Ford Foundation worked hand-in-hand shaping and supporting the foreign policy goals of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and of the CIA.
One major effect of the Green Revolution
was to depopulate the countryside of peasantswho were forced to flee
into shantytown slums
around the cities
in desperate search for work.
That
was
no
accident;It was part of the plan
to create cheap labor poolsfor forthcoming
US multinational manufactures,
the ‘globalization’ of recent years.
When the self-promotion around the Green Revolution died down, the results were
quite different from what had been promised.
Problems
had arisen from indiscriminate use of the new chemical pesticides, often with
serious health consequences. The mono-culture cultivation of new hybrid seed
varieties decreased soil fertility and yields over time.
The
first results were impressive: double or even triple yields for some crops such
as wheat and later corn in Mexico. That soon faded.
The Green Revolution was typically accompanied by large irrigation projects which often included World Bank loans to construct huge new dams, and flood previously settled areas and fertile farmland in the process.
Also, super-wheat produced greater yields by saturating the soil with huge amounts of fertilizer per acre, the fertilizer being the product of nitrates and petroleum, commodities controlled by the Rockefeller-dominated Seven Sisters major oil companies.
Huge quantities of herbicides and pesticides were also used, creating
additional markets for the oil and chemical giants. As one analyst put it, in
effect, the Green Revolution was merely a chemical revolution.
At no point could developing nations pay for the huge amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. They would get the credit courtesy of the World Bank and special loans by Chase Bank and other large New York banks, backed by US Government guarantees.
Applied in a large number of developing countries, those loans went mostly to
the large landowners. For the smaller peasants the situation worked
differently. Small peasant farmers could not afford the chemical and other
modern inputs and had to borrow money.
Human
tragedy: A farmer and child in India's 'suicide belt'. Please watch:
Initially various government programs tried to provide some loans to farmers so
that they could purchase seeds and fertilizers. Farmers who could not
participate in this kind of program had to borrow from the private sector.
Because of the exorbitant interest rates for informal loans, many small farmers
did not even get the benefits of the initial higher yields.
ED: Not mentioned here is Monsanto's crime against humanity in Iraq. There, the original breadbasket of the world where growers have been perfecting their seeds naturally over the centuries, are forced on pain of death to use Monsanto GMO seeds of which there are only .. or were... only 5 allowable varieties.
After
harvest, they had to sell most if not all of their produce to pay off loans and
interest. They became dependent on money-lenders and traders and often lost
their land. Even with soft loans from government agencies, growing subsistence
crops gave way to the production of cash crops.5
Since decades the same interests including the Rockefeller Foundation which backed the initial Green Revolution, have worked to promote a second ‘Gene Revolution’ as Rockefeller Foundation President Gordon Conway termed it several years ago, the spread of industrial agriculture and commercial inputs including GMO patented seeds.
GATES,
ROCKEFELLER
AND A GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA
With
the true background of the 1950’s Rockefeller Foundation Green Revolution clear
in mind, it becomes especially curious that the same Rockefeller Foundation
along with the Gates Foundation which are now investing millions of dollars in
preserving every seed against a possible “doomsday” scenario are also investing
millions in a project called The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.
AGRA, as it calls itself, is an alliance again with the same Rockefeller Foundation which created the “Gene Revolution.” A look at the AGRA Board of Directors confirms this.
It includes none other than former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as chairman. In his acceptance speech in a World Economic Forum event in Cape Town South Africa in June 2007, Kofi Annan stated,
AGRA, as it calls itself, is an alliance again with the same Rockefeller Foundation which created the “Gene Revolution.” A look at the AGRA Board of Directors confirms this.
It includes none other than former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as chairman. In his acceptance speech in a World Economic Forum event in Cape Town South Africa in June 2007, Kofi Annan stated,
‘I accept this challenge with gratitude to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and all others who support our African campaign.’
In addition the AGRA board numbers:
~ South African, Strive Masiyiwa who is a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation.~ It includes Sylvia M. Mathews of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;~ Mamphela Ramphele, former Managing Director of the World Bank (2000 – 2006);~ Rajiv J. Shah of the Gates Foundation;~ Nadya K. Shmavonian of the Rockefeller Foundation;~ Roy Steiner of the Gates Foundation.~ In addition, an Alliance for AGRA includes Gary Toenniessen the Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation; and~ Akinwumi Adesina, Associate Director, Rockefeller Foundation.
To fill out the lineup, the Programmes for AGRA includes:~ Peter Matlon, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation;~ Joseph De Vries, Director of the Programme for Africa’s Seed Systems and Associate Director, Rockefeller foundation;~ Akinwumi Adesina, Associate Director, Rockefeller Foundation.
Like
the old failed Green Revolution in India and Mexico, the new Africa Green
Revolution is clearly a high priority of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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While to date they are keeping a low profile, Monsanto and the major GMO agribusiness giants are believed at the heart of using Kofi Annan’s AGRA to spread their patented GMO seeds across Africa under the deceptive label, ‘bio-technology,’ the new euphemism for genetically engineered patented seeds.
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While to date they are keeping a low profile, Monsanto and the major GMO agribusiness giants are believed at the heart of using Kofi Annan’s AGRA to spread their patented GMO seeds across Africa under the deceptive label, ‘bio-technology,’ the new euphemism for genetically engineered patented seeds.
To date
South Africa is the only African country permitting legal planting of GMO
crops. In 2003 Burkina Faso authorized GMO trials. In 2005 Kofi Annan’s Ghana
drafted bio-safety legislation and key officials expressed their intentions to
pursue research into GMO crops.
Africa is the next target in the US-government campaign to spread GMO worldwide. Its rich soils make it an ideal candidate. Not surprisingly many African governments suspect the worst from the GMO sponsors as a multitude of genetic engineering and biosafety projects have been initiated in Africa, with the aim of introducing GMOs into Africa’s agricultural systems.
Africa is the next target in the US-government campaign to spread GMO worldwide. Its rich soils make it an ideal candidate. Not surprisingly many African governments suspect the worst from the GMO sponsors as a multitude of genetic engineering and biosafety projects have been initiated in Africa, with the aim of introducing GMOs into Africa’s agricultural systems.
These
include sponsorships offered by the US government to train African scientists
in genetic engineering in the US, biosafety projects funded by the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank; GMO
research involving African indigenous food crops.
The Rockefeller Foundation has been working for years to promote, largely without success, projects to introduce GMOs into the fields of Africa. They have backed research that supports the applicability of GMO cotton in the Makhathini Flats in South Africa.
Monsanto, who has a strong foothold in South Africa’s seed industry, both GMO and hybrid, has conceived of an ingenious smallholders’ programme known as the ‘Seeds of Hope’ Campaign, which is introducing a green revolution package to small scale poor farmers, followed, of course, by Monsanto’s patented GMO seeds. 6
Syngenta AG of Switzerland, one of the ‘Four Horsemen of the GMO Apocalypse’ is pouring millions of dollars into a new greenhouse facility in Nairobi, to develop GMO insect resistant maize. Syngenta is a part of CGIAR as well.7
The Rockefeller Foundation has been working for years to promote, largely without success, projects to introduce GMOs into the fields of Africa. They have backed research that supports the applicability of GMO cotton in the Makhathini Flats in South Africa.
Monsanto, who has a strong foothold in South Africa’s seed industry, both GMO and hybrid, has conceived of an ingenious smallholders’ programme known as the ‘Seeds of Hope’ Campaign, which is introducing a green revolution package to small scale poor farmers, followed, of course, by Monsanto’s patented GMO seeds. 6
Syngenta AG of Switzerland, one of the ‘Four Horsemen of the GMO Apocalypse’ is pouring millions of dollars into a new greenhouse facility in Nairobi, to develop GMO insect resistant maize. Syngenta is a part of CGIAR as well.7
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MOVE ON
TO SVALBARD
Now is it simply philosophical sloppiness? What leads the Gates and Rockefeller foundations to at one and the same time to back proliferation of patented and soon-to-be Terminator patented seeds across Africa, a process which, as it has in every other place on earth, destroys the plant seed varieties as monoculture industrialized agribusiness is introduced?
At the
same time they invest tens of millions of dollars to preserve every seed
variety known in a bomb-proof doomsday vault near the remote Arctic Circle ‘so
that crop diversity can be conserved for the future’ to restate their official
release?
It is no accident that the Rockefeller and Gates foundations are teaming up to push a GMO-style Green Revolution in Africa at the same time they are quietly financing the ‘doomsday seed vault’ on Svalbard.
It is no accident that the Rockefeller and Gates foundations are teaming up to push a GMO-style Green Revolution in Africa at the same time they are quietly financing the ‘doomsday seed vault’ on Svalbard.
The GMO
agribusiness giants
are up to their ears
in the Svalbard project.
Indeed,
the entire Svalbard enterprise and the people involved call up the worst
catastrophe images of the Michael Crichton bestseller, Andromeda Strain, a
sci-fi thriller where a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin causes rapid,
fatal clotting of the blood threatening the entire human species.
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In
Svalbard, the future world’s most secure seed repository will be guarded by the
policemen of the GMO Green Revolution ~ the Rockefeller and Gates Foundations,
Syngenta, DuPont and CGIAR.
The Svalbard project will be run by an organization called the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT).
The Svalbard project will be run by an organization called the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT).
WHO ARE
THEY
TO HOLD
SUCH AN AWESOME TRUST
OVER
THE PLANET’S ENTIRE SEED VARIETIES?
The
GCDT was founded by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
and Bioversity International (formerly the International Plant Genetic Research
Institute), an offshoot of the CGIAR.
The Global Crop Diversity Trust is based in Rome. Its Board is chaired by Margaret Catley-Carlson a Canadian also on the advisory board of Group Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux, one of the world’s largest private water companies.
.Catley-Carlson was also president until 1998 of the New York-based Population Council, John D. Rockefeller’s population reduction organization, set up in 1952 to advance the Rockefeller family’s eugenics program under the cover of promoting “family planning,” birth control devices, sterilization and “population control” in developing countries.
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Other GCDT board members include former Bank of America executive presently
head of the Hollywood DreamWorks Animation, Lewis Coleman. Coleman is also the
lead Board Director of Northrup Grumman Corporation, one of America’s largest
military industry Pentagon contractors.
Jorio Dauster (Brazil) is also Board Chairman of Brasil Ecodiesel. He is a former Ambassador of Brazil to the European Union, and Chief Negotiator of Brazil’s foreign debt for the Ministry of Finance. Dauster has also served as President of the Brazilian Coffee Institute and as Coordinator of the Project for the Modernization of Brazil’s Patent System, which involves legalizing patents on seeds which are genetically modified, something until recently forbidden by Brazil’s laws.
Cary Fowler is the Trust’s Executive Director. Fowler was Professor and Director of Research in the Department for International Environment & Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He was also a Senior Advisor to the Director General of Bioversity International.
Jorio Dauster (Brazil) is also Board Chairman of Brasil Ecodiesel. He is a former Ambassador of Brazil to the European Union, and Chief Negotiator of Brazil’s foreign debt for the Ministry of Finance. Dauster has also served as President of the Brazilian Coffee Institute and as Coordinator of the Project for the Modernization of Brazil’s Patent System, which involves legalizing patents on seeds which are genetically modified, something until recently forbidden by Brazil’s laws.
Cary Fowler is the Trust’s Executive Director. Fowler was Professor and Director of Research in the Department for International Environment & Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He was also a Senior Advisor to the Director General of Bioversity International.
There
he represented the Future Harvest Centres of the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in negotiations on the
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources. In the 1990s, he headed the
International Program on Plant Genetic Resources at the FAO. He drafted and
supervised negotiations of FAO’s Global Plan of Action for Plant Genetic
Resources, adopted by 150 countries in 1996. He is a past-member of the
National Plant Genetic Resources Board of the US and the Board of Trustees of
the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, another
Rockefeller Foundation and CGIAR project.
GCDT board member Dr. Mangala Rai of India is the Secretary of India’s Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), and Director General of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR).
GCDT board member Dr. Mangala Rai of India is the Secretary of India’s Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), and Director General of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR).
He is
also a Board Member of the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI), which promoted the world’s first major GMO experiment, the
much-hyped ‘Golden Rice’ which proved a failure. Rai has served as Board Member
for CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), and a Member of
the Executive Council of the CGIAR.
Global Crop Diversity Trust Donors or financial angels include as well, in the words of the Humphrey Bogart Casablanca classic, ‘all the usual suspects.’ As well as the Rockefeller and Gates Foundations, the Donors include GMO giants DuPont-Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta of Basle Switzerland, CGIAR and the State Department’s energetically pro-GMO agency for development aid, USAID.
Global Crop Diversity Trust Donors or financial angels include as well, in the words of the Humphrey Bogart Casablanca classic, ‘all the usual suspects.’ As well as the Rockefeller and Gates Foundations, the Donors include GMO giants DuPont-Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta of Basle Switzerland, CGIAR and the State Department’s energetically pro-GMO agency for development aid, USAID.
Indeed
it seems we have the GMO and population reduction foxes guarding the hen-house
of mankind, the global seed diversity store in Svalbard. 8
WHY NOW
SVALBARD?
We can legitimately ask why Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation along with the major genetic engineering agribusiness giants such as DuPont and Syngenta, along with CGIAR are building the Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic.
Who uses such a seed bank in the first place?
Plant
breeders and researchers are the major users of gene banks. Today’s largest
plant breeders are Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta and Dow Chemical, the global
plant-patenting GMO giants.
ED: Might
I point out that these companies above are offshoots of the very international
businesses that waged such a strong drug war against marijuana/hemp plant in
the 1930’s? Just a thought…
Since early in 2007 Monsanto holds world patent rights together with the United States Government for plant so-called ‘Terminator’ or Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURT).Terminator is an ominous technology by which a patented commercial seed commits ‘suicide’ after one harvest. Control by private seed companies is total. Such control and power over the food chain has never before in the history of mankind existed.
This clever genetically engineered terminator trait forces farmers to return every year to Monsanto or other GMO seed suppliers to get new seeds for rice, soybeans, corn, wheat whatever major crops they need to feed their population.If broadly introduced around the world, it could within perhaps a decade or so make the world’s majority of food producers new feudal serfs in bondage to three or four giant seed companies such as Monsanto or DuPont or Dow Chemical.
ED: Bingo!
This has been the goal all along beginning with the Great Depression of the
1930’s. All the “farm wars in the United States that have resulted in the
displacement of country food growers, it all begins to make sense doesn’t it?
Each time this was a bank clawback with the goal of population
management/manipulation.
That,
of course, could also open the door to have those private companies, perhaps
under orders from their host government, Washington, deny seeds to one or
another developing country whose politics happened to go against Washington’s.
Those
who say
‘It
can’t happen here’
should
look more closely at current global events.
The
mere existence of that concentration of power in three or four private US-based
agribusiness giants is grounds for legally banning all GMO crops even were
their harvest gains real, which they manifestly are not.
These private companies, Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical hardly have an unsullied record in terms of stewardship of human life.
These private companies, Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical hardly have an unsullied record in terms of stewardship of human life.
They
developed and proliferated such innovations as dioxin, PCBs, Agent Orange.
They
covered up for decades clear evidence of carcinogenic and other severe human
health consequences of use of the toxic chemicals.
They
have buried serious scientific reports that the world’s most widespread
herbicide, glyphosate, the essential ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide
that is tied to purchase of most Monsanto genetically engineered seeds, is
toxic when it seeps into drinking water.9
Denmark
banned glyphosate in 2003 when it confirmed it has contaminated the country’s
groundwater.10
The diversity stored in seed gene banks is the raw material for plant breeding and for a great deal of basic biological research. Several hundred thousand samples are distributed annually for such purposes.
The diversity stored in seed gene banks is the raw material for plant breeding and for a great deal of basic biological research. Several hundred thousand samples are distributed annually for such purposes.
The UN’s FAO lists some 1400 seed banks around the world, the largest being held by the United States Government.Other large banks are held by China, Russia, Japan, India, South Korea, Germany and Canada in descending order of size.
In addition, CGIAR operates a chain of seed banks in select centers around the world.
CGIAR, set up in 1972 by the Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation to
spread their Green Revolution agribusiness model, controls most of the private
seed banks from the Philippines to Syria to Kenya.
In all
these present seed banks hold more than six and a half million seed varieties,
almost two million of which are ‘distinct.’ Svalbard’s Doomsday Vault will have
a capacity to house four and a half million different seeds.
GMO AS
A WEAPON OF BIOWARFARE?
Now we come to the heart of the danger and the potential for misuse inherent in the Svalbard project of Bill Gates and the Rockefeller foundation.
Can the development of patented seeds for most of the world’s major sustenance crops such as rice, corn, wheat, and feed grains such as soybeans ultimately be used in a horrible form of biological warfare?
The explicit aim of the eugenics lobby funded by wealthy elite families such as
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harriman and others since the 1920’s, has embodied what
they termed ‘negative eugenics,’ the systematic killing off of undesired
bloodlines.
Margaret Sanger, a rapid eugenicist, the founder of Planned Parenthood International and an intimate of the Rockefeller family, created something called The Negro Project in 1939, based in Harlem, which as she confided in a letter to a friend, was all about the fact that, as she put it, ‘we want to exterminate the Negro population.’ 11
A small California biotech company, Epicyte, in 2001 announced the development
of genetically engineered corn which contained a spermicide which made the
semen of men who ate it sterile.
At the time Epicyte had a joint venture agreement to spread its technology with DuPont and Syngenta, two of the sponsors of the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Vault. Epicyte was since acquired by a North Carolina biotech company. Astonishing to learn was that Epicyte had developed its spermicidal GMO corn with research funds from the US Department of Agriculture, the same USDA which, despite worldwide opposition, continued to finance the development of Terminator technology, now held by Monsanto.
In the 1990’s the UN’s World Health Organization launched a campaign to
vaccinate millions of women in Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines between
the ages of 15 and 45, allegedly against Tentanus, a sickness arising from such
things as stepping on a rusty nail.
The
vaccine was not given to men or boys, despite the fact they are presumably
equally liable to step on rusty nails as women.
Because of that curious anomaly, Comite Pro Vida de Mexico, a Roman Catholic lay organization became suspicious and had vaccine samples tested. The tests revealed that the Tetanus vaccine being spread by the WHO only to women of child-bearing age contained human Chorionic Gonadotrophin or hCG, a natural hormone which when combined with a tetanus toxoid carrier stimulated antibodies rendering a woman incapable of maintaining a pregnancy. None of the women vaccinated were told.
It later came out that the Rockefeller Foundation along with the Rockefeller’s Population Council, the World Bank (home to CGIAR), and the United States’ National Institutes of Health had been involved in a 20-year-long project begun in 1972 to develop the concealed abortion vaccine with a tetanus carrier for WHO.
In
addition, the Government of Norway, the host to the Svalbard Doomsday Seed
Vault, donated $41 million to develop the special abortive Tetanus vaccine. 12
Is it a coincidence that these same organizations, from Norway to the Rockefeller Foundation to the World Bank are also involved in the Svalbard seed bank project?
Is it a coincidence that these same organizations, from Norway to the Rockefeller Foundation to the World Bank are also involved in the Svalbard seed bank project?
According to Prof. Francis Boyle who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 enacted by the US Congress, the Pentagon is ‘now gearing up to fight and win biological warfare’ as part of two Bush national strategy directives adopted, he notes, ‘without public knowledge and review’ in 2002. Boyle adds that in 2001-2004 alone the US Federal Government spent $14.5 billion for civilian bio-warfare-related work, a staggering sum.
Rutgers University biologist Richard Ebright estimates that over 300 scientific
institutions and some 12,000 individuals in the USA today have access to
pathogens suitable for biowarfare. Alone there are 497 US Government NIH grants
for research into infectious diseases with biowarfare potential. Of course this
is being justified under the rubric of defending against possible terror attack
as so much is today.
Many of the US Government dollars spent on biowarfare research involve genetic engineering. MIT biology professor Jonathan King says that the ‘growing bio-terror programs represent a significant emerging danger to our own population.’ King adds, ‘while such programs are always called defensive, with biological weapons, defensive and offensive programs overlap almost completely.’ 13
Time will tell whether, God Forbid, the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Bank of Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation is part of another Final Solution, this involving the extinction of the Late, Great Planet Earth.
NOTES
1 F. William Engdahl, Seeds of Destruction, Montreal, (Global Research, 2007).
Many of the US Government dollars spent on biowarfare research involve genetic engineering. MIT biology professor Jonathan King says that the ‘growing bio-terror programs represent a significant emerging danger to our own population.’ King adds, ‘while such programs are always called defensive, with biological weapons, defensive and offensive programs overlap almost completely.’ 13
Time will tell whether, God Forbid, the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Bank of Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation is part of another Final Solution, this involving the extinction of the Late, Great Planet Earth.
NOTES
1 F. William Engdahl, Seeds of Destruction, Montreal, (Global Research, 2007).
2 Ibid,
pp.72-90.
3 John H.
Davis, Harvard Business Review, 1956, cited in Geoffrey Lawrence, Agribusiness,
Capitalism and the Countryside, Pluto Press, Sydney, 1987. See also Harvard
Business School, The Evolution of an Industry and a Seminar: Agribusiness
Seminar, http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/agb/seminar.html.
4
Engdahl, op cit., p. 130.
5 Ibid.
P. 123-30.
6 Myriam
Mayet, The New Green Revolution in Africa: Trojan Horse for GMOs? May, 2007,
African Centre for Biosafety, www.biosafetyafrica.net.
7 ETC
Group, Green Revolution 2.0 for Africa?, Communique Issue #94, March/April 2007.
9
Engdahl, op. cit., pp.227-236.
10 Anders
Legarth Smith, Denmark Bans Glyphosates, the Active Ingredient in Roundup,
Politiken, September 15, 2003, in organic.com.au/news/2003.09.15.
11 Tanya
L. Green, The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger’s Genocide Project for Black
American’s, in www.blackgenocide.org/negro.html.
12
Engdahl, op. cit., pp. 273-275; J.A. Miller, Are New Vaccines Laced With
Birth-Control Drugs?, HLI Reports, Human Life International, Gaithersburg,
Maryland; June/July 1995, Volume 13, Number 8.
13
Sherwood Ross, Bush Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons for Offensive Use,’
December 20, 2006, in www.truthout.org.
F. William Engdahl is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by F. William Engdahl
Merry Christmas Noor. I hope you have a healthy and fine year ahead. When we hear reports that male fertility is dropping it shouldn't surprise anyone. Once they make all food grown on this planet GMO, if they want to cause food shortages and get rid of most of us useless eaters, they will be able to do it easily. Is it possible to be more evil than that? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteI heard the other day that the actress that is married to Brad Pitt belongs to the Council of Foreign Relations. How in the world could she belong to such a group? They are a part of all of this evil. If she really cares about children like she claims she does. I think it was on 60 Minutes that they mentioned that. They did an interview with her. I can never remember her name. Is it Jolie?
Angelina Jolie has held this post for a very long time. She travels a bit and does photo ops. But she is of an old very strong Zionist family although she has a mind of her own.
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