"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know
something we don’t
by F. William Engdahl, Global Research, Dec 04, 2007
Bill Gates
ne 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. 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).
Svalbard
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.
Doomsday
Seed Vault
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. 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? 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 I detailled
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 Baņos, 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.
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?
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. 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. 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. 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.
One major
effect of the Green Revolution was to depopulate the countryside
of peasants who 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 pools for
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.
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. 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,
‘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 a 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.
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. 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.
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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
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. 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. 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). 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 Organisation
(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.
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. 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). 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. Indeed it seems we have the GMO and population reduction
foxes guarding the hen-house of mankind, the global seed
diversity store in Svalbard.
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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. 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.
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. 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 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.’
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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.
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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.
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:
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