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. 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).
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 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.
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. 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
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. 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. 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, Monsato,
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.’ 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? 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.
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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.
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.
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