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, 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.’ 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.
8 Global Crop Diversity
Trust website, in http://www.croptrust.org/main/donors.php.
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.
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