GLOBAL RESEARCH– 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 MAP.
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 Destruction, 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.1 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.’ 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.
William Engdahl is a Research Associate of the Centre for
Research on Globalization (CRG). His writings can be consulted on www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net and
on Global Research.
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