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			by F. William Engdahl 
			
			December 4, 2007 
			
			from
			
			GlobalReserach Website 
			
			
			
			
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			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, 
			
				
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					the 
					
					Rockefeller
					Foundation  
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					Monsanto Corporation 
					 
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					Syngenta Foundation  
					 
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					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, 
			
				
			 
			
			...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,  
			
				
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					the Bill & Melinda Gates 
					Foundation  
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					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  
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					Syngenta, the Swiss-based major 
					GMO seed and agrichemicals company through its Syngenta 
					Foundation  
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					the Rockefeller Foundation, the 
					private group who created the "gene revolution with over 
					$100 million of seed money since the 1970's  
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					CGIAR, the global network 
					created by the Rockefeller Foundation to promote its ideal 
					of genetic purity through agriculture change. 
					 
				 
			 
			
			 
  
			
			  
			
			CGIAR and 'The 
			Project' 
			 
			As 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,  
			
				
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					the Rockefeller Foundation's 
					George Harrar  
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					Ford Foundation's Forrest Hill 
					 
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					Robert McNamara of the World 
					Bank   
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					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: 
			
				
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					Sylvia M. Mathews of the Bill & 
					Melinda Gates Foundation  
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					Mamphela Ramphele, former 
					Managing Director of the World Bank (2000 – 2006) 
					 
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					Rajiv J. Shah of the Gates 
					Foundation  
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					Nadya K. Shmavonian of the 
					Rockefeller Foundation  
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					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 Programs for AGRA includes: 
			
				
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					Peter Matlon, Managing Director, 
					Rockefeller Foundation  
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					Joseph De Vries, Director of the 
					Programme for Africa's Seed Systems and Associate Director, 
					Rockefeller foundation  
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					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' 
			program 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 
			
				
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					Now is it simply philosophical 
					sloppiness?  
					   
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					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?
					 
					   
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					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. 
			  
			
				
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					Other GCDT board members include former Bank of America executive 
			presently head of the Hollywood DreamWorks Animation, Lewis Coleman. 
			Coleman is also the lead Board Director of Northrup Grumman 
			Corporation, one of America's largest military industry Pentagon 
			contractors.
     
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					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. 
     
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					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 Centers 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. 
					    
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					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. 
			
			
			 
			  
			
			
			 
			 
			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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