Doomsday Seed Vault
The seed bank is being
built inside a mountain on Spitsbergen Island near the
small village of Longyearbyen. It’s almost ready for
‘business’ according to their releases. The bank will
have dual blast-proof doors with motion sensors, two
airlocks, and walls of steel-reinforced concrete one
meter thick. It will contain up to three million
different varieties of seeds from the entire world, ‘so
that crop diversity can be conserved for the future,’
according to the Norwegian government. Seeds will be
specially wrapped to exclude moisture. There will be no
full-time staff, but the vault's relative
inaccessibility will facilitate monitoring any possible
human activity.
Did we miss something
here? Their press release stated, ‘so that crop
diversity can be conserved for the future.’ What future
do the seed bank’s sponsors foresee, that would threaten
the global availability of current seeds, almost all of
which are already well protected in designated seed
banks around the world?
Anytime Bill Gates,
the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto and Syngenta get
together on a common project, it’s worth digging a bit
deeper behind the rocks on Spitsbergen. When we do we
find some fascinating things.
The first notable
point is who is sponsoring the doomsday seed vault. Here
joining the Norwegians are, as noted, the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation; the US agribusiness giant
DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, one of the world’s largest
owners of patented genetically-modified (GMO) plant
seeds and related agrichemicals; Syngenta, the
Swiss-based major GMO seed and agrichemicals company
through its Syngenta Foundation; the Rockefeller
Foundation, the private group who created the “gene
revolution with over $100 million of seed money since
the 1970’s; CGIAR, the global network created by the
Rockefeller Foundation to promote its ideal of genetic
purity through agriculture change.
CGIAR and ‘The
Project’
As I detailled in the
book, Seeds of 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.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.1
F. William Engdahl,
Seeds of Destruction, Montreal,
(Global Research, 2007).
