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Seeds of Destruction -

_http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/06/19/seeds_of_destruction_.htm_

(http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/06/19/seeds_of_destruction_.htm)

 

William Engdahl's book Seeds of Destruction takes on the hot theme of what

is behind the development of genetically altered plants and their imposition

by what seems sheer force, on the earth's population. The motives he finds are

not something everyone will be comfortable with, but since we are the guinea

pigs and the eventual target of the foods so produced, we better start

looking.

You may have heard of Arpad Pusztai, a scientist of Hungarian origin who,

working in the UK, discovered that genetically modified potatoes, when fed to

laboratory animals, caused pathological changes of their organs. The head of

the Rowett Institute, which had employed Pusztai, _terminated his contract_

(http://www.communicationagents.com/sepp/2005/08/10/gm_food_safety_royal_society\

_s

uppressed_study.htm)

_http://www.communicationagents.com/sepp/2005/08/10/gm_food_safety_royal_society\

_suppressed_study.htm_

(http://www.communicationagents.com/sepp/2005/08/10/gm_food_safety_royal_society\

_suppressed_study.htm) and

ruined his career, one indication that there are dark forces at work that

will attempt to prevent any damaging information about GMOs to reach the wider

public.

Rats fed GM soy _developed sick offspring_

(http://www.seedsofdeception.com/utility/showArticle/?objectID=297)

_http://www.seedsofdeception.com/utility/showArticle/?objectID=297_

(http://www.seedsofdeception.com/utility/showArticle/?objectID=297) , and the

Russian researcher blowing the whistle on that

has been similarly vilified and her career ended.

In India, sheep grazing on cotton plants modified to manufacture BT toxin,

_died in large numbers_ (http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MDSGBTC.php)

_http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MDSGBTC.php_ (http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MDSGBTC.php)

indicating that

the toxin is not, as we are told, harmless to vertebrates.

William Engdahl has put these and other instances of damage and suppression

of science together with historical information on the promoters of

'scientific agriculture' and his conclusions are disquieting.

Arun Shrivastava has reviewed Engdahl's book:

- - -

Book Review

Arun Shrivastava

" Seeds of Destruction "

By F William Engdahl

Published by: Global Research

_www.globalresearch.ca_ (http://globalresearch.ca/books/SoD.html)

Last three or four years have seen a number of books, documentaries and

articles on the dangers of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds. A majority has

focused on adverse health and environmental impact; almost none on the

geo-politics

of GM seeds, and particularly on the use of seeds as a weapon of mass

destruction. Engdahl has addressed this issue but the crop seed is only one of

many

" Seeds of Destruction " described in this book.

Engdahl carefully documents how the intellectual foundations of 'eugenics,'

mass culling of the sick, coloured, and otherwise disposable races, were

actually first established, and even legally approved, in the United States.

Eugenics research was financially supported by the Rockefeller and other elite

families and first tested in Nazi Germany.

It is purely by chance that the world's poorest nations happen to be the ones

best endowed with natural resources. These regions are also the ones with

growing population. The fear among European ruling families, increasingly

integrating with economic and military might of the United States, was that if

the poor nations became developed, the abundant natural resources, especially

oil, gas and strategic minerals and metals, might become scarcer for the white

population. That situation was unacceptable to the white ruling elite.

The central question that dominated the minds of the ruling clique was

population reduction in resource-rich countries but the question was how to

engineer mass culling all over the world without generating a powerful backlash

as

it was bound to happen. When the US oil reserves peaked in 1972 and it became

a net oil importer, the situation became alarming and the agenda took the

centre stage. Kissinger, one of the key strategists of Nixon, nurtured by the

Rockefellers, prepared what is known as National Security Study Memorandum

(NSSM) 200, in which he elaborated his plan for population reduction. In this

Memo he specifically targets thirteen countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia,

Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey, Thailand, and

The Phillipines.

The weapon to be used was food; even if there was a famine food would be used

to leverage population reduction. Kissinger is on record for having stated,

" Control oil, you control nations; control food and you control the people. "

How a small group of key people transformed the elitist philosophy of

controlling food to control people, into a realistic operational possibility

within

a short time is the backdrop of Engdahl's book, the central theme running

from the beginning till the end with the Rockefellers and Kissinger, among

others, as the key dramatis personae.

Engdahl describes how the Rockefellers guided US agriculture policy, using

their powerful tax-free foundations worldwide to train an army of bright young

scientists in the hitherto unknown field of microbiology. He traces how the

field of Eugenics was renamed " genetics " to make it more acceptable and also

to hide its real purpose. Through incremental strategic adjustments within a

handful of chemical, food and seed corporations, ably supported by persons in

key departments of the US Government, behemoths were created that could

re-write the regulatory framework of nearly every country. And these seeds of

destruction in the form of a carefully constructed regulatory framework -

ostensibly to protect the environment and human health - were sown back in the

1920s.

Pause to think: a normal healthy person can at the most go without food for

perhaps seven days but it takes a full season, say around four months, for a

seed to grow into food crop. Just five agri-biz corporations, all US based

(Cargill, Bunge, Archer Daniels, et al), control global grain trade, and just

five control global trade in seeds. Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, DuPont, and Dow

Chemicals control genetically engineered seeds. While these powerful

oligopolies were being knocked into place, anti-trust laws were diluted to

exempt

these firms. Engdahl writes, " It was not surprising that the Pentagon's

National

Defense University, on the eve of the 2003 Iraq War, issued a paper

declaring: 'Agribiz is to the United States what oil is to the Middle East.'

Agribusiness had become a strategic weapon in the arsenal of the world's only

superpower. " (page 143)

The " Green Revolution " was part of the Rockefeller agenda to destroy seed

diversity and push oil-and-gas-based agriculture inputs in which the

Rockefellers had a main interest. Destruction of seed diversity and dependence

on

proprietary hybrids was the first step in food control.

It is true that initially Green Revolution technologies led to a spurt in

farm productivity but at a huge cost of destruction of farmlands, bio-diversity,

poisoned aquifers and progressively poor health of the people, showing what

was the true agenda of 'the proponents of the Green Revolution.'

The real impetus however came with the technological possibility of gene

splicing and insertion of specific traits into unrelated species. Life forms

could be altered. But until 1979, the US Government had steadfastly refused to

grant any patent on life form. That was changed [my comment: helped much by a

favorable judgment in the US Supreme Court granting patent protection to oil

eating bacteria developed by Dr Ananda Chakraborty]. Life forms could now be

patented. To ensure that the world surrendered to the patent regime of the

seeds corporations, the World Trade Organization was knocked into shape. How it

conducted business was nobody's business, but it forced the world to accept

the intellectual property rights of these corporations. There is opposition

but these firms are too determined, as Engdahl describes.

" The clear strategy of Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and the Washington government

backing them was to introduce the GMO seeds in every corner of the globe, with

priority on defenceless …. African and developing countries, " writes Engdahl

(page 270). However, Engdahl also describes how US and Canadian farmlands

came under GMOs. It was suspected that GMO could pose a serious threat to human

and animal health and the environment, yet efforts at independent biosafety

assessment were discontinued. Scientists carrying out honest studies were

vilified. Reputed scientific establishments were silenced or made to toe the

line supportive of the Rockefeller's food control and mass culling agenda. The

destruction of the credibility of scientific institution is yet another seed of

destruction in Engdahl's book.

Engdahl cites the example of German farmer Gottfried Glockner's experience

with GM corn. Glockner planted Bt176 event of Syngenta essentially as feed for

his cows. Being a scientist, he started with 10% GM feed and gradually

increased the proportion, carefully noting milk yield and any side effects.

Nothing

much happened in the first three years but when he increased the feed to

100% GM, his animals " were having gluey-white faeces and violent diarrhea " and

their " milk contained blood. " Eventually all his seventy cows died. Prof

Angelika Hilbeck of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology found from

Glockner's Bt 176 corn samples, that Bt toxins were present " in active form

and extremely stable. " The cows died of a high dose of toxins. Not if, but

when human food is 100% contaminated should be a sobering thought.

In the US unlabelled GM foods were introduced in 1993 and that 70% of the

supermarket foods contain GMOs in varying proportions in what should rightly be

called the world's largest biological experiment on humans. While Engdahl has

clearly stated that the thrust of US government and Agi-biz is control over

food, especially in the

third world, he has left it to the readers to deduce that American and

European citizens are also target of that grand agenda. And there are more

lethal

weapons in the arsenal: Terminator seeds, Traitor seeds, and the ability to

destroy small independent farmers at will in any part of the world, and these

are powerfully presented in the book. Engdahl provides hard evidence for

these seeds of final destruction and utter decimation of world civilizations as

we have known.

_Seeds of Destruction_ (http://globalresearch.ca/books/SoD.html)

_http://globalresearch.ca/books/SoD.html_

(http://globalresearch.ca/books/SoD.html)

is a complex but highly readable book. It is divided into five parts, each

containing two to four short chapters. The first part deals with the political

maneuverings to ensure support to Seed and Agri-biz firms, the second deals

with what should be widely known as 'The Rockefeller Plan', the third deals

with

how vertically integrated giant corporations were readied for Washington's

silent wars on planet earth, the fourth part deals with how GM seeds were

unleashed on unsuspecting farmers, and the final part deals with how the

elites'

destroying food and farmers would eventually cause mass culling of

population. He does not offer any solution; he can't because it is up to the

rest of

the world, including Europeans and Americans, to wake up and take on these

criminals.

An essential read for anyone who eats and thinks.

 

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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Thursday June 19 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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