The NEXT big March Against Monsanto is October 12, 2013.
The industry response (below) gives me a big incentive to contact people I know, in a community that didn’t have a March, to see if they’ll set up an event for Oct 12!
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50 industry groups form alliance to manipulate public opinion on GMO’s, and other additives, the “Alliance to Feed the Future” – ha!
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BACKGROUND ON GMO CORN IN CANADA:
I was asked:
“have you heard of “prairie fresh corn”? … I am wondering if its also genetically modified but can’t find anything online? Do you know where to find info on all the new corn strains?”
REPLY:
Go to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
GMO crops are referred to as plants with “novel traits”.
Enter “corn” and you’ll get a listing of the GMO (“novel traits”) corn.
For example, “Smartstax” corn, approved in 2009:
Once in the data base, I entered “smartstax” and found:
Monsanto Canada Inc. and Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc.‘s combined trait corn product containing events MON 89034, TC 1507, MON 88017 and DAS-59122-7
Summary of the decision dated July 17, 2009:
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has reviewed a joint Monsanto Canada Inc. and Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc. notification of intent to release into the environment the combined trait corn product containing events MON 89034, TC 1507, MON 88017 and DAS-59122-7 planted with a 5 per cent structured non-Bt refuge. This product has been developed by stacking the events using traditional breeding methods and possesses traits of insecticidal proteins for lepidopteran and corn rootworm control. The product also has traits for tolerance to glyphosate and glufosinate-ammonium herbicides. All single events have been authorized for use in food and livestock feed and for environmental release in Canada.
The CFIA has evaluated the potential impact on and risk to the environment of using a 5 per cent structured non-Bt refuge strategy for this product, and has concluded that the use of this refuge strategy for a time-limited period poses minimal risk to the environment. Consequently, the time-limited environmental release of the combined trait corn product containing events MON 89034, TC 1507, MON 88017 and DAS-59122-7 using this refuge strategy is authorized. In addition to the implementation of the insect resistance management (IRM) requirements specific to this product, during the interim authorization, the proponents are required to conduct field evaluations of corn rootworm adaptation to this product, including monitoring of actual emergence of susceptible and resistant corn rootworm adults in the field.
The CFIA concluded that cultivation of this corn product with an appropriately designed 5 per cent structured refuge strategy is expected to be more effective in delaying the development of resistant insects than cultivation of the individual single event Bt corn products with their respective structured refuge strategies. However, continued diligence on the part of technology developers, federal and provincial government representatives, public sector researchers and growers is required to ensure the continued stewardship of Bt corn products in support of sustainable agricultural practices in the long term.
Summary of the decision dated June 9, 2011:
The CFIA has evaluated the potential impact on and risk to the environment of using a 5 per cent blended non-Bt refuge strategy for this product, and has concluded that the use of this refuge strategy for a time-limited period poses minimal risk to the environment. Consequently, the time-limited environmental release of the combined trait corn product containing events MON 89034, TC 1507, MON 88017 and DAS-59122-7 using this refuge strategy is authorized. In addition to the implementation of the IRMrequirements specific to this product and the research condition imposed by the decision from July 17, 2009, during the interim authorization the proponents are required to conduct additional field evaluations, including further research on the effect of the blended product on European corn borer.
The CFIA concluded that cultivation of this corn product with an appropriately designed 5 per cent blended refuge strategy is expected to be more effective in delaying the development of resistant insects than cultivation of the individual single event Bt corn products with their respective structured refuge strategies. However, continued diligence on the part of technology developers, federal and provincial government representatives, public sector researchers and growers is required to ensure the continued stewardship of Bt corn products in support of sustainable agricultural practices in the long term.
More information can be found on stewardship of Bt crops on the CFIA web site.
For more information, please contact the Plant Biosafety Office.
RECOMMEND: click on the URL, watch the video. The text is below, as backup.
By Barbara Loe Fisher
These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health.
Vaccine risk deniers are working overtime to restrict public access to information, cover up vaccine injuries and deaths and violate the human right to informed consent to medical risk-taking.
No Flu Shots? No Employment
2013 was only a few days old when public health agencies and medical trade groups called for veteran nurses and other health care workers to be fired for refusing to obey orders to get annual flu shots – no exceptions and no questions asked.1
It did not matter that the risky and notoriously ineffective influenza vaccine turned out to be almost useless in preventing infection with the most prevalent influenza strains circulating in the US this year.2
Proposed State Legislation to Force Vaccine Use
This was followed by the introduction of legislation backed by public health officials and Pharma-funded medical trade groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics in states like Texas, Oregon, Arizona and Vermont.3
Their goal is to remove or restrict non-medical vaccine exemptions in state laws so doctors have more power to force vaccine use by children and adults – no questions asked and no exceptions.
Institute of Medicine Report: Where Is the Good Vaccine Science?
In mid-January came the eye-opening Institute of Medicine committee report acknowledging that only 37 scientific studies have examined the safety of the current US vaccine schedule for newborns and children under age six,4 which now totals a stunning 49 doses of 14 vaccines5 compared to 23 doses of 7 vaccines recommended in 1983.6
The lack of enough good scientific studies meant the committee could not determine whether the number of doses and timing of government recommended vaccinations is – or is not – associated with development of chronic health problems like seizures, autoimmunity, allergies, learning disabilities and autism in the first six years of life.7
New U.S. Autism Prevalence Statistic: 1 Child in 50
In March, a report was issued by the National Center for Health Statistics estimating that among children attending school in America, today 1 child in 50 has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).8 In 2004, that number was 1 child in 150. In 1992, it was 1 child in 500 and in 1986 it was 1 child in 2000.9
By April, which is Autism Awareness Month in the US, there was a full court press by doctors inside and outside of government to dismiss any association whatsoever between steep increases in the numbers of vaccinations given to children during the past 30 years and corresponding steep increases in the numbers of children developing autism.
Those doctors know, but a lot of young parents today don’t know, that the public conversation about vaccine-induced brain inflammation and chronic brain and immune system dysfunction, including autism, began 16 years before a study was published in The Lancet in 1998 examining the potential association between the MMR vaccine and autism.10, 11
CDC Study Fails to Confirm Offit’s Claim 10,000 Vaccines Safe for Babies
On Good Friday, April 1, during Easter and Passover observances, a study conducted and funded by the Centers for Disease Control was released by the Journal of Pediatrics declaring that “increasing exposure to antibody stimulating proteins and polysaccharides in vaccines is not associated with risk of autism” and, therefore, vaccines don’t cause autism.12
It was a pathetic attempt to validate a Machiavellian hypothesis forwarded in 2002 by pediatric vaccine developer Paul Offit claiming that an infant could safely respond to 10,000 vaccines given at any one time.13
However, an eighth grade science class student with an elementary understanding of health research methods,14 the bioactivity of various vaccine ingredients15, 16, 17, 18 and the difference between naturally acquired and vaccine acquired immunity,19 could figure out that the absence of an unvaccinated control group meant the study was fatally flawed. It proved absolutely nothing about the potential relationship between administration of multiple vaccinations in early childhood and the development of autism among genetically diverse children with and without increased biological susceptibility to adverse responses to vaccination.20
Pediatricians Label Social Networking Parents ‘Nonconformers’
On April 15, Pediatric News published an online survey stating the obvious: a person’s knowledge, values and beliefs, as well as the opinions of friends and families in social networks, strongly influences decisions about vaccination.21 Parents, who expressed doubts about vaccine safety and used alternative vaccine schedules for their children, were pejoratively labeled as “nonconformers.”
Pediatricians commenting on the survey suggested that nonconforming parents did not base their vaccine decisions on “rational logic” and “scientific evidence” because they were influenced by nonconforming friends and misleading information on nonconforming websites.22 Apparently, there was no consideration given to the fact that nonconforming parents found the poor science and empty rhetoric buttressing one-size-fits-all vaccine policies entirely unconvincing.23
Journalist and Magazine Attacked for Article Questioning Gardasil Safety
April was also the month that a veteran journalist and radio show host was personally attacked by pediatricians and public health officials in Buffalo, New York for daring to write an article questioning the safety of the Gardasil vaccine and urging parents to make informed vaccine choices.24 Outraged doctors threatened to financially ruin the magazine that published the article by destroying the magazine’s paid advertising base unless the article was retracted.25
Offit Plays Class and Race Card to Demonize Smart Nonconforming Parents
By the end of April, a CNN reporter quoted doctors blaming outbreaks of whooping cough, measles and mumps on unvaccinated people in developed nations, who spread their vaccine safety doubts on the Internet and jeopardize the health of people around the world.26 Crassly playing both the class AND race card, the magical thinking, attention seeking Dr. Offit offered the opinion that “It is the upper middle class, well-educated Caucasian parents who are shunning vaccines. They have generally gone to graduate school, are in positions of management and are used to being in control,” he said flatly.
Doctors playing the blame game apparently disagree about whether nonconforming parents asking questions about vaccines are simply stupid and irrational or are just over-educated, rich white folks refusing to acknowledge the intellectual superiority and infallibility of those with M.D., PhD or MPH written after their names regardless of the color of their skin or how much money they make.
Doctors like Offit,27 Halsey,28, 29, 30 Plotkin,31, 32 Omer33, 34, 35, 36 and others denying vaccine risks are blaming everyone but themselves for the miserable statistic that 1 child in 50 in America develops a type of brain and immune dysfunction labeled autism when it used to be 1 child in 2000 before they dumped three times as many vaccinations on babies.
Regression into Poor Health After Vaccination: A Universal Experience
What doctors drowning in denialism37 refuse to accept is that, today, everybody knows somebody who was healthy, got vaccinated and was never healthy again.38 That pattern of regression into poor health,39 that universal experience of suffering after use of a pharmaceutical product that has a long, well documented history of risks40, 41, 42 and failures,43, 44 is why the public conversation about health and vaccination in the 21st century must and will continue. It will continue until doctors, who are pushing more and more vaccines on children and adults already more highly vaccinated and sicker than ever, come up with a much better explanation than it’s “bad genes,” “better diagnosing” or all “a coincidence.”
Vaccine Makers and Doctors Shielded from Liability Have Ethical Duty
In the US, vaccine manufacturers are shielded from product liability in civil court and doctors promoting and administering vaccines are also shielded from vaccine injury lawsuits.45, 46 Doctors without legal accountability have an even greater ethical duty to encourage patients and parents of minor children to become educated about all risks and honor the vaccination decisions patients or parents make, even if the doctor does not personally agree with the decision made.47, 48
Freedom of thought, speech and conscience are deeply valued and constitutionally protected rights in America.49 The public trust in the integrity of public health policies is destroyed when defensive doctors unwilling to share decision-making power fail to respect the human right to informed consent to medical risk taking and behave like schoolyard bullies instead of compassionate healers committed to, first, doing no harm.
There is so much to pass along – don’t know where to begin. The March exceeded all expectations, people in 52 countries involved. And it all got organized in a short time.
Maybe this tells it all: Marianne Williamson talking to the March Against Monsanto in Venice, California. Everyone should see it, even if you are not an American. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xiaf7of8cxg
(UPDATE: see also 2013-05-31 Stand Up, Speak Out!: Marianne Williamson at TEDxTraverseCity – Williamson addresses the role of women in the resistance.)
NOTE: I contacted Marianne Williamson June 8th to suggest that the role of the Universities should be addressed.
REPLY RECEIVED: Sun 09/06/2013 1:14 PM
SUBJECT: Re: Marianne’s March Against Monsanto talk: Needs the role of the University
Thanks. I know you’re right. Pharmaceutical companies in medical schools, too.
Best,
Marianne
Marianne Williamson
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OCTOBER 12TH! Mark your calendars. No conflicting events, please! (Not even Canadian Thanksgiving!)
March Against Monsanto says:
“We march on SATURDAY, Oct 12, 2013. World Food Day (10/16/13) falls on a Wednesday, so that is not a good day for great turnout. . . . These things do require a bit of planning…”
COMMENT by Paul (Edmonton):
The Movement seems to have decided and since their (USA) thanksgiving is on a different weekend, we follow them. Besides, what better way to celebrate thanksgiving than to be thankful for GM Freedom!
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HERE’S AN IDEA.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP? Especially after listening to Marianne Williamson?!
Conversation with a person from Barrie ON explains it:
– I’ve been wondering – what if some of us started looking at communities that don’t have a March Against Monsanto(MAM) F/B page? Maybe we know someone in such a community. We could contact them to see if they, or someone they know, would set up a MAM F/B group for their community. There would be more Marches then, the next time around. Even if they don’t all have an actual March, still the word would be getting into many more communities. What do you think? . . .
(response positive, but groups are talking different dates.)
– I just looked up info on the MAM Official F/B group. “We march on SATURDAY, Oct 12, 2013.
How about if we work toward that? As you point out – – “Stronger if we all march on the same day and everyone knows what everyone else is doing“.
– I started posting notice of OCTOBER 12th on different groups. So they won’t set up conflicting events. . . .
– Received a reply from MAM San Francisco about getting more communities onto MAM thru F/B.
– (Reply received) sounds great!!!! *high five* lol
– LOL – I am too! “Karen” from San Fran says she wants to help us! We are already 3! This is a blast. Will get back to you after I’ve posted on some more MAM groups.
Let me know if you’d like to help!
(If everyone lets their community groups know about Oct 12th so there aren’t conflicting events (Thanksgiving aside!), that would be very helpful!)
Last updated: Partial update Oct, 2015. A few more updates. March, 2018. Work to be done!
Can’t find the community you are looking for?
The number of countries that now have MAM’s has grown incredibly! (I went to the official site today, after a long absence.)
MAM 1: May 25, 2013
MAM 2: October 12, 2013
MAM 3: May 24, 2014
MAM, October, 2014: MAM worldwide slated that the next worldwide solidarity action will be on the MAM anniversary weekend – May 23, 2015. There was no MAM in October 2014.
MAM 4: May 23, 2015
MAM 5: Oct 16-17. A convergence on Washington, DC, Under the banner
(A convergence of the protests against GMOs (Monsanto) and against the trade deals. For example, see 2015-10-10 Hundreds of thousands shut down Berlin to protest “Trojan Horse” – – Monsanto’s dream trade deal. The Guardian
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INTERNATIONAL
Official Website: March Against Monsanto http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/ See “Events” for a listing of groups from around the world. You will also find excellent articles.
March Against Monsanto Education: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Kitimatfightsback/#!/MarchAgainstMonstanto
March Against Monsanto, CHANTS you might want to use: (July 2017. INVALID LINK http://mam-lb.com/march-info/chants/)
Youtube: March Against Monsanto – October 12, 2013 – Meet Me in St Louis (Monsanto Headquarters) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gae8u4OWD4Q&feature=youtu.be
Facebook (International):
March Against Monsanto (MAM) OFFICIAL
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChallengeCETA/#!/MarchAgainstMonstanto?fref=ts
MAM, Millions Against Monsanto by OrganicConsumers. org
https://www.facebook.com/MarchAgainstMonstanto?fref=ts#!/millionsagainst
OCCUPY MONSANTO
https://www.facebook.com/groups/468324063241068/#!/occupymonsanto
NO GMO FOOD
VALID working link, even if it shows otherwise, July 2017
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/No%20GMO/pages-named#!/nogmo1
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CANADA
(1) https://www.facebook.com/GMOFreeCanadaGroup (a campaign in British Columbia to get municipalities to vote “GE Free BC”)(GE = Genetically Engineered)
(2) https://www.facebook.com/groups/gmofreecanada/
ALBERTA
BRITISH COLUMBIA
(old page is: http://on.fb.me/14Hp2bh)
GE Free Comox Valley (active Mar 13/18)
https://www.facebook.com/worldcommunity.cv The film “Modified” (genetically modified) is being shown Mar 13/18.)
Facebook appears to be inactive since the 2016 MAM: https://www.facebook.com/MarchAgainstMonsantoComoxValley?fref=ts
WEBSITE: Active http://marchagainstmonsantocomoxvalley.wordpress.com/
Apr 10, 2014 message posted: March Against Monsanto Comox Valley is in need of an organizer for May 24, 2014. If an organizer does not come forward, the event will be cancelled. Last year’s organizer is willing to help and share information from last year.
(Inactive) No GMO http://on.fb.me/14ZeuBA)
Borderline active, scroll down to “recent . . “, Apr 15, 2015 https://www.facebook.com/events/374314236001890/
Inactive Apr 15, 2015: World Food Day – Dawson Creek, BC
Wow! Nov 2013. Kelowna already has its “event” for May 24, 2014 set up!
https://www.facebook.com/events/595116027201849/
(Oct 2013 (old) one is at https://www.facebook.com/events/285219761615461/)
Nanaimo, GE Free Nanaimo The active page: https://www.facebook.com/gefreenanaimo Contact Jane Bryony-Shaw gefreenanaimo {AT} gmail.com.
Old page: MAM http://on.fb.me/18QoaRR
(Old event page is http://on.fb.me/14l01QB.
https://www.facebook.com/mamvancouver is the “like” page for Vancouver MAM.
Organizer Karolyn explains (Nov 2013):
we have the event page, the like page and the community page. There’s three, and there’s about to be a blog — well, blog/website.
Organizer Lili explains (Mar 2014):
Please, LIKE our public page and post there. The posts here often go unnoticed for more than a few days, as we are busy planning the March and keeping our public social media as up to date as possible. When you post to the (Like) page, we will share your posts! The like page is also where most of the updates regarding the March, and calls to action, will be.
A big THANK YOU for all your support and we look forward to seeing you at the March on May 24th!
(Old) Wow! they already have the event page for May 2014 up!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/164930890343401/#!/events/415585315210273/?previousaction=join&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&source=1
(Old) Vancouver page for ORGANIZING the Oct 12 March: https://www.facebook.com/groups/164930890343401/#!/events/358912147557584/(Old one, May 2013 is http://on.fb.me/YWq7dW)
https://www.facebook.com/
(OLD ONE is http://on.fb.me/YdHBRr)
MANITOBA
NEW BRUNSWICK
NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
NOVA SCOTIA
MAM Halifax Group Page (Sept 2018, confirmed. Active.) : https://www.facebook.com/
(old MAM Halifax, October march event (refers to the New event page): https://www.facebook.com/
(old – MAM Halifax Event page. Nov 2013: Congratulations Halifax! the May 2014 event is already posted! (Same URL as for Oct 12, 2013 event) https://www.facebook.com/events/146354302212719/
(old – the May 25th 2013 event page is http://on.fb.me/YvVw5I)
NUNAVUT
ONTARIO
(Old – http://on.fb.me/15Rg0tO)
(old http://on.fb.me/ZTK95A)
“Not available” Event page for May 24, 2014: https://www.facebook.com/events/253479984832085/?context=create
(Old – https://www.facebook.com/events/206566622846730/
(old page, May 25 is https://www.facebook.com/pages/March-Against-Monsanto-Oshawa/160505644112597 ) (also shows May 25: http://is.gd/nJjjHQ)
https://www.facebook.com/
(old https://www.facebook.com/events/365136820263869/#!/events/569134473145875/ )
(Old, Sudbury, Oct 2013 >> http://on.fb.me/YxwLBF)
(Old October 12 Event paage: https://www.facebook.com/events/556507851059248/)
(old page, May 25th date) http://on.fb.me/10naV5s
(Old – http://on.fb.me/10uybwz (Sept 9, 2013: sent a message to Cheryl. Has she found help getting re-established for the Oct 12 event? Oct 15, 2013 No evidence that Windsor held a MAM in October.)
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
QUEBEC
(Old – May 24, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/events/127939074061521/#!/events/154951524712503/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular.) (Old, May 2013 http://on.fb.me/127E9X8)
SASKATCHEWAN
Group Page https://www.facebook.com/marchagainstmonsantomj
(Old – Event Page for Oct 12: https://www.facebook.com/events/220322368132911/)
https://www.facebook.com/events/583443078335565/#!/events/667319353330481/
(Old >> https://www.facebook.com/events/583443078335565/)
(old – https://www.facebook.com/events/199775386839374/
YUKON
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Occupy Regina
https://www.facebook.com/occupyregina/posts/482805408479133#!/occupyregina
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http://presstv.com/detail/2013/01/29/286231/us-a-top-terrorist-state-chomsky/
PLEASE GO TO THE URL, TO THE VIDEO OF THE INTERVIEW WITH CHOMSKY. IT IS A VERY INTERESTING INTERVIEW.
“I took the official definitions of terrorism, which were very good, I took the definition that is given in US and British law, which is a fine definition but has a flaw; If you apply it, it turns out the United States is one of the leading terrorist states in the world,” Chomsky told Press TV in an interview on Tuesday.
The academic added that he had predicted the ongoing so-called war on terror by the US when Ronald Reagan was president in the 1980s.
“I’ve been writing about terrorism since 1981, since Ronald Reagan came into office and declared that a war on terror would be the centerpiece of the American policy,” Chomsky stated.
He called into question the legality of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, saying, “The US and Britain tried to provide a kind of a thin legal cover for the invasion. The legal cover was, as you know, that Saddam had not ended his programs of weapons of mass destruction.”
US-led forces attacked Iraq in 2003 and toppled Saddam Hussein on the pretext of possessing weapons of mass destruction. But no WMD was ever discovered in Iraq.
At the peak of the US-led military operation in Iraq, there were 170,000 US troops and more than 500 bases in Iraq.
More than one million Iraqis were killed as the result of the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of the country.
KA/SS/IS
Renowned American academic, Noam Chomsky, says US President Barack Obama, his predecessor George W. Bush, along with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair should face trial for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the ensuing turmoil in the Arab state.
“Bush and Blair ought to be up there [at the International Criminal Court]. There is no recent crime worse than the invasion of Iraq. Obama’s got to be there for the terror war,” Chomsky told Russia Today on Thursday.
In 2003, the US and Britain invaded Iraq in a blatant violation of international law and under the pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction. But no such weapons were ever found in Iraq.
More than one million Iraqis were killed as the result of the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of the country, according to the California-based investigative organization, Project Censored.
Chomsky, a prominent critic of the US foreign policy, said the invasion of Iraq is a “supreme international crime,” adding that the US and its allies were responsible for bomb attacks across the Arab country.
“The US and British invasion of Iraq was a textbook example of aggression, no questions about it. Which means that we were responsible for all the evil that follows like the bombings. Serious conflict arose, [and] it spread all over the region. In fact the region is being torn to shreds by this conflict. That is part of the evil that follows,” Chomsky stated.
He went on to slam Washington for its growing use of killer drones in a number of countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia, describing it as a “massive terror campaign.”
“A drone strike was a terror weapon; we do not talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you do not know whether in five minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you cannot see,” said Chomsky.
“Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you will be injured if you are there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. In fact it’s the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot,” he added.
MAM/KA/SS
http://www.naturalnews.com/034468_doomsday_seed_vault_secrets.html
(NaturalNews)
by: PF Louis
Are you aware of the Arctic Circle Doomsday Seed Vault? Technically it’s the Svalbard International Seed Vault. The media has hailed it as an attempt to create a doomsday ark containing a wide variety of seeds to ensure the future of agriculture in the event of widespread crop disasters. A closer look behind the curtains finds some suspicious characters heavily vested in the vault’s activity.
The doomsday vault’s operation
The doomsday seed vault is situated on the island of Spitzbergen, Norway, located in the Svalbard island group within the Arctic Circle. It exists in an old copper mine, which is connected by a long steel tunnel from outside of the mine’s mountain. It is steel and concrete fortified with all the latest technological innovations for supplying power and maintaining seed security.
It is considered a safety deposit box back up for all other seed banks located throughout the world, of which there are many. Because of its remote but accessible location, entrance at 400 feet above sea level, and the permafrost protection for the vault if there is a power failure. On the surface, the project makes ecological sense.
Norway technically owns the vault, and endows those who place seeds into the vault with absolute ownership and access of the seeds. The Global Crop Diversity Trust based in Rome is the prime coordinating international agency for the doomsday vault, and they have strong Rockefeller connections.
An earlier LA Times article mentioned that all seeds are accepted, except for genetically modified seeds.
However, this stipulation wasn’t noticed on the vault FAQs web page. The doomsday vault donors listed include
Suspicions are warranted
International investigative journalist William Engdahl voiced his concerns in a 2007 Global Research article just prior to the vault’s opening: “Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic – Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t.”
Engdahl has serious issues, supported by documented historical evidence, regarding the major doomsday vault sponsors. He connects their shadowy dots from earlier 20th Century agribusiness endeavors of the usual suspects to now. They thrive on NGO front groups with humanitarian titles and push vaccinations in third world countries as well.
Even Norway was involved with producing sterilization agents that were attempted under the guise of free tetanus vaccinations – for women of child bearing ages only – in Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines during the 1990s.
Among the listed sponsors are: Monsanto; The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill privately invested heavily in Monsanto stocks); world agribusiness giants Dupont/Pioneer Hi-Bred and Syngenta, both promoting GMO seeds and all the chemicals needed for large scale monoculture farming; global network groups supported by Rockefeller foundations to ensure the master monopolist Rockefellers have strong claim on agribusiness.
Engdahl points out that the so called “Green Revolution” was a steady networking grab, allowing the monopoly Rockefellers to eventually gain control over much of international agribusiness while ruining small third world farms and forcing those farmers into cheap labor pools.
How do the above mentioned groups keep their mission statements straight, funding millions into the doomsday vault while simultaneously funding large sums into The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)?
Cloaked in benevolence, AGRA is an attempt to ruin small, independent farming in Africa and replace it with GM and monoculture large scale farming, which demands all the various chemicals the private companies sponsoring the doomsday vault provide.
Engdahl suspects something is rotten in Svalbard. And it smells of global control with some depopulation. You can read his article here:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23503
Sources for this article include:
(1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BmJ4UAD485Y
Dr. David Wallinga, Director of the Food and Health Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, talks about the findings of a recent IATP study on the presence of mercury in high fructose corn syrup and in common food and beverage products.
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Another very good presentation by Dr. Wallinga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGu1_3M2h34
UPDATE: one year later (2.3 minutes). The pharmaceutical companies have sold MORE antibiotics for animal feed, not less.
But! there is some good news, too.! See (2.3 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_uF-RIIbw8
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UPDATE: Closely related posting: Important video “Salmon Confidential”
The March Against Monsanto, May 25th
Two short videos that tell you a little about what we are up against.
LONGER: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO (1 hour 49 minutes). FREE ON-LINE DOCUMENTARY
This movie does a good job of explaining the real world of GMO technology.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/