Against the backdrop of the
spreading fear about a global coronavirus pandemic, an event has slipped
largely under the radar at a spot so removed from the rest of the world
that most are unaware of its existence. The Svalbard “Doomsday” Seed
Vault on Spitsbergen Island north of the Arctic Circle just received an
additional major shipment of plant variety seeds for its special
storage. What makes this entire seed bank enterprise suspicious at the
very least is the list of financial sponsors behind the global project.
On February 25 more
than 60,000 new seed varieties were placed in the Svalbard vault, the
largest deposit of seeds since it opened. This brings the total of seed
types to over one million since the vault was first opened for deposits
in early 2008.
The latest seed
deposits include onions from Brazil, guar beans from central Asia, corn
seeds sacred to the Cherokee nation and wildflowers from a meadow at
Prince Charles’s home in the UK (sic). The Svalbard vault is on the
island that is legally part of Norway since a 1925 treaty. The Norwegian
government put up much of the money for the construction of the
facility whose backers declared it was able to withstand a nuclear bomb
blast. The only problem was planners did not make the structure, built
into a mountain side, waterproof and the entrance flooded amid heavy
rains in 2016, necessitating a major € 20 million of repairs and upgrade
which were just completed, some four years later. Notably, as Norwegian
Prime Minister Erna Solberg pointed out during the recent seed-greeting
ceremony, the year 2020 is slated as the year by which countries should
have safeguarded genetic diversity of crops to meet the UN goal of “eliminating hunger by 2030.” The
year 2030 is when the UN IPCC predicts catastrophic climate change
barring a radical action from the world, as well as the key benchmark
year for the UN’s Malthusian Agenda2030.
The publicly-stated
argument for the major seed bank project is supposedly as a safe backup
for the numerous national seed bank collections in event they are
destroyed in war as in Syria or Iraq, or by natural disaster or other
calamity. The Svalbard vault has been called the “Noah’s ark of seeds,”
there should a “global catastrophe” occur, to allow a theoretical
restart to world agriculture. OK. Interesting. Who would decide how to
distribute those seeds in event of such a catastrophe is not addressed.
What is notable is the list of those backing this highly unusual public-private partnership.
Crop Trust?
The seed bank and
acquisition of the seeds is managed by an entity known as the Crop
Trust, officially known as the Global Crop Diversity Trust, now based in
Bonn, Germany. On its website Crop Trust makes the modest claim that
their “sole mission is to ensure humanity conserves and makes available
the world’s crop diversity for future food security.”
It has an impressive
list of financial sponsors which it calls the Donors’ Council. Among the
most eye-catching they name Bayer Crop Science, which now incorporates
Monsanto; DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred; Syngenta AG, now owned by ChemChina.
These are the world’s largest purveyors of GMO patented seeds and the
paired agrichemicals such as Roundup with glyphosate. China’s now
state-owned Syngenta is the world’s largest supplier of crop chemicals.
In addition, Crop
Trust Donors include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the major
donor to initiate the Trust in 2004 with the FAO, the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization and CGIAR, acting through Bioversity
International.
Gates Foundation is
joined at Crop Trust by the Rockefeller Foundation, the ones who first
financed the creation of GMO biotechnology beginning in the 1970’s at
their International Rice Research Institute, where they spent millions
trying to develop the colossal failure called Vitamin A-enhanced Golden
Rice. 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 has a capacity to house
four and a half million different seeds.
At the time the
Svalbard Doomsday Seed Vault opened in 2008 the chairman of the Crop
Trust was Canadian Margaret Catley-Carlson. Catley-Carlson was also
president until 1999 of the New York-based Population Council, John D.
Rockefeller III ’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. Catley-Carlson also sat on
the board of the Syngenta Foundation.
De-Population Council
Being President of
the Rockefeller-founded Population Council is no minor deal. 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
as liable to step on rusty nails as women.
Because of that
curious anomaly, Comité 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.
Is it just
coincidence that the same Gates Foundation is backing the organization
responsible for maintaining the Svalbard “Doomsday” Seed Vault at the
same time Gates is emerging as a major authority on the danger of the
Wuhan coronavirus epidemic? In an article he wrote for the New England Journal of Medicine, Gates stated that the designated COVID19, “has started behaving a lot like the once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.”
A virtually
inaccessible seed vault under the control of some of the world’s
foremost advocates of eugenics and population reduction is definitely
remarkable. With more than a million of the irreplaceable seed heritage
of the world locked inside the Svalbard Seed Vault, could this be a way
for GMO agribusiness giants like Bayer-Monsanto or Syngenta to illegally
gain access to those seeds in a time of global crisis? It sounds very
far-fetched, yet there are far-fetched goings on in our world. We could
say, “He who controls the world’s crop seeds, controls the world.”
F. William Engdahl is
strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics
from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and
geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
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