William Engdahl: Seeds of Destruction – The Diabolical World of Genetic Manipulation!

• What is the agenda behind the GMO industry? I have come to the conclusion that it is: depopulation. This is done by spreading sterility and diseases amongst the population. If you were to trace the ownership of these companies, work through the fog of cross holdings, foundation ownerships…. you will come to the logical conclusion that they are Illuminist owned ! The same Black Nobility, 13 Satanic bloodlines behind all of humanities woes.
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  Seeds of Destruction: The Diabolical World of Genetic Manipulation
  by F. William Engdahl, http://www.globalresearch.ca
  PREFACE. This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO.
  This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. “Control the food and you control the people.”
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  This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO.  Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms. The author cogently reveals a diabolical world of profit-driven political intrigue, government corruption and coercion, where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food production. If the book often reads as a crime story, that should come as no surprise. For that is what it is.
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  Engdahl’s carefully argued critique goes far beyond the familiar controversies surrounding the practice of genetic modification as a scientific technique. The book is an eye-opener, a must-read for all those committed to the causes of social justice and world peace.
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  Introduction
  “We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security.To do so,we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives.We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.”
  - George Kennan, US State Department senior planning official, 1948 
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  This book is about a project undertaken by a small socio-political elite, centered, after the Second World War, not in London, but in Washington. It is the untold story of how this self-anointed elite set out, in Kennan’s words, to “maintain this position of disparity.” It is the story of how a tiny few dominated the resources and levers of power in the postwar world.
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  It’s above all a history of the evolution of power in the control of a select few, in which even science was put in the service of that minority. As Kennan recommended in his 1948 internal memorandum, they pursued their policy relentlessly, and without the “luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.”
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  Yet, unlike their predecessors within leading circles of the British Empire, this emerging American elite, who proclaimed proudly at war’s end the dawn of their American Century, were masterful in their use of the rhetoric of altruism and world-benefaction to advance their goals. Their American Century paraded as a softer empire, a “kinder, gentler” one in which, under the banner of colonial liberation, freedom, democracy and economic development, those elite circles built a network of power the likes of which the world had not seen since the time of Alexander the Great some three centuries before Christ—a global empire unified under the military control of a sole superpower, able to decide on a whim, the fate of entire nations.
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  This book is the sequel to a first volume, A Century ofWar: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order. It traces a second thin red line of power. This one is about the control over the very basis of human survival, our daily provision of bread. The man who served the interests of the postwar American-based elite during the 1970’s, and came to symbolize its raw realpolitik, was Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Sometime in the mid-1970’s, Kissinger, a life-long practitioner of “Balance of Power” geopolitics and a man with more than a fair share of conspiracies under his belt, allegedly declared his blueprint for world domination: “Control the oil and you control nations. Control the food, and you control the people.”
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  The strategic goal to control global food security had its roots decades earlier, well before the outbreak of war in the late 1930’s. It was funded, often with little notice, by select private foundations, which had been created to preserve the wealth and power of a handful of American families.
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  Originally the families centered their wealth and power in New York and along the East Coast of the United States, from Boston to New York to Philadelphia and Washington D.C. For that reason, popular media accounts often referred to them, sometimes with derision but more often with praise, as the East Coast Establishment.
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  The center of gravity of American power shifted in the decades following the War. The East Coast Establishment was overshadowed by new centers of power which evolved from Seattle to Southern California on the Pacific Coast, as well as in Houston, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Miami, just as the tentacles of American power spread to Asia and Japan, and south, to the nations of Latin America.
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  In the several decades before and immediately following World War II, one family came to symbolize the hubris and arrogance of this emerging American Century more than any other. And the vast fortune of that family had been built on the blood of many wars, and on their control of a new “black gold,” oil.
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  Click here to learn more about Seeds of Destruction
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  What was unusual about this family was that early on in the building of their fortune, the patriarchs and advisors they cultivated to safeguard their wealth decided to expand their influence over many very different fields. They sought control not merely over oil, the emerging new energy source for world economic advance. They also expanded their influence over the education of youth, medicine and psychology, foreign policy of the United States, and, significant for our story, over the very science of life itself, biology, and its applications in the world of plants and agriculture.
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  For the most part, their work passed unnoticed by the larger population, especially in the United States. Few Americans were aware how their lives were being subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, influenced by one or another project financed by the immense wealth of this family.
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  In the course of researching for this book, a work nominally on the subject of genetically modified organisms or GMO, it soon became clear that the history of GMO was inseparable from the political history of this one very powerful family, the Rockefeller family, and the four brothers—David,Nelson, Laurance and John D. III—who, in the three decades following American victory in World War II, the dawn of the much-heralded American Century, shaped the evolution of power George Kennan referred to in 1948.
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  In actual fact, the story of GMO is that of the evolution of power in the hands of an elite, determined at all costs to bring the entire world under their sway.
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  … to continue reading click here!

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Max Keiser: Economic Predictions for 2011 & Monsanto’s Seeds of Destruction!

Mike Adams: Vaccine Propaganda! Food Safety Bill Grants FDA Authority to Police Food Safety of Foreign Nations!

Dr. Laurie Roth: Global Elites Push To Starve The World And Control The Food!

“A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
Audubon magazine, interview with Ted Turner, 1996
 
“We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world. All the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands.“
Professor Arnold Toynbee, in a June 1931 speech before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen.

• Many games are being played by the Illuminists. Food control and GM food are probably the most deadly. We live on a planet that has enormous capacity to produce food for its children. Even with the current price increases and reduction in harvest yields, there are enough food for everyone. However, the Illuminists, seed of the serpent, want a mass culling of the sheeple so that they can have a more manageable serf class and feudalistic system.
     
  GLOBAL ELITES PUSH TO STARVE THE WORLD AND CONTROL THE FOOD
  The push by global elitists to control the world’s food supply is collecting dangerous and globalist bed buddies. Monsanto, the globalist Agribusiness giant has now bought Blackwater, a huge, well funded and controversial, mercenary group. Blackwater has recently changed its name to Xe to help alleviate some of the heat it has received over the years. You may recall their major mess up in Iraq back on Sept. 16, 2007, when Blackwater contractors were reported to have shot and killed 17 civilians in a crowded area in Baghdad. Food manipulation with gun control. Isn’t that pretty?
   
  Blackwater was founded by Erik Prince, a former Navy seal who inherited a huge fortune and started to grow his well funded, mercenary company for hire largely made up of law enforcement who were contracted for large money as security in Afghanistan and Iraq.
   
  Now, Monsanto who does research world wide into altering crops and seeds, now has mercenary, armed and dangerous protection that can kill. One of the many ‘food controlling’ efforts Monsanto is involved with is the creation of what is called a ‘terminator’ seed. This is where they plant genetically modified crops that will not produce seeds to grow other plants and food. This would force all farmers to contact Monsanto or other globally controlled ‘seed controllers’ to grow more crops. 
    
  Monsanto admits researching these ‘terminator seeds’ but not following through with it. Funny how numerous other investigative sources say they are already well into this agenda worldwide. Can you imagine the twisted vision of an Agribusiness company of any kind creating ‘suicide seeds’ known after a first year planting to self destruct and be sterile? How would doing research on a large scale to destroy the viability of seeds do anything to help humanity and stop starvation? It doesn’t. In fact, it does the exact opposite.
   
  Now, armed and dangerous, global elite Monsanto, intends to control and destroy the worldwide food supply and make farmers come begging to them for more seeds, which no doubt have compromised nutritional value by design for the masses.
   
  Monsanto has taken worldwide heat over their Terminator seeds. Naturally as with most corrupt politicians and big companies who have been caught with their genetically modified pants down, they are denying this intention…..then they say they are going to commercialize sterile seeds…..then not…..then will look at future developments…..then….plenty more bull rot. With all of their alleged confused and media manipulation on their way to starving humankind and controlling all crops, they completed a takeover of Delta & Pine Land, they bought for $1.5 billion. What does this company hold??? It has 3 terminator patents with the USDA. They have publicly stated their intentions to commercialize terminator seeds. Hmmmmm, it doesn’t sound like Monsanto is confused to me. I think their evil intentions are most clear in a ‘terminator’ sort of way.
   
  Since 1997 people have been protesting and sabotaging GM and Monsanto controlled crops. These compromised and attacked crops are documented in Ireland, France, Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Canada and India and the USA among others.
   
  The bottom line is that Monsanto and other UN controlled global elite groups, must have the world food supply controlled to grow their tyranny and control over the countries of the world. That means forcibly manipulating even worldwide famines and life expectancies by causing us all to die more quickly due to depleted and manipulated food we are forced to eat.
    
  Recently we saw a victory with S510 the Food Safety Modernization Act, voted down for now. This would have allowed International groups like Monsanto to have controlled farming, soil, seeds and everything that farmers do.
    
  The agenda of food control and starvation is vividly clear and now they are ramping things up. It continues to be a time when America and the free world must march in the streets, vote out all global elite progressives and aggressively defend our freedoms……..now our right to eat and grow food.

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Mike Adams: FDA, The Most Dangerous Agency in Government!

The Age of Treason: 1958 Book Exposes Chemical Attack on Humanity!

• Most people live in an imaginary world. This is a world crafted by the Illuminati where truths are sold as lies, as mythology and conspiracy theories… Lies are sold as reality, terrorists are victims and righteous heroes and victims are terrorists. Reality is an illusion and fiction movies and stories reflect the truth. The sheeple do not understand, we are all under constant attack of the mind and body.
   
• Christians are pretty naive. My observations are that most do not live in the real world. Satan is just a concept, a personification of evil. Most Christians do not believe he exists and his minions rule the world. Of course, when asked everyone will say the politically correct statement: ‘Satan exist and this is the end times’. When probed further, you realize that what they say has no basis in their perception of the real world. I should know I was one of them.
   
• We all have perception filters whereby our mind ‘see’ the world. This perception of reality filter is where the devil does a lot of his work. Mass conditioning, psychological programming and behavioral mind control are used everyday by the Illuminati to control the sheeple. The sheeple do not understand that what they think is the truth is a bunch of lies to manipulate their behavior and beliefs.
   
• I see the world as it is, not what I want it to be. I take the bible literally and use it as a guide, a perception filter, to ‘see’ reality. Unless, I see the plans laid out by Satan for a One World Financial System, One World Currency–>666, you cannot convince me this is the end times. Quite obviously, I have shown you in numerous posts, this is the case. A Satanic cabal controlling the privately owned central banking cartel are executing their plans toward this end.
   
• Similarly, these Illuminati ruling elites have built thousands of Deep Underground (Military) Bases (DUMBs) in preparation for a final conflict against Jesus Christ (Isaiah 2 : 17 – 21 , Revelation 6 : 15 – 17 ). Some of these are underground cities 4-5 square miles in size! Where do you think the missing trillions of Pentagon funds have gone to? See: Rumsfeld 2.3 Trillion Dollars missing Pentagon 1 DAY b4 9-11 .
   
• I have highlighted the deliberate poisoning of the populace using fluoride, Bisphenol A, phyto-estrogen compounds, vaccines, aspartame, GM grains….etc. Many people still think this is just an honest mistake by well-meaning but incompetent people. I don’t think so! At the highest level, most large corporations are Illuminist owned. There is every intention of dumbing down the sheeple, poisoning them, shortening their lives, depopulation, genocide, attacking their physical, mental health and moral values. Males are deliberately being ‘feminized’ ! Conflict is deliberately sown by undermining the relationship between men and women. The feminist woman liberation movement is engineered by Illuminists.
   
• I may sound like a nut case to you. But before you dismiss what I say, read all my hard evidence! Don’t be naive! Grow up!
   
  The Age of Treason: 1958 Book Exposes Chemical Attack on Humanity
  Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer was in many ways a man ahead of his time, and most certainly controversial. He was attacked by the medical establishment for connecting diet with disease and mental health in his 1917 book Dietetics. Dr. Clymer received his medical degree in 1902 from the College of Medicine and Surgery in Chicago and began practicing Osteopathy. Accusations of fraud surround Dr. Clymer’s career, including this 1923 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association which claims that, “Our records fail to show that this man was ever regularly graduated by any reputable medical college.” What Clymer had to say more than likely had something to do with the denouncement that he received from the medical establishment.
   
  Though Dr. Clymer may be surrounded with controversy, his 1958 book Your Health and Sanity in the Age of Treason exposes toxic food additives and fluoride with documentation – the majority of which are mainstream scientific studies – that can be verified many times over. What makes this book unique is the fact that Dr. Clymer was one of the first to point out that statements by the elite indicated that these toxins were to be deliberately released “…for the mental deterioration and moral debasement of the mass…”
    
  The book is appropriately subtitled; “Food and Liquids Used as a Medium in Deliberately and Carefully Planned Methods Developed by the Vicious Element of Humanity, for the Mental Deterioration and Moral Debasement of the Mass, as a Means Toward Their Enslavement.”
   
  Dr. Clymer introduces readers with a stark warning for the future, writing, “Imagine yourself if you can, becoming conscious that you are gradually losing your manhood; that your mind is rapidly deteriorating so that you are no longer capable of thinking clearly; unable to plan your future actions. Your resistance is becoming so weakened that you are no longer master of yourself. In short, you are rapidly developing into a moron, a robot, a zombie, readily subject to the dictates of others…”
   
  Bertrand Russell’s 1953 book The Impact of Science on Society is cited by Clymer as one example of the elite’s desire to dominate the masses. Russell stated that under scientific tyranny, “Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.”
   
  Diethylstilbestrol – Endocrine Disruption
  Dr. Clymer identified the synthetic estrogen Diethylstilbestrol – developed in 1938 – as a means to achieve the aims of the elite. Clymer explains that some of the toxic additives discussed in the book may not have been employed for the express purpose outlined by the elite, but “…they served their purpose admirably…” Dr. Clymer elaborates,
   
  “The employment of Stilbestrol by the laity with absolutely no knowledge of the dangerous agent they are employing, in conditioning chickens and meats, is mass medication without license, with a dangerous toxic drug that may have universal disastrous results on all who eat such adulterated foods. This is especially true as it concerns children, youths, young women and men, resulting as it may, in their sterilization or cancer – something fervently hoped for by the enemies of mankind.”
   
  Because Stilbestrol is a synthetic chemical, “…the natural protective activity of the bodily organs are ineffective in prohibiting harmful results. Natural Estrogen, on the other hand, is decomposed, and any of its possible harmful effects may be more or less made ineffective,” writes Dr. Clymer. Stilbestrol was used as a treatment for various types of cancer and menopausal symptoms, but as Dr. Clymer states, “Physicians versed in the use of Endocrines agree generally that Stilbestrol is a dangerous drug in all except experienced hands.”
   
  Dr. E. Malcolm Stokes, in an article published in the Western Journal of Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, September 1948, wrote: “Single large doses of [natural] estrogen substances are quickly excreted… long continued, repeated administration in relatively small doses [as in daily consumption of meats permeated with stilbestrol] may intensify tissue response to the hormone.”
   
  Dr. Clymer warns that such chemicals are to feminize men,
   
  “Every vigilant human being should be concerned with several important factors involved: The methods or means by which it is possible to change man’s characteristics as easily as the animal’s. Man is a warrior by nature, the protector of his family, and his own rights and privileges; an individual, a free man… A being who has wrought great things and who, if not interfered with, will do even greater things. This being is to be turned into a lesser female; unable, even unwilling, to defend himself, much less his family or country; becoming a slave…”
   
  Dr. Clymer’s concerns over Stilbestrol have been vindicated over time, as the chemical has been phased out of use as a growth hormone in the late 1970′s due to concerns over cancer. Additionally, in 1971 the FDA advised physicians to stop prescribing Stilbestrol to pregnant women due to high cancer risk. The drug is no longer being manufactured as of 1997.
   
  Flashforward - Bisphenol A
  Today there are continuing concerns as substantial levels of Bisphenol A (BPA) have been found in a large percentage of the western world’s population. Like Diethylstilbestrol, BPA is a synthetic estrogen with similar to identical effects on the human body. BPA is perhaps a much larger threat due to the fact that unlike Stilbestrol – which was primarily consumed in meats – it is found in many household products, including the food we eat. A recent study from the Canadian Health Measures Survey found that over 90% of Canadians have detectable concentrations of BPA in their urine. Studies conducted by the CDC found Bisphenol A in the urine of 95% of adults sampled in 1988–1994 and in 93% of children and adults tested in 2003–04. Other studies have shown that Bisphenol A causes feminization of males and reduced sperm count.
   
  As Dr. Frederick vom Saal states in this local Fox News report, levels of BPA below a trillionth of a gram have been found to alter cell function and growth. Additionally, BPA was found to feed cancer cell growth and impact the reproductive system of rats.
    
  Fluoride
  Yet another danger to human health and well being identified by Dr. Clymer is Sodium Fluoride. Fluoride, we are told, is placed in the water supply to help protect our teeth from decay. Today some are proposing that fluoride and other forms of mass medication will serve as a means of “Cognitive Enhancement.” In his expose of fluoride, Dr. Clymer quotes Rene M. Vale, a former Communist and party worker in her book Red Court, published in 1952. She writes,
   
  “In regions of the country where resistance was most apt to develop we saw to it that virus diseases struck, and when antibiotics threatened our program, we devised other means of vitiating the populace. Fluoridation of drinking water was found to be about the most successful…”
   
  Dr. Charles E. Perkins, who Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer was in personal contact with, was, “… sent by the United States Government to help take charge of the I. G. Farben chemical plants in Germany at the end of the second world war. What follows are quotations from a letter which Mr. Perkins wrote to the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dated October 2, 1954.”
   
  Mr. Perkins letter states,
   
  “The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population of whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce sterility in women and so on. In this scheme of mass control, sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place.
   
  “We are told by the ideologists who are advocating the fluorination of water supplies in this country that their purpose is to reduce the incidence of tooth decay in children, and it is the plausibility of this excuse, plus the prominence of those who are responsible for the present spread of artificial water fluoridation in this country.
   
  “However – and I want to make this very definite and very positive – the real reason behind fluorination is not to benefit children’s teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could be done that are much easier, cheaper and far more effective. The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty…
   
  “I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time…”
   
  Dr. Clymer additionally cites a 1956 letter written by the then New York Water Commissioner Arthur C. Ford (available in full here). In the letter, Ford speaks out openly against fluorides as “…extremely toxic substances…” Ford writes,
   
  “We are aware that the fluorides are extremely toxic substances, and evidence exists to show that even at the recommended level of one part per million of fluoride in drinking water, people in fluoridated communities have been harmed.
   
  We know of reputable, independent medical authorities throughout the United States and in the local area who have found evidence of fluoride damage to persons living in fluoridated communities. These medical authorities disagree with the fluoride hypothesis, and they have raised grave questions with respect to the safety of the procedure for an entire population which includes the young, the old, the susceptible and the infirm as well as the healthy.
   
  Fluoride, besides being a toxic substance, is not all excreted when taken into the system, a significant percentage remaining cumulatively. Fluoridation of the drinking water at any level of concentration is a very indiscriminate procedure, since children drink widely varying amounts of water…”

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Rosalind Peterson: Chemtrails, Weather Modification And GMO Foods!

The Illuminist Population Reduction Plan Via War, Famine, Disease, GM Food, Vaccines….

• The Illuminists have a depopulation plan to kill off something like 80-90% of world population. This is not idle speculation. It is fact!
   
  Matthew 24:22
  And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened. 
   
• The Illuminist rulers of this world have prepared/built as many as 142-144 underground bases in America and something like 4200 undergound bases/cities all around the world. See: Deep Underground Military Bases (D.U.M.B.) . I will be posting more on these D.U.M.B. soon.
   
  Isaiah 2 : 17 – 21  
  ¹⁷ The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
        And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
        The LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
         ¹⁸ But the idols He shall utterly abolish.
         ¹⁹ They shall go into the holes of the rocks,
        And into the caves of the earth,
        From the terror of the LORD
        And the glory of His majesty,
        When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
         ²⁰ In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
        And his idols of gold,
        Which they made, each for himself to worship,
        To the moles and bats,
         ²¹ To go into the clefts of the rocks,
        And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
        From the terror of the LORD
        And the glory of His majesty,
        When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
      
  Revelation 6 : 15 – 17 
  ¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, ¹⁶ and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

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Food: The Ultimate Secret Exposed !

Dr. Tom Horn: Transhumanism, Genetically Modified Human, Animals, Grains… Human-Animal Chimera!

• See also:
   
  Dr. Tom Horn: Apollyon Rising 2012! The Hidden Occult Masonic Plan For America! The Rise of The Mystery Babylon Empire!
  Dr. Tom Horn: Apollyon Rising 2012! The Final Mystery of The Great Seal Revealed! The Secret Destiny of America!

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Jeffrey Smith Exposes Sterilization of Population Via GMO Foods!

Smart Chickens Not Duped by GM Feed. Thousands of Indian Farmers are Committing Suicide After Using Genetically Modified Crops!

• Will you eat genetically modified (GM) food that chickens refuse to eat? Not me. Animals know what is poisonous to them instinctively. All these GM foods are controlled by large industrial corporations that have their own agenda. Helping and feeding the poor is not one of their main agendas.
   
  The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops
  When Prince Charles claimed thousands of Indian farmers were killing themselves after using GM crops, he was branded a scaremonger. In fact, as this chilling dispatch reveals, it’s even WORSE than he feared.
   
  The children were inconsolable. Mute with shock and fighting back tears, they huddled beside their mother as friends and neighbours prepared their father’s body for cremation on a blazing bonfire built on the cracked, barren fields near their home.
   
  As flames consumed the corpse, Ganjanan, 12, and Kalpana, 14, faced a grim future. While Shankara Mandaukar had hoped his son and daughter would have a better life under India’s economic boom, they now face working as slave labour for a few pence a day. Landless and homeless, they will be the lowest of the low.
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  Shankara, like millions of other Indian farmers, had been promised previously unheard of harvests and income if he switched from farming with traditional seeds to planting GM seeds instead.
    
  Beguiled by the promise of future riches, he borrowed money in order to buy the GM seeds. But when the harvests failed, he was left with spiralling debts – and no income. So Shankara became one of an estimated 125,000 farmers to take their own life as a result of the ruthless drive to use India as a testing ground for genetically modified crops.
   
  The crisis, branded the ‘GM Genocide’ by campaigners, was highlighted recently when Prince Charles claimed that the issue of GM had become a ‘global moral question’ – and the time had come to end its unstoppable march.
   
• GM Watch reports :
   
  Chickens refusing to eat the maize they had been fed has led to the discovery that their feed had been genetically modified to include a well-known weed and insect killer.
   
  Strilli Oppenheimer was recently approached by Dawid Klopper, the head gardener at the family estate, Brenthurst, informing her that her indigenous African chickens were refusing to eat the mealies in the chicken feed bought from a large supplier. Concerned that the birds may be ingesting genetically modified maize, she instructed Klopper to have the maize tested.
   
  The chickens’ diet was immediately changed to include organic vegetables, Oppenheimer stopped consuming the home-grown eggs and the maize was sent to the GMO testing facility at the University of the Free State for analysis.
   
  The results confirmed Oppenheimer’s initial suspicion – the maize had been genetically engineered to produce proteins that are toxic to certain insects and weeds.
   
  “It contained BT1 which makes the maize insect resistant, as well as Roundup which makes it weed resistant. This is the first report we have had of chickens not eating GM feed,” said a GM expert.
   
  While small quantities of BT1 and Roundup weed killer were found in the seeds, the concern remained with the cumulative effect of GM feed, not only on the chickens, but also on the eggs they produced for the family.
   
  “This is of serious concern. Do you know that 96 percent of soya-based foods are genetically modified and that maize in South Africa is contaminated,” asked Oppenheimer, pointing out that research by well-known scientist Dr Arpad Pusztai had shown that rats fed on GM potatoes suffered from a weakened immune system and stunted growth of their internal organs, including the liver, kidneys and brain.
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  About her chickens’ refusal to eat their maize, Oppenheimer said: “They’re smart.”

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