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Bill Gates, Rockefeller & the GMO Giants
Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic
by F. William Engdahl
Global Research, December 4, 2007 Doomsday Seed Vault
www.globalresearch.ca The seed bank is being built inside a mountain
One thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates canʼt be accused
on Spitsbergen Island near the small village of
of is sloth. He was already programming at 14, founded
Longyearbyen. Itʼs almost ready for ʻbusinessʼ according
Microsoft at age 20 while still a student at Harvard. By
to their releases. The bank will have dual blast-proof
1995 he had been listed by Forbes as the worldʼs richest
doors with motion sensors, two airlocks, and walls of
man from being the largest shareholder in Microsoft,
steel-reinforced concrete one meter thick. It will contain
a company which his relentless drive built into a de
up to three million diff erent varieties of seeds from the
facto monopoly in software systems for personal
entire world, ʻso that crop diversity can be conserved
computers.
for the future,ʼ according to the Norwegian government.
Seeds will be
In 2006 when
s p e c i a l l y
most people
in such a
s i t u a t i o n GMO as a Weapon
w r a p p e d
to exclude
moisture.
might think
T h e r e
of retiring
to a quiet
P a c i f i c
of Biowarfare?
will be no
full-time
staff , but
i s l a n d ,
the vaultʼs
Bill Gates
r e l a t i v e
decided to devote
inaccessibility
his energies to
will facilitate monitoring any possible human activity.
his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the worldʼs
largest ʻtransparentʼ private foundation as it says,
Did we miss something here? Their press release stated,
with a whopping $34.6 billion endowment and a legal
ʻso that crop diversity can be conserved for the future.ʼ
necessity to spend $1.5 billion a year on charitable
What future do the seed bankʼs sponsors foresee,
projects around the world to maintain its tax free
that would threaten the global availability of current
charitable status. A gift from friend and business
seeds, almost all of which are already well protected in
associate, mega-investor Warren Buff ett in 2006, of
designated seed banks around the world?
some $30 billion worth of shares in Buff etʼs Berkshire Anytime Bill Gates, the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto
Hathaway put the Gatesʼ foundation into the league and Syngenta get together on a common project, itʼs worth
where it spends almost the amount of the entire digging a bit deeper behind the rocks on Spitsbergen.
annual budget of the United Nationsʼ World Health When we do we fi nd some fascinating things.
Organization.
The fi rst notable point is who is sponsoring the
So when Bill Gates decides through the Gates doomsday seed vault. Here joining the Norwegians are,
Foundation to invest some $30 million of their hard as noted, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the US
earned money in a project, it is worth looking at. agribusiness giant DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, one of the
No project is more interesting at the moment than
worldʼs largest owners of patented genetically-modifi ed
a curious project in one of the worldʼs most remote
(GMO) plant seeds and related agrichemicals; Syngenta,
spots, Svalbard. Bill Gates is investing millions in a
the Swiss-based major GMO seed and agrichemicals
seed bank on the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean,
company through its Syngenta Foundation; the
some 1,100 kilometers from the North Pole. Svalbard
Rockefeller Foundation, the private group who created
is a barren piece of rock claimed by Norway and ceded
the “gene revolution with over $100 million of seed
in 1925 by international treaty.
money since the 1970ʼs; CGIAR, the global network
created by the Rockefeller Foundation to promote its
On this God-forsaken island Bill Gates is investing tens
ideal of genetic purity through agriculture change.
of his millions along with the Rockefeller Foundation,
Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and
Continued March 2009
the Government of Norway, among others, in what
is called the ʻdoomsday seed bank.ʼ Offi cially the
F. William Engdahl is the author of Seeds of Destruction,
project is named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the
the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation just released
Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard
by Global Research. He also the author of A Century of War:
island group.
Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Pluto
Press Ltd..
To contact by e-mail:info@engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
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