Thanks, again to chat noir

The below is admittedly partisan, and I fault it for being too emotional
and using invectives (which in honesty, I agree with), but there can't
be a discussion, if one side is omitted from the table. GMOs, all or in
part, may be safe to eat. The problem is, we still don't know if that is
true. Also, as it stands, if GMO pollen fertilizes some of your garden
plants, i.e. corn, soy beans, you posse them illegally, and they are the
property of the patent holder. The holders of these patents are also
buying up hybrid plants, and there intention is to corner the seed
market ( food).

As the article notes,"The only way to stop these . . . with extra deep
pockets is to start saving our own seed. If enough of us do this, it
won¹t matter how many millions of seeds they store in their vault. Plant
organic gardens and share your seed with neighbors. Plant heirloom
varieties, and as many of them as you have space for. Or, better yet,
become completely non-dependent on the food supply. Turn your lawn into
a garden."

Please think about the concentration of food ownership in the hands of
the few.


http://www.nationofchange.org/bill-g...lan-30-million
-seed-vault-while-poisoning-planet-1373119522


Bill Gates and GMO Cronies Plan $30 Million Seed Vault While Poisoning
the Planet

Bill Gates has been listed by Forbes as one of the world¹s richest men,
so when he makes plans to do something, people take note. Bill¹s
Microsoft money allowed him to build the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, with a huge $34.6 billion endowment and the ability to spend
more than $1.5 billion annually on Œcharitable¹ expenditures. This is
partially what allows them to maintain a tax-free, charitable
organization status. Warren Buffet has gifted him shares of Berkshire
Hathaway to the tune of $30 billion. The Gates have more money than
entire nations. Their budget is bigger than the entire yearly budget for
the World Health Organization overseen by the United Nations.

Some of that Œhard earned¹ money is going into a new project, and it
isn¹t to build schools in Africa, to reduce poverty in urban cities in
the US, or to build new infrastructure like solar powered city lights.
Bill Gates is spending $30 million in a remote place called Svalbard, a
barren rock near the Barents Sea about 1,100 kilometers from the North
Pole to build a seed bank.

Along with him, pals from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Monsanto
corporation, the Government of Norway, the Syngenta Foundation, and
others are building a Œdoomsday seed bank¹ officially named the Svalbard
Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the
Svalbard island group.

This explanation of their modus operandi comes from their website
directly:

Ensuring that the genetic diversity of the world¹s food crops is
preserved for future generations is an important contribution toward the
reduction of hunger and poverty in developing countries. This is where
the greatest plant diversity originates and where the need for food
security and the further development of agriculture is most urgent.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which is established in the permafrost
in the mountains of Svalbard, is designed to store duplicates of seeds
from seed collections around the globe. Many of these collections are in
developing countries. If seeds are lost, e.g. as a result of natural
disasters, war or simply a lack of resources, the seed collections may
be reestablished using seeds from Svalbard.

The loss of biological diversity is currently one of the greatest
challenges facing the environment and sustainable development. The
diversity of food crops is under constant pressure. The consequence
could be an irreversible loss of the opportunity to grow crops adapted
to climate change, new plant diseases and the needs of an expanding
population.

Join NationofChange today by making a generous tax-deductible
contribution and take a stand against the status quo.

Apparently, the seed bank is almost ready to conduct Œbusiness.¹ The
vault will have dual-blast proof doors, motion sensors, two airlocks,
and walls reinforced with meter-thick concrete. Inside will be stored
more than 3 million varieties of seed, and you can bet there won¹t be a
single GMO seed among them. The Norwegian government states the seeds
are being stored, Œso that crop diversity can be conserved for the
future.¹

The question is, what global catastrophic occurrence do the investors in
this seed vault anticipate? If you follow the money trail it isn¹t hard
to figure out. Guess who is participating in this Œnoble¹ project aside
from the Norwegians:

· The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

· US Agirbusiness giant, Dupont/Pioneer (owner of GMO seed patents)

· The Syngenta Foundation * Swiss maker of GMO seed and pesticides.

· The Rockefeller Foundation * created the Œgene revolution with
over $100 million invested in GM science since the 1970¹s

· CGIAR, a global network of Rockefeller Foundation supporters

If you think the recent scandals of the Wall Street Banks, Libel, and
the Federal Reserve were outlandish, imagine global bio-warfare on the
world population. That is what this is leading to. It will make the
Russian bread lines flanked by the KGB of times past look like a play
date.
--
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzSzH38jYcg

Remember Rachel Corrie
http://www.rachelcorrie.org/

Welcome to the New America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg

Billy wrote:

As the article notes,"The only way to stop these . . . with extra deep
pockets is to start saving our own seed. If enough of us do this, it
won¹t matter how many millions of seeds they store in their vault.

So who else is going to the SSE campout in Decorah, IA next weekend? A
lot of people are doing just what the article suggests, and Seed Saver's
Exchange has its own storage as well as participating in the Svalbard
"doomsday*" vault.
FWIW, contributors to the vault retain control of their seeds, but there is
an escape clause if they aren't still around. Personally, I'm OK with
that.

*I don't like the title either, but it seems to have stuck.

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Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G