03/22/07
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The
Silent War on the People of India
Arun
Shrivastava CMC
This is a global emergency
No bombs have been dropped in
this war. Instead, the aggressors have chosen two
weapons that kill silently,
slowly. Those weapons are deliberate contamination of India’s
seeds with genetically
engineered organisms and radioactive contamination of around
400 million people in India.
The aggressors are: the United States Government and the
multinational seeds companies
[chiefly Monsanto and its Indian partners].
Other Ag-biotech firms are
not far behind.
[More:]
The United States Government,
Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow, Bayer and a few others
comprise a group that should
rightly be called the mega criminal corporation; this one
single group has the
wherewithal to decimate world civilization as we have known and the
process of decimation is on.
That group includes Indian officials: without their support this
war on Indians could not have
taken place. Perhaps the same story of government officials
colluding with these
criminals has been repeated in nearly every country on planet earth.
People can live without a
house, car, or medicines; none can survive without food and water.
But if seeds are
contaminated, we perish as a nation, as a civilization. Therefore, genetically
engineered seeds should be
treated as weapons of mass destruction exactly as depleted
uranium contamination which
destroys humans at genetic level: both are weapons of mass,
indiscriminate, destruction. And
the aggressors should be treated as war criminals.
In this paper I shall
describe the true nature of the crime and why the rest of the world,
including the people of the
United States of America, must charge this group with use of
weapons of mass destruction
[WMD] and crimes against humanity. Each nation must do
the same: charge the
criminals, bring them to trial in their respective countries, and hang
them. Until we do this, the
mega criminal corporation is unlikely to stop its nefarious deed
of destroying the world.
What is going on?
In my last article titled “GM
buccaneers destroy India’s seeds”
[http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SHR20061221&articleId=4230]
I had said that certain GM
crops- including Bt rice, Bt Brinjal, Bt Okra, Bt Tomato,
and Bt Potato- are undergoing
open field trials at some locations. Evidences submitted in
the Supreme Court of India in
support of the Writ Petition 206 of 2005, to stop open field trials
of genetically engineered
seeds, subsequently show that 151 different crops are
undergoing trials at over
1500 locations all over India. Evidences have further been
submitted that Delhi
University is conducting open field trials with terminator seeds of
mustard crop, which is
illegal in India. The mustard plants have already flowered and
contamination of non-GM
mustard can’t be stopped. The Genetic Engineering Approvals
Committee [GEAC], an
inter-ministerial body that oversees issues of biosafety in India,
has failed to safeguard our
health and stands heavily indicted.
GM seeds, pollens and plants,
blown over by wind have contaminated neighboring lands
as happened in the fields of
Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer. Percy was in Delhi on
6th February to talk on his
experience with Monsanto’s blackmail of North American farmers.
His seed stocks are
decimated.
Genetically engineered seeds
and foods
Seeds are nature’s creation, God’s
gift to mankind. Farmers all over the world develop and
save seeds for themselves and
neighbours so that they could feed the world healthy food.
The truth is that the best
seeds have been developed by farmers themselves; the lie is that
seeds are developed by
multinational companies and agriculture scientists.
Genetic engineering [GE] is a
technology that allows patenting of seeds; it has no other
purpose. The truth is that
neither these seeds increase yield nor do they enhance nutritive
content of foods. The lie is
that they increase yield by reducing crop losses due to pest
attacks or help plants
withstand vagaries of weather: both claims are spurious and based
on fudged facts. But these
patented seeds ensure huge profits for the multinational
corporations.
Multinational companies do
not own something that nature has given us, yet they are doing
exactly this with full
support of the US and many European Governments.
Every Government is being
systematically forced to approve GE seeds and GM foods in
utter disregard for
biosafety. Whilst it is possible to reverse chemical pollution, biological
pollution replicates itself
in the environment. There is no known method to reverse the
process. And these seeds and
foods can alter genetic purity of species and transmutate
in ways that are unknown.
Genetic engineering is an
imperfect technology. It is a cell invasion technology through
which inter-specie barrier is
transcended. For instance, nature has devised mechanisms
that make a fish work as fish
and a tomato work as tomato. What GE technology does is
transfer the selected traits
of one specie [for example ability to withstand low temperature
in a fish] to another [say
for example tomato] so that the engineered specie [tomato]
withstands cold temperature.
However, in the complex world of nature, this type of invasion
of cell and gene manipulation
can wreak havoc. For example Bt cotton seed contains the
genes of bacillus
thuringiensis [Bt] that makes a cotton plant behave like pesticide because
it kills certain pests that
attack cotton plants. Exactly the same transformation takes place
when a farmer uses Bt rice or
Bt Okra, or any seeds containing Bacillus thuringiensis.
Effectively, the plant itself
behaves like a pesticide whether cotton [cash crop] or any food crop.
And this is the crux: the
corporations and colluding government officials want us to eat food
that actually works in nature
as pesticide. In order to obtain approvals for human
consumption, these criminals
claim that GE foods are “substantially equivalent” yet in
order to ensure profits for
themselves the same criminals want the world to believe that
their products are “quite
different” worthy of a patent protection! Did these criminals
invent the seeds in the first
place? Monsanto already believes it “invented the pig”.
Not only the pigs, soon
Monsanto will stake a claim that it invented us humans and owns
us because their proprietary
genes somehow got into our genetic structure.
According to the decision of
the Canadian Supreme Court, in Percy Schmeiser’s case,
“it does not matter how it
got there…..!” And it does not matter whether I want it in my
body or not? Percy did not
want GMOs in his field, but when the fields got contaminated
against his wishes, the Court
ordered him to settle! Even Canadian Courts are working for
Monsanto, neck deep in
Monsanto engineered muck!
What Genetically Engineered
seeds do?
Natural Seeds will be
virtually extinct. Genetically Engineered seeds contaminate our food
chain through cross
pollination. Once natural plants and seeds are contaminated, they just
can’t be decontaminated.
Trans-specie contamination is also an established fact:
for example a genetically
modified rice plant can contaminate other plants and trees and
soil as much as other rice
plants. It gives rise to super weeds. Even natural water bodies
have been contaminated. It
means “containment” is impossible. Our natural environment
and foods will be
contaminated in PERPETUITY.
This technology will utterly
destroy India’s agriculture and rural economy and decimate
India’s mega-biodiversity and
seeds heritage gained for us by our farmers over
10,000 years of agriculture.
Monsanto is not even 10 decades old and the US Government
about 22.
What Genetically Engineered
foods can do to us?
Ultimately, untimely death,
which means the corporations are creating conditions to kill us.
Foods made from GE food crops
are a threat to health and life. Animal studies show severe
damage to vital organs
[liver, kidney, alimentary canal], growth of cancerous cells,
and damaged sperm, among
other debilitating health impacts. The technology was
introduced without long term
impact assessment on human and animal health in the US
in early 1990s and is
responsible for a major health catastrophe. In India it will destroy
human and animal population.
Cattle grazing on Bt cotton fields developed unknown
symptoms and died. How humans
will die is not even known because there is no protocol
for testing for, say Bt
toxins. The companies and the Governments [state as well as central]
have completely ignored
issues of health and biosafety. For this reason, the decision
of the Indian Government to
allow open field trials remains intriguing, highly irresponsible
and a crime against humanity.
Why India is a prime target
India is world's largest
producer of fruits, second largest producer of vegetables and milk
and is predicted to become
the world's largest exporter of non-GM agricultural products
within a decade unless
genetic contamination destroys the bio-diversity and sustainability
of India’s food & feed
crops. This potential market power is the greatest threat to US and
European food multinationals
and attempts to contaminate non-GM food and feed crops
is part of that strategy to
destroy India and South Asia’s emerging dominance as non-GM
food supplier.
India comprises a large
market for biotech based products but most of these products are
imported from US and European
firms. The Indian biotech industry was worth
US$2.44 billion sales in
2001. Of this $1.5 billion (about 60%) was accounted for by health
biotech, with agricultural
& veterinary accounting for 20% each. Sales are expected
to reach about US$ 9.7 billion,
roughly four times its current size, by 2020.
70% of India’s seeds’ sales
come from farmer bred seeds, 26% from those bred in publicly
financed institutions, and
only 4% from researched hybrids. At present, out of an estimated
400-odd seed companies in the
country, only 18 belong to the public sector and 10 to the
cooperative sector. The
remaining units are established in the private sector, of which,
about 25 to 30 are in the
large private sector, while over 300 are medium and small units.
The dominant player is
Mahyco, a Monsanto joint venture, but it sells Monsanto’s seeds
of deception.
A large number of unorganized
family owned units remain a typical feature of the Indian
seed industry. About 400
organizations are doing commercial research on agriculture:
200 research labs, 150
companies and 50 service firms. Medical foods and nutraceuticals
are also under development.
Given their expertise, market standing, and the world-wide
rapid increase in demand for
organic/natural foods, Indian seed companies have the
potential to grow into
trans-national corporations, with direct investments, joint ventures,
and licensing arrangements to
produce Indian-bred cultivars in other countries.
This scenario threatens the
market power of the criminals.
Contamination across species
In the 6th February meeting
of farmers from all over India organized by Navdanya
[a Delhi based NGO], farmers
came out with observations on probable impact of Bt cotton
seeds that [a] traditional
broad-leaf [Peepal (Ficus religiosa) and Bargad (Ficus bengalensis)]
and medicinal trees [like
Neem, Azadiracta indica] are dying, [b] women are reaching
menopause at as young an age
as 30 in Punjab, and [c] goats and sheep grazing on farms
growing GE crops have died.
Now, some of these observations need to be scientifically
validated, but which
scientist would do it when nearly all Government scientists have sold
their souls to the gang of
mega criminals? Has the ICMR woken up to the frenzied killing
of corporate piranha?
Hiding seeds in VAULTS?
The plan is to store 10,000
years of mankind’s most precious heritage in a vault in
Svalbard, Norway.
It is very puzzling why the
Government of India, through its Ministry of Agriculture,
is supporting a “natural
seeds bank” to be contained in this VAULT in Norway,
which is also supported by
multinational chemicals & biotech seeds companies such as
DuPont and Syngenta. Can’t
the Government of India simply stop contamination of seeds
and financially support our
farmers to protect their seeds? Or is there something more
sinister that we don’t know?
The website requires one to
be a subscriber for accessing the e-newspaper.
For readers’ convenience, I
have pasted the graphics above.]
The Doomsday Seed Vault has
nothing to do with an asteroid hitting the earth or even
a nuclear war, as claimed by
head of the project. If an asteroid large enough to destroy the
normal ecological balance hit
the earth, we are finished anyway, and that asteroid can also
hit Svalbard. A nuclear war
on Iran is already under advanced stage of planning by none
other than the US
administration. Millions of seeds that rightly belong to farming
communities should ideally be
saved by the communities themselves, as has been the
tradition worldwide, and
protected by their respective governments.
Svalbard is the safest option
because of it’s remoteness from the main battleground for
resource wars now raging all over
the world, including India. Seeds need to be stored
at low temperature to prevent
germination and Svalbard is in the Arctic Circle.
As Rick Weiss says, “The
design bespeaks an Armageddon mentality.” See Rick Weiss
report here: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/arctic-vault-protects-the-seeds-of-life/2006/06/19/1150701485134.html
Therefore, the ostensible
reason for selecting Svalbard for storing seeds has two secret
purposes: [a] majority of
agrarian nations are either already contaminated or are in the
process of being deliberately
contaminated as part of the global domination strategy
of the criminals, [b] once the
population is culled to the targeted level, these seeds would be
released to surviving farmers
under total control and direction of the criminals.
Clive James claims that over
100 million acres are under GM cultivation of food and feed crops.
The world map of GM crops is
available at ISAA web site. While Clive’s figures are disputed
by ISIS-UK, the determination
of big biotech firms to contaminate world’s seeds would ensure
utter decimation of our farms
and forests and birds, the bees and the huge microcosm
within the living soil.
Why genetic contamination has
been forced on India?
The National Security memo
200 [NSSM#200] piloted by Henry Kissinger in 1974, identified
growing population in the
Asia, Africa and Latin America as threat to US security.
The genesis of Kissinger’s
thesis lies in King George VI’s advisory to control population
in British colonies and it is
not surprising that India started its family limiting programme way
back in 1952, within five
years of gaining independence. Let me quote from McCauley why
it has always been the core
strategic issue of western elite to destroy resource rich South Asia:
"I have travelled across
the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who
is a beggar or who is a
thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values
& people of such calibre,
that do not think we would ever conquer this country,
unless we break the very
backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage."
[Lord McCauley in his speech of
Feb 2, 1835, British Parliament]
People are the most important
resource. It was McCauley who started the process of culturally
enslaving India. Economic
enslavement followed. The high quality of India’s population was
reduced to emaciated,
undernourished, pauperized millions over the next 12 decades,
say six generations. During
this period, the population of the sub-continent was split along
caste and religious lines
with competing political ambitions encouraged by the rulers,
eventually leading to trifurcation
of the subcontinent into India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Kashmir will follow unless we
stop it. This population did not mean anything to the British:
we were cheap, disposable
labour, exactly in the same manner that the British and American
ruling classes use their
soldiers as disposable dregs today in their illegal wars
[“Dumb, stupid soldiers” in
Kissinger’s language]. The economic and cultural enslavement
was further strengthened
after India became independent precisely because the moral
responsibility now lay with
the “independent Indian Government”
no more a ‘white man’s
burden! The enslavement continues without being
“white man’s burden;” it is
now brown man’s burden, the likes of Chidambaram, Manmohan,
Montek, Karat and Sita, and
the Madam, the only white man carrying the flag
of the former rulers.
The politics of population
growth
It is well known fact that
birth control and sterilization programs are not working well in India.
Few policy planners have the
political acumen or will, or marketing talent, to convince rural
people that small family can
[and do] improve quality of life substantially.
However, they have never
factored in the ground reality in India’s 600,000 villages.
These villages are stratified
vertically into caste groups and horizontally along religious lines.
These social sub-groups live
in homogenous clusters but all are part of the lowest tier
of constitutional body called
Village Council [Gram Panchayat]. The caste and religious
groups compete for political
control over the Village Council because these councils receive
substantial development fund
every year. The competing groups or coalitions all seek to control
that resource for the benefit
of their respective communities. In a village comprising 300 to 2000
households, there is real
danger for any group of getting swamped by a coalition of the
competing power groups. There
is powerful political incentive to expand household and
community size and all social
and political tensions start here and are reflected at national level.
This fact is little discussed
in the mainstream media because the issue is politically loaded,
hence incorrect, given the
dominant pseudo-secular milieu.
However, instead of working
on alternatives, like the ones enunciated in the International
Conference on Population and
Development [ICPD, Cairo, 1994], for example,
access to quality education,
sustainable habitat, access to quality healthcare, clean water,
sanitation and a holistic
safety net, from birth to death, under community managed systems,
a general apathy within the
bureaucracy and political class was established decades ago.
Incentives offered by the US
government to the Indian ruling elite by way of bribes,
admission to children in
prestigious colleges, positions that are supported by US Government
or MNCs’ funds have also
played a role in the widespread indifference towards people’s
problem. ‘Keep the people
under servile subjugation, in perpetuity!
Realizing that population
control programs are failing in the newly industrializing countries [NICs],
U.S. Foreign Policy
progressively became more covert, vicious and deadly.
The Indian ruling elite has
been quietly supporting this US agenda of depriving Indians
of their assets [the loot of
land through SEZs is a classic example] and mass culling,
a far less tedious option.
Effectively, the Government of India has been bribed
into murdering its own
citizens.
Through the duplicity of the
US and Indian Governments, the Indian population has
become the target of a deadly
and demonic form of US depopulation policy – involving
both bio-weapons and
radiation. These weapons are: [a] Genetically engineered seeds
and deliberate contamination
of India’s foods, and [b] Depleted Uranium [DU] contamination
of entire western India. [I
shall deal with HIV-AIDS separately because that is another
instrument of US depopulation
policy being used at cellular level]
Depleted Uranium blowing off
the Himalayas, over Pakistan and the oil rich sands
of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh,
and Gujarat, is contaminating the northern half of India and the
Himalayan headwaters of nine
major rivers of southeast Asia. Heavy grid and carpet bombing
with depleted uranium by the
U.S. military, on the eastern side of Afghanistan beginning
in 2001, guaranteed heavy
contamination in areas where deep snows in the mountainous
regions provide water for
Pakistan and parts of western [central and eastern] India.
By contaminating vital water
supplies in vast regions with radioactive contaminants,
a secret and invisible low
level nuclear war is being carried out against South Asians.
This low level radiation
undetectable with conventional means will mutilate the DNA
of all exposed living things.
This is not just a war against people, it is a war against
the environment. Few living
things will escape the slow radioactive poisoning which
mutilates DNA, and is passed
on to all future generations.” [Leuren Moret, From Hiroshima
to Iraq – 61 Years of Uranium
Wars:A Suicidal, Genocidal, and Omnicidal Course]
I have estimated that 21
national capitals and about 957 million people living in these
21 countries are contaminated
with depleted uranium. It is blowing in the wind;
we are breathing it right
now, this moment. How it will kill us, or maim us, will be apparent
soon when the over 90
different types of illnesses destroy us, including multiple cancers
within the same person, a
gift of the US Government to the people of South and West Asia.
The US Government is not only
destroying India’s population, but of entire South and
West Asia. Indian
Government’s silence on unilateral US action in Iraq and the impending
US nuclear attack on Iran
[which will kill over 35 million Iranians, Afghanistanies, Pakistanies
and Indians within a few
weeks] strongly indicates complicity in this planned genocide.
Conclusion:
INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA IS SET
UP FOR DEPOPULATION. The Indian Government does not
want that we live a healthy
life. Therefore, we need facilities for detecting GM-toxins and
DU induced illnesses, which
we do not have.
We have no option but to
declare a NATIONAL EMERGENCY, “people’s emergency”,
in our respective countries,
and in India. We have natural right to demand complete ban
over GMOs and penal action
against those who deliberately contaminate our farms and forests.
We have a right to ask
questions why biological and radiological contaminations were allowed.
The Indian officials are
complicit and, rightly, they should be charged with treason and tried for
that ultimate crime called
genocide. So should US officials. And so should the officers
of Monsanto and others,
exactly as the goons were tried at Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.
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March 22, 2007 Arun
Shrivastava MBA, CMC,
is a
certified management consultant living in Delhi.
He can be
contacted at: arun1951@yahoo.com
