UC regents lose control of nuclear weapons prog to military

by **darkbeforedawn** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:18 am

<a href="http://www.sfbayview.com/110304/ucregents110304.shtml">www.sfbayview.com/110304/...0304.shtml</a> UC Regents lose control of nuclear weapons program Five admirals, Carlyle Group and Rand take over by Leuren Moret More-4-Us Dr. Henry Kissinger, who wrote: “Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.” Research on population control, preventing future births, is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, a University of California microbiologist, discovered that wild corn in remote parts of Mexico is contaminated with lab altered DNA. That discovery made him a threat to the biotech industry. Chapela was denied tenure at UC Berkeley when he reported this to the scientific community, despite the embarrassing discovery that UC Chancellor Berdahl, who was denying him tenure, was getting large cash payments - $40,000 per year - from the LAM Research Corp. in Plano, Texas. Berdahl served as president of Texas A&M University before coming to Berkeley. During a presentation about his case, Chapela revealed that a spermicidal corn developed by a U.S. company is now being tested in Mexico. Males who unknowingly eat the corn produce non-viable sperm and are unable to reproduce. Depopulation, also known as eugenics, is quite another thing and was proposed under the Nazis during World War II. It is the deliberate killing off of large segments of living populations and was proposed for Third World countries under President Carter’s administration by the National Security Council’s Ad Hoc Group on Population Policy. National Security Memo 200, dated April 24, 1974, and titled “Implications of world wide population growth for U.S. security & overseas interests,” says: “Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the NSC that ‘depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.’ He quoted reasons of national security, and because `(t)he U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries ... Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and to the economic interests of U.S.” Depopulation policy became the top priority under the NSC agenda, Club of Rome and U.S. policymakers like Gen. Alexander Haig, Cyrus Vance, Ed Muskie and Kissinger. According to an NSC spokesman at the time, the United States shared the view of former World Bank President Robert McNamara that the “population crisis” is a greater threat to U.S. national security interests than “nuclear annihilation.” In 1975, Henry Kissinger established a policy-planning group in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Population Affairs. The depopulation “GLOBAL 2000” document for President Jimmy Carter was prepared. It is no surprise that this policy was established under President Carter with help from Kissinger and Brzezinski – all with ties to David Rockefeller. The Bush family, the Harriman family - the Wall Street business partners of Bush in financing Hitler - and the Rockefeller family are the elite of the American eugenics movement. Even Prince Philip of Britain, a member of the Bilderberg Group, is in favor of depopulation: “If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels” (Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund, quoted in “Are You Ready for Our New Age Future?” Insiders Report, American Policy Center, December 1995). Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been proposing, funding and building Bio-Weapons Level 3 and Level 4 labs at many places around the U.S. – even on university campuses and in densely populated urban locations. In a Bio-Weapons Level 4 facility, a single bacteria or virus is lethal. Bio-Weapons Level 4 is the highest level legally allowed in the continental U.S. For what purpose are these labs being developed, and who will make the decisions on where bio-weapons created in these facilities will be used and on whom? More than 20 world-class microbiologists have been murdered since 2002, mostly in the U.S. and the UK. Nearly all were working on development of ethnic-specific bio-weapons (see “Smart Dust, Roboflies …”). Citizens around the U.S. are frantically filing lawsuits to stop these labs on campuses and in communities where they live. Despite the opposition of residents living near UC Davis, where a Bio-Weapons Level 4 lab was planned, it had the support of the town’s mayor. She suddenly reversed her position after a monkey escaped from a high security primate facility on the campus where the bio-weapons lab was proposed. Residents claimed that if UC Davis could not keep monkeys from escaping from their cages, they certainly could not guarantee that a single virus or bacteria would not escape from a test tube. The AWOL monkey killed the project (see “Smart Dust, Roboflies…”). Population is a political problem. The extreme secrecy surrounding the takeover of nuclear weapons, NASA and the space program and the development of numerous bio-weapons labs is a threat to civil society, especially in the hands of the military and corporations. The fascist application of all three of these programs can be used to achieve established U.S. government depopulation policy goals, which may eliminate 2 billion of the world’s existing population – through war, famine, disease and any other methods necessary. Two excellent examples of existing U.S. depopulation policy are, first, the long-term impact on the civilian population from Agent Orange in Vietnam, where the Rockefellers built oil refineries and aluminum plants during the Vietnam War. The second is the permanent contamination of the Middle East and Central Asia with depleted uranium, which, unfortunately, will destroy the genetic future of the populations living in those regions and will also have a global effect already reflected in increases in infant mortality reported in the U.S., Europe, and the UK. References Birth defects: “The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm,” Life photo-essay (1995), <a href="http://www.life.com/Life/essay/gulfwar/gulf01.html.">www.life.com/Life/essay/g...lf01.html.</a> Statement by Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/iblog/C337802379/E1557478132/.">homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/i...57478132/.</a> “Smart dust, roboflies, microbugs: UC is spying on you” by Leuren Moret, San Francisco Bay View, Feb. 26, 2003, <a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Berkeley-Library-Classified22feb03.htm.">www.mindfully.org/Nucs/20...feb03.htm.</a>

by **StarmanSkye** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:41 pm

"The extreme secrecy surrounding the takeover of nuclear weapons, NASA and the space program and the development of numerous bio-weapons labs is a threat to civil society, especially in the hands of the military and corporations." -- This underlines the fallacy that we live in a 'democratic' republic --not that any astute, honest observer of American society could help but be aware of numerous other examples. This directly relates to the issue of US policies, both domestic and foreign, are increasingly being influenced and directed by corporate and *other* interests that are multinational, with implications that transcend 'national security'. What an unspeakably foul travesty of justice that Dr. Kissinger (and others in the National Security State system of elite interests) continue to evade war crimes prosecution and for their promotion of anti-population policies -- which attitude presuming America's superior (and grossly rascist) exceptionalism underscores the deliberate economic sabotage of pragmatic Third World development thru World Bank/IMF fraud. How else to explain the moral lapse which encourages investment in a huge arsenal of advanced weaponry and 'smart bombs' while there's a serious lack of clean water availability less than a few hundred miles from US borders (or in proximity to many of its 700+ foreign bases)? The same cavalier, dismissive attitude underscores the blanket of denial that shields widespread public awareness over the horrific crimes and abuses the US has committed with its genocidal chemical warfare in SE Asia with Agent Orange and ongoing in Eurasia with DU -- and let's not overlook the indiscriminate poisoning of Latin America via 'drug-war' herbicide-spraying Round-Up with Plan Columbia. The development of spermicidal corn is yet another instance of the incredible contradictions in American policy, especially as pronounced by the rightwing moral majority re: abortion and a woman's rights over her own body. And it's another instance where protections granted corporations re: 'free trade' and competition far exceed the risks and their potential liability for negative consequences. Despite Mexico prohibiting transgenic crops (though this might change with the recent Trade Organization ruling that Europe's moratorium on GM foods is an unlawful barrier to free trade -- essentially declaring Nations are not sovereign) this spermicidal corn was grown in Mexico and potentially could cross-pollinate and contaminate the entire nation's corn crop. The implications for biological contamination is a HUGE issue: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/18154/">www.alternet.org/story/18154/</a> --quote-- Transgenic products unfit for human consumption have already contaminated the food chain. At the end of the year 2000, environmental and consumer advocacy groups in the United States discovered that hundreds of american products in the supermarkets had been contaminated with traces of Starlink, a genetically enhanced GM corn that was declared unfit for human consumption by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Although the Starlink strain was farmed in just 0.04% of the US corn production area, and was only meant for farm animal consumption, it ended up tainting 430 million bushels and to this day keeps showing up regularly in US exports. "The Starlink discovery in Japan and South Korea, two of the most important US corn consumers, indicates that it could be found anywhere," remarks Meena Raman, from Malaysia, coordinator in Asia for Friends of the Earth Transgenics Program. "Until the US and Aventis (the biotechnology company that created Starlink) controls contamination, no other countries should allow corn imports." A more severe case of genetic contamination is taking place in Mexico, where the presence of GM corn has been documented since 2001. It continues to show up in rural farming communities, both peasant and indigenous, sown by small farmers who are not aware of the transgenic threat; and it is proliferating rapidly, across wild and mixed varieties, in spite of the Mexican government's ban on transgenic crops, in effect since 1998. This contamination deeply concerns environmentalists, scientists and farmers, since Mexico is the cradle of corn and axis of its diversity, rendering the long term consequences on the environment and human health uncertain. In Mexico, people are distressed by the possibility that biopharmaceutical corn could be introduced in the country. Silvia Ribeiro, of the ETC organization, expresses great annoyance about the California-based company Epicyte, which ostentatiously declared having developed a spermicidal corn to be used as a contraceptive. "Ribeiro stated in La Jornada: "The potential of spermicidal corn as a biological weapon is outrageous, since it easily interbreeds with other varieties, is capable of going undetected and could lodge itself at the very core of indigenous and farming cultures. We have witnessed the execution of repeated sterilization campaigns performed against indigenous communities. This method is certainly much more difficult to trace." --unquote-- As distressing as the GM contamination of Mexico's invaluable corn crop and implications of spermicidal corn are the consequences to Mexico's economy and society of the US's dumping of its subsidized corn surplus onto Mexican markets --which as these policies have done throughout the world, causes the undermining of food self-sufficiency and massive social dislocations; <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/gefood/ecocorn011105.cfm">www.organicconsumers.org/...011105.cfm</a> --quote-- In the NAFTA negotiations in the early 1990's the US forced two concessions from Mexico which were to have nefarious consequences for native and rural peoples there. First, Mexico changed its constitution to end the inalienable character of the ejidos, communally owned lands that could not be bought, sold or parceled out. The 28,000 ejidos, which covered 95 million hectares, have not disappeared altogether, but one by one they are being subdivided or sold out thanks to the "liberties" of the free market. They are being increasingly replaced by cattle ranches, massive logging operations, agribusiness monocultures, tree plantations that will provide paper pulp of serve as carbon sinks, tourist resorts, hydroelectric dams, highways and industrial corridors for the Plan Puebla Panama, and elite nature reserves for ecotourism and bioprospection. Second, Mexico was forced to practically eliminate tariffs, import quotas and direct payments to its farmers. As a result, Mexico became a net importer of corn, absorbing the US's massive surplus. Mexico's corn imports from the USA ballooned between 1994 and 2002 from 2.2 million tons annually to 6 million. Mexico is now the US's second corn market, buying 11% of its exports in 2000. Now this country lives the ignominy of seeing its children eating tortillas made from imported corn. American corn sells cheaper because of dumping, term that describes the act of selling a product below its cost of production. The United States, contradicting its discourse of free trade and free competition, subsidizes its agricultural exports to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars A DAY. The effect on Mexico's agriculture and countryside has been devastating. Millers, processors, retailers and restaurants prefer to buy American corn, which although of lesser quality is cheaper than local maize. Mexican peasants, with their traditional and criollo maize, although of superior quality, simply cannot compete. As maize cultivation becomes an economically impractical proposition, the peasants abandon the land to migrate to Mexico City or to the United States, or to work in the maquiladoras. Countless strains and varieties of maize head then to extinction. Consumers don't win either. Between 1994 and 2003 the price of tortillas quadrupled. --unquote-- -- I didn't intend to derail this thread with this diversion on how the US's corporate economic policies are having serious negative impacts in Mexico, perhaps this deserves its own thread -- but it shows how inter-related the issues are -- how corporate and military agendas are inimical to the principles of serving society's best interests and contrary to self-rule democracy --considering the potential and actual long-term effects to the people affected, it's crucial to recognize these trends as reflecting insidious mechanisms of social control beyond accountability or even direct governmental oversight. Massive social dislocation and the undermining of Mexico's domestic agriculture leaves its people vulnerable and dependant on the PTB, and susceptable to economic exploitation and political manipulation. This is another 'threat' as serious in its way as nuclear proliferation and environmental contamination, bioweapon hazards and genocidal weapons in the form of spermicidal food. What's essentially at stake here with all these issues is the corporate control of life. In an aside: The two researchers who discoverd transgenic corn growing in Mexico's highlands were hounded, blackballed and discreditted by stealth and guile by Moinsanto and the Bivings group, a PR firm. <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/gefood/ecocorn011105.cfm">www.organicconsumers.org/...011105.cfm</a> --quote-- Instead of being praised, Chapela and Quist were hounded, ridiculed and slandered by the biotech industry, with the full support and collaboration of prominent members of the scientific community. First came the hair-splitting methodological critiques which distracted attention from the actual findings. Then came the slanderous anonymous e-mails, which started in the pro-biotech AgBioWorld list server. The messages, signed by Mary Murphy and Andura Smetacek, smeared Chapela and Quist, questioning their credibility, motivations and ethics and alleging that they have an eco-extremist anti-science agenda. Murphy and Smetacek turned out not to exist at all. Their messages were found to originate in the computers of biotech corporate giant Monsanto and the Bivings Group, a public relations firm that works for the life sciences industry. The smear worked. Reporters and editors began to believe that Chapela and Quist had been "discredited" and even voiced doubt as to whether there was any GE corn growing in Mexico at all. Nature magazine came under withering and prolonged attack by pro-biotech sectors and finally gave in, issuing a retraction of the Chapela-Quist report. In its 100+ year history it had never retracted a paper without the approval of its authors. The biotech industry was euphoric. It made thousands of copies of the Nature retraction and rubbed them in the faces of all reporters and government officials worldwide who expressed concern about GE crops. --unquote-- DAMN -- What can anyone say about such monumental fraud, corruption, greed, idiocy and intimidation? At the very least, this constitutes an end-run around around accountability and directly challenges liberty -- its a treason of the human spirit to measure everything in terms of profit and control. Starman

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