From the Archive: William Engdahl Discusses the Politics of GMOs
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🗓️ 26 June 2015
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ITXzH8NTdk
From the Archive
*Before the Guadalajara Geopolitics Institute Podcast officially began, I had conducted previous interviews in the classroom. They will eventually be re-posted here.
About the Interview
William Engdahl discusses the politics and the danger of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and their use as a weapon by the US Government and private interests.
The main points covered:
• Rockefeller Foundation funded the Nazi eugenics program (a discredited pseudo-science).
*Side note: Germany in some areas actually copied the California model
• Rockefeller, Dupont, Colgate developed the eugenics or genetics program, which underlies the GMO program.
• Nothing good can come of GMOs; they are a poison; potential for global food supply domination.
• Africa can feed the whole world with natural crops (UN suggests up to 12 billion people).
• GMOs will make it impossible to feed 12 billion people.
• GMO harvest yields are far inferior, create superweeds.
• Monsanto forces use of “Terminator” seeds. It takes seven years to revert GM field back to GM-free field.
• GMOs are a US National Security prerogative. Biotechnology is synonym for genetic modification.
• Agribusiness created by Rockefellers in 1950’s out of Harvard Business School to control food supply.
About the Guest
F. William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, professor and lecturer. He has been researching and writing about the world political scene for more than thirty years. His various books on geopolitics—the interaction between international power politics, economics and geography—have been translated into 14 foreign languages from Chinese to French, from German to Japanese.
William Engdahl Website
William Engdahl Twitter
William Engdahl Books
Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation
http://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Destruction-Hidden-Genetic-Manipulation/dp/0973714727/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
Related Links
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP_f23YTOMw
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Bringing GMO into that is the equivalent of simply pouring poison on the fields. |
| 0:07.0 | Why do that? The U.S. government has made Bringing GMO into that is the equivalent of simply pouring poison on the fields. |
| 0:21.6 | Why do that? |
| 0:22.6 | The US government has made genetic manipulation, the spread of GMO's seeds, |
| 0:28.6 | patented seeds from Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and others, a national security priority. |
| 0:33.6 | It's tantamount to the export of the defense weapons for the Pentagon and |
| 0:39.3 | for the U.S. budget. It's a national security export sector, agribusiness and especially |
| 0:45.3 | patented seeds, GMO seeds from Monsanto and company. |
| 0:48.3 | If you can just give us a quick, you're a best-selling author. You've written on different subjects. |
| 0:55.0 | I use your book, Gods of Money, and one of my other classes on U.S. foreign policy. |
| 1:01.0 | And we're reading, we read a chapter from Seeds of Destruction. |
| 1:06.0 | This course called Environment and International Relations. |
| 1:09.0 | And if you give us a quick background of yourself, |
| 1:15.0 | as well as if you can just quickly break down the GMO agenda for us. Okay. That's a tall order. |
| 1:23.6 | The second one anyway. Well, I was born in the States, oh, right around the end of World War II. I'm in my 60s now. |
| 1:35.3 | And after studying at Princeton in the U.S. and at Stockholm and in Sweden, in economics in Sweden, comparative international economics, I began work in New York |
| 1:49.8 | as a freelance journalist working on the energy crisis of the 1970s, in 1973, when |
| 1:57.8 | OPEC price of oil went up 400% within a matter of months. |
| 2:01.6 | And then gradually different events led me to end up in Germany, also working as an economist, |
| 2:12.6 | a journalist and an editor for a small magazine in Germany. |
| 2:18.3 | Then I gradually got in through my work on oil. |
| 2:23.3 | I'd done extensive work on oil in Texas and across the United States with independent oil producers there |
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