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- CNN
Human Genome Project, search cnn health
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- WMR's
February 13-15, 2009 -- Monsanto and Bill Gates -- are they playing a
bio-war game in China? ... WMR's
intelligence sources in China are raising concerns over a program in
China that is seeing the introduction of Monsanto-produced
genetically-modified strains of wheat in China to combat a deadly stem
rust fungus known as Uganda99 or "Ug99." The spread of the
fungus from Africa to the Arabian peninsula, Iran, India, and now China,
comes at a time when world food prices are increasing due to droughts,
water shortages and the removal of arable land for the production of
bio-ethanol plants. The introduction of the Monsanto genetically
modified organism (GMO) wheat seeds in China is reportedly being carried
out with grants from the Bill Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller
Foundation. ... Some in China worry that Ug99
may be part of a U.S. bio-war program to make countries like China
subservient to U.S. food exports during a time when the world is facing
shortages in its grain stocks.
... The stem rust fungus was in the bio-war stockpiles
of the United States and the Soviet union during the Cold War. Ug 99
spread from Uganda in 1999 to Kenya in 2001, Ethiopia in 2003, and in
2007 across the Red Sea into Yemen when cyclone Gonu's winds spread the
stem rust spores from Africa into Asia. The spores have now been
detected in Iran and the Punjab region of Pakistan.
... There is some concern that Monsanto, as well as the
Switzerland-based firm Syngenta, are taking advantage of the stem rust
plague to introduce GMO seeds to countries like China and India, which
have been resistant in the past to such offerings.
... The involvement of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the
connections between its secretive Plum Island laboratory off Long Island
and the U.S. Army's bio-war center at Fort Detrick, Maryland, has
Chinese official highly concerned about the wheat GMOs from Monsanto and
Ug99. ...
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