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Why has the response to rising inequality been a drive to reduce taxes on the rich ?
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Another Step in Emerging Truth Sandra and Richard Mon, 6 Feb 2006 02:03:26 -0800 Scholars Repudiate Official Version of 9/11
Scholars claim government's account violates laws of physics and engineering.
(PRWEB) January 27, 2006 -- An influential group of prominent experts and scholars have joined together alleging that senior government
officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. The members of this new non-partisan association, "Scholars
for 9/11 Truth" (S9/11T), are convinced their research proves the current administration has been dishonest with the nation about events
in New York and Washington, D.C.
These experts contend that books and articles by members and associates have established that the World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the official story about the attack on the Pentagon. They believe that the government not only permitted 9/11 to occur but may even have orchestrated these events to facilitate its political agenda.The society includes U.S. and international faculty and students of history, science, military affairs, psychology, and even philosophy. According to its spokesmen, S9/11T represents a concerted effort to uphold the standards of truth and justice and to strengthen democracy in this nation, which has taken a terrible hit in the aftermath of 9/11, when "everything changed." Its function is to bring scientific rigor to the study of 9/11 phenomena.
The members of this group are dedicated to exposing falsehoods and to revealing truths behind 9/11, "letting the chips fall where they may."
The evidence has become sufficiently strong that they are speaking out. They are actively devoting themselves to reporting the results of
their research to the public by means of lectures, articles, and other venues.
The society includes numerous notable professors and scholars, including:
• Morgan Reynolds, Texas A & M Professor Emeritus of Economics, former Chief Economist for the Department of Labor for President George
W. Bush, and former Director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis
• Steven E. Jones, Professor of Physics, Brigham Young University, co-chair of S9/11T and the creator of its home page and its forum
• Robert M. Bowman, former Director of the U.S. "Star Wars" Space Defense Program in both Republican and Democratic administrations, a
former senior Air Force Colonel with 101 combat missions, who is also a Catholic Archbishop
• Lloyd DeMause, Director of The Institute for Psychohistory, President of the International Psychohistorical Association and Editor of The
Journal of Psychohistory
• James H. Fetzer, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, author or editor of more
than 20 books and co-chair of S9/11T
• Andreas Von Buelow, former assistant German defense minister, director of the German Secret Service, minister for research and technology, and member of Parliament for 25 years The society, founded by Professors Fetzer and Jones, who serve as its co-chairs, is approaching 50 members to date. Fetzer, a philosopher of science, observed that the government's "official account" is not even physically possible, because it violates laws of nature. "What we have been told is fine," he said, "if you are willing to believe impossible things. Serious scholars don't believe
in tooth fairies."
Beyond encouraging its members to vigorously express their concerns on this score through lectures, conferences, symposia, articles, and
books as well as other access routes that publicize their findings, the society's initial activities, which are expected to increase in frequency
and intensity, include the following projects and endeavors:
• Professor Jones is refining his influential analysis of the physics of the collapse of buildings at the World Trade Center.
• Professor Fetzer is editing a collection of new studies about 9/11 that will include contributions from the members of S9/11T.
• A major conference is being planned for this fall to further inform the American public about the group's most recent findings
Studies by the society's founders and by prominent theologian David Ray Griffin, who has taken a leading role in exposing false claims about
9/11, are accessible from the association's home page, www.ScholarsFor911Truth.org. Information for those who may want to join S9/11T
can also be found there.
For Press Inquiries:
Alex Floum, Esquire
S9/11T Associate
(925) 818-1702 (cell)
911 [at email.com
About the Society:
James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.
S9/11T Co-Chair
(218) 726-7269 (office)
(218) 724-2706 (home)
www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer/
Resource Questions:
Eric Hufschmid
S9/11T Associate
(805) 968-5351
PainfulQuestions [at aol.com
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Anti-Humans Set To Control
Earth's Food Supply:
Monsanto, Banks, US Government Create
Tight Control Over The Source Of Your
Children's And Grandchildren's Food Supply
You may have heard before about the threat of Terminator Seeds that only grow crops for one year, then "commit suicide",
forcing farmers to buy new seeds if they want to grow crops again next year. THIS IS NOT A REHASH OF WHAT YOU
ALREADY READ, but a report about NEW LEGAL moves that effectively Set The Trap against EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH -
for the first time in history, a small group of "humans" has the LEGAL right and power over all "other" humans to control
their God-given right to GROW FOOD - this article is long and somewhat convoluted, but it is vitally important for the
information to be circulated and understood widely
Global Research Feature Article
The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when
commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The
Government has been working quietly on this technology since 1983. Now, the little-known company that has
been working in this genetic research with the Government's US Department of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-
- is about to become part of the world's largest supplier of patented genetically-modified seeds (GMO), Monsanto
Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri.
Relations between Monsanto, Delta & Pine Land and the USDA, on closer scrutiny, show the deep and dark side
of the much-heralded genetic revolution in agriculture. It proves deep-held suspicions that the Gene Revolution
is not about 'solving the world hunger problem' as its advocates claim. It's about handing over control of the
seeds for mankind's basic food supply—rice, corn, soybeans, wheat, even fruit, vegetables and cotton—to privately
owned corporations. Once the seeds and their use are patented and controlled by one or several private agribusiness
multinationals, it will be they who can decide whether or not a particular customer—let's say for argument, China or
Brazil or India or Japan—whether they will or won't get the patented seeds from Monsanto, or from one of its licensee
GMO partners like Bayer Crop Sciences, Syngenta or DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred International.
While most of us don't bother to reflect on where the corn in the box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes or the rice in a box
of Uncle Ben's Converted Rice come from, when we grab it from the supermarket shelf, they all must originate with
seeds. Seeds can either be taken by a farmer from the previous season' seeds, and planted to produce the next
harvest. Or, seeds can be bought new each harvest season, from the companies which sell their seeds.
The advent of commercial GMO seeds in the early 1990's allowed companies like Monsanto, DuPont or Dow
Chemicals to go from supplying agriculture chemical herbicides like Roundup, to patenting genetically altered
seeds for basic farm crops like corn, rice, soybeans or wheat. For almost a quarter century, since 1983, the US
Government has quietly been working to perfect a genetically engineered technique whereby farmers would be
forced to turn to their seed supplier each harvest to get new seeds. The seeds would only produce one harvest.
After that the seeds from that harvest would commit 'suicide' and be unusable.
There has been much hue and cry, correctly so, that this process, patented 'suicide' seeds, officially termed GURTs
(Genetic Use Restriction Technologies), is a threat to poor farmers in developing countries like India or Brazil, who
traditionally save their own seeds for the next planting. In fact, GURTs, more popularly referred to as Terminator
seeds for the brutal manner in which they kill off plant reproduction possibilities, is a threat to the food security
as well of North America, Western Europe, Japan and anywhere Monsanto and its elite cartel of GMO agribusiness
partners enters a market.
The Curious History of Delta & Pine Land
Delta & Pine Land is a company that, despite the pine in its name, has deep roots. Founded in 1888, it has its
headquarters at One Cotton Row in Scott, Mississippi, nestled between Goat Island and Choktaw Bar Island on
the Mississippi River, near the Arkansas border. However, the people running things at Delta Pine are anything
but your typical Mississippi black-dirt cotton farmers.
In 1983, Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) joined with the US Department of Agriculture in a project to develop Terminator
seeds. It was one of the earliest experiments with GMO. It was a long-term project. The US Government has been
serious about Terminator beginning more than two decades ago.
In March 1998 the US Patent Office granted Patent No. 5,723,765 to Delta & Pine Land for a patent titled, Control
of Plant Gene _Expression. The patent is owned jointly, according to Delta & Pine's Security & Exchange Commission
10K filing, 'by D&PL and the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture.'
The patent has global coverage. To quote further from the official D&PL SEC filing, 'The patent broadly covers all
species of plant and seed, both transgenic (GMO-ed) and conventional, for a system designed to allow control of
progeny seed viability without harming the crop'(sic).
Then, in a manner reminiscent of Big Brother in George Orwell's novel, 1984, D&PL claims, 'One application of the
technology could be to control unauthorized planting of seed of proprietary varieties…by making such a practice
non-economic since non-authorized saved seed will not germinate, and, therefore, would be useless for planting.'
D&PL calls the thousand-year-old tradition of farmer-saved seed by the pejorative term, 'brown bagging' as though
it is something dirty and corrupt.
Translated into lay language, D&PL officially declares the purpose of its Patent No. 5,723,765, Control of Plant Gene _
Expression, is to prevent farmers who once get trapped into buying transgenic or GMO seeds from a company such
as Monsanto or Syngenta, from 'brown bagging' or being able to break free of control of their future crops by Monsanto
and friends. As D&PL puts it, their patent gives them 'the prospect of opening significant worldwide seed markets to
the sale of transgenic technology in varietal crops in which crop seed currently is saved and used in subsequent seasons
as planting seed.'
Instead, the farmer or the country whose farmers depend on Monsanto patented GMO seeds must pay a license fee
to Monsanto each year to get new seeds. 'No tickee, no laundy,' as the old Brooklyn poet would say.
Terminator is the answer to the agribusiness dream of controlling world food production. No longer would they need
to hire expensive detectives to spy on whether farmers were re-using Monsanto or other GMO patented seed.
Terminator corn or soybeans or cotton seeds could be genetically modified to 'commit suicide' after one harvest season.
That would automatically prevent farmers from saving and re-using the seed for the next harvest. The technology would
be a means of enforcing Monsanto or other GMO patent rights, and forcing payment of farmer use fees not only in
developing economies, where patent rights were, understandably, little respected, but also in industrial OECD countries.
With Terminator patent rights, once a country such as Argentina or Brazil or Iraq or the USA or Canada opened its doors
to the spread of GMO patented seeds among its farmers, their food security would be potentially hostage to a private
multinational company, a company which, for whatever reasons, especially given its intimate ties to the US Government,
might decide to use 'food as a weapon' to compel a US-friendly policy from that country or group of countries.
[these bastards are proto-nazies x nazies and vicious killing dinasaurs]
Sound far-fetched? Go back to what then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger did in countries like Allende's Chile to force
a regime change to a 'US-friendly' Pinochet dictatorship by withholding USAID and private food exports to Chile. Kissinger
dubbed it 'food as a weapon.' Terminator is merely the logical next step in food weapon technology.
The role of the US Government in backing and financing Delta & Pine Land's decades of Terminator research is even more
revealing. As Kissinger said back in the 1970's, 'Control the oil and you can control entire Continents. Control food and
you control people…'
In a June 1998 interview, USDA spokesman, Willard Phelps, defined the US Government policy on Terminator seeds.
He explained that USDA wanted the technology to be 'widely licensed and made expeditiously available to many seed
companies.' He meant agribusiness GMO giants like Monsanto, DuPont or Dow. The USDA was open about their reasons:
They wanted to get Terminator seeds into the developing world where the Rockefeller Foundation had made eventual
proliferation of genetically engineered crops the heart of its GMO strategy from the beginnings of its rice genome project
in 1984.
USDA's Phelps stated that the US Government's goal in fostering the widest possible development of Terminator technology
was 'to increase the value of proprietary seed owned by US seed companies and to open up new markets in Second and
Third World countries.'
Under WTO rules on free trade in agriculture, countries are forbidden to impose their own national health restrictions on
GMO imports if it is deemed to be an 'unfair trade barrier.' It begins to become clear why it was the US Government and
US agribusiness which during the late 1980's pushed at the GATT Uruguay Round for creation of a World Trade Organization,
with its supranational arbitrary powers over world agriculture trade. It all fits into a neat picture of patented seeds, forced
on reluctant WTO member nations, under threat of WTO sanctions, and now of Terminator or suicide seeds.
A closer look at who runs and owns Delta & Pine Land is instructive.
Arkansas Politics and D&PL
The largest shareholder in D&PL is the Stephens Group of Little Rock, Arkansas. Here is where things become interesting
indeed.
The man who is Chairman of the Board of DP&L is Jon E.M. Jacoby, who came to DP&L as representative of the Stephens
Group. Jacoby is a Director and Vice Chairman of The Stephens Group LLC, the Arkansas-based private equity firm owned
by the Stephens family.
The Stephens Group prides itself on being the nation's largest investment bank outside Wall Street, based, of all places,
in little ol' Little Rock, in hillbilly land, Arkansas, one of the poorest states in the United States. Stephens Inc. is also one
of the biggest institutional shareholders in 30 large multinationals including the Arkansas based firms Tyson Food, the
world's largest chicken industrial factory operation and the infamous Arkansas giant, Wal-Mart.
Jackson Stephens, who founded the group with his brother, Witt, were more
than just lucky Arkansas bankers and billionaires. Stephens evidently built his
career and fortune by being connected to the 'right' people. He was a US Naval
Academy classmate of Jimmy Carter and during the Georgia bank scandals of
President Carter's Office of Management & Budget chief, Bert Lance, it was Jack
Stephens who stepped in to bail Lance out of an extremely embarrassing financial
debacle with Lance's old bank, National Bank of Georgia.
How Stephens helped Jimmy Carter's fellow Georgia buddy, Lance, is the interesting part. Stephens introduced Lance to
a Pakistani businessman, Agha Hasan Abedi. Abedi was the founder of a curious Luxembourg-registered, London-based
bank called BCCI.
In 1990, BCCI was convicted of money laundering for the Columbian Cocaine Cartels in Miami.
In October, 1992, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released an 800-page report on the BCCI collapse. They
called the BCCI scandal, 'the largest case of organized crime in history, spanning over some 72 nations,' adding
that it represented an 'international financial crime on a massive and global scale,' and that the bank 'systematically
bribed world leaders and political figures throughout the world.'
The Senate report concluded that among the provable charges against BCCI were 'BCCI's criminality, including fraud…
involving billions of dollars; money laundering in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the America; BCCI's bribery of officials in
most of those locations; its support of terrorism, arms trafficking, and the sale of nuclear technologies; its management
of prostitution; its commission and facilitation of income tax evasion, smuggling, and illegal immigration; its illicit
purchases of banks and real estate; and a panoply of financial crimes limited only by the imagination of its officers
and customers.'
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