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  • From: ed&bunkie <bunked@centurytel.net>
  • To: Seed Keepers <seedkeepers@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Seed Keepers] Formal Opening Of the "Doomsday" Vault In Norway
  • Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:20:33 -0800

if this is the same group, this can't be good, right? peace, bunkie.

"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic: Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7529


One thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accused of is sloth. He was already programming at 14, founded Microsoft at age 20 while still a student at Harvard. By 1995 he had been listed by Forbes as the world’s richest man from being the largest shareholder in his Microsoft, a company which his relentless drive built into a de facto monopoly in software systems for personal computers.

In 2006 when most people in such a situation might think of retiring to a quiet Pacific island, Bill Gates decided to devote his energies to his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest ‘transparent’ private foundation as it says, with a whopping $34.6 billion endowment and a legal necessity to spend $1.5 billion a year on charitable projects around the world to maintain its tax free charitable status. A gift from friend and business associate, mega-investor Warren Buffett in 2006, of some $30 billion worth of shares in Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway put the Gates’ foundation into the league where it spends almost the amount of the entire annual budget of the United Nations’ World Health Organization.

So when Bill Gates decides through the Gates Foundation to invest some $30 million of their hard earned money in a project, it is worth looking at.

No project is more interesting at the moment than a curious project in one of the world’s most remote spots, Svalbard. Bill Gates is investing millions in a seed bank on the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean, some 1,100 kilometers from the North Pole. Svalbard is a barren piece of rock claimed by Norway and ceded in 1925 by international treaty (see map).

On this God-forsaken island Bill Gates is investing tens of his millions along with the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and the Government of Norway, among others, in what is called the ‘doomsday seed bank.’ Officially the project is named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard island group............



On Monday, February 25, 2008, at 05:57 AM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:


BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Life in the cold store
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7262525.stm>

Monday, 25 February 2008, 09:53 GMT

This week sees the formal opening of a vault designed to protect and preserve samples of valuable seeds. The "Doomsday"
vault in Svalbard can store more than four million batches of seeds, including the world's major crop varieties. BBC
environment correspondent Sarah Mukherjee is in Svalbard for the opening.

Professor Tore Skroppa, director of the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute

Climate change is one of the reasons the vault has been created - but by no means the only one.

Professor Skroppa points out those more than 40 countries have had some or all of their seed banks destroyed in recent
years - whether through war, as in Afghanistan and Iraq, or through floods or other natural disasters, as in the
Philippines.

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