Sunday 10 October 2010

france: gare au retour de manivelle

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http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2010/10/07/97001-20101007FILWWW00398-crise-10000-soldats-mobilisables.php

Crise: 10.000 soldats mobilisables

AFP
07/10/2010

En cas de crise majeure, l'armée peut engager 10.000 hommes sur le territoire national, selon une instruction interministérielle rendue publique au moment où sort un livre dont l'auteur assure que "l'Etat prépare la guerre dans les cités françaises". L'existence de ce texte, daté du 3 mai 2010, et dont l'ouvrage ne fait pas spécifiquement mention, est révélée dans le dernier numéro d'Armées d'aujourd'hui, une des publications officielles du ministère de la Défense.

Cette instruction a été rédigée, avec le concours des ministères de l'Intérieur et de la Défense, par le Secrétariat général de la défense et de la sécurité nationale (SGDSN). Ce service du premier ministre a confirmé à l'AFP l'existence de ce texte en précisant qu'il était classifié "confidentiel défense". Le SGDSN est notamment chargé de la planification des plans de réponses aux crises : plan Vigipirate et ceux de la famille "Pirate" (Piratair, Pirate-mer, NRBC ...).

En cas de crise, cette instruction, qui découle du Livre blanc (2008) énumérant les priorités stratégiques de la France pour les quinze années à venir, fixe ainsi le "contrat opérationnel 10.000 hommes" que les armées doivent pouvoir déployer en quelques jours. Interrogé par Armées d'aujourd'hui, le préfet François Lucas, alors directeur de la protection et de la sécurité de l'Etat au SGDSN, a défini une crise majeure comme "un évènement - pandémie, attaque terroriste, catastrophe, crise d'ordre public - dont la gravité et la portée conduisent les autorités gouvernementales à activer le dispositif interministériel de crise".

Les trois armées (terre, air, mer) interviennent déjà lors de catastrophes naturelles (inondations, tempêtes ...) pour épauler les services de secours civils, pour assurer en permanence la "police du ciel", les missions de l'Etat en mer ou renforcer, depuis la fin des années 90, les effectifs de police et de gendarmerie dans le cadre de Vigipirate.

Dans "Opérations banlieues, comment l'Etat prépare la guerre urbaine dans les cités françaises" (éditions La Découverte, jeudi dans les librairies), Hacène Belmessous, présenté comme "journaliste et chercheur indépendant", est beaucoup plus direct. L'auteur assure notamment que les opérations de rénovation urbaine visent à faciliter les interventions policières, voire militaires, à venir dans les quartiers difficiles.

Selon lui, le "contrat 10.000 hommes", dont il dit avoir eu connaissance au mois de juin sans pour autant citer le texte du 3 mai, vise "un seul territoire qui absorbe l'entière attention de Nicolas Sarkozy depuis les émeutes de l'automne 2005 : les quartiers sensibles". Dans ce livre brûlot, l'auteur va jusqu'à dénoncer une "inquiétante dérive vers la préparation d'une guerre totale contre les territoires perdus de la République".


http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2010/10/09/notre-societe-ressemble-de-plus-en-plus-a-celle-de-l-ancien-regime_1422804_823448.html

"Notre société ressemble de plus en plus à celle de l'Ancien Régime"

Le Monde
09.10.10

Banquier d'affaires chez Rothschild, ancienne plume de Jean-Pierre Raffarin à Matignon, Hakim El Karoui, 39 ans, fait partie des nouvelles élites françaises. Il publie Réinventer l'0ccident. Essai sur une crise économique et culturelle (Flammarion, 17 euros, 241 pages, à paraître le 13 octobre), dans lequel il analyse ce qu'il appelle "la désoccidentalisation" du monde. Dans l'entretien qu'il a accordé au Monde, il analyse les peurs de la société française, sans verser dans le pessimisme. Extraits

Par quoi les classes moyennes se sentent-elles fragilisées ?

Par l'organisation actuelle de la mondialisation qui ne leur laisse pas de place. Depuis 20 ans, nous assistons à une polarisation sociale extrêmement forte : de plus en plus de riches, de plus en plus de pauvres et de plus en plus de gens qui ont le sentiment d'être en voie de déclassement social. Dans la mondialisation il y a des gagnants – ceux dont la compétence est de niveau mondial – et des perdants – ceux qui n'ont plus leur place dans les nouveaux processus de production. On essaye de les gérer mais c'est difficile….

La crise économique aggrave-t-elle ces phénomènes ?

Oui, parce qu'il ne s'agit pas seulement d'une crise financière, comme on voudrait le laisser penser. L'origine de la crise se trouve dans l'endettement excessif des ménages américains et européens. Pendant des années, on a remplacé les salaires par l'endettement – public ou privé, selon les pays.

Ce système a explosé avec la crise et il faut donc s'attendre à ce qu'en Occident les classes moyennes et populaires expérimentent une baisse inédite de leur niveau de vie. Or, tant que les gouvernements européens n'auront pas trouvé les moyens de relancer les salaires, ils seront tentés de trouver dans le populisme, de droite ou de gauche, la justification de leur existence. A droite, on joue sur la xénophobie ; à gauche, sur la haine des patrons présentés comme des voyous.

Vous comparez la France actuelle à la société d'Ancien Régime. Pourquoi ?

Nous ne sommes pas dans une société pyramidale comparable à celles des pays émergents. Mais notre société ressemble effectivement de plus en plus à celle de l'Ancien régime avec une base très large, une petite élite et une masse assez importante de personnes – des avocats, des médecins à honoraires libres, des professionnels des loisirs… – qui travaillent pour la petite élite au sommet.

Le reste de la société est entraînée vers les emplois de service peu qualifiés payés 40 % de moins que les emplois industriels. Qui occupera ces emplois de services ? Les plus fragiles, femmes, jeunes et enfants d'immigrés.

Dans ce contexte difficile, le système français d'intégration des immigrés fonctionne-t-il ?

Oui, je le crois, malgré les apparences. Nous n'intégrons pas les immigrés, nous les assimilons. Du coup, plus le système fonctionne, plus les différences s'estompent parce que les immigrés sont devenus des Français comme les autres. Ce modèle crée de l'anxiété parce qu'on voit toujours ce qui va mal et jamais ce qui fonctionne. Or, lorsqu'on observe globalement les populations issues de l'immigration, on se rend compte qu'en termes de réussite scolaire, de mariages mixtes, de comportements démographiques, de progression sociale, les évolutions sont positives.

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Hakim El Karoui, 35 ans, ancien élève de l’ENS et agrégé de géographie, a été la plume de Jean-Pierre Raffarin avant d’être chargé de la prospective à Bercy jusqu’en août 2006. Il est membre du Conseil scientifique de la Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration. Il a créé le Club XXIe Siècle, qu’il préside.

Propos recueillis par Luc Bronner et Cécile Prieur


http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20100916

September 16, 2010

Sarkozy alienates French intelligence services

By courtesy of Wayne Madsen

WMR's informed French sources report that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has incurred the ire of the chief of France's foreign intelligence services, Erard Corbin de Mangoux of the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) who has quietly made it clear that they are supporting Sarkozy's bitter rival, Dominique de Villepin, to be the next President of France. In 2008, Sarkozy combined the Renseignements Généraux (RG) and the Department of Surveillance of the Territory (DST) internal security agencies to form the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI).

Sarkozy placed his friend, Bernard Squarcini, in charge of the new super-agency. Known as "the Shark," the Rabat. Morocco-born Squarcini has beefed up the surveillance of Muslims in France. Last March, Squarcini said his agency broke up a planned terrorist attack on an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) fundraising event in Paris. Squarcini has also increased the sharing of French intelligence with Israel. Earlier this week, Squarcini hyped up a false aarm bomb threat against the Eiffel Tower, hours after the French Senate voted to ban the wearing of the burqa in France.

In April, Squarcini admitted using French intelligence to track down the sources of rumors of marital problems between Sarkozy and French First Lady Carla Bruni that began to appear in the European media. French intelligence agents reportedly tapped the cell phone calls of a number of French government and European Union officials.

Sarkozy decided to clip the wings of the RG because he suspected RG agents of providing criminal investigation evidence to his political rival de Villepin that Sarkozy contends was part of a smear campaign. Sarkozy later brought criminal charges against de Villepin but they were dismissed. The chief charge was that de Villepin conspired to smear Sarkozy by leaking false documents showing Sarkozy received foreign bribes through a Luxembourg banking entity known as Clearstream, which has been linked to money laundering by the Russian-Israeli Mafia, including exiled Russian Jewish oligarchs living in Britain, the United States, and Israel.

The anti-de Villepin media in France hyped the fact that the Clearstream documents were forgeries. WMR has learned from French intelligence sources that the original Clearstream documents that showed Sarkozy has received illegal foreign payments were, in fact, authentic. Sarkozy allies went to work to remove certain information and enter false information in a later version of the documents that were used to show how Sarkozy was a victim of a smear campaign based on forgeries.

Some press reports suggested that Sarkozy's name was added to the Clearstream list of politicians who maintained secret bank accounts in Clearstream. In fact, Sarkozy's name was on the original Clearstream spread sheet audit records but data associated with Sarkozy and Sarkozy's mentor, Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, were cleverly altered by agents who had long been grooming Sarkozy for the top job in France: President of the Republic.

The culprits who took the original Clearstream documents and forged them are reported to have been working for the Israeli Mossad. The French media has reported that documents that surfaced in 2007 show that Sarkozy was, and may still be, and agent for the Mossad. Sarkozy reportedly was recruited in 1978 when Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the Mossad to penetrate the Gaullist Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UPM). Sarkozy became a rising star in the UPM, having served as mayor of the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, the home to many wealthy French Jews.

In 1993, Sarkozy, the Budget Minister and Neuilly-sur-Seine mayor, was propelled on to the national stage when a mentally unstable man claiming to be wearing an explosive belt and waving a pistol took a number of children and their teacher hostage in a classroom in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Sarkozy walked unarmed into the classroom and negotiated for the release of 15 of the 21 children. The hostage taker, Eric Schmitt, who was born in French-controlled Algeria, was shot in the head three times by French police sharpshooters after he briefly fell asleep. He had on his person papers bearing the words "Human Bomb." Some French intelligence sources now believe that the hostage taking event was staged as a method of increasing Sarkozy's popularity in order to set the stage for a run for higher office.

Sarkozy first attempted to gain access to national politics by dating the daughter of Paris's UMP Mayor Jacques Chirac, who would eventually become French President. Although marriage into the Chirac family was not in the offing for Sarkozy, his relationship with Chirac, the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine's neighboring larger city, grew closer. Sarkozy went on to hold the post of Interior Minister during Chirac's presidency and he antagonized Muslims by calling alleged Muslim rioters "scum." French Muslims responded by calling Sarkozy "sale juif" or "dirty Jew." Sarkozy is believed to have been behind many of the arson attacks that swept through France in 2005 in order to show how tough he could be with rioters and arsonists. The scheme worked and Sarkozy was elected President in 2007 as a "law and order" man.

It was while mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine that Sarkozy is reported to have first started receiving bribes, via Clearstream, from a sweetheart naval frigate deal between French defense contractor Thomson-CSF, now known as Thales, and the Taiwanese Navy. The French bank Societe Generale, also arranged for bribes to be paid to top Taiwanese government officials. The cost of the French frigates was inflated in a scheme to plow some of the payments back into the pockets of French and Taiwanese politicians in the form of "commissions." The commissions, which were forbidden by the contract with Taiwan, were reported to have been huge amounts of money.

Taiwanese prosecutors first discovered the Clearstream involvement in 2001 when an examination of Taiwanese politicians' foreign accounts into which bribes were paid by Thompson-CSF, discovered them to be deposited in banks in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Jersey, Cayman Islands, and, more importantly, Luxembourg.

When initial news of the Taiwan and Clearstream affair was first about to break in 1993, Sarkozy, groomed by the Mossad, was threatened with exposure and the end of his political career at an early stage. Sarkozy had to be protected at all costs from those who had knowledge of the illegal payments and might be prepared to talk. Mossad "wet affairs" teams went to work. The director of Taiwan's naval procurement office, Captain Yin Ching-Feng had discovered the over-charging by Thomson and was prepared to go public with the evidence. However, Yin's body was found floating in the sea in the Taiwan Straits by fishermen and Taiwan police later concluded he had been murdered by a sharp blow to the head or neck. In 1996, Yin's nephew, Yang Yi-li, who was investigating the murder of his uncle, was himself found murdered in Canada.

The trail of murders moved to France. On October 10, 2000, Thierry Imbot, a French intelligence agent, was thrown from a fourth-floor window in Paris. Imbot was assigned to Taiwan to monitor the frigate contract. Imbot's father was retired General Rene Imbot, former chief of the DGSE. Retired French Navy Captain Jean-Claude Albessard, who was also part of the Taiwan contract, died from a fast-acting cancer in Japan. In 2001, Jacques Morrison, a Thomson official who worked on the Taiwan deal, fell to his death from a fifth-floor apartment window in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Sarkozy's old home town.

De Villepin, a former foreign minister, has been assured of support from the French diplomatic corps but the intelligence service chiefs considered it a long-shot for de Villepin to beat out other candidates who are eager to challenge Sarkozy. However, with Sarkozy's poll numbers plummeting to new depths over outrage over pension reform, expulsion of the Roma, and antagonizing French Muslims over the burqa ban, the DGSE chief now regards de Villepin as a viable contender to replace Sarkozy. But there is an added twist, WMR has learned that DCRI chief Squarcini, Sarkozy's long-time confidant, has grown tired of the impetuousness of the French president and his misuse of the intelligence services for personal reasons. Sarkozy has threatened to hang de Villeoin on a butcher's hook.

Squarcini, we are told, has decided to signal to de Villepin, who has called Sarkozy a "dwarf" and a "midget," that he is ready to quietly assist with the presidential aspirations of de Villepin, Sarkozy's most hated enemy. And to make matters worse for Sarkozy, his wife, Carla Bruni, was reported to be smitten with de Villepin and in April there were reports of secret trysts between the two.

Wednesday 6 October 2010

gmo: monsanto's worst stock result, health warnings

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/business/05monsanto.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

After Growth, Fortunes Turn for Monsanto

ANDREW POLLACK
October 4, 2010

As recently as late December, Monsanto was named “company of the year” by Forbes magazine. Last week, the company earned a different accolade from Jim Cramer, the television stock market commentator. “This may be the worst stock of 2010,” he proclaimed.

Monsanto, the giant of agricultural biotechnology, has been buffeted by setbacks this year that have prompted analysts to question whether its winning streak of creating ever more expensive genetically engineered crops is coming to an end.

The company’s stock, which rose steadily over several years to peak at around $140 a share in mid-2008, closed Monday at $47.77, having fallen about 42 percent since the beginning of the year. Its earnings for the fiscal year that ended in August, which will be announced Wednesday, are expected to be well below projections made at the beginning of the year, and the company has abandoned its profit goal for 2012 as well.

The latest blow came last week, when early returns from this year’s harvest showed that Monsanto’s newest product, SmartStax corn, which contains eight inserted genes, was providing yields no higher than the company’s less expensive corn, which contains only three foreign genes. Monsanto has already been forced to sharply cut prices on SmartStax and on its newest soybean seeds, called Roundup Ready 2 Yield, as sales fell below projections.

But there is more. Sales of Monsanto’s Roundup, the widely used herbicide, has collapsed this year under an onslaught of low-priced generics made in China. Weeds are growing resistant to Roundup, dimming the future of the entire Roundup Ready crop franchise. And the Justice Department is investigating Monsanto for possible antitrust violations.

Until now, Monsanto’s main challenge has come from opponents of genetically modified crops, who have slowed their adoption in Europe and some other regions. Now, however, the skeptics also include farmers and investors who were once in Monsanto’s camp.

“My personal view is that they overplayed their hand,” William R. Young, managing director of ChemSpeak, a consultant to investors in the chemical industry, said of Monsanto. “They are going to have to demonstrate to the farmer the advantage of their products.” Brett D. Begemann, Monsanto’s executive vice president for seeds and traits, said the setbacks were not reflective of systemic management problems and that the company was moving to deal with them. “Farmers clearly gave us some feedback that we have made adjustments from,” he said in an interview Monday.

Mr. Begemann said that Monsanto used to introduce new seeds at a price that gave farmers two-thirds and Monsanto one-third of the extra profits that would come from higher yields or lower pest-control costs. But with SmartStax corn and Roundup Ready 2 soybeans, the company’s pricing aimed for a 50-50 split.

That backfired as American farmers grew only six million acres of Roundup Ready 2 soybeans this year, below the company’s goal of eight million to 10 million acres, and only three million acres of SmartStax corn, below the goal of four million.

So now Monsanto is moving back to the older arrangement. SmartStax seed for planting next year will be priced about $8 an acre more than other seeds, down from about a $24 premium for this year’s seeds, Mr. Begemann said. The company will also offer credits for free seed to farmers who planted SmartStax this year and were disappointed.

Monsanto has also moved to offer farmers more varieties with fewer inserted genes. Some farmers have said they often have to buy traits they do not need — such as protection from the corn rootworm in regions where that pest is not a problem — to get the best varieties. This issue has surfaced in the antitrust investigation.

Monsanto’s arch rival, DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred, has also capitalized on the lack of options under a campaign called “right product, right acre.” “If they don’t have a need for rootworm then we won’t have that trait in that product,” Paul E. Schickler, the president of Pioneer, said in an interview.

After years of rapidly losing market share in corn seeds to Monsanto, Pioneer says it has gained back four percentage points in the last two years, to 34 percent. Monsanto puts its market share at 36 percent in 2009 and says it has remained flat this year. In soybeans, Pioneer puts its share at 31 percent, up seven percentage points over the last two years; Monsanto puts its share at 28 percent last year and said it had dropped some this year.

Monsanto had a similar problem with lower-than-expected yields on Roundup Ready 2 soybeans last year, when the crop was first planted commercially, forcing it to slash its premium. But this year, the yield appears to be meeting expectations, said OTR Global, a research firm that surveys farmers and seed dealers. That could bode well for SmartStax next year.

One reason is that the Roundup Ready 2 gene is now offered in more varieties, making it better suited to more growing conditions. The yield of a crop is mainly determined by the seed’s intrinsic properties, not the inserted genes. An insect protection gene will not make a poor variety a high yielder any more than spiffy shoes will turn a slow runner into Usain Bolt. In the first year of a new product, few varieties contain the new gene.

Still, Monsanto is bound at some point to face diminishing returns from its strategy of putting more and more insect-resistant and herbicide-resistant genes into the same crop, at ever increasing prices. Growth might have to eventually come from new traits, such as a drought-tolerant corn the company hopes to introduce in 2012.

“Technologically, they are still the market leader,” said Laurence Alexander, an analyst at Jefferies & Company. “The main issue going forward is do they get paid for the technology they deliver. The jury is still out on that one. It’s going to take a year or two of data to reassure people.”

A version of this article appeared in print on October 5, 2010, on page B1 of the New York edition.


http://www.voltairenet.org/article166785.html

GMO Crop Catastrophe in USA a lesson for EU

by F. William Engdahl
22 August 2010

As the European Union moves closer to approving the cultivation of GMOs despite stiff widespread opposition, it ought to be paying urgent attention to the agricultural arms race unfolding in the United States. The gospel of high-tech genetically modified (GM) crops is no longer sounding quite so sweet. Roundup-resistant “superweeds” are plaguing Monsanto crops across southern US states, driving farmers to use more herbicides, abandon their farms or return to conventional crops, while an increasing number are switching to organic production.

Recently the unelected potentates of the EU Commission in Brussels have sought to override what has repeatedly been shown to be the overwhelming opposition of the European Union population to the spread of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) in EU agriculture. EU Commission President now has a Maltese accountant as health and environment Commissioner to rubber stamp the adoption of GMO. The former EU Environment Commissioner from Greece was a ferocious GMO opponent. As well, the Chinese government has indicated it may approve a variety of GMO rice. Before things get too far along, they would do well to take a closer look at the world GMO test lab, the USA. There GMO crops are anything but beneficial. Just the opposite.

What is carefully kept out of the Monsanto and other agribusiness propaganda in promoting genetically manipulated crops as an alternative to conventional is the fact that in the entire world until the present, all GMO crops have been manipulated and patented for only two things - to be resistant or "tolerant" to the patented highly toxic herbicide glyphosate chemicals that Monsanto and the others force farmers to buy as condition for buying their patented GMO seeds. The second trait is GMO seeds that have been engineered genetically to resist specific insects. Contrary to public relations myths promoted by the agribusiness giants in their own self-interest, there exists not one single GMO seed that provides a greater harvest yield than conventional, nor one that requires less toxic chemical herbicides. That is for the simple reason there is no profit to be made in such.

Giant Super-weeds Plague

As prominent GMO opponent and biologist, Dr Mae-Wan Ho of the Institute of Science in London has noted, companies such as Monsanto build into their seeds herbicide-tolerance (HT) due to glyphosate-insensitive form of the gene coding for the enzyme targeted by the herbicide. The enzyme is derived from soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Insect-resistance is due to one or more toxin genes derived from the soil bacterium Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis). The United States began large scale commercial planting of GMO plants, mainly soybeans and corn and cotton around 1997. By now, GM crops have taken over between 85 percent to 91 percent of the areas planted with the three major crops, soybean, corn and cotton in the US, on nearly 171 million acres.

The ecological time-bomb that came with the GMO according to Ho, is about to explode. Over several years of constant application of patented glyphosate herbicides such as Monsanto’s famous and highly Roundup, new herbicide-resistant "super-weeds" have evolved, nature’s response to man-made attempts to violate it. The super-weeds require significantly more not less herbicide to control.

ABC Television, a major US national network, made a recent documentary about the super-weeds under the rubric, "super weeds that can’t be killed. [1]

They interviewed farmers and scientists across Arkansas who described fields overrun with giant pigweed plants that can withstand as much glyphosate as farmers are able to spray. They interviewed one farmer who spent almost €400 000 in only three months in a failed attempt to kill the new super-weeds.

The new super-weeds are so robust that harvester combines are unable to harvest the fields and hand tools break trying to cut them down. At least 400 000 hectares of soybean and cotton in Arkansas alone have become invested with this new mutant biological plague. Detailed data on other agricultural regions is not available but believed similar. The pro-GMO and pro-agribusiness US Department of Agriculture has been reported lying about the true state of US crop harvest partly to hide the grim reality and to prevent an explosive revolt against GMO in the world’s largest GMO market.

One variety of super-weed, palmer pigweed can grow up to 2.4 meters high, withstands severe heat and prolonged droughts, and produces thousands of seeds with a root system that drains nutrients away from crops. If left unchecked, it takes over an entire field in a year. Some farmers have been forced to abandon their land. To date palmer pigweed infestation in GMO crop regions has been identified in addition to Arkansas, also in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Mexico, Mississippi and most recently, Alabama and Missouri.

Weed scientists at the University of Georgia estimate that just two palmer pigweed plants in every 6 meter length of cotton row can reduce yield by at least 23 percent. A single weed plant can produce 450 000 seeds. [2]

Roundup Toxic Danger Being Covered-up

Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the US and the world at large. Patented and sold by Monsanto since the 1970s under the trade name Roundup, it is a mandatory component of buying GMO seeds from Monsanto. Just go to your local garden store and ask for it and read the label carefully.

As I detail in my book, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, GMO crops and patented seeds were developed in the 1970’s with significant financial support from the pro-eugenics Rockefeller Foundation, by what were essentially chemical companies - Monsanto Chemicals, DuPont and Dow Chemicals. All three were involved in the scandal of the highly toxic Agent Orange used in Vietnam, as well as Dioxin in the 1970’s, and lied to cover up the true damage to its own employees as well as to civilian and military populations exposed.

Their patented GMO seeds were seen as a clever way to force increased purchase of their agricultural chemicals such as Roundup. Farmers must sign a legal contract with Monsanto in which it stipulates that only Monsanto Roundup pesticide may be used. Farmers are thus trapped both in buying new seeds from Monsanto each harvest and buying the toxic glyphosate.

France’s University of Caen, in a team led by molecular biologist, Gilles-Eric Seralini, did a study that showed Roundup contained one specific inert ingredient, polyethoxylated tallowamine, or POEA. Seralini’s team demonstrated that POEA in Roundup was more deadly to human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells than even the glyphosate itself. Monsanto refuses to release details of the contents of its Roundup other than glyphosate, calling it "proprietary."

The Seralini study found that Roundup’s inert ingredients amplified the toxic effect on human cells - even at concentrations much more diluted than those used on farms and lawns! The French team studied multiple concentrations of Roundup, from the typical agricultural or lawn dose down to concentrations 100,000 times more dilute than the products sold on shelves. The researchers saw cell damage at all concentrations.

Glyphosate and Roundup are advertised as "less toxic to us than table salt" in a pamphlet from the Biotechnology Institute promoting GMO crops as ’Weed Warrior.’ Thirteen years of GMO crops in the USA has increased overall pesticide use by 318 million pounds, not decreased as promised by the Four Horsemen of the GMO Apocalypse. The extra disease burden on the nation from that alone is considerable.

Nonetheless after introduction of Monsanto GMO seeds commercially in the USA, use of glyphosate has risen more than 1500% between 1994 and 2005. In the USA some 100 million pounds of glyphosate are used on lawns and farms every year, and over the last 13 years, it has been applied to more than a billion acres. When questioned, Monsanto’s technical development manager, Rick Cole, reportedly said the problems were "manageable." He advised farmers to alternate crops and use different makes of herbicides produced by Monsanto. Monsanto is encouraging farmers to mix glyphosate with its older herbicides such as 2,4-D, banned in Sweden, Denmark and Norway for links to cancer and reproductive and neurological damage. 2,4-D is a component of Agent Orange, produced by Monsanto for use in Vietnam in the 1960s.

US Farmers Turn to Organics

Farmers across the United States are reported to be going back to conventional non-GMO crops instead. According to a new report from the US Department of Agriculture, retail sales of organic food went up to $21.1 billion in 2008 from $3.6 billion in 1997. [3] The market is so active that organic farms have struggled at times to produce sufficient supply to keep up with the rapid growth in consumer demand, leading to periodic shortages of organic products.

The new UK Conservative-Liberal coalition government is strongly backing lifting a de facto ban on GMO in that country. UK Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof. John Beddington, recently wrote an article in which he misleadingly claimed " The next decade will see the development of combinations of desirable traits and the introduction of new traits such as drought tolerance. By mid-century much more radical options involving highly polygenic traits may be feasible." He went on to promise "cloned animals with engineered innate immunity to diseases" and more. I think we can pass that one up, thank you.

A recent study by Iowa State University and the US Department of Agriculture assessing the performance of farms during the three-year transition it takes to switch from conventional to certified organic production showed notable advantages of organic farming over GMO or even conventional non-GMO crops. In an experiment lasting four years - three years transition and first year organic - the study showed that although yields dropped initially, they equalized in the third year, and by the fourth year, the organic yields were ahead of the conventional for both soybean and corn.

As well, the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) has recently been published, the result of three-year deliberation by 400 participating scientists and non-government representatives from 110 countries around the world. It came to the conclusion that small scale organic agriculture is the way ahead for coping with hunger, social inequities and environmental disasters. [4] As Dr Ho argues, a fundamental shift in farming practice is needed urgently, before the agricultural catastrophe spreads further across Germany and the EU to the rest of the world. [5]

F. William Engdahl

Author of Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century and Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. His other books include Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation. and A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order.

[1] "Super weed can’t be killed", ABC News, 6 October 2009. See also, Jeff Hampton, N.C. farmers battle herbicide-resistant weeds, The Virginian-Pilot, 19 July 2009.

[2] Clea Caulcutt, Superweed’ explosion threatens Monsanto heartlands, Clea Caulcutt, 19 April 2009.

[3] Carolyn Dimitri and Lydia Oberholtzer, Marketing U.S. organic foods: recent trends from farms to consumers, USDA Economic Research Service, September 2009.

[4] International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, IAASTD, 2008.

[5] Ho MW UK Food Standards Agency study proves organic food is better. Science in Society 44, 32-33, 2009.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21251

Study Shows Monsanto Roundup Herbicide Link to Birth Defects

F. William Engdahl

A major new scientific study has confirmed growing conviction that the world’s most widely used chemical herbicide, Monsanto Corporation’s Roundup is toxic and a danger to human as well as animal organisms. The latest scientific research carried out by a multinational scientific team headed by Professor Andrés Carrasco, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at the University of Buenos Aires Medical School and member of Argentina’s National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, presents alarming demonstration that Monsanto and the GMO agribusiness industry have systematically lied about the safety of their Roundup. Roundup in far lower concentrations than used in agriculture is linked to birth defects. The health implications are huge. All major GMO crops on the market today are genetically manipulated to “tolerate” the herbicide Roundup.

Glyphosate was patented by Monsanto in the 1970’s well before GMO was commercialized, as a so-called broad-spectrum weed killer. It is typically sprayed and absorbed through the leaves, or used as a forestry herbicide. It was initially patented and sold by Monsanto under the trade name Roundup, which also contains non-disclosed added chemicals the company refuses to divulge for “trade secret” reasons. As of 2005, 87% of all US soybean fields were planted with glyphosate-resistant varieties of GMO soybeans and sprayed with Roundup.

Because the seeds of Monsanto Roundup Ready GMO soybeans or other crops have been manipulated solely to be “resistant” to Roundup herbicide, while all other plant life in the field is killed by Roundup, farmers using Roundup Ready seeds must also purchase Roundup herbicide, making a captive market for both seed and chemicals.

The problem with this cozy arrangement, aside from the fact that Roundup-resistant “super-weeds” are emerging as a new biological catastrophe (see Katastrophale Folgen von GVO-Pflanzen in den USA – eine Lektion für die EU), is that Glyphosate has now been demonstrated to be linked to birth defects as one of the most highly toxic substances in agriculture. The US Government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), nonetheless continues to regard Roundup as “relatively low in toxicity, and without carcinogenic or teratogenic effects.” In the United States the US Government notoriously relies on test data from Monsanto and the agribusiness industry to make safety rulings, under the 1992 doctrine of Substantial Equivalence which asserts that GMO seeds are “substantially equivalent” to ordinary seeds and thereby need no independent health or safety tests. While herbicides are treated slightly different, the fact that the agribusiness industry influences much of US Government policy has insured the most benign regulatory treatment of Roundup to date.

Alarming results

Now a new international scientific team headed by Prof. Andres Carrasco and including researchers from the UK, Brazil, USA, and Argentina have demonstrated that Glyphosate, the main active ingredient in Roundup causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying and well below maximum residue levels in products presently approved in the European Union.[1] The Carrasco group was led to research the embryonic effects of glyphosate by reports of high rates of birth defects in rural areas of Argentina where Monsanto’s genetically modified “Roundup Ready” (RR) soybeans are grown in large monocultures sprayed from airplanes regularly. RR soy is engineered to tolerate Roundup, allowing farmers to spray the herbicide liberally to kill weeds while the crop is growing.

Carrasco presented his group’s findings at a press conference during the 6th European Conference of GMO Free Regions in the European Parliament in Brussels. He stated, “The findings in the lab are compatible with malformations observed in humans exposed to glyphosate during pregnancy.”

Widespread reports of human malformations began to be reported in Argentina beginning 2002, two years after widespread aerial spraying of Roundup and planting of RR Soybeans was begun. The test animals used by Carrasco’s group share similar developmental mechanisms with humans. The authors concluded that the results “raise concerns about the clinical findings from human offspring in populations exposed to Roundup in agricultural fields.” Carrasco added, “The toxicity classification of glyphosate is too low. In some cases this can be a powerful poison.”

The maximum residue level (MRL) allowed for glyphosate in soy in the EU was raised 200-fold from 0.1 mg/kg to 20 mg/kg in 1997 after genetically manipulated Roundup Ready soy was commercialized in Europe. Carrasco found malformations in embryos injected with 2.03 mg/kg glyphosate. Soybeans can typically contain glyphosate residues of up to 17mg/kg.

In August 2010 an organized mob violently attacked people who gathered to hear Carrasco talk about his research in the town of La Leonesa, Chaco province. Witnesses implicated local agro-industry figures in the attack. Viviana Peralta, a housewife from San Jorge, Santa Fe, Argentina was hospitalized together with her baby after Roundup spraying from planes flying near her home. Peralta and other residents launched a lawsuit that resulted in a regional court ban on the spraying of Roundup and other agrochemicals near houses.

Note

1. Paganelli, A., Gnazzo, V., Acosta, H., López, S.L., Carrasco, A.E. 2010. Glyphosate-based herbicides produce terato-genic effects on vertebrates by impairing retinoic acid signaling. Chem. Res. Toxicol., August 9. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx1001749


http://www.rense.com/general92/avoid.htm

Animals Avoid GM Soy And Corn

9-4-10
The GE-corn and GE-soy mentioned in this article are Monsanto's. The "food safety" bill in the Senate, S 510, is also Monsanto's. Monsanto's idea of "food safety" includes genetically engineered food, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, or slaughterhouse waste, all toxic.


Foods You're Eating


http://www.dirtdoctor.com/organic/garden/view_question/id/366


Different species of wildlife and farm animals are trying to tell us something by clearly preferring not to eat Genetically Engineered foods when they have a choice of naturally grown corn, soybeans and other crops as the following wisdom of nature anecdotes confirms. They are smarter than people when it comes to the right choices for eating.


Neil Carman, Ph.D. Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Committee http://www.SierraClub.org/biotech


Excerpts from the new book Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered

Foods You're Eating

By Jeffrey M. Smith


http://www.SeedsofDeception.org


WISDOM OF THE GEESE - p. 45 excerpt


There's a farmer in Illinois who's been planting soybeans on his 50-acre field for years. Unfortunately, he also had a flock of soybean-eating geese that took up residence in a pond nearby.

Geese, being creatures of habit, returned to the same spot the next year to again feast on his soybeans. But this time, the geese ate only from a specific part of this field. There, as a result of their feasting, the beans grew only ankle high. The geese, it seemed, were boycotting the other part of the same field where the beans were able to grow waist-high.

The reason: this year, the farmer had tried the new, genetically engineered soybeans. And you can see exactly where they were planted, for there is a line right down the middle of his field with the natural beans on one side, and the genetically engineered soybeans, untouched by the geese, on the other.

Visiting that Illinois farm, veteran agricultural writer C.F. Marley said, "I've never seen anything like it. What's amazing is that the field with Roundup Ready [genetically engineered] beans had been planted to conventional beans the previous year, and the geese ate them. This year, they won't go near that field." 1


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WISDOM OF THE COWS - p. 76 excerpt


In 1998, Howard Vlieger harvested both natural corn and a genetically modified Bt variety on his farm in Maurice, Iowa. Curious about how his cows would react to the pesticide- producing Bt corn, he filled one side of his sixteen-foot trough with the Bt and dumped natural corn on the other side. Normally, his cows would eat as much corn as was available, never leaving leftovers. But when he let twenty-five of them into the pen, they all congregated on the side of the trough with the natural corn. When it was gone, they nibbled a bit on the Bt, but quickly changed their minds and walked away.

A couple of years later, Vlieger joined a room full of farmers in Ames, Iowa to hear presidential candidate Al Gore. Troubled by Gore's unquestioning acceptance of GM foods, Vlieger asked Gore to support a recently introduced bill in Congress requiring that GM foods be labeled. Gore replied that scientists said there is no difference between GM and non-GM foods. Vlieger said he respectfully disagreed and described how his cows refused to eat the GM corn. He added, "My cows are smarter than those scientists were." The room erupted in applause. Gore asked if any other farmers noticed a difference in the way their animals responded to GM food. About twelve to fifteen hands went up. 1

"If a field contained GM and non-GM maize, cattle would always eat the non-GM first." -Gale Lush, Nebraska

"A neighbor had been growing Pioneer Bt corn. When the cattle were turned out onto the stalks they just wouldn't eat them." 2 -Gary Smith, Montana

"While my cows show a preference for open-pollinated corn over the hybrid varieties, they both beat Bt-corn hands down." -Tim Eisenbeis, South Dakota

According to a 1999 Acres USA article, cattle even broke through a fence and walked through a field of Roundup Ready corn to get to a non-GM variety that they ate. The cows left the GM corn untouched.

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WISDOM OF THE COWS AND HOGS - p. 106 excerpt

Bill Lashmett watched as two or three cows were let into a feeding area at a time. The first trough they came to contained fifty pounds of shelled Bt corn. The cows sniffed it, withdrew, and walked over to the next trough, which contained fifty pounds of natural shelled corn. The cows finished it off. When they were gone and released from the pen, the next group came in and did the same thing. Lashmett said the same experiment was conducted on about six or seven farms in Northwest Iowa, in 1998 and again in 1999. Identical trials with hogs yielded the same results, also for two years in a row.

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WISDOM OF SQUIRRELS, ELK, DEER, RACCOONS, AND MICE - p. 126 excerpt


For years, a retired Iowa farmer fed squirrels on his farm through the winter months by placing corncobs on feeders. One year, just for the heck of it, he decided to see if the squirrels had a preference for Bt corn or natural corn. He put natural corn in one feeder and Bt corn in another about twenty feet away. The squirrels ate all the corn off the natural cobs but didn't touch the Bt. The farmer dutifully refilled the feeder with more natural corn and sure enough, it was soon gone. The Bt, however, remained untouched.

The retired farmer got curious. What if the Bt variety was the squirrels' only choice? To find out, he didn't refill the natural corn. At the time, Iowa was plunged into the coldest days of the winter. But day after day, the Bt cob remained intact. The squirrels went elsewhere for their food. After about ten days, the squirrels ate about an inch off the tip of an ear, but that's all. The farmer felt sorry for the squirrels and put natural corn back into the feeders, which the squirrels once again consumed. 1

"A captive elk escape and took up residence in our crops of organic corn and soy. It had total access to the neighboring fields of GM crops, but never went into them." 2 -Susan and Mark Fitzgerald, Minnesota

Writer Steve Sprinkel described a herd of about forty deer that ate from the field of organic soybeans, but not the Roundup Ready variety across the road. Likewise, raccoons devoured organic corn, but didn't touch an ear of Bt corn growing down the road. "Even the mice will move on down the line if given an alternative to these 'crops.' " 3

A farmer in Holland verified the food preference of mice when he left two piles of corn in his mice-infested barn. One pile was genetically modified; the other was natural. The GM pile was untouched while the non-GM pile was completely eaten up. Lashmett, who has a background in biochemistry and agriculture, says that animals have a natural sense to eat what is good for them, and avoid what isn't He witnessed this firsthand in another experiment conducted by a feed store in Walnut Grove, Iowa.

They put twenty-three separate vitamins and minerals, each in their own bin, out where cows could eat them. The cows would alternate their choice of bins in such a way, according to Lashmett, that they received a balanced, healthy diet. Moreover, their preference changed with the seasons and climate, demonstrating a natural inclination to follow the dictates of their bodies' needs. 1

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WISDOM OF THE MICE - p. 157 excerpt

The Washington Post reported that mice, usually happy to munch on tomatoes, turned their noses up at the genetically modified FlavSavr tomato scientists were so anxious to test on them. Scientist Roger Salquist said of his tomato, "I gotta tell you, you can be Chef Boyardee and mice are still not going to like them."1

The mice were eventually force fed the tomato through gastric tubes and stomach washes. Several developed stomach lesions; seven of forty died within two weeks. The tomato was approved without further tests [for human consumption].

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MISSING CHICKENS - p. 182 excerpt


According to BBC News, April 27, 2002:

"Safety tests on genetically modified maize currently growing in Britain were flawed, it has emerged. The crop, T-25 GM maize [corn], was tested in laboratory experiments on chickens. During the tests, twice as many chickens died when fed on T-25 GM maize, compared with those fed on conventional maize. This research was apparently overlooked when the crop was given marketing approval in 1996." 1

balkan war crimes and organ trade

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http://www.voltairenet.org/article164273.html

Srebrenica — Neither Massacre, Nor Genocide

Alexander Dorin
2 March 2010

Former leader Radovan Karadzic is on trial at The Hague facing eleven criminal charges, including the alleged massacre of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths in Srebrenica. Swiss researcher Alexander Dorin denounces the media’s distorted account of those events which prevails to this day. The facts were allegedly fixed around Washington’s policy of having to justify NATO’s military intervention in the conflict, marking the Organization’s first post-Cold War deployment and the first intervention outside its original purview.

“After 14 years of investigating events that took place in Srebrenica in 1995 I can attest there was no genocide over Muslims in that enclave — the myth about the massacre of Muslims was invented by the late Bosnian Muslim war leader Alija Izetbegović and then-U.S. president Bill Clinton”, Swiss researcher Alexander Dorin, author of the book Srebrenica — die Geschichte eines salonfahigen Rassismus) (Srebrenica — The History of Salon Racism) told Belgrade Daily Press in an exclusive interview.

He added that, contrary to the popular mythology still dominating Western mainstream media, Muslims who lost their lives in Srebrenica were grown men rather than “boys”, and have been gunned down while fighting against the Bosnian Serb Army. Which, as he points out, can in no way be equated with a massacre, let alone “genocide”.

After many years of investigating the war events in and around Srebrenica, I have reached a definite conclusion that there was no genocide. In July 1995, as the town was being taken over by the Serb forces, some 2,000 Muslim men lost their lives — not 8,000 as the Bosnian Muslim propaganda machinery claims, with the backing of certain Western politicians and media. Those 2,000 men fell in a battle against the Serbian Army, while they were breaking through to Tuzla. “Srebrenica genocide” is Izetbegović’s and Clinton’s invention, – Dorin said.

Question: Upon what do you base your claims Srebrenica “massacre” was invented by Izetbegović and Clinton?

Answer: One should keep in mind that even the American media wrote quite a bit about the fact United States was arming Izetbegović’s forces for years. Clinton administration was very antagonistic toward Serbs — Clinton’s generals were even involved in the Croat operation “Storm”, expulsion and elimination of the Serbian nation from the Republic of Serbian Krajina and western parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

At the same time, one of Srebrenica warlords — Hakija Meholjić — continues to assert Clinton was offering Izetbegović a manufactured massacre against Srebrenica Muslims since 1993, as a ploy that will end the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina [to the Bosnian Muslim advantage].

Q: What does that tell us?

A: It tells us they had two years to set that ploy up, the time during which Izetbegović and Clinton were being mythologized and raised to the status of heroes throughout the most influential Western media outlets.

“Srebrenica Victims” Voting

Q: Does your book offer additional evidence?

A: The book also presents evidence which shows 2,000 Muslim men who lost their lives in Srebrenica fell during the battles. In order to be able to claim that the “genocide” was committed, and since they didn’t have enough bodies to back the initial claim of 8,000 allegedly killed Muslims, they listed as Srebrenica victims a number of Bosnian Muslim fighters who died long before Srebrenica takeover, or were shot down in other battles during the civil war, from 1992-1995. The list of the alleged Srebrenica victims also contains the names of those who are still alive.

Q: You mean those who were later voting in the elections…?

A: That is correct. In the 1996 Bosnian elections, the electoral lists contained some 3,000 Bosnian Muslims who were also listed as “Srebrenica victims”. This further underlines the fact that so-called Hague Tribunal still has no evidence of “Srebrenica genocide”. Instead, they rely on the claims of Croat Dražen Erdemović, proven to be sheer lies, as Bulgarian reporter Germinal Civikov has demonstrated in his latest book.

Q: The Hague Tribunal does not believe so…?

A: Former NATO spokesman Jamie Shea stressed back in 1999 that, without NATO, there would be no Hague Tribunal to begin with. He asserted that NATO and the Hague Tribunal are “allies and friends”. Among others, the example which confirms his assertion is the case of [Colonel] Vidoje Blagojević, sentenced to a long prison term due to Srebrenica events, even though he is absolutely innocent and has done no harm to anyone. So, NATO is punishing its adversaries via the Hague Tribunal while, at the same time, it protects its allies.

The History of Yugoslav Civil War was Written by the Aggressors

Q: Why have they bore down on Serbs?

A: Serbs have never allied with the aggressive forces. In the past hundreds of years, Serbs were fighting against all the aggressors and the fascist forces. Instead of respect and gratitude, they were rewarded with sanctions and bombs by the international community, and with a thorough and complete demonization by the Western media. Today’s world is ruled by the criminals and psychopaths who call themselves democrats.

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Alexander Dorin

Swiss researcher who has been investigating Srebrenica events for the past 14 years and has published several books on the subject, including Srebrenica — The History of Salon Racism (Srebrenica — die Geschichte eines salonfahigen Rassismus) .

see: kosovo: mensonges osce sur les massacres

Voltaire Network related articles

http://srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com/2009/11/alexander-dorin-discredited-genocide.html

21 November, 2009

ALEXANDER DORIN - GENOCIDE DENIER

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One of Alexander Dorin's myths is a claim that more than 3,000 Srebrenica victims, from the list of missing, participated in the 1996 municipal Srebrenica elections. He also refers to the figure of "7,000 - 8,000" Srebrenica victims as a "western myth".

FACTS: In fact, none of the Srebrenica genocide victims ever voted in the 1996 elections. In the 1996 elections, which were held shortly after the 1995 genocide, local authorities simply used the list containing the names of all registered pre-war Srebrenica citizens. This does not mean that "dead people voted." According to Helge Brunborg, the Hague Tribunals' expert, at least 7,475 Bosniaks perished in the Srebrenica genocide. Under cross-examination in Blagojevic case, Brunborg (who speaks English as his Second Language) explained that by 1997, there were no missing people registered to vote:

"If you would look at Table 1 on page 7 in the 2000 report, you will see that there were 5 -- on the ICRC list and PHR list were 5.712. On the ICRC list only 1.586. That makes 7.298, which is 101 less than the ICRC number that you quoted, 7.399. In addition, we had access to information that the ICRC did not have at that time, I believe, which is the voters' list, 1997 and 1998, which were used to check that missing people were -- that there were no survivors who registered to vote. And we also checked difficult cases where the data were incomplete with the 1991 census.... The only thing is the information from ICRC, that 6 persons were found to be alive. So we subtracted that number." (Court Transcript)

Furthermore, Brunborg explained:

"People who are missing and believed to be dead should not be able to vote. So when we had this complete list of people who were registered to vote in 1997 and 1998, we wanted to make a comparison to see if there were, in fact, people believed to be missing who were registered to vote. So we did a very careful comparison, and we found nine names that we believe are unique and that are appearing on both lists of missing persons and the list of voters. So there is an error somewhere. Either these are not really missing persons, they are survivors, or somebody misused their identities because they knew they were dead, so they misused their identities, perhaps to get extra -- additional political influence, to vote twice. Or third, there is a mix-up due to data problems and so on. But the conclusion is that the number was very small. Nine, that is less than -- that is about one-tenth of a per cent. To be on the safe side, we subtracted these names, although it is not certain that these are survivors.... We asked the ICRC whether they knew about people who had survived, who they later learned to be survivors and not dead on the list of missing persons since January 1997. And they told us there were six persons out of 7.000, but they would not reveal their identities to us. So to be on the safe side, we subtracted another six persons from the total number. We could not delete those from the list that was also submitted to the court, because we didn't know their identities. In this way we ended up with 7,475." (Court Transcript)

Asked "how reliable do you think this number of 7.475 missing persons is it?", Helge Brunborg responded: "We think that the number is very reliable as a minimum estimate... the number could easily be higher because there were records that we excluded to be on the safe side."

As of July 2009, the DNA results of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) support an estimate of 8,100 Srebrenica genocide victims. So far, the identities of 6,186 genocide victims have been revealed by the DNA analysis. (Source: ICMP)

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http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=12535&title=exposed--how-kosovo-serbs-were-butchered-for-organs

Exposed: how Kosovo Serbs were butchered for organs

video from RT TV


http://www.voltairenet.org/article164350.html

Bernard Kouchner dément les accusations de Carla del Ponte

5 mars 2010

En visite officielle au Kosovo, le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Bernard Kouchner, a été interrogé le 1er mars par un journaliste à propos des rumeurs selon lesquelles il serait impliqué dans le scandale des trafics d’organe.

Plusieurs médias serbes ont accusé M. Kouchner d’avoir couvert ces agissements lorsqu’il était Haut représentant des Nations Unies dans la région (1999-2001).

« L’affaire de la Maison jaune », par référence à la couleur de la clinique clandestine où des organes étaient prélevés sur plus de 300 prisonniers civils serbes avant qu’ils ne soient exécutés, a été attestée par l’ancienne procureur du Tribunal pénal international Carla del Ponte dans son livre La caccia. Io e i criminali di guerra [Version française : La Traque, les criminels de guerre et moi (éd. Héloïse d’Ormesson, 2009)]. Quatre ans après les faits, les enquêteurs de Mme Del Ponte ont localisé la Maison jaune à Burrell (Albanie), mais n’ont pu y trouver d’indices permettant de reconstituer la filière.

Sur proposition de la délégation russe, l’Assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de l’Europe a mandaté le sénateur suisse Dick Marty pour ouvrir une nouvelle enquête.

En répondant à la presse, Bernard Kouchner ne manifeste aucune compassion pour les victimes et leurs familles. Fort étrangement il choisit de démentir la complicité passive qu’on lui impute en niant l’existence du crime. En outre, il qualifie de « salauds et d’assassins » ceux qui colportent cette rumeur ; des propos qui incluent Carla Del Ponte.




http://www.serbianna.com/blogs/newspost/?p=1412

Testimony made on Albanian organ trade

Jan 30, 2009

Former Albanian fighter with the terrorist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army or the KLA, says that the organs of kidnapped Serbs were pulled out not only in Albania but also in the sea, in northern Italy, north Africa and Middle East.

The witness referred to as I.T. testified that he personally transferred a group of kidnapped Serbs to Tirana and Drac, in Albania, so their organs could be taken out.

Once there, the witness says, “general” human traders loaded them in the ships that sailed into the international waters in the Adriatic.

Once in the international water, doctors, mostly from the western countries, “took them apart” as the KLA members refer to such operations.

The Albanian witness says that he was responsible for numerous kidnappings of Serbs for purposes of taking them apart.

The witness said that in 1999 he led two trucks that drove from Kosovo, via Pastrk, to Tropoje and Peskopi in Albania.

One truck was loaded with corpses of murdered Serb civilians and the other contained live Serbs that were suppose to be taken apart.

The witness says that his commanders for such operations were Daut Haradinaj, Sami Ljusaku and Jakup Krasniqi.

Daut is a relative of the KLA commanded Ramush Haradinaj who was once a so-called prime minister of Kosovo.

Jakup Krasniqi is a leader in the current Kosovo separatist government.

Another Albanian witness, who was held in concentration camp in Lapusik, says that Krasniqi and Hashim Thaci, current so-called prime minister of Kosovo, personally took part in torture of the prisoners.

The witness says that he saw them kill the prisoners there.

The witness says that the KLA was aided by Jihadis from the Middle East.

Some other KLA members involved in removal of corpses say that several Serbian solders were, after torture, taken apart in Kukes and their remains buried in the city cemetery.

They say that other captured Serb soldiers ended up in the hospitals in Valona until a buyer of an organ made an order.

The evidence suggests that an Albanian organ trade started in 1998 when Serbs from Balacevac were kidnapped.


http://www.presstv.ir/detail/143002.html

Israeli-linked organ dealers busted

Sep 18, 2010


South Africa's biggest healthcare company Netcare has been implicated in an illegal kidney transplant plot.
The biggest health care firm in South Africa has been charged with cooperating with an Israeli-linked organ trafficking syndicate.


The South African government said that the head of the Netcare company and a director of the St. Augustine's Hospital in Durban, Richard Friedland, had been aware of illegal kidney trade at the hospital, but "nevertheless permitted these operations" to take place, South African daily The Times reported on Wednesday.

The police said that wealthy Israelis paid organ dealers between 2001 and 2003, the year when the ring was exposed, the German Press Agency (DPA) reported.

"Israeli citizens in need of kidney transplants would be brought to South Africa for transplants at St. Augustine's Hospital," read the charge sheet.

"They paid kidney suppliers for these operations. [The kidneys] were initially sourced from Israeli citizens, but later Romanian and Brazilian citizens were recruited as their kidneys were obtainable at a much lower cost than those of the Israeli suppliers," it added.

An Israeli middleman, named Ilan Perry, received between USD 97,676 and USD 118,607 to arrange for the operations.

This is while, those who provided the kidneys were paid approximately between USD 6,000 and USD 20,000.

Five notable South African physicians, working in Durban have also been charged in the illegal organ-trafficking case.

The report also said that Netcare is being charged with setting up the syndicate with the assistance of prominent kidney specialist Jeffrey Kallmeyer and Perry.

The report comes as earlier last year, another report surfaced about an Israeli plot to kidnap children and harvest their organs.

According to the report, some 25,000 Ukrainian children had been brought into Israel over the past two years to be used by Israeli medical centers for their "spare parts."

The Israeli military is also accused of stealing the organs of Palestinian prisoners.

HN/CS/MMN


israel: confirmation of illegal organ harvest

chamish: israeli organs have also been harvested

israel murders palestinians for their organs