- For the record: "U.S. declares Iraqis can not save
their own seeds"
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- "As part of sweeping "economic restructuring"
implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer
be permitted to save their seeds, which include seeds the Iraqis themselves
have developed over hundreds of years. Instead, they will be forced to
buy seeds from US corporations. That is because in recent years, transnational
corporations have patented and now own many seed varieties originated or
developed by indigenous peoples. In a short time, Iraq will be living under
the new American credo:
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- Pay Monsanto, or starve ."
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- "The American Administrator of the Iraqi CPA (Coalition
Provisional Authority) government, Paul Bremer, updated Iraq's intellectual
property law to 'meet current internationally-recognized standards of protection'.
The updated law makes saving seeds for next year's harvest, practiced by
97% of Iraqi farmers in 2002, and is the standard farming practice for
thousands of years across human civilizations, to be now illegal.. Instead,
farmers will have to obtain a yearly license for genetically modified (GM)
seeds from American corporations. These GM seeds have typically been modified
from seeds developed over thousands of generations by indigenous farmers
like the Iraqis, and shared freely like agricultural 'open source.'"
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- Iraq law Requires Seed Licenses November 13, 2004
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- "According to Order 81, paragraph 66 - [B], issued
by L. Paul Bremer [CFR], the people in Iraq are now prohibited from saving
seeds and may only plant seeds for their food from licensed, authorized
U.S. distributors.
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- The paragraph states, "Farmers shall be prohibited
from re-using seeds of protected varieties or any variety mentioned in
items 1 and 2 of paragraph [C] of Article 14 of this chapter."
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- Written in massively intricate legalese, Order 81 directs
the reader at Article 14, paragraph 2 [C] to paragraph [B] of Article 4,
which states any variety that is different from any other known variety
may be registered in any country and become a protected variety of seed
- thus defaulting it into the "protected class" of seeds and
prohibiting the Iraqis from reusing them the following season. Every year,
the Iraqis must destroy any seed they have, and repurchase seeds from an
authorized supplier, or face fines, penalties and/or jail time."
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- As per an Iraqi proverb, the day will come, sooner rather
than later, when the Iraqis will shred Bremer's Laws, soak them in water
and offer the glass to Bremer to drink.
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- http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KHA501A.html
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- Iraqis Can't Save Seed
By Bud Landry
1-19-5
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- "U.S. Declares Iraqis Can't Save See,"
by David Deschesne
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- According to Order 81, paragraph 66 -[B], issued by L.
Paul Bremer [CFR], the people in Iraq are now prohibited from saving seeds
and may only plant seeds for their food from from licensed, authorized
U.S. distributors.
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- The paragraph states, "Farmers shall be prohibited
from re-using seeds of protected varieties or any variety mentioned in
items 1 and 2 of paragraph [C] of Article 14 of this chapter."
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- Written in massively intricate legalese, Order 81 directs
the reader at Article 14, paragraph 2 [C] to paragraph [B] of Article 4,
which states any variety that is different from any other known variety
may be registered in any country and become a protected variety of seed
- thus defaulting it into the "protected class" of seeds and
prohibiting the Iraqis from reusing them the following season. Every year,
the Iraqis must destroy any seed they have, and repurchase seeds from an
authorized supplier, or face fines, penalties and/ or jail time.
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- This is the freedom that comes with the American form
of democracy?
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- http://magic-city-news.com/article_2812.shtml
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- Comment
- From George Paxinos
- 2-3-5
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- Friends - This is a crime against Mother Nature, Herself.
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- Any corporation that does this must, like the governments
making this possible, be held responsible for irreparable damage to our
ecosphere, as the gm pollens spread, and their terminator genes stop all
food supply.
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- Even the wild bees have died out in many parts of our
world.
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- Goodbye to pollinating the trees and the crops we depend
on.
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- If you want yourself and your kids to starve to death,
then remain silent now.
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- Barring any concerned citizens standing up on their hind
legs to shout down the politicians now, any professional or amateur military
force that goes out and destroys the war-criminals and those committing
these atrocities against Nature, must be considered heroes.
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- If i had the cash and the knowledge, I would do so myself.
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- George Paxinos
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