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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It                121
originally via aid or credits.
Between 1985 and 1995, the belligerent (aggressive) parties in forty-five
conflicts around the globe obtained $42 billion worth of weapons from the United
States. In 90 percent of the fifty most significant conflicts in 1993-94, one or more
parties received U.S. weapons or military technology. Through trafficking,
arms sales, and military aid, the United States helps keep dozens of civil wars
and other armed conflicts around the world alive and kicking.
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This is very significant, during a ten-year period our nation supplied $42 billion in arms
to aggressor nations at war. Between1993 and 94 this included forty-five of the fifty most
significant conflicts around the world. There is nothing that would cause a person to believe that
US involvement in armed conflicts around the world will decline. On the contrary there is every
reason to believe since the attack on the World Trade Centers, the war in Afghanistan, and the
war in Iraq that US involvement in armed conflict around the world will continue and escalate.
But there is a new war that is brewing in America and that is a war on the worlds seed supply.
Control Of The Seed Supply
The two largest seed corporations in the world are two American Multinational
Corporations, DuPont and Monsanto.
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They are leading the way in bio-technology; specifically
in Genetic Modification (GM) of seeds. Traditionally, farmers developed improvements in their
crops through cross-pollination. The most hardy and productive varieties would be handed down
from generation to generation through seed selection. Farmers would simply save a portion of
their harvest as seed for next years planting. This led to different seed variations around the
world. This is important because every variety has its own strengths and weaknesses. This is
vital to the worlds food supply. Variation helps to insure survival of a plant species during
adverse conditions, which could be related to weather, bacteria, fungus or insects: “Many
biologists fear corporate farming and genetic engineering creates a lack of genetic diversity
in crops that have been grown from the beginning of human history. As genetic diversity
declines, plants and animals become less resistant to life-threatening bacteria and viruses.”
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Genetic Modification of seeds is done in the laboratory rather than in the fields and
orchards. Rather than using pollen, they use DNA. In its simplest form it seeks to develop
superior crops with higher yields that can be used the world over. This eliminates the variations
in seeds around the world. This is a major concern. According to a report written by John Tuxill
of the Worldwatch Institute, seed varieties are disappearing around the world. David Briscoe of
the Associated Press writes concerning Tuxil’s report:
With thousands of plant species nearing extinction, the world's farmers are
losing valuable crop alternatives. In the United States, more than 80 percent of
seed varieties sold a century ago no longer are available, according to a report
released Saturday…. Worldwide, more than 30,000 plant species are threatened....
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