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seeds company by F. William Engdahl Author, Guest contributor
August 28, 2006 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 Governments US Department
of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-- is about to become part of the
worlds 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. Its about handing over control of
the seeds for mankinds basic food supplyrice, corn, soybeans, wheat,
even fruit, vegetables and cottonto 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 customerlets say for argument,
China or Brazil or India or Japanwhether they will or wont get the
patented seeds from Monsanto, or from one of its licensee GMO
partners like Bayer Crop Sciences, Syngenta or DuPonts Pioneer
Hi-Bred International.
While most of us dont bother to reflect on where the corn in the
box of Kelloggs Corn Flakes or the rice in a box of Uncle Bens
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 1990s 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 & Pines
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 Orwells
novel, 1984, D&PL claims, One application of the technology could
be to control unauthorized planting of seed of proprietary varietiesby
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.
Sound far-fetched? Go back to what then-Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger did in countries like Allendes 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
Lands decades of Terminator research is even more revealing. As
Kissinger said back in the 1970s, 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.
USDAs Phelps stated that the US Governments 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 1980s 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 worlds 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 Carters 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 Lances old bank, National Bank of Georgia.
How Stephens helped Jimmy Carters 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 fraudinvolving 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.
Jackson Stephens was no casual business acquaintance of BCCIs Agha
Hasan Abedi. In response to the concerns over Jackson Stephens'
involvement in BCCI, the Ohio Attorney General noted in a 1993
report, Stephens' name has been linked to securities violations
that allegedly occurred when the Bank of Commerce and Credit
International (BCCI), a foreign bank dominated by Pakistani financier
Agha Hasan Abedi, acquired stock and control over the Washington-based
First American Bank. In 1991, Stephens joined BCCI investor Mochtar
Riady in buying BCCI's former Hong Kong subsidiary from its
liquidators.
The Stephens Group was well-connected to another interesting Asian
banking group, the billionaire Indonesian Riady family of Moktar
and his son James Riady, who own the Lippo Bank in Indonesia. The
Riadys are Chinese-Indonesian businessmen who, of all places, moved
to Arkansas in the 1970s, despite holding billions of assets in
Asia. Stephens and Riady hit it off and soon Stephens and Riady
bought a bank in Hong Kong. Stephens then invited Riady to invest
in a Little Rock, Arkansas bank called Worthen.
BCCI and Jackson Stephens, chairman of the Stephens Group of Arkansas
were well known to one another. Stephens Group board member, Jon
E.M. Jacoby, today Chairman of Delta & Pine Land, and still a Vice
Director of The Stephens Group, was a very senior, trusted member
of the Stephens inside circle for more than 35 years.
Jackson Stephens Stephens Group financially staked Sam Walton when
he started Wal-Mart in 1970. Stephens also financed Tyson Foods to
become the agribusiness global giant it is today. Jon Jacoby, as
senior executive of the Stephens Group, had arranged the 1970
Wal-Mart deal. Jon E.M. Jacoby and Jackson Stephens went way back.
Jacoby was Vice President of Stephens Inc. in the early 1990s,
shortly after the BCCI scandals and early into the Presidency of
another Jackson Stephens protigi, former Arkansas Governor and
recipient of Stephens political largess, William Jefferson Clinton.
When an Arkansas reporter questioned Jacoby on allegations of
Clintons alleged corruption as Governor of Arkansas, Jacoby quipped,
You see a girl walking down the street. You can say, There goes a
beautiful girl or "There goes a whore. What the hell's the difference?
They've both got legs.
Arkansas politics is known for its colorful metaphors and its
colorful politicians like William Jefferson Clinton. Its good to
get a little of the flavor of this Arkansas colorfulness to get a
better picture of Delta & Pine Land.
Stephens Group, Tyson Farms and Other Arkansas Fairy Tales A tangled
web of relations links the Stephens Group and Delta & Pine Land of
Scott, Mississippi with another satellite in the agribusiness orbit
of the influential Stephens Group. The Stephens Group is also linked
intimately with Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, the US largest agribusiness
processor of industrialized chicken meat, and arguably one of its
most unsanitary ones.
Tyson Foods curiously emerged from the recent Avian Flu (H5N1) virus
scare as a winner, using the lie that their factory farm mass-bred
assembly-line chickens were more sanitary than free-roaming small
farm chickens of Asia.
Washington Administrations, at least since the Presidency of Bill
Clinton, seem to have a love affair of some sort with Tyson Foods.
It began when Clinton sought to name an Arkansas crony, Mike Espy,
to be his Secretary of Agriculture. Before Clinton could submit
Espys name to the Senate for confirmation, however, Espy was sent
to Arkansas for a meeting that would decide if Espy had the right
stuff. The meeting was with Don Tyson, head of Tyson Foods.
Tyson apparently concluded that Espy indeed had the right stuff,
at least as far as Tyson was concerned. Soon after being named head
of USDA, Espy enacted measures significantly weakening Federal
chicken waste and contamination standards. That opened the floodgates
for expansion of Tyson Foods chicken factory farms into the huge
concentrations of chicken waste and rivers overflowing with toxic
pollution in Arkansas and beyond.
The Wall Street Journal on May 28, 2003 reviewed the allegations
surrounding then-President Clinton and his wife, Hillary. They
detailed some relevant points from the Clintons Arkansas days:
1977 Hillary Rodham Clinton joins the Rose Law Firm. Jackson Stephens
joins with former Carter administration budget director Bert Lance
and a group of Mideast investors--later identified as key figures
in the corrupt Bank of Credit & Commerce International--in an
unsuccessful attempt to acquire Financial General Bankshares in
Washington, D.C 1978 October: Mrs. Clinton, now a partner at the
Rose Firm, begins a series of commodities trades under the guidance
of Tyson Foods executive Jim Blair, earning nearly $100,000. (authors
emphasis). The trades are not revealed until March 1994.
November: Bill Clinton is elected Governor of Arkansas.
The Rose law firm was the house law firm of Jackson Stephens Stephens
Group investment bank in Little Rock. To be the corporate law firm
of the Stephens Group was no casual affair. It implied a deep trust
relationship and perhaps more. As one crony of Jackson Stephens put
it at that time, Jackson Stephens? Hes the man who owns Arkansas.
The head of the prestigious Rose law firm in Little Rock in those
days was C. Joseph Giroir jr. In 1977 Giroir hired a young lawyer
named Hillary Clinton to work for Rose. It was all one cozy
Arkansas-Indonesia family back then.
The Wall Street Journal commentary on the Clinton years had the
following entry for 1987, as Clinton was still Arkansas Governor:
1987:
Officials at investment giant Stephens Inc., including longtime
Clinton friend, David Edwards, take steps to rescue Harken Energy,
a struggling Texas oil company with George W. Bush on its board.
Over the next three years, Mr. Edwards brings BCCI-linked investors
and advisers into Harken deals. One of them, Abdullah Bakhsh,
purchases $10 million in shares of Stephens-dominated Worthen Bank.
(authors emphasis).
Jackson Stephens political largesse was non-partisan: Democrats
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and then Republican George W. Bush, the
man now in the White House as Monsanto seeks approval to take over
the Stephens Groups Delta & pine land.
In December 1992, just after Clinton had been elected President in
a campaign financed at critical points by Jackson Stephens and
friends, including the Indonesian-American Riady family, Vince
Foster, an Arkansas friend of the Clintons, and a law partner at
Hillarys Rose law firm, met James McDougal. Foster arranged for
McDougal to buy the Clintons' remaining shares in Whitewater
Development Co. That land deal was focus of Congressional investigation
of the Clintons. McDougal was loaned the money for the purchase by
Tyson Foods counsel Jim Blair, the long-time Clinton friend and
commodities adviser who in 1978 had tutored Hillary in her fabulously
successful commodities speculation. The loan by Tysons Jim Blair
to McDougal was never repaid.
No sooner did Bill and Hillary Clinton move into the White House,
and the Tyson Foods-approved Mike Espy took over as US Secretary
of Agriculture, than Hillarys former law partner, Joseph Giroir,
set up a corporation. It was called Arkansas International Development
Corporation (AIDC). In fact, it appears that the AIDC was set up
to do joint ventures with the Indonesian Lippo Group of the business
partners of Jackson Stephens, Mokhtar and James Riady.
The Arkansas International Development Corporation brokered a deal
between Indonesias Lippo Group and Arkansas Tyson Foods that opened
Indonesia to import Tyson Foods industrially-produced Arkansas
factory farm chickens. One food Indonesia does not need to import
is certainly chickens. The cheap Arkansas imports destroyed the
fragile economy of domestic Indonesian small family chicken farmers.
Another project of AIDC was to issue bonds to build an airport in
the Arkansas backwoods for the sole purpose of shipping Tyson Farms
chickens to Indonesia. Recall that Clintons wife had been profiting
from the trading advice of Tyson Foods since October 1978, a month
before her husband became Governor.
Under the Clinton Presidency, agribusiness, especially agribusiness
tied to the Stephens interests, made huge advances.
Agriculture Secretary Espy was forced to resign in October 1994,
and was indicted on charges of accepting bribes and other gratuities.
Among the charges against him were making false statements, concealing
money from prohibited sources, illegal gratuities, illegal
contributions, falsifying records, interstate transportation of
stolen property, money laundering, and illegal dispersal of USDA
subsidies. The largest corporate offender was Tyson Foods. Tyson
had illegally offered Espy $12,000 in airplane rides, football
tickets and other payoffs. Espy got off because the law makes it
easier to convict a briber than a bribee. Tyson paid the government
$6 million to close its case.
Tyson had been enthusiastic supporters of the Clinton family for
years. In 1994, Time reported that a senior pilot for Tyson, Joe
Henrickson, had been grilled for three days by the Espy Independent
Prosecutor, Dan Smaltz, and FBI agents. They grilled the Tyson pilot
about earlier transfers of cash to the (Arkansas) Governor's (Bill
Clinton) mansion. According to Time, Henrickson claimed to have
carried white envelopes containing a quarter-inch stack of $100
bills on six occasions.
Time magazine reported that, In one case, [Henrickson claimed] a
Tyson executive handed him an envelope of cash in the company's
aircraft hanger in Fayetteville and said, 'This is for Governor
Clinton. Arkansas has its political traditions and the Stephens and
Tyson families are evidently skilled practitioners of that art.
The real interest in Jacobys Delta & Pine Land By now the question
comes, what is so attractive about the Stephens Groups Delta & Pine
Land that Monsanto makes its second bid to add it to its global
genetically-engineered seeds empire?
Its the patent Delta & Pine Land, together with the US Government,
holds--Patent No. 5,723,765, titled, Control of Plant Gene Expression.
The USDA through its Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) in
Lubbock, Texas, as already noted, has worked with Delta & Pine Land
since 1983 to perfect Terminator GMO technology. Patent No. 5,723,765
is the patent for Terminator technology.
One year later, in early 1999 Monsanto, the largest producer of GMO
seeds and related agri-chemicals, announced it was acquiring Delta
& Pine Land along with Deltas Terminator patents.
In October 1999, however, following a worldwide storm of protest
against Terminator seeds that threatened the very future of the
Rockefeller Foundations Gene Revolution Dr. Gordon Conway, President
of the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation, met privately with the
Board of Directors of Monsanto. Conway convinced Monsantom that for
the long-term future of their GMO Project, they must go public to
indicate to a worried world that it would not commercialize Terminator.
Development of the genetic revolution and genetic engineering as a
research area had been the project of the Rockefeller Foundation
over decades, along with researchers in the familys Rockefeller
University.
The Anglo-Swiss Syngenta joined with Monsanto in declaring solemnly
that they would also not commercialize their work on GURTS or
Terminator suicide seed technology.
That 1999 announcement took enormous pressure off of Monsanto and
the agribusiness GMO giants, allowing them to advance the proliferation
of their patented GMO seeds globally. Terminator could come later,
once farmers and entire national agriculture areas like North America
or Argentina or India had been taken over by GMO crops. Then, of
course, it would be too late. The Rockefeller-Monsanto 1999 press
conference was clearly application of classic Lenin Bolshevik
tacticsTwo Steps Forward, One Step Back Despite the Monsanto
declaration of a moratorium on Terminator development, the US
Government and the again independent Delta & Pine Land refused to
drop their Terminator development.
In 2000, a year after the Monsanto Terminator moratorium announcement,
the Clinton Administrations USDA Secretary, Dan Glickman, refused
repeated efforts by various agriculture and NGO organizations to
drop the Governments support for Terminator or GURTs. His Departments
feeble excuse for not dropping support for the work with Delta &
Pine Land was that it allowed the US Government to put leverage on
D&PL to protect the public interest. Six years later it became
clear: the only leverage the US Government had put on D&PLs
commercialization efforts on GURTs had been to lever it into
commercial reality.
Delta Vice President, Harry Collins, declared at the time in a press
interview in the Agra/Industrial Biotechnology Legal Letter, Weve
continued right on with work on the Technology Protection System
(TPS or Terminator). We never really slowed down. Were on target,
moving ahead to commercialize it. We never really backed off.
Nor did their partner, the United States Department of Agriculture,
back down on Terminator after 1999. In 2001 the USDA Agricultural
Research Service (ARS) website announced: USDA has no plans to
introduce TPS into any germplasmOur involvement has been to help
develop the technology, not to assist companies to use it. As if
to say, see, our hands are clean. Then they went on to say the USDA
was, committed to making the [Terminator] technology as widely
available as possible, so that its benefits will accrue to all
segments of society (sic)ARS intends to do research on other
applications of this unique gene control discoveryWhen new applications
are at the appropriate stage of development, this technology will
also be transferred to the private sector for commercial application.
Terminator was alive and well inside the Washington bureaucracy.
In 2001, the USDA and Delta & Pine executed a Commercialization
Agreement for Terminator, its infamous Patent No. 5,723,765. The
Government and Delta & Pine Land were not at all concerned about
worldwide outcry against Terminator.
That announcement came two years after Monsanto had dropped its
planned takeover of D&PL, with its Terminator patents.
The world was left with the (misleading) impression that Terminator
was dead. Reality was it was anything but dead. Seven years later,
long after public outcry against Terminator technology had died
down, Monsanto re-entered and bought Delta & Pine Land and its
Terminator patents.
Delta & Pine Lands global net The key scientific member of the Delta
& Pine Land board since 1993 has been Dr. Nam-Hai Chua. Chua, 62,
is also head of the Rockefeller University Plant Molecular Biology
Laboratory in New York, and has been for over 25 years, the labs
which are at the heart of the Rockefeller Foundations decades-long
development, and spending of more than $100 millions of its own
research grants to create their Gene Revolution. Until 1995, Chua
was also a scientific consultant to Monsanto Corporation, as well
as to DuPonts Pioneer Hi-Bred International. Chua is at the heart
of Rockefellers Gene Revolution. And, clearly, Delta & Pine Land
and their research on Terminator have been in the center of that
work.
Delta & Pine Land is well-placed globally to proliferate its suicide
seeds now, with the corporate and financial clout of the giant
Monsanto company. Delta & Pine already has subsidiaries including
D&PL Argentina, D&PL China, D&PL China PTE in Singapore, Deltapine
Paraguay, Delta Pine de Mexico, Deltapine Australia, Hebei Ji Dai
Cottonseed Technology Company in China, CDM Mandiyu in Argentina,
Delta and Pine Land Hellas in Greece, D&M Brazil Algodao of Brazil,
D&PL India, D&PL Mauritius Ltd.
This vast global network combined with Monsantos dominant position
in the GMO seeds and agri-chemicals market along with the unique
DP&L Patent No. 5,723,765, Control of Plant Gene Expression, now
give Monsanto and its close friends in Washington an enormous advance
in their plans to dominate world food and plant seed use.
2006 F. William Engdahl Editorial Archive F. William Engdahl is
author of the book, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics
and the New World Order, Pluto Press Ltd. He has a soon-to-be
published book on GMO titled, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden
Political Agenda Behind GMO. He may be contacted through his website,
www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.
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