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extradited to sweden on a sex crimes allegation appealing the ruling julian assange says but cases are simply a pretext to get into the u.s. for a quick trial. like america has its wings clipped in the last flight of the discovery shuttles are to be decommissioned soon and obama's new space program astronauts will have to rely on russian spacecraft to get them into. i've my colleague bill dog will be here in half an hour's time but next it's the battle between scientists on corporations over genetically modified food and pesticides in the u.s. we now explore why the future of scientific freedom is under threat here without. we're here in central mexico in a place where traditionally for many thousands of years corn has been planted in

these lands over the years corn has changed and more recently it has been changing because of the introgression of industrial varieties of corn and most importantly because of interpretation of transgenic we know that they are stretching the corn here we don't know how much and we want to be able to tell over the years over time whether there is more or less what kind of tension materials are here because the transgenic manipulation is invisible people around here don't even know that they are receiving the transfinite and they are growing them and they're passing them on to their children and the neighbors and so on.

once we were sure that we had found transgenic material seen what we wanted to have a publication that would be very visible so we sent it for publication to nature nature sent this article off to experts to peer reviewed five times around and then nature said yes we will publish it by that time however the news that these information was coming out made very many people within the industry very narrows and very unhappy. so they themselves started a discredit taishan campaign for the paper they did not want the paper to be published and if it was going to be published they wanted people not to believe what this paper was saying. now we know the industry hired

professional public relations companies companies who at the time were experimenting for the first time with something called viral marketing which he's a p.r. company a public relations company will go into the internet and start spreading ideas around. on behalf of the companies that hire them but without telling people. they are being paid by these companies so these stump and he called it giving some group. created to fictitious characters to doctors. and doctor. from here they made up two names and these two doctors went on the internet and started spreading rumors that what we had was false and that the paper was flawed and so on and so forth and the internet works

is that people really respond to each other's opinions and the idea started really spreading around our paper was false and had been submitted under and maybe illegal conditions. whatever the case is because we don't really know to the. nature decided to print two letters criticizing our paper and also to clean up very confusing. where they say. we don't want to take positions. based on what we know now all we have we should have published the paper back then but he's. completely against the way we do science. nature itself recognizes that they have never done anything like this in one hundred thirty years the whole history of the magazine so there was something seriously important happening that they did not want to talk about but i

believe i'm convinced it was pressure from these industrial arcturus industrial activists who wanted to change nature's position towards this problem. one. the industry said you don't need to worry about these because we have it under control the control is really the question and they have been telling the world that they really had control over these crops that if they planted it planted corn transgenic corn in one field that trench any corn would not go anywhere else so our discovery that we were finding transgenic corn maybe a thousand miles from the nearest legal transgenic corn field was

a huge problem for them because it really showed very simply and with real evidence that they really did not have control so they lost the claim to having control over these over these materials and from that point on the start to talking about co-exists. will target. disappeared in dreams or in your career. probably. reserve.

on the look that brought on a. cursory there is. a lot but i work to get there from nine hundred ninety continuously under same trajectory and we were to get on the g.m. project as well the only reason that he is to talk about it that he has been given permission by the holders of common the parliament and. the of the british parliament all the others in the group including me and we are talking about twenty people we are forbidden to talk about what has happened to the

earth what sort of experiments did we carry though what was going on at the time at dr peter gagged and all gag if for last time even the secret service people for twenty five years if i happen to leave to my seventh it will be fell over there and they still won't be able to give. me.

but on the phone. it is doing in the wrong direction. and let's assume that and we have seen a few examples that anymore was sad on the g.m. material they had very considered the physiology changes now when you add it eating that and in a fad or on g.m. you would be eating and any more that had already been changed into different and name and there is new safety risk assessment done on this and it is a policy decision by their governments and by the biased technology industry

that that they would just simply go on the basis that if you don't do they cannot be held to sponsible you remember that the animal that has been fed on g.m. has been changed. you always will find scientists who are diametrically opposed for one reason or another but frankly you have to look at the bulk of the evidence and the bulk of the evidence is very simply this these products have been out virtually every food that you. consume including you in germany has some genetically modified product in it whether it's soybeans or corn. there has not been a single documented analyzed case of even

a headache attributable to genetic modification. yes. north korean scientists carried out long term studies that showed genetically modified maize but to my significant we reduced their fertility the number of offspring was less compared to normandy i'm glad my family also developed more slowly. i haven't read the study yet a kimber today i can immediately called my office and asked them to get me a hold of the study so she saw my assistant called into austria and spoke to someone and they're going to give me the study as soon as possible but the finding is consistent fertility problems with animals for engineering clee engineered crops we saw that with soybeans and we were in farmers report of that with corn as well.

it's very difficult to do proper studies because monsanto doesn't allow people to use their products for studies and they also don't allow access to the parent light so that you can compare the exact same soybean with the only difference being that one is genetically engineering one is not. one example is this russian scientists start purina of a cold she said genetically engineered soil flower to rats and more than half of the osprey died within three weeks now one of the criticisms was that you didn't use carefully controlled genetically engineered so i along with it's nearly identical known g.m. so i counter part but monsanto didn't allow that soil to be released into the into the public so she didn't have access to a doctor or produced a wants to repeat their study but he also can't get that story for his research.

with local sales in the billions of dollars millions of farmers and backyard gardeners have come to rely on the week our called round our roundup extended control. challenged. but this project affect of its life a space a synthesised compound discovered by john friends over thirty years ago. i'll

send out a young boy going on board a myth. i mean that's their game totally in there's a we are part of. it all and i knew when genetic engineering technology was first used in soil production the local farmers were invited to parties with three beer and meat and they were asked to bring along their falling home and after a good meal and some drinks they then did a ritual putting holes into a circle and burning them are simple but so does my mini me as a symbol of what you have to hoe anymore and as a gift each farmer was then given a little of life are saying and they were told this would be technical progress and again so we would see original idea was to produce a genetically modified soil that was resistant to life as a life of sage is a herbicide whose famous ground roundup is produced by monsanto and now after a couple of years you can see that more and more weeds are resistant of life were

saved. search this is really beautifully brain a new kind of weed which is horrible now it grows to be higher than the saw it so. far but you know exactly my father just said that the co-operative here tried hard to fight it with life sader at a high dosage normally one liter picture result loud legally be used eight metres grey and still that wasn't enough when they start the experiment everything here is completely resistant of life or so you'd have to start.

thank you remember the saudis are on the star yeah have real grounded or salute the federal state here has used eighty five percent more life in state over the past four years since g.m. soy cultivation was started and this is an ecological catastrophe so the argument that with g.m. saw a one uses fewer pesticides it's simply not true and i stress i commend us for. doing so we are in is it signals that. new york official statistics reveal that in the course ten years related illnesses have practically doubled in the u.s. so the introduction of g.m. food to be american dialogue.

we've got a sort of new feudalism in nature's resources are being privatized and the others who also own these natural resources for they only need to be able to use parts of these resources and a part of that is knowledge of what's been produced before and getting newly patented let me see i live on these it is certainly the most and compiler one is about this and thus far here. we have to get up in the year even nature is getting rammed into it so in these nato feudalist times we live in it is so obvious to me that we're going back to times when a king said this river is mine or this land is my life and farmers have to pay in order to use it to mine back then they had religion to authorize and justify that strangely enough to date it's the scientists so rich that the hype america really got as a mechanic isn't after us. below

us we can see the whole of the public campus of berkeley and university of california berkeley and we're standing at a boundary where back campus meets the private and military part of the research machine this is a big research machine one side of it has public the other side is private corporate and military so that in closing of the knowledge that used to be public and becomes private or becomes corporate or becomes militarized secret that enclosure of knowledge is something that i consider to be very damaging for the movement of science and the movement of knowledge so it is a very strong battle that is happening here i mean other places in the world to try

and protect that diversity of knowledge that diversity of culture the latest development in this battle has been the arrival here on this campus of b.p. british petroleum. who would like to be called beyond petroleum b.p. came here offering five hundred million dollars five hundred million dollars which is much more than anybody had ever offered the university supposedly for research. administrators for the university find it very difficult to say no to money and it doesn't matter where the money comes from they want the money so they try to pass these contract we've b.p. without people noticing but we have been able to find out a few things about them we know that b.p. wants new buildings in the county and they want buildings that are built in hind

the fences of the national lab so that nobody can access them they want access to our students they want access to our seminar so that they can find out which i.d.'s are useful for them they want to have control of a publication what gets published what it said publicly or not but more importantly they also want access to the curriculum to what will be taught in the university and because this is a this is a public university we also the term in the curriculum of children from kindergarten all the way to high school and b.p. now has access to deciding what is called science and what is not called science so now they can say whoever is on our site is a scientist and whoever is not on our side is not a scientist so the tower that they gave us is extraordinary and.

they've closed the door shut to any public view of what's happening behind the walls behind the fences and this screens of academic research. unfortunately we are in a minority of people who oppose it and i have been very vocal in trying to post this as well as other advances of these corporate kind of science this privatized kind of science because i believe that the main problem is that people don't realize what's happening and by the time they will wake up it will be too late the possibility of having a public university doing public research and developing public understanding of humanity is going to be gone.

we are very far from free speech at these universities you're not allowed to ask many questions and you're not on to say many things and if you do you get into serious trouble. and i am just one of many examples where people are punished by what they say and what they research. in my case i was pushed out of the university at least three times every time i fought back and we managed to keep my job but it's been very difficult.

we are manipulating life in a way that we really do not understand we cannot control and then we're letting it go into the environment. so it's a change the least radical that peace unprecedented that is. beyond anything we can understand and it's an retrievable you we cannot get it back that's my concern. to me and. it's very true that the power of the technocrats an expert's have developed in these years is saw large and so out of control but it has become much more of a religion. and it's a religion that has many dogmas and one of those talk math is that humans have the

power to change nature the way they want it's completely hopeless because we touch . i've always said you only defend that which you love so people say which they do how shall i defend the environment gone fall in love with. all of the river fall of the farm fall in love with species just follow the same believe me when you do defend it.

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