Police in Dantewada have arrested Mr Verma, General Manager of Essar Steel ltd, on charges of waging war against the state and sedition. TOI, September 28. His crime was paying protection money to Maoist criminals called Naxals. When the state is completely impotent in protecting its citizens against criminals why is it a crime to try and protect your workers? A few months earlier the Naxals killed more than 70 policemen in an ambush in the same area and still there has been no planned effort to hunt down the killers and eliminate them. Police are untrained in jungle warfare, housed in makeshift camps without proper food and with no advanced arms to defend themselves. So who are the police protecting? Criminal politicians and thieving civil servants, of course. The Supreme Court has admitted a Public Interest Litigation challenging the use of red beacons on official cars and unnecessary police security for two penny officials and politicians for whom it is a status symbol. You have not arrived unless you have Z plus security. Seems that 750 MPs and self styled VIPs bought confiscated weapons in the last 25 years. Shows how keen politicians are to protect their filthy hides while denying us the same rights. When Islamic terrorists hijacked an Air India plane and flew it to Kandahar in Afghanistan the then government just caved in to their demands and released convicted terrorists from Indian prisons who then went on to commit more carnage. Why are these ministers not in the same cell as Mr Verma. Shipping companies regularly pay millions to Somali pirates but then in India a ship is more valuable than citizens. Bastards.

In his testimony before a Congressional committee Adm Mike Mullen said that Pakistan's ISI is supporting the Haqqani network actively. This has prompted angry denials by Paki Ministers and Gen Kayani and warning of withdrawal of support by the Foreign Minister. This is the same tactic Pakistan has adopted successfully for years when accused of ISI support for the LeT. In 2007 after a meeting at Teri Mangal in Pakistan, which had seemed to end amicably, Pakistani military and intelligence opened fire without provocation killing one US major and wounding 3 US officers and their Afghan interpreter. Pakistanis denied that their officers had been responsible blaming the incident on a rogue soldier or islamic militants. The Americans hushed up the shooting as they have deluded themselves over the years that they cannot live without Paki help. On Sept 13, a Taliban attack on the US embassy in Kabul plus the NATO HQ resulted in the deaths of 25 people. Three days earlier a truck of a NATO outpost injured 77. The Americans apparently have apparently shown evidence of ISI involvement to the Pakis as India has done many times before. Still Pakistan continues to deny and threaten as before. Seems that the US has been convinced of ISI duplicity after the killing of Bin Laden in Abbottabad. Why totally blind? Why do the Americans refuse to recognise that the ISI planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. It would have been impossible for Bin Laden hiding in a cave in Tora Bora without telephone or cell phone to have organised such a complicated operation. Pakistan will brazen it out as long as the world remains deliberately stupid. Face the truth.

The world is beset with problems. The global economy is in grave danger with a real possibility of another recession, climate change is causing drought in one region with floods in another, countries in the middle east are changing with no way of knowing which way they will go, China is threatening its neighbors and Pakistan's economy could collapse if the US cuts its aid resulting in chaos and a possibility of rabid fanatics running around with nuclear weapons in the trunks of their cars. Unfortunately when the world needs statesmen and women to take charge of affairs we are landed with pretenders, gasbags and geriatric old goats clinging on to kursi by means of frantic foot licking. There is Obama who has suddenly woken up to the fact that unpatriotic Republican jihadists are never going to agree with him on anything even at the risk of damaging the country. Obama knows that his main strength is hot air and with elections in November next year and, a bunch of jokers as Republican contenders, must be feeling pretty confident of himself. There is David Cameron who has already wasted 500 million pounds in bombing Libya while raising education fees, cutting social security and emasculating defence forces. His ultimate ambition is to be like Margaret Thatcher but he does not have the balls. There is little Sarkozy who wants to prove his manhood by becoming a father. There is Berlusconi who really knows how it is done with prostitutes. He claims that he has never paid for sex which would imply that he is cheating these poor women. The low down crook. As for India we cannot blame anyone because there is no one in charge. How lucky.

Seems that credit agencies could lower India's credit rating from BBB- which implies stable. They think that growth will fall to 7.2% and deficit could rise to 5.7% of GDP. Inflation continues to be at 10% and a cut in credit rating will push up borrowing cost impacting growth and leading to a further fall in the value of the rupee which would then worsen inflation. This scenario is not scare mongering but the best outcome that can happen. If, however, Greece were to exit the Euro then the world economy will crash. There will be a huge sellout in developing markets as traders in the west look for the safe haven of the dollar and the rupee could suddenly plummet. All the above figures would be magnified many times over and the economy could collapse. So where are our esteemed leaders. Seven of them are in the US including our most revered Prime and Finance ministers and including, naturally, secretaries of their various ministries. One minister is in Japan, another is doing the rounds of Baltic countries starting in Finland and a third is in China. It is so encouraging that union ministers are enjoying so hard on our behalf. They are doing this to give the impression that there is nothing to worry about, that they know things that we don't and they are rushing around the world scattering wisdom to the leaders of all other countries. We are never told about the total level of government debt including sovereign debt, debt of all the states and the cumulative debt of useless companies such as Air India, BSNL and Prasar Bharti. Maybe no one knows. Which is good because that will fool foreigners. No wonder the World Famous Economist is famous.

In an article " The lakshman rekha between 2G and Modi " one Manoj Mitta complains that the Supreme Court did not cross the rekha in case of Modi but had no hesitation in the 2G scam. Lakshman Rekha is the line that you never cross so why is it inviolate in Modi's case but not in the 2G scam? Oh so innocent! The writer is probably the only person in India who does not realise that these are all games played by politicians to dupe the gullible masses. When BJP was in power they did nothing to find the culprits in the Bofors case so when the Congress came to power they returned the favor by doing nothing in the Tehelka or the Kargil coffins scam. When the flurry of scams broke last year one would have expected BJP to concentrate on the Commonwealth Games scam, which was a purely Congress affair, and go after the Wide Receiver and, in turn, try to catch the Capo but instead they focused purely on the 2G scam. This tarnished the image of the Congress because the DMK is an ally of the Congress but they gained immensely from it because the DMK, having been defanged, cannot afford to withdraw support from the government. So the Congress is sure to remain in power till 2014. Thus it is with Modi. Even if he was guilty of interfering with the police and allowing rioting to proceed the Congress dare not push too hard because the riots of 1984 have still not been resolved. Congress, supported by their english press dogs, will keep on abusing Modi to prevent him being a serious challenge against Rahul Gandhi. This is why the all politicians will cooperate to make absolutely sure that the Lok Pal bill never becomes law. They will kill to make sure.

Can a country progress if the entire system is perverted? When the constitution was written at independence it was recognised that people of lower caste needed positive discrimination to climb out of poverty and menial jobs. This was called " Reservation " in that seats in higher educational institutions and government jobs were reserved for people who were categorised as Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Classes. This discrimination against higher castes was meant to be for a short period of 10 years but politicians have kept it going and even increased the number of places under the reserved category. Now with elections due next year the UP Chief Minister is calling for reservation for Muslims, Jats and even upper caste poor. Naturally this perverted policy has led to great anger among those left out and we saw several deaths when Gujjars agitated to be classed as ST but were opposed by the Meenas, who are the sole beneficiaries now, because their share of undeserved benefits will be reduced. Politicians treat taxpayer money as personal property and promise blatant bribes to win elections such as color TVs, free electricity, cheap grains or cash handouts. The Prime Minister has not been elected by the people but appointed by the Empress of the spineless Congress. Poor people keep on breeding without check and instead of a long term program to reduce their numbers the debate is about whether Rs 35 per day income is the poverty line. This enables money to be spent on social schemes which are then looted by the criminal scum. Economic collapse will expose the liars but by then it will be too late.

It began in 2008. To win the general elections in 2009 the Congress resorted to open bribery by awarding useless civil servants massive pay rises, forgiving loans to farmers and starting a scheme to pay rural people for 100 days a year for doing nothing. This injection of liquidity resulted in increased consumer spending so that the Indian economy grew while western countries were gripped by the sub-prime crisis. Increased liquidity added to huge rises in black money led to unreal property prices and a doubling of the Sensex. Foreign money flooded into these sectors leading to a strengthening of the rupee even as inflation was rising. With rising inflation and rising deficit one would expect the rupee to weaken but hot money from foreign investors kept it strong thus keeping inflation somewhat in check. In 2010 the rupee was 44 to the dollar even as inflation was near 10%. The RBI suddenly woke up to the danger and started to raise interest rates but inadequately so that inflation has stayed at 10%. The combination of high rates and inflation is hitting consumer spending which, in turn, will lower tax collections. Builders are sitting on large inventories but cannot reduce prices because they bought land at exorbitant rates. Banks have stopped lending to builders but may still be looking at huge non performing assets. The government had hoped to raise Rs 400 billion from disinvestment to keep within its deficit target but it seems that it will be able to raise only Rs 10 billion. Foreign investors are selling out. The rupee is down to 49.42 to the dollar adding to inflation. In a global economy looting the taxpayer will be punished. We will suffer.

Speechifying is what President Obama does best. Yesterday speaking at the UN General Assembly he spoke on the importance of the UN, peace, Arab spring, Palestine, global economy, famine in the Horn of Africa, and climate change. However, it was what he did not say that is more important than what he did. He quoted President Truman's words," The United Nations is essentially an expression of the moral nature of man's aspirations." The Security Council is a white man's club and a rogue country, China supporting every act of dubious morality by western countries such as the attack on Libya. The global economy is about to collapse because of Europe and the US. WTO negotiations on the Doha round have stalled permanently because of the obduracy of western countries who want poor countries to open their markets without opening theirs. Per head of population western countries produce many times the levels of green house gases than developing countries. The US is the largest polluter by far, yet refuses any target of reduction because it will increase costs on its industries. The Arab spring resulted from increasing food prices, lack of jobs and affordable housing and youthful populations able to access information on the internet. Thus it is related to the famine in Somalia in that both are caused by exploding population growths in middle east and African countries. Increasing numbers of people will need more land for agriculture leading destruction of forests leading in turn to more global warming. Numbers of humans must decrease if we want prosperity and peace. If the UN concentrates on this one effort everything else will come.

Growing up in Nehru's India we were brainwashed into believing that Palestinians are victims of evil Israeli conquerors. For decades India supported the Palestinian cause at every international forum including the UN. Nasser of Egypt was Nehru's buddy in the Nonaligned Nations body so Arabs were considered friends of India. Well into the 1970s all Indian passports were rubber stamped with the words " Not valid for travel to Israel, Albania and ? South Africa". Indians wishing to travel to Israel had to first travel to a third country where they would obtain an Israeli visa on a separate piece of paper which they would throw away upon exiting Israel so that they were not prosecuted on returning to India. In spite of such uncritical support all Arab barbarian fanatics have always supported Pakistan against India which they see as a Hindu country. Every war has been declared a Jihad or holy war by filthy Arabs who have openly supplied aid to Pakistan. Till today terrorists are being financed by middle eastern countries to kill Indians as we continue to see on a regular basis. The truth is that Arabs hate Palestinians and want them out of their countries. King Hussein of Jordan used his army to get rid of large numbers of Palestinian refugees who then relocated to Lebanon and caused 14 years of civil war. When Saddam invaded Kuwait Iraqi soldiers behaved impeccably. Palestinians who had been living for years in Kuwait in comfort immediately used the opportunity to loot and rape. As our most revered Prime Minister travels to the UN today he should be aware of who his enemies are. India should never support Palestinians.

A front page news item in yesterday's TOI reports that India has the most expensive petrol in the world. The official thinking is that petrol is used by car owners who can afford to pay more and the taxes thus collected can then be used for subsidising diesel, kerosene, and domestic gas because these are used by poorer people. A Rs 3 rise in petrol price adds only 0.07 points to inflation so it does not matter. What these idiots ignore is that high petrol price instantly depresses car sales, decreases the purchasing power of the middle class by increasing transport costs and encourages people to buy diesel cars increasing subsidy costs and wiping out any gains. Criminal politicians and thieving civil servants are not affected as they use official cars at taxpayer expense so they justify high costs of petrol by comparing with European countries. What the liars conveniently forget are the returns Europeans drivers get from the taxes they pay while all the money is stolen in India. In Europe roads are wide, smooth and clean with no undulations let alone potholes. Rain, snow and freezing temperatures have no effect while our roads develop huge potholes after one shower. Here there is deliberately no coordination between various government agencies so that roads are dug and covered every few weeks to provide money for contractors and bribes for civil servants. Most countries do not have any toll. You can drive from Land's End in the south to John O'Groats in the north of Britain without having to stop even once. Germany built 1 mile of autobahn during World War II but here we have piles of rubble for years. We pay, the criminals enjoy.

Emboldened by events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya the Palestinians have decided that the time is right to put Israel under pressure. Palestinians are going to ask the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution according it full member status. If passed the resolution will go before the Security Council where the US has already promised to veto it. However, the US would rather not have to do that because it will inflame anti US feelings in Arab countries. The Palestinians now have " Permanent Observer Entity " status at the UN and if denied membership, as they want, will ask for " Enhanced Observer Member " status which can be passed by a simple majority by the UN General Assembly. In diplomatic mumbo jumbo it will be a promotion and Israel is vehemently opposed to such enhancement of Palestinian position. Israel says that it supports an independent Palestinian state while at the same time continuing to build settlements on the West Bank. On the ground nothing will change as the Israeli army will continue to control access to the West Bank and Gaza but it will open the floodgates to further mischief by neighboring countries like Turkey when it tried to force an aid convoy to Gaza resulting in the deaths of 9 activists. With the US weakened by a recession and Republican jihadists, islamists becoming stronger in Egypt and Libya, Iran racing ahead with building nuclear weapons and Turkey just muddying waters an all out war is a real possibility. Will this remain localised in the middle east or will rogue countries like China take advantage and attack Taiwan or other countries we do not know. The Arab spring is in danger of turning into an Arab nightmare.

Such confusion! The Reserve Bank has again raised interest rates by 0.25% so that the Repurchase Rate is 8.25% ad the Reverse Repurchase Rate is 7.25%. The Bank has been raising rates in mincing, apprehensive steps for about a year now in an effort to bring down inflation which is around 10%. The reason for the Bank's hesitation is probably a sudden collapse in property prices where the criminal politicians and thieving civil servants have parked their black money. The Bank should not be afraid. Our most revered Prime Minister has valued his flat in Vasant Kunj in Delhi at Rs 8.6 million whereas brokers say that the present market rate is in excess of Rs 20 million. Surely the World Famous Economist is right and that is the fair value of properties in Vasant Kunj. So the Bank should boldly increase rates so that property prices drop to that sort of level thus eliminating black money from the system. Meanwhile oil companies have added to inflation by increasing petrol prices by Rs 3.50 so that a liter of petrol now costs Rs 66.84 in Delhi. Petrol price in the US, which includes tax at 15%, is around Rs 38 a lit. However the price of diesel is slightly higher in the US at Rs 40 almost the same as in India where it is Rs 41.29 per lit. In Congress minds, still set in the 1950s, cars are for luxury and hence must be taxed out of the reach of the people while diesel is for trucks and hence should be cross subsidised. This is the aam aadmi philosophy which seeks to keep people permanently poor by taxing the hell out of " luxury " while doling out cheap rice, free electricity and goats at taxpayer expense to win elections. How long before the entire economy collapses?

What game is the Turkish Prime Minister, Erdogan playing. On the one hand he has been making some harsh comments about Assad of Syria in relation to the killing of protesters and on the other he is savagely attacking Israel for the killing of 9 Turkish activists who were trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza. He is an islamist who has been slowly weakening the army, the main guarantor of secularism. Allowing a ship to sail from a Turkish port, ostensibly carrying aid for Palestinians in Gaza, was an attempted Trojan horse. Israel wanted to inspect the cargo before allowing its transport into Gaza but the activists were intent on a showdown with the Israeli armed forces and tried to force their way through. Would Turkey allow any country to send a shipment to Kurds without inspecting it first? Cancelling all defence cooperation with Israel and closing down its embassy in Ankara is surely designed to whip up Arab sentiment against the Jewish state and divert attention away from Syria's killing of its own citizen. Turkey is mainly Sunni so its cozy relations with Iran and its sly attempts to support the Alawite Syrian regime is puzzling. The killing of 6 Egyptian police by the Israelis following terrorist attack on a bus has enraged Egyptians. This is a golden opportunity for the Muslim Brotherhood to gain power by harnessing the anger on the streets. There is great confusion in Libya about who will gain ultimate control of the country after the fall of Gadhafi. So what is Erdogan's motive for whipping up anti Israeli passion at this time of confusion? Is he trying for a global Islamic caliphate with Turkey at its center? Maybe he is trying to be too clever.

In response to the media coverage of Anna Hazare's fast our most revered Prime Minister is to set up a group to study media accountability. TOI, Friday, September 2. One minister bitterly complained," Was Anna Hazare's agitation the only thing happening in the country. Certainly not. There were the 2G, Commonwealth Games and Adarsh Society scams, terrorist attack on the High Court, uncontrolled inflation and other ills plaguing the country because of a clueless Congress led government. A few days ago Anna Hazare was being interviewed on 3 different news channels in english. The questions were virtually the same. Is your agitation not against the democracy? Is the parliament not supreme? Are you being supported by the BJP? Where is your money coming from? What if the Lok Pal bill is not to your liking and so on. Not only were the questions the same but they were in almost the same sequence and the anchors kept glancing off camera as if to read the next question from a prompter. Two men and one woman asking the same questions. Anyone else would have been incensed in having to answer the same slanted questions time after time but not Anna Hazare. He repeated his answers calmly, with good humor and with enormous patience. That surely makes him a saint. No democratic country in the world has such a footlicking media protecting the Congress by constantly attacking the BJP, presenting one sided stories and with outright lies. Still the Congress is not satisfied. It wants complete control over the media so that it can continue to rape the country as it has been doing for the last 60 years. That is why the people are very angry.

A woman, who considers herself to be an authority on every subject, starts her column in today's TOI with the words, " Saffron chaddies ( meaning Hindus ) have been flashing self-righteously..." showing utter contempt and hatred of Hindus. Yet when she writes about Parsis she gushes with fulsome praise full of superlatives. Parsis consider themselves to be whites and refer to us Hindus as " ghatis " meaning some prehistoric neanderthals uncivilised and without culture originating from the ghats. Most of the media in India sucks up to the Congress which is totally anti Hindu. Hence the constant attacks on BJP and Narendra Modi for anti Muslim riots in Gujarat conveniently forgetting that 50 Hindus had been burnt in the Sabarmati Express in a carefully coordinated attack. " Minorities " used to rule India and have slaughtered millions of Hindus which continues to this day but Hindus are denied the right of self defence. This is passed off as Gandhi's wish. India is thus the only country in the world where the majority is always abused, vilified and persecuted as a deliberate policy supported by the Congress. Would we be able to abuse the Catholic church in Italy? Victims of child sex abuse in the US have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against the Pope and 3 Vatican officials for protecting predatory priests as crime against humanity. This is the same Pope who said that yoga is " evil ", probably because it is associated with Hinduism. Sadly for the abused children he did not think child rape to be evil. But surely he is a minority and, therefore, must be right. Kill all Hindus. Why not?

Pakistan has been so used to fooling Americans for decades that they took out half page ads in the Wall Street Journal on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 asking," Which country can do more for your peace?' As usual they claimed to be victims of terrorism pointing out that 30000 Pakistanis had died in the last 5 years from terrorist attacks forgetting to mention that they are breeding, training and providing safe havens to these scum. If you breed snakes you will get bitten, that is the rule of the game. Americans being stupid they swallowed this rubbish and kept pouring $ 3 billion in aid to the Pakistani army and supplying them with sophisticated hardware which they then passed on to terrorists or used against India. The finding of Bin Laden in a secure house in Abbottabad has suddenly woken the US public to their own stupidity in swallowing Pakistani propaganda for so many years and they have reacted with fury. Some have called the ad a " joke " while others have pointed to the protection offered to LeT and the Haqqani group by the ISI. The US government should realise that it cannot go on devising policies based on falsehood. 1. Recognise that Pakistan is the incubator of terrorists and cut off all aid to this murderous country. Treat it like North Korea. 2. Stop trying to win hearts and minds of " moderate Muslims ". They do not exist. Their holy book promises paradise for killing kafirs and infidels. The only way a Muslim can become moderate is by saying that the book is wrong which will make him an apostate and get him killed. 3. Do not be stupid. It is stupid to kill half a million in Iraq for 3000 killed on 9/11. Sadly stupidity is incurable.

Growth in industrial production is down to 3.3% in July when expectation was for a growth of 6.2%. ET, August 13. However, experts are not perturbed. The figures have been affected by a fall of 15.2% in the production of capital goods such as power turbines and heavy machinery. Excluding this industrial production grew by better than expected 6.8%. Experts are very encouraged by massive increases in indirect tax collections. Excise rose 19.7%, customs duty by 13.4% and service tax collection by 57.3%. These rises, they reckon, indicate that the economy is growing and we should rejoice. But could the figures be connected? Indirect taxes increase the cost of goods and services and add to inflation which is around 10% and threatening to get out of hand. The RBI has raised interest rates more then 10 times, the last 2 times by 0.5%, without any effect on inflation. The combination of uncontrolled inflation and increasing rates have eroded the purchasing power of the people who are forced to cut purchases. The large fall in capital goods production reflects the lack of confidence that industrialists have in the future of the economy. Even as the real economy is slowing down there is no reduction in property prices. In fact property prices in non metro cities are rising by 15 - 20% reflecting the rise in black money but the government is in denial. The World Famous Economist has declared a flat owned by him in Vasant Kunj in Delhi as costing Rs 8.6 million while every broker said that the market rate of the flat is in excess of Rs 20 million. Unless black money is eliminated inflation cannot be controlled. Sadly no one has a clue. So so dumb.

The bombing of the High Court in Delhi has again shown that the government has absolutely no intentions of improving our intelligence and police. The CBI is busily finding nothing against Mr Raja just as it found nothing in the Bofors case. Its main business seems to be arresting present and past members of the BJP even in purely Congress scams such as the Commonwealth Games and cash for votes scams. Improving the investigating and intelligence gathering efficiency of the police against terrorism could also be used to investigate crimes and, since politicians are criminals, would result in the arrest and prison for the majority of politicians. So CCTV cameras are not installed, no effort is made to gather intelligence on various terrorist groups in the country and police lack event the most basic training and equipment. However, the main reason politicians do nothing after repeated terrorist attacks is because it is in their interest not to do anything. Terrorism gives them the excuse for Z plus security. They are able to impose more restrictions on the people such as having to provide photographs and address proofs for opening bank accounts or obtaining a phone. A Unique Identity Card is being made mandatory for every citizen. Blackberry is being asked to provide source codes for its messaging service so that snoops can violate our privacy at will. A person is responsible for any " objectionable " posting or comment on his internet site. Terrorists provide the excuses for more and more draconian laws restricting basic freedoms for ordinary citizens. This increases the powers of the politicians and liberates them to commit any crime. Traitors.

News reports say that a Chinese frigate confronted INS Airavat in international waters as it left the territorial limits of Vietnam after a friendly visit but our government denies that the incident ever took place. Villainous Chinese are constructing a dam on the Brahmaputra in Tibet which will cut off water for the entire north east but officials say it does not matter. Pakistan forces killed one Indian army officer by firing across the Line Of Control to cover the infiltration by terrorists trained in Pakistan but we will go on " bended knees " to talk to them. Sri Lankan navy routinely kills Indian fishermen in international waters but we keep on investigating. There are many articles criticising Indian foreign policy. Analysts complain that while countries like China and the US have think tanks advising on long term policy we are perpetually unprepared because our foreign policy is " reactive " rather than " proactive ". Perhaps they are being harsh. The fearsome T Rex died out as did the sabre toothed tiger but the ostrich is doing very well due to its unique survival technique. When threatened the ostrich buries its head in sand and stands still. Predators, confronted with this headless phenomenon, retreat hastily. May be our headless government will confuse the hell out of our enemies who will not know where to attack. The Indian Air Force has lost 46 fighter aircraft in 7 years, 26 of them since 2008. HT, August 25. The accidents are being " thoroughly investigated ". Perhaps all this is extremely clever strategy to confuse our enemies. Why attack when we are destroying our own air force? Just proves our fellows are definitely not " anpadh " or " ganwaar ".

News reports these days are full of pictures of famine in Somalia. Especially harrowing are pictures of scrawny, apathetic children too weak to cry. These pictures are meant to stir pity in people so that they contribute more money to charity. But will that help? Firstly, food prices are already high all over the world and aid money will never be able to buy enough food to feed all the starving people in the world. Secondly, if governments start to donate some of their domestic food stocks to aid that will push up food prices in their own countries. With inflation being a concern in most countries in Asia and Africa few governments will want to exacerbate their own problems. Meanwhile in the US 58% of corn produced will be used to produce 53 billion liters of ethanol for biofuel. A Swiss pesticide firm has produced a genetically modified corn capable of producing the enzyme, amylase which will speed up production of ethanol from starch requiring less water and energy. Guardian Weekly, August 19. The result of diverting corn to the production of fuel is that the price of tortillas, a staple food in Mexico, has doubled in recent months. The only remedy to food shortage turning into global famine is to reduce the global population. Yet no one talks about reducing population. Instead the discussion is always about increasing food production by growing GM food. The " terminator " technology was developed by US defence department and handed over to Monsanto. Luckily European consumers dubbed it Frankenstein food and refused to eat it. If foreign companies control our food we will become slaves. Stop babies before it is too late.