One more Hidden Agenda behind the Bush Administration

[Guest guest]

Bush administration seems to have one more agenda. To

control Al Quaida, Bush admin' has turned a blind eye

to whatever the military dictator Musharraf is doing

in Pakistan. The Bush admin' knows that Musharraf is

cheating the USA everytime but still calls him an ally

against Osama bin Laden. Fist Musharraf removed all

the judges and put his own judges in the judiciary

long ago. They approved his becoming the President and

so on. Now the Pakistan intelligency (ISI/Inter

Service Intelligence) seems to have captured Daud

Ibrahim and his two accomplices. This is just to show

to Bush and the world. Its a drama. Yes, the ISI of

Musharraf might have captured Daud but after few weeks

the same ISI will declare " They ran away in a

prison-break " or " They were cases of mistaken

identity " . It is also said that Daud Ibrahim has

changed his face, eyes and the fingerprints. He is in

the Most Wanted List of USA like Osama bin is and is

said to be involved in money transfers of terrorists.

Ratan.

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> The Hidden Agenda behind the Bush Administration's

> Bio-Fuel Plan

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> Published on Thursday, July 26, 2007.

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> Source: Global Research - F. William Engdahl

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> That bowl of Kellogg’s Cornflakes on the breakfast

> table, or the portion of pasta or corn tortillas,

> cheese or meat on the table is going to rise in

> price over the coming months as sure as the sun

> rises in the East. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to

> the new world food price shock, conveniently timed

> to accompany our current world oil price shock.

> Curiously it’s ominously similar in many respects to

> the early 1970’s when prices for oil and food both

> exploded by several hundred percent in a matter of

> months. That mid-1970’s price explosion led

> President Nixon to ask his old pal, Arthur Burns,

> then Chairman of the Fed, to find a way to alter the

> CPI inflation data to take attention away from the

> rising prices. The result then was the

> now-commonplace publication of the absurd " core

> inflation " CPI numbers--sans oil and food. Stephen

> Roche was the young Fed economist who was assigned

> the statistical manipulation job by Burns.

> The late American satirist, Mark Twain once quipped,

> " Buy land: They’ve stopped making it… " Today we can

> say almost the same about corn or all grains

> worldwide. The world is in the early months of the

> greatest sustained rise in grain prices, for all

> major grains including maize, wheat, rice that we

> have seen in three decades. Those three crops

> constitute almost 90% of all grains cultivated in

> the world.Washington’s calculated, absurd plan

> What’s driving this extraordinary change? Here

> things get pretty interesting. The Bush

> Administration is making a major public relations

> push to convince the world it has turned into a

> " better steward of the environment. " The problem is

> that many have fallen for the hype.

> The center of his program, announced in his January

> State of the Union Address is called ’20 in 10’,

> cutting US gasoline use 20% by 2010. The official

> reason is to " reduce dependency on imported oil, " as

> well as cutting unwanted " greenhouse gas " emissions.

> That isn’t the case, but it makes good PR. Repeat it

> often enough and maybe most people will believe it.

> Maybe they won’t realize their taxpayer subsidies to

> grow ethanol corn instead of feed corn are also

> driving the price of their daily bread through the

> roof.

> The heart of the plan is a huge, taxpayer subsidized

> expansion of use of bio-ethanol for transport fuel.

> The President’s plan requires production of 35

> billion gallons (about 133 billion liters) of

> ethanol a year by 2017. Congress already mandated

> with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that corn ethanol

> for fuel must rise from 4 billion gallons in 2006 to

> 7.5 billion in 2012. To make certain it will happen,

> farmers and big agribusiness giants like ADM or

> David Rockefeller get generous taxpayer subsidies to

> grow corn for fuel instead of food. Currently

> ethanol producers get a subsidy in the US of 51

> cents per gallon ethanol paid to the blender,

> usually an oil company that blends it with gasoline

> for sale.

> As a result of the beautiful US Government subsidies

> to produce bio-ethanol fuels, and the new

> legislative mandate, the US refinery industry is

> investing big time in building new special ethanol

> distilleries, similar to oil refineries, except they

> produce ethanol fuel. The number currently under

> construction exceeds the total number of oil

> refineries built in the US over the past 25 years.

> When finished in the next 2-3 years the demand for

> corn and other grain to make ethanol for car fuel

> will double from present levels.

> Not just USA bio-ethanol. In March Bush met with

> Brazil’s President to sign a bilateral " Ethanol

> Pact " to cooperate in R & D of " next generation "

> bio-fuel technologies like cellulosic ethanol from

> wood, and joint cooperation in " stimulating "

> expansion of bio-fuels use in developing countries,

> especially in Central America, and creating a

> " bio-fuels OPEC-like " cartel market with rules that

> allows formation of a Western Hemisphere ethanol

> market.

> In short, the use of farmland worldwide for

> bio-ethanol and other bio-fuels—burning the food

> product rather than using it for human or animal

> food—is being treated in Washington, Brazil and

> other major centers, including the EU, as a major

> new growth industry.Phony green arguments

> Bio-fuel—gasoline or fuel produced from refining

> food products—is being hyped as a solution to the

> controversial Global Warming problem. Leaving aside

> the faked science and the political interests behind

> the sudden hype about dangers of global warming,

> bio-fuels offer no net positive benefits over oil

> even under best conditions. Its advocates claim that

> present first generation bio-fuels " save up to 60%

> of carbon emission. " As well, amid rising oil prices

> at $75 per barrel for Brent marker grades,

> governments such as Brazil’s are frantic to

> substitute homegrown bio-fuels for imported

> gasoline. In Brazil today 70% of all cars have

> " flexi-fuel " engines able to switch from

> conventional gasoline to 100% bio-fuel or any mix.

> Bio-fuel production has become one of Brazil’s major

> export industries as well.

> The green claims for bio-fuel as a friendly and

> better fuel than gasoline are at best dubious, if

> not outright fraudulent. Depending on who runs the

> tests, ethanol has little if any effect on

> exhaust-pipe emissions in current car models. It has

> significant emission, however, of some toxins

> including formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, a suspected

> neurotoxin which has been banned as carcinogenic in

> California.

> Ethanol is not some benign substance as we are led

> to think from the industry propaganda. It is highly

> corrosive to pipelines as well as to seals and fuel

> systems of existing car or other gasoline engines.

> It requires special new gas pumps. All that

> conversion costs money.

> But the killer-diller about ethanol is that it holds

> at least 30% less energy per gallon than normal

> gasoline, translating into a loss in fuel economy

> per gallon of at least 25% over gasoline for an

> Ethanol E-85% blend. No advocate of the ethanol

> boondoggle addresses the huge social cost which is

> beginning to hit the dining room tables across the

> US, Europe and the rest of the world. Food prices

> are exploding as corn, soybeans and all cereal grain

> prices are going through the roof because of the

> astronomical—Congress-driven—demand for corn to burn

> for bio-fuel.

> This year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

> issued a report concluding that using corn-based

> ethanol instead of gasoline will have no impact on

> greenhouse gas emissions, and would even expand

> fossil fuel use due to increased demand for

> fertilizer and irrigation to expand acreage of

> ethanol crops. And according to MIT " natural gas

> consumption is 66% of total corn ethanol production

> energy, " meaning huge new strains on natural gas

> supply, pushing prices there higher.

> The idea that the world can " grow " out of oil

> dependency with bio-fuels is the PR hype being used

> to sell what is shaping up to be the mist dangerous

> threat to the planet’s food supply since creation of

> patented genetically manipulated corn and crops. US

> farms become bio-fuel factories

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> The main reason US and world grain prices are

> soaring in the past two years and now pre-programmed

> to continue rising at a major pace, is the

> conversion of US farmland to become de facto

> bio-fuel factories. In 2006 US farmland devoted to

> bio-fuel crops increased by 48%. None of that land

> was replaced for food crop cultivation. The tax

> subsidies make it far too profitable to produce

> ethanol fuel.

> Since 2001 the amount of maize used to produce

> bio-ethanol in the USA has risen 300%, trend

> increasing going forward. In fact, in 2006 US maize

> or corn crops for bio-fuel equaled the tonnage of

> corn used for export. In 2007 it is estimated it

> will exceed the corn for export by a hefty amount.

> The US is the world’s leading corn exporter, most

> going for animal feed to EU and other countries. The

> traditional USDA statistics on acreage planted to

> corn is no longer a useful metric of food prices as

> all marginal acreage is going for bio-fuel growing.

> The amount available for animal and human feed is

> actually declining.

> Brazil and China are similarly switching from food

> to bio-fuels with large swatches of land.

> A result of the bio-fuel revolution in agriculture

> is that world carryover or reserve stocks of grains

> have been plunging for six of the past seven years.

> Carryover reserve stocks of all grains fell at the

> end of 2006 to 57 days of consumption, the lowest

> level since 1972. Little wonder that world grain

> prices rose 100% over the past 12 months. This is

> just the start.

> That decline in grain reserves, the measure of food

> security in event of drought or harvest failure—an

> increasingly common event in recent years—is

> pre-programmed to continue going as far ahead as the

> eye can see. Assuming modest world population

> increase annually of some 70 million people over the

> coming decade, especially in the Indian subcontinent

> and Africa, the stagnation or even decline in the

> tonnages

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Ratan Singh

Phone: 91 141 2652561

Address: 7- NA- 16

Jawahar Nagar

Jaipur- 302004 INDIA

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- Certificate in Food & Nutrition;

- Author of " Nutrition & Supplements in Major Mental Illnesses " ;

- M.A. (Psychol), Postgraduate Diploma in Medical & Social Psychology, Ph.D.;

- Certified Behavior Therapist (from late Prof. J. Wolpe's Unit, Temple

University Medical School, Philadelphia, USA);

- Hypnotist, Biofeedback and Meditation Therapist.

- Family, Marital and Sex Therapist.

->Consultant Nutritional & Clinical Psychologist in Jaipur Hospital, India.

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