Werner Von Braun's Predictions

Flashclub, January 24, 2008

The pioneer rocket scientist laying on his death bed confided in Dr. Carol Rosin his fears about the weaponization of space. He identified the scare tactics that would convince the public to accept that space-based weapons need to be built.
He made this prediction in the early 70's what these artificial threats would consist of:

1. Russians / Communists
2. Terrorists
3. Third-world Country "Crazies" / Axis of Evil / Nations of Concern
4. Asteroids
5. Aliens (extraterrestrials)

[I strongly advise you to visit Dr. Greer's web site at www.disclosureproject.org .
The information there is mind-boggling, Wes Penre]

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Dr Carol Rosin was the first woman corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun in the last years of his life. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington DC and has testified before Congress on many occasions about space based weapons. Von Braun revealed to Dr Rosin a plan to justify weapons in spaced based on hoaxing an extraterrestrial threat. She was also present at meetings in the '70s when the scenario for the Gulf War of the '90s was planned.

CR: Dr Carol Rosin
SG: Dr Steven Greer

CR: My name is Carol Rosin. I am an educator who became the first woman corporate manager of an Aerospace Company, Fairchild Industries.

I am a Space and Missile Defense Consultant and have consulted to a number of companies, organizations, and government departments, even the intelligence community. I was a consultant to TRW working on the MX missile, so I was part of that strategy, which turned out to be a role model for how to sell space-based weapons to the public. The MX missile is yet another weapon system that we didn't need. I founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space, a Washington DC based think tank. I am an author and have testified before Congress and the President's Commission on Space.

When I was a Corporate Manager of Fairchild Industries from 1974 through 1977, I met the late Dr Wernher Von Braun. We first met in early 1974. At that time, Von Braun was dying of cancer but he assured me that he would live a few more years to tell me about the game that was being played- that game being the effort to weaponize space, to control the Earth from space and space itself. Von Braun had a history of working with weapons systems. He escaped from Germany to come to this country and became a Vice President of Fairchild Industries when I had met him. Von Braun's purpose during the last years of his life, his dying years, was to educate the public and decision-makers about why space-based weapons are dumb, dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, unworkable, and an undesirable idea, and about the alternatives that are available.

As practically a deathbed speech, he educated me about those concepts and who the players were in this game. He gave me the responsibility, since he was dying, of continuing this effort to prevent the weaponization of outer space. When Wernher Von Braun was dying of cancer, he asked me to be his spokesperson, to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak. I did this.

What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again during the approximately four years that I had the opportunity to work with him. He said the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers was to use scare tactics That was how we identify an enemy. The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy. In fact, in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy. We were told that they had "killer satellites". We were told that they were coming to get us and control us-that they were "Commies."

Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country "crazies." We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons.

The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it.

Asteroids- against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.

And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. That would be the final scare. And over and over and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving speeches for him, he would bring up that last card. "And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie."

I think I was too na�ve at that time to know the seriousness of the nature of the spin that was being put on the system. And now, the pieces are starting to fall into place. We are building a space-based weapons system on a premise that is a lie, a spin. Wernher Von Braun was trying to hint that to me back in the early 70's and right up until the moment when he died in 1977.

What he told me was that there is an accelerated effort in place. He didn't mention a timeline but he said that it was going to be speeding up faster than anybody could possibly imagine. That the effort to put weapons into space was not only based on a lie but would accelerate past the point of people even understanding it until it was already up there and too late.

When Von Braun was dying in front of me, the very first day that I met him, he had tubes draining out of his side. He was tapping on the desk telling me, "You will come to Fairchild." I was a schoolteacher. He said, "You will come to Fairchild and you will be responsible for keeping weapons out of space." The way he said it with this intenseness in his eyes, and added that very first day, the first time I met him, that space-based weapons were a dangerous, destabilizing, too costly, unnecessary, untestable, unworkable idea.

The last card that was being held was the extraterrestrial enemy card.

The intensity with which he said that, made me realize that he knew something that he was too afraid to mention. He was too afraid to talk about it. He would not tell me the details.

I am not sure that I would have absorbed them if he had told me the details or even believed him in 1974. But there was no question that that man knew and had a need to know, I found out later.

There is no doubt in my mind that Wernher Von Braun knew about the extraterrestrial issue. He explained to me the reasons why weapons were going to be put into space, the enemies against whom we were going to build these weapons, and that all of that was a lie. He mentioned that extraterrestrials were going to be identified as the final enemy against whom we were going to build space-based weapons back in 1974.

The way he said it to me, there was no doubt in my mind that he knew something that he was too afraid to talk about.

Wernher Von Braun never spoke to me about any of the details that he knew related to extraterrestrials except that one day extraterrestrials were going to be identified as an enemy against whom we are going to build an enormous space-based weapons system. Wernher Von Braun actually told me that the spin was a lie-that the premise for space-based weaponry, the reasons that were going to be given, the enemies that we were going to identify-were all based on a lie.

I have been tracking the space-based weapons issue for about 26 years.

I have debated Generals and Congressional Representatives. I have testified before the Congress and the Senate. I have met with people in over 100 countries. But I have not been able to identify who the people are who are making this space-based weapons system happen. I see the news. I see the administrative decisions being made. I know that they are all based on lies and greed.

But I have yet to be able to identify who the people are. That is after tracking this issue for 26 years. I know that there are big secrets being kept and I know that it is time the public and decision-makers pay attention to the people who are now going to be disclosing the truth. Then we need to make some definite changes and build a system in space that will benefit every single person, and all of the animals, and the environment of this planet. The technology is there. The solutions to Earth's urgent and long-term potential problems are there. I have a feeling that once we start studying this extraterrestrial issue, all of the questions are going to be answered that I have had for 26 years.

But I have concluded that it is based on a few people making a lot of money and gaining power. It is about ego. It is not about our essence and who we really are on this planet and loving each other and being at peace and cooperating. It isn't about using technology to solve problems and heal people in the planet. It isn't about that. It is about a few people who really are playing an old, dangerous, costly game for their own pocketbooks and power struggle. That is all it is.

I believe that this entire space-based weapons game is initiated right here in the United States of America. What I hope is that with this information that is being disclosed, the new administration will to do what is right. That is to transform the war game into a space game so that we use the technologies that are available not just as spin-offs of war technology, but as direct technological applications to build a cooperative space system that will benefit the entire world and that will allow us to communicate with the extraterrestrial cultures that are obviously out there.

Who would benefit from these space-based weapons? They are the people who work in that arena, people in the military, in industries, in universities and labs, in the intelligence community. This is not just in the United States but it is worldwide. This is a worldwide cooperative system. Wars are cooperative. Just as peace will be when it breaks out. But right now there are a lot of people benefiting.

This is what our economy has been based on in this country and spreading around the world-war. People suffer as a result. It is not fair. It never has been. People have screamed: "out of swords let us build plow shares, let's have peace and hold hands around the world," but it hasn't worked because too many people are benefiting. Not only are they benefiting financially, but from what my experience is there are people who actually believe that Armageddon should happen so we have to have these wars.

So, it is going from the pocketbook, to the religious right: some people actually believe that we have to have wars for these religious reasons. There are people who just love war. I have met warriors who just love to go to war. Then there are the good people, the soldiers, who just take orders. They have to feed their children and send them to college so they want to keep their jobs.

People in laboratories have told me that they don't want to work on these technologies for war but if they don't they won't get a paycheck. Who is going to pay them? But what I see is that there are not only dual uses for these technologies but there are many uses for the same technologies.

We can build space hospitals, schools, hotels, laboratories, farms, industries. It may sound far out but if we don't do that we are going to build battle stations and weapons pointed down all of our throats and into space. Apparently we have been doing some of that already.

We have a choice now that can be made. We can all benefit-all of the people in the military industrial complex, in the intelligence community, in universities and labs, in the United States and all over the world-we can all benefit. We can just transform that industry so easily with just a decision based on our highest consciousness, our spirituality, and on the fact that we have no choice unless we all want to die. And we don't. So we can all benefit financially, spiritually, socially, psychologically; it is technologically and politically feasible to transform this game now and everybody will benefit.

In 1977, I was at a meeting in Fairchild Industries in a conference room called the War Room. In that room were a lot of charts on the walls with enemies, identified enemies. There were other more obscure names, names like Saddam Hussein and Khadafi. But we were talking then about terrorists, the potential terrorists. No one had ever talked about this before but this was the next stage after the Russians against whom we were going to build these space-based weapons. I stood up in this meeting and I said, "Excuse me, why are we talking about these potential enemies against whom we are going to build space-based weapons if, in fact, we know that they are not the enemy at this time?"

Well, they continued the conversation about how they were going to antagonize these enemies and that at some point, there was going to be a war in the Gulf, a Gulf War. Now this is 1977, 1977! And they were talking about creating a war in the Gulf Region when there was 25 billion dollars in the space-based weapons program that had yet to be identified. It wasn't called the Strategic Defense Initiative, at least. Not until 1983. This weapons system, then, had obviously been going on for some time and I didn't know anything about. So I stood up in this meeting in 1977 and said, "I would like to know why we are talking about space-based weapons against these enemies. I would like to know more about this. Would someone please tell me what this is about?" Nobody answered. They just went on with this meeting as though I hadn't said anything.

Suddenly, I stood up in the room and said, "If nobody can tell me why you are planning a war in the Gulf when there is a certain amount of money in a budget so that you can create the next set of weapons systems that will be the beginning of the sell to the public about why we need space-based weapons, then consider this: my resignation. And you will not hear from me again!"

And nobody said a word, because they were planning a war in the Gulf and it happened exactly as they planned it, on time.

SG: Who was at this meeting?

CR: The room was filled with people in the revolving door game. There were people that I had seen once in a military uniform and other times in a gray suit and an industry outfit. These people play a revolving door game. They work as consultants, industry people, and/or military and intelligence people. They work in the industries and they revolve themselves through these doors and right into government positions.

I stood up in this meeting and asked if I was hearing correctly. That when there was 25 billion dollars expended in the space-based weapons budget, that there was going to be a war in the Gulf, stimulated, created, so that they could then sell the next phase of weapons to the public and the decision-makers. This war was going to be created so that they could dump the old weapons and create a whole new set of weapons. So I had to resign from that position. I could no longer work in that industry.

In about 1990 I was sitting in my living room looking at the money that had been spent on space-based weapons research and development programs and I realized that it had come to that number, about 25 billion dollars, and I said to my husband, "I am now going to stop everything. I am now going to stop and sit and watch CNN television and I am going to wait for the war to happen." My husband said, "Well, you have finally gone over the edge. You have flipped out."
Friends said, "You have really gone too far this time. There is not going to be a war in the Gulf, nobody is talking about a war in the Gulf."

I said, "There is going to be a war in the Gulf. I am going to sit here and wait for the war in the Gulf." And it happened right on schedule.

As part of the war game in the Gulf, we in the public were told that the United States was successful in shooting down Russian Scud Missiles. We were rationalizing new budgets based on that success. In fact, we found out later, after the budgets were approved for the next phase of weapons, that it was a lie. We did not have successful shoot-downs the way we were told. It was all a lie, just to get more money put in the budget to make more weapons.

I was one of the first people to go independently to Russia when I heard that they had "killer satellites."

[See the testimony of Dr Paul Czysz. SG]

When I went to Russia in the early 70's, I found out that they didn't have killer satellites, that it was a lie. In fact, the Russian leaders and people wanted peace. They wanted to cooperate with the United States and with the people of the world.

Another time I called Saddam Hussein when he was lighting his oil fields on fire. My husband was in the kitchen while I was making this phone call. I got a call back from his First Attach� with Saddam Hussein nearby and he asked, "Are you a reporter? Are you an agent?

Why do you want to know?"

I said, "No. I am just a citizen who helped to start the movement to prevent the weaponization of outer space and I have found that a lot of stories that I have been told about weapons systems and the enemies are not true. I wanted to find out what would satisfy Saddam Hussein so he would stop making these oil fields catch fire and stop antagonizing people." He said, "Well, nobody has ever asked him that question, what he wants."

So, when I hear that there is a possible threat of extraterrestrials-and I look at the history of thousands of years of possible ET visitations, and hear the disclosures of honest military-intelligence- industry people who have had experiences with UFO's, with crashes and landings, with live and dead bodies of extraterrestrial beings-I know it is a lie. And if I am ever told that these are enemies against whom we have to build space-based weapons systems, based on my own personal experience of having worked in the military industrial complex on weapons systems and military strategy, I am going to know it is a lie.

It is a lie.

Not only will I not believe it, but I am going to go out as loudly as I can and tell everyone to take a look. They [the ET's] have not taken us away yet. We are still here after thousands of years of visits. If in fact they are still visiting us now and we have not been harmed then we have to look at this as something that is not a hostile occurrence.

It would be my hope and my intention to do everything I could to work with people who are working to communicate with and cooperate with these extraterrestrial beings. They are clearly not hostile. We are here. That is enough proof for me.

There is no limit to how people can choose to live on this planet. We have a chance to do that and I think that the window is closing rapidly. I don't think that we have much time in which to make that decision. We are too close in too many ways to having some horrible disaster happen, having some sort of war take place, whether it is from high technology or an exotic weapons system.

We need leadership and it has to start with the United States President and that is who we all have to reach. If you are international, if you are around the world, if you are in the United States of America, whether you are from any party, any belief system or religion- the United States Commander in Chief, the President of the United States is the person that needs to be reached.

We need to say that we want an ultimate, comprehensive, verifiable ban on all space-based weapons.

Duncan M. Roads, Editor, NEXUS Magazine
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia.
Tel: 07 5442 9280; Fax: 07 5442 9381
www.nexusmagazine.com

"The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end."
(Aldous Huxley)

Updated/Revised: Friday, April 29, 2005 20:28:16 �0700
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India Launches Universal ID System with Biometrics

September 13th, 2010
by Aaron Saenz

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India's Unique ID number will be tied into iris scans and fingerprints.

India has launched an ambitious program to fit each of its 1.2 billion residents with an Unique identification number (UID). Each number will be tied into three pieces of biometric data: fingerprints (all ten digits), iris scans (both eyes), and a picture of the face. Starting this month, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will begin processing people in various locations around the country. UIDAI aims to slowly roll out the program through February of 2011 and to ID 600 million people in the next four years! This is a mammoth program. While residents are not mandated to get a UID, a growing list of services including social welfare and even some bank accounts will soon require the identification number. If successful, this will be the first biometrically verified universal ID implemented on a national scale. India is forging new ground, drawing both fears and hopes of what a national ID number may bring with it.

Ostensibly the UIDAI was formed, and the idea of UID green-lighted, to help those 440 million Indian people who were found to be below the poverty level in 2002. The nation has an extensive series of social welfare programs – everything from medical support to home heating fuel subsidies – but many of these services are ripe with corruption and bureaucratic stagnation. Many of India’s poorest citizens do not have ID cards, bank accounts, or even addresses that they can use to register for social services. Often the money for these programs ends up in the hands of middle class families tricking the system by using false identification schemes. With the UID, India hopes to give every resident a means of accessing welfare services as well as cut down on fraud. To the UIDAI, the purpose of a national ID is to enable the government to get help to those who need it.

Yet the UID is going to be used for much more than social welfare programs. The UIDAI is in discussions with many institutions (banks, local/state governments, etc) to allow them to use the UID as a means of identity verification. These institutions will pay the UIDAI some fee to cover costs and generate revenue. There seems to be little doubt that once it is established, the UID will become a preferred method (if not the preferred method) of identification in India.

Fingerprinting for the UID will cover all digits on both hands.

There, of course, will be some advantages to this. Drivers from one state will not need, nor be able to, acquire licenses from another state as their information will be universally accessible in the national database. Migrant workers, displaced poor, and refugees can all be confident that their UID identifies them no matter where they go in their country.

Ultimately I wouldn’t be surprised if the UID, with its biometric data, could be used as a means of payment (when linked to a bank account), or as an access key to homes and cars. Purchase a meal with your fingerprint and unlock your door with the twinkle in your eye. Similar results could be expected in other nations that adopted biometric identification systems.

To privacy advocates, however, the very concept of a national ID number is anathema. Putting all the personal information in one system opens the possibilities that it can be used for nefarious purposes – everything from identification fraud to genocide. The inclusion of biometric data such as fingerprints and iris scans increase the accuracy of such a system but also lends it an air of oppressive technologically-enabled surveillance.

The UID will also include a photo of the face...but doesn't everything these days?

In order to alleviate some concerns, the UIDAI has highlighted ways that the UID is less binding than it may appear on the surface. First, they emphasize that acquiring the UID is not mandated. Though, as we’ve said, the number of benefits that will be exclusively offered through the UID will make it so desirable as to be effectively mandated. The UIDAI also points out that the UID is just a number, not an ID card. Each Indian state will still be responsible for issuing licenses and identification cards. While these cards are going to reference the UID, they may or may not contain the biometric data and other personal information gathered during UID registration. The actual UID number will not contain any intelligence; that is, it will not code for anything. It’s only a random string of digits, making it harder for hackers to exploit the system. UID’s will be given to every resident of India, no matter their citizen status.

The registration process has also been made transparent. When a resident is interviewed for the UID, they can see everything that the processor does via an outwardly facing computer screen attached to their laptop. Residents provide their name, date of birth, gender, father’s UID (if applicable), mother’s UID (if applicable), and address (if applicable). Fingerprints, picture, and iris scans are collected at the same time.

I understand the creepiness factor associated with a government agency registering everyone, giving them a number, and scanning their fingers and eyes. There’s some chilling Big Brother-like aspects to this whole affair. Yet the problem of insuring that resources make it to India’s poor is very real, and there’s the strong possibility that the UID will be empowering and democratizing to the 440 million Indians below the poverty level. It will take years before we know if the benefits of the UID program will outweigh the abuses it could create. The debate on privacy and national ID continues, but in India it looks like the UIDAI is already moving towards victory.

Note:
The article published in this blog titled "Some Parallels between US 9/11 and India's 9/11" shows India's road to implementing this UID project.

U.S. Military Officers for 9/11 Truth

It is one more feather in the cap of "9/11 Truth Movement" when Commissioned and Non-commissioned U.S. Military Officers join the Truth Movement along with others such as:
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth,
Veterans for 9/11 Truth,
Lawyers for 9/11 Truth,
Firefighters for 9/11 Truth,
Pilots for 9/11 Truth,
Political & Religious leaders for 9/11 Truth,
Scientists for 9/11 Truth,
Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth,
Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice

A Word of Caution Though
Among the humongous number of Military officers who joined the 9/11 Truth movement and whose names are listed on the website, I am skeptical of one name and that is the name of Retd. Major General Albert Stubblebine. What he talks about 9/11 might be true but there are some other areas where this individual has been spotted for suspicion.

Albert Stubblebine is a retired Major General of the United States Army, who also worked as the commanding general of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984. Apparently, he is also known for his interest in parapsychology, states Wiki profile. Stubblebine and his wife Dr. Rima Laibow (Psychiatrist) founded the Natural Solutions Foundation (NSF) "a non-profit corporation devoted to protecting and promoting health freedom". They claim to expose dangerous prescription drugs and vaccines promoted by Big Pharma and stand in defense of natural foods and vitamins. In particular , they claim to fight the Codex Alimentarius legislation that is being pushed by the Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). However, some skeptics have raised concerns about the genuineness of the couple.

In the eyes of skeptics, the couple who purportedly fight the Codex Alimentarius, are disinformation agents or agents of counter-opposition. In other words, they appear to be on the side of the people opposing the legislation but in reality they are diverting the opposition from its rightful track. I came to be alarmed of the couple from sources such as the Dr. Rath Foundation, Ian R. Crane's presentation, Dr. Rebecca Carley and others. I thought I would add this as a note when I saw Major Stubblebine's name in the list.

Some Parallels between US 9/11 and India's 9/11: Say No to UIDs

Recently, the Unique ID (UID) Project that’s being pushed through the National Identification Authority bill, currently in the Indian Parliament, came under criticism by civil society groups under the banner of ‘Campaign for No UID’. The UID Project led by Mr. Nandan Nilekani, former CEO of IT major Infosys, is being pushed as a landmark initiative for ushering in ‘good governance’ and providing basic services to the poor. What follows is a piece that I wrote in response to an article titled UID Not In The Public Interest in a different forum. My urge for writing this piece stems from looking at the scenarios or circumstances that led to the call for UIDs in India rather than the UID itself.

I wish the campaign against the UID project wins the battle and the beast be killed in the womb itself. The push for this new ID comes on top of other existing IDs such as the Passport, Driver's Licence, Ration Card, Electoral ID, PAN Card etc. The administration seems to be taking advantage of the political ignorance of the people in the name of 'technological advancement' & 'progress'. Even the mainstream media (The Hindu) has raised some concerns about this issue before. As far as I understand, the UID project is part of a global initiative and is probably the reason why this Unique ID (UID) is also sometimes called the Universal ID.

By undertaking ambitious UID plan, knowingly or unknowingly Nandan Nilekani is simply advancing a global agenda, locally in India, backed by the global elites and that is to microchip the entire global population eventually. This has nothing to do with the safety, security or welfare of the public but has everything to do with total control of the people and every aspect of their lives. The push for Universal ID in India or for that reason the National Security ID in US, are only the first steps to a larger agenda of implanting RFID chips in human beings. Once it's in place, every human being can be tracked on the globe (using GPS) and all money is to be in these chips as there won't be any paper currency. When all the money is in the chip, they can take out whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted (e.g. tax, fees, fines etc), says Aaron Russo. Further, if you protest against the authority, they can simply turn off your chip, which leaves you with nothing. So, no matter what stories they tell you to sell you their 'advanced technology', the ultimate goal is the global enslavement through control of each individual.

The claims that this one ID would replace the need to submit so many other documents imply that several of your personal information including medical, banking etc. could some day in future be merged into this one little piece of ID. Please watch this 10 min excerpt from the historic interview with Aaron Russo or at least the first 2 minutes to see what he has to say about this technology and its ultimate goal. An updated version of the full interview is also available and is certainly worth watching.

The following are my observations and I might be wrong in stretching certain things a bit too far, but I felt compelled to write it down. So, here we go..

Remember the scenarios or events that led to the call for UIDs in India?

Immediately after India's 9/11 (Mumbai attack), the Govt. invoked the Draconian UAPA Law and shortly after that they called for an Universal ID (UID). This was very much in line with what happened in US after 9/11, which gave their Govt. the excuse to invoke the Patriot Act (a draconian law) and subsequently call for the enforcement of a National Security ID. However, since US is one step ahead of the rest of the world and thousands of people know where the US is going with their National ID plan, we can very well forecast where India is going with its UID plan, simply because there's so much parallels between what's unfolding in both countries/continents.

Undeniably, there's quite a bit of parallelism between what happened in US after 9/11 and what's unfolding in India after India's 9/11. Both used false-flag terror attacks as a pretext to invoke draconian laws and enforce National Security IDs; as if these were the standard procedures (or the only measures) to be adopted in the aftermath of a terror attack. To understand it, I think, you may have to go back to an year before the general elections of May 2009. Back in April/May 2008, both parties of India came up with their major agendas for the election campaign. I was startled to see that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had 'Terrorism' as one of their main agenda.

As of 2006, about 40% of Americans did not believe in the official story of 9/11 anymore [This was only 2nd to the number of people who did not believe in the official story of JFK assassination (70%)]. This number has increased by the day ever since and this movement has crossed the N. American continent, to Britain and now sweeping across Europe. So when you know that much of what's called terrorism today is a phony issue or a giant hoax, I had a reason to suspect why "terrorism" was picked as one of the major agendas in 2008. A basic understanding of political philosophy tells that you cannot go campaigning for an election with an issue that doesn't really exist (I believe, terrorism was not as much as a menace to be campaigned as a major agenda for election by any party). If it doesn't exist, then it has to be created. So, is it a coincidence that we had a series of terror attacks in the months that followed? Look at the number of terror attacks that rocked India between May 2008 and Nov. 2008 and the frequency with which it happened (Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Malegaon, Assam, Delhi and finally culminating in the Mumbai attack). We had 6 or 7 attacks happening in a row in just a matter of 6 months and all being hyped. Compare that with the number & frequency with which terror attacks happened in the 4 yrs prior to that. Does that ring any bell? And interestingly we didn't have any terror attacks since then (India's 9/11) for more than a year. Did the terrorists take a long break from their bombing spree or did they reconcile with the Indian people or did someone else accomplish something by staging these terror attacks?

Often what happens after a crisis is what needs to be followed in order to understand why that crisis happened in the first place.

In the US, the 9/11provided the perfect excuse to invoke the Patriot Act. Compare this with Hitler's German Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz) of 1933 and how it was enacted. The Patriot Act, a 300 plus pages document, drafted over a period of several years was waiting for the right crisis to be invoked. It takes away a lot of the people's rights & freedom. According to it, now they can arrest or detain you without a warrant, raid or break into your house without your permission, seize properties, trace or tap any forms of communications (telephone, emails etc.) and if arrested on supposed 'terror' charges "you are guilty until proven innocent" which is against the civilized law that states "you are innocent until proven guilty". In other words, more & more powers are being taken away from the people and vested with the Govt. or President. Subsequently, they called for a National Security ID, which if not for the 9/11 attack, would have never been accepted by the people. The next step in their plan was to merge these IDs with the driver's licence so that you are forced to carry it. They do it one-step-at-a-time and eventually these chips are to contain all your personal information (including medical, banking etc.). It's only a matter of time before these chips would jump from your cards to your body. The point here is that 9/11 gave the perfect excuse to implement these agendas.

Could India be following the same footsteps; invoking the UAPA Law and pushing the UID project, both in the wake of staged terror attacks?

My suspicion grew stronger particularly after the Bangalore and Ahmadabad bombings that happened on consecutive days in late July 2008. Interestingly both were BJP ruled states. What better place to stage a false-flag attack than to stage it in their own states! The news media like Times of India (TOI) was quick to respond with articles like "BJP ruled states under attack", "BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh under high alert", etc. Though it sounds true at prima facie, why would someone bring BJP into the equation while addressing terrorism? I wondered if those titles were aimed at unsuspecting people to gain their sympathy in favour of BJP because it was the only party campaigning for election with combating terrorism as one of their major agenda? Even more interesting was that within 24 hrs of this incident, L. K. Advani (then the leader of opposition and the Prime Ministerial candidate) came on stage bashing the central Govt. for repealing the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA), as if it was because of the lack of POTA that terror attacks happened. This, to me, sounded more like the classic case of the Hegelian dialectic: PROBLEM - REACTION - SOLUTION. They created a Problem, hyped it using the media for the public to React and then they came up with their own Solution, without giving any time for the people to think. It was one or two months after this attack that the head of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Hemant Karkare exposed the Hindutva terror network within India linked to the Indian Army official, Hindutva cadre and other factions of BJP. The whole of India was taken by surprise and shocked while there was nothing really to be surprised at all.

In several cases, the BJP leadership in these states itself pose the biggest obstacle to any unbiased investigation. To cite a recent example, a thorough investigation by the Rajasthan ATS, after the ouster of BJP from power in the state, revealed that the RSS activists were actually involved in the Ajmer bomb attack of October 2007, which was earlier blamed on HuJI, LeT and such Muslim terrorist groups. In fact, a Rajasthan police team had even cracked the Ajmer blast way back in 2007 but because of political pressure the findings were kept under the wrap, reports Gatade.

Another example I could remember was the controversy surrounding a photograph that appeared in almost all the mainstream media after the Delhi terror attacks in September 2008. At least eight mainstream English newspapers (including The Times of India, The Indian and The New Indian Express, The Hindu, the Hindustan Times, The Deccan Chronicle) and many more in the regional language papers uncritically published almost identical photographs on their front pages. It was a picture of the three suspected terrorists arrested in connection with the Delhi serial blasts. However, there was something strange about this photograph. A critique, titled "The uses and misuses of photographs" by Sadanand Menon addresses it and described this incident as one of those where the Indian media collectively displayed a herd-like mentality.

Finally, there came the Mumbai attacks. When all the other attacks until then were mostly covered only locally, Mumbai terror attacks received global coverage. This brought India to the status of a global ally in the phony ‘War on Terror’. So is there any wonder why it follows the exact footsteps of US? Despite the number of controversies (lies, fabrications) surrounding the official story of Mumbai attacks (see [1], [2]), it formed the basis for launching the draconian UAPA Law and the subsequent call for UIDs. Further, India's 9/11 also took some obstacles out of the way like I.P.S Officer Karkare and his associates, just as US 9/11 took down John O'Neil along with the WTC towers. [The Fed blocked his investigation who almost tipped off the connection between CIA and Bin Laden]. The mystery surrounding the death of the ATS chief Karkare and his associates alone [3], [4] is enough to suggest that some elements in India certainly had prior knowledge of the oncoming attacks. To me, the only thing right about Mumbai attack was that they rightly termed it as 'India's 9/11' because it had all the fingerprints of a false-flag attack like the US 9/11.

In essence, by invoking the UAPA Law, Congress did what BJP wanted. However, BJP is not the sole beneficiary from this deal. The ever-expanding definition of the term 'Terrorist' in these draconian laws can be extended to anyone who voices dissent against the authority and is a threat to the very democratic rights. Today, the Union Minister of Home Affairs Mr. Chidambaram and his cronies have already extended it to their fight against Naxalites & Maoists where they are grabbing tribal land by force under 'Operation Green Hunt' and turning it over to corporate criminals offshore. Any dissenting voices from social activists, human rights activists or protesters can be silenced under these laws (e.g. See what happened to Dr. Sen). Tomorrow, any form of dissent or resistance to the state could be labelled as a threat to the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India and hence the dissenter be branded as a Terrorist. In short, these laws are ultimately going to be used against the very people they promised to protect. Terrorists & terror attacks were simply a means to the end. Remember the saying, "Terrorists & dictators are two sides of the same coin and they have always done business with the rich".

For Nilekani, UID project may be a business venture, but for the Govt. it's certainly a tool to control and spy on its citizens; and sadly for the people, it's the first step to total enslavement.

Notes:
1. India's Terror Dossier: Further Evidence Of A Conspiracy
(http://countercurrents.org/hansa050209.htm)

2. Unanswered Questions About Mumbai Terror Attacks
(http://countercurrents.org/hansa130510.htm)

3. Who Killed Karkare? The Real Face of Terrorism in India by S. M. Mushrif, Former I. G. Police, MH (A Review)

4. To the last bullet by Vinita Kamate