Shelley Kasli at GreatGameIndia comes to the same conclusion I did about the agitation at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP). He says it was funded and initiated by foreign groups.
Kasli also sees sabotage in the massive Indian electricity outage in 2012, as I did: “Is Massive Electricity Outage Sabotage by Elites?”
He blames it on Stuxnet. I was among the first (in 2010) to finger Stuxnet as a creation of the Western spy agencies
(See – Stuxnet: A Chronology).
See also these comments at EPJ “India’s Power Grid Fails for Second Day”
Lila RajivaJuly 31, 2012 at 10:00 AM“Don’t rule out the possibility of sabotage.
I’ve been watching this situation day to day with family members.
The state, yes. But it also has to do with the demands of the the elites that the Indian government speed up on “liberalization.”
This could be a show of power.
India was also hit by the stuxnet a while back. Now we know that the CIA and Mossad was behind that.
There have been ongoing low-grade attacks on India in the past two years (ranging from psywar in the media to small, apparently unrelated attacks).
The Rajat Gupta conviction was one part of it, IMHO.
The state with the highest level of outsourced industries, Tamil Nadu, has a chief minister who is bending backward for the neo-cons and their softpower NGOs and missions.
There have been raids on Hindu temples and theft of their gold by ostensibly secular governments (actually commie), who are hand in glove with the Christian outfits (read pro-Western). There is a lot of gold in some of those temples, and it is being pushed back into the government, via psywar against Hinduism. The idea is to get the money into the Indian government where the western elites can then draw it back to themselves.
Tamil Nadu is also the state with a huge number of multinationals and lots of electricity shortages, as it is.
There is instigated rioting in the NE where supposedly Hindus and Christians are attacking Muslims. I say supposedly because there is so much intelligence activity there (CIA and Mossad) it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s not.
There was an attack on India’s naval HQ on the east coast, allegedly by Chinese hackers, but since Stuxnet (US-Israeli) who knows.
And then the US shot down an Indian fishing boat.So don’t rule out that this could be a deliberate attack.”
AND
@Jkll.
I didn’t say who was behind it. I said don’t rule out the possibility.
CIA and Mossad ARE operating in India. Google David Headley and the Mumbai bombing.
(Kochi is now a leading center of the Asian drug trade, as is Mumbai. There is Mossad activity there too. Look it up.)
Multinationals are fighting Adivasis over mineral-rich lands in the east. Google Binayak Sen, Naxalites, etc.
There IS a rift between globalist-elites like Mittal and the Indian government.
There is a rift between the globalists themselves, like the one between the Ambani brothers (Mukesh and Anil) which is being played out in Andhra, also a center of high tech.
It’s led to rioting and looting in the past against Reliance outlets.
The looting was instigated by the reading out of a piece by Mark Ames, wildly speculating that Ambani murdered someone.
Ames, (Taibbi’s partner) has his own motives for spreading such rumors irresponsibly among illiterate people. The point is to provoke unrest.
That is why this Anna Hazare (trojan horse NGO backed anticorruption movement) has quickly claimed that the Indian government is behind the electricity failure. That conspiracy is covering the first few pages of Google. Hazare is trying to use the grid failure/sabotage as an excuse to provoke rioting and more unrest and confront the government to topple it. Color revolution anyone? And the color revolutions were Soros backed, weren’t they? That is CIA.
There were violent riots in the NE area in the last few days where the electricity outages began. Coincidence?
There was a cyber attack on Indian naval HQ in Vizag a couple of months ago.
CIA and Mossad admitted to having created Stuxnet.
Iran’s nuclear facility was hit by Stuxnet.
India also was hit by Stuxnet a couple of years ago, but more mildly.India partnered earlier this year with Iran in barter and non-dollar trade. Since there, the pressure has ratcheted up.
Those are conspiracy facts.
AND
Centralization is a problem. Yes. But there is much much more going on.
I don’t like government and no doubt India is hugely corrupt.
But revolution in India is not like some Tea Party guys holding a Townhall meeting.
Check out what really happened in the Rajat Gupta case on my blog.
http://mindbodypolitic.org/2012/07/31/war-on-india-is-massive-electric-outage-sabotage-by-elites/
I’ll be adding links as I find to this post.
@Jkll
1. Mossad presence in India is well-known, not documented. Mossad has been training Indian troops, for decades. Fact, not conspiracy.
2. Yes, Indian own multinationals too. What’s that got to do with it? Ambani is one of the richest men in the world. “Multinational” doesn’t automatically mean Western, although Western companies are heavily involved and most of the multinationals (duh) have international and Western interests.
Please read my writing about globalization before making silly assumptions.3. Barter with Iran is a good thing.Did I say not? The elites do not like it, because they prefer the dollar regime.
4. The elites or power-elite is polite short-hand for the central banking cartel, backed by the biggest financiers, bankers and business houses in the West, but including some non-Western groups as well.
Lila Rajiva
Two years later, the New York Times confirmed that analysis – the CIA and Mossad were behind Stuxnet.
SHELLEY KASLI:
“Last year there was a rather hasty exit of the key officials of KKNPP, namely Mr. M. Kasinath Balaji(transferred to Mumbai), Dr. S. K. Jain(moved to Tokyo to be the head of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO)) and Dr. Srikumar Banerjee(retired without given any extension) leaving the huge responsibility of commissioning the plant on a rather junior staff. The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy(PMANE) cried foul play and hinted at a conspiracy behind this claiming that these officials were responsible for corruption and buying substandard parts for the power plant.
The mystery deepens when an anonymous threat letter is received threatening the site director, other officials and their families. The post card was handwritten and posted from Chennai. A Tamil Nadu police official said that a case has been registered and that investigations were underway.
The letter, undersigned as ‘Makkal Nanban’ (people’s friend in Tamil), addresses KNPP officials and says,“Neither you nor your wife and children enjoy the three-stage protection of the nuclear plant. If we desire, we could kidnap, murder and throw you and your family into the sea. Better, you leave the place along with your family to your native places or countries.”
It is still not known whether it was the PMANE activists who wrote that letter or was it someone else who did it in their name.
However what we do know is that there were many foreign hands channeling their funds and engaged not only in organizing the protests but also other dubious activities as well. Below are a few of them to give you an idea.
· Joshua Anand, London
Tamil Nadu Police is investigating reports of $55,000 transferred from a source a certain Joshua Anand (a London based software engineer) to the wife of a leading local protester. The case against Ambika under Sec 102 CrPChas been registered by police after a branch of Canara bank reported the transfer of Rs 29,98,782 into her savings bank account.
· German National deported from Kudankoolam
A German national, Sonnteg Reiner Hermann was deported from Kudankoolam on charges of funding the anti-nuclear protests who allegedly had close links to S.P. Udayakumar, who has been spearheading the agitation.
· Rumors of Blasts
Protestors belonging to the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) spread rumors that there were blasts and deaths at the nuclear power plant. The rumors were supported by the local church authorities, who have been at the forefront of the protests. According to a report in the Deccan Chronicles, bells tolled at intermittent hours since midnight and public address systems asked people to assemble at open spaces in their villages since midnight. The fishermen and villagers were warned of leaking radiation, according to several media reports. Later Ratan Kumar Sinha,the chairman of the Atomic Energy commission confirmed, “These are baseless rumors being spread to create panic among the citizens living near the plant.No blast has occurred. It is someone’s wild imagination.”
· Rosbalt Sergei Stutov Hoax
Apparently there was news about a certain Sergei Stutov published in a Russian journal Rosbalt accusing the guy of corruption and selling cheap steel to nuclear power plants in India, Iran,China and Bulgaria. It was reported that Sergei Shutov, a director of Zio-Podolsk, a subsidiary of Rosatom was arrested on charges of corruption,fraud and supplying cheap Ukrainian steel blanks and steam generators in nuclear reactors. The story was published in 2 parts in Rosbalt from where it was quoted by Indian mainstream media, alternative media taking the que and politicians from all round the spectrum; no one waiting for a moment and trying to authenticate the news or even applying a little commonsense.
Considering the seriousness of the critical situation at hand and as portrayed well in India, interestingly no one in Iran,Bulgaria, China or even Russia seemed to bother about the issue except for the2 part articles on Rosbalt. This is a very delicate issue and would have undoubtedly been picked up by any of the countries to which the blanks were supplied or the international media given that the news was legitimate.
Below are the news links :
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· Saint Kudankoolam
Bank accounts of four NGOs have been frozen after an inquiry conducted by the Home Ministry reportedly found them diverting funds meant for charity to fuel the protests. On Sept 20 2011, R. Christopher Rajkumar, Executive Secretary, Commission on Justice, Peace and Creation,National Council of Churches in India, issued a call: “It is a very crucial time. Therefore, I kindly request you to please go there [Koodankulam] and register your solidarity with your colleagues. Secondly, please take a print out of the attached letter and send it to the Chief Minister and Prime Minister today yourself. Let us not waste a minute in this regard.”
Subsequently, Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières, in its November 2011 report, “India: On the protest movement against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant,” issued a collage of articles,including Rajkumar’s appeal, urging New Delhi to cancel the plant. What Rajkumar represents has little to do with religion. The National Council of Churches (NCC), with its international ties, has long been an instrument of the British liberal-leftist faction in the West. Over the years, under the pretext of being a religious organization, it has pushed its human rights,environment-protection, and rights of indigenous people campaigns for the colonial forces in order to stop development activities. There are serious claims against NCC being virulently anti-science and anti-development.
· Babus cautioned against Foreign Spies
Recently an official with the National Security Council secretariat S S Paul was put under surveillance after being “compromised” by a US embassy official Rosanna Minchew. The most famous recent case being of Rabinder Singh, a senior RAW official who was spirited away to the US since he had become a double agent.After many instances of babus falling into the foreign booby traps and reports of foreign NGOs funding people for anti-government protests the Centre has asked its senior officers not to mingle with foreigners working with different embassies or high commissioners as some of them could be spies looking to cultivate ‘sources’ within the government or push their agenda.
· NSG Mafia
The Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), V. Narayanaswamy, the point-person coordinating talks among all parties – state government, central government, and the villages around Kudankoolam—had said at a public meeting in Chennai, that those foreign anti-nuclear intruder-activists, stirring up trouble at the nuclear site, were all from America, Finland, France, Australia and Germany, among other places. What he doesn’t mention is that all these nations are the Nuclear Supplier Group(NSG) member-nations. NSG is the 45-member-nation body that controls supplies and re-transfer of all nuclear-related materials. It is important to note however that on Sept 6, 2008 it waived a 34 year old nuclear ban on India and are now getting ready to sign agreements to supply uranium to India.
· Greenpeace – The Green Monster’s Assault on Science & ReasonThe 2012 Blackout started a huge debate on India’s power consumption and energy requirement. With the recent Uttrakhand Disaster these voices have gotten more louder. This is the backdrop on which the next part of this report is based which deals with much recent events. Fortunately we’ll be in a position to detect the espionage before it happens. To prevent the folly however is in the hands of the political establishment along with the informed pressure from all aspects of society.”
Greenpeace holds a vital key for our discussion. It’s essential hence to understand its philosophy, workings and how it affects the case at hand. We’ll see a bit about it here and pick up on it as we move along.
Origins of Greenpeace
What is Greenpeace’s philosophy, this organization that enjoys the reputation as an environmental multinational with a million-dollar budget, modem technological equipment, and spectacular actions?
The first members of Greenpeace in the late1960s in Canada were Quakers, a religious congregation driven from England in the 17th century, which called themselves the Society of Friends or the Children of Light.The goal of this New Age movement, despite its advocacy of seemingly benevolent causes like animal rights and disarmament, is a Malthusian New World Order that, among other things,dictatorially determines questions of population density. Could that turn out to be as portrayed with alarming candor by Michael Solverstein, president of Environmental Economics, in a letter to the editor in the English-language magazine Greenpeace: “If necessary, nations of the Third World must be forced to remain poor if their development threatens resources on which all life depends”?
Greenpeace continually refers in its own publications to the change of consciousness introduced by the Club of Rome and to its advocacy of the “limits to growth”. The bylaws of Greenpeace Germany specify that, in case of dissolution of the organization, all assets are to go to Amnesty International.
On Nov. 14, 1993, Denmark’s TV-2 aired a documentary called “The Rainbow Man,” a damning expose of Greenpeace’s financial misconduct and connections to international terrorism. The documentary was co-produced by internationally renowned Icelandic filmmaker Magnus Gudmundsson, who had previously made two film documentaries showing the unsavory money making activities of Greenpeace. “The Rainbow Man” opened with an interview with Brian Metcalfe, founder of Greenpeace and its leader during the first decade of the organization’s existence.
Metcalfe said, “When I think back over the years of the Greenpeace story, how it developed from the way we started it and the way it is today, I often see myself as a kind of Dr.Frankenstein, who created a monster that now has a life of its own.”
Some of the features of “Eco-Extremism“Greenpeace is charged with are as follows:
• It is anti-human. The human species is characterized by Greenpeace and other ecological extremists as a “cancer” on the face of the Earth. The extremists propagate the belief that all human activity is negative,whereas the rest of nature is good. This results in alienation from nature and subverts the most important lesson of ecology: that we are all part of nature and interdependent with it.
• It is anti-technology and anti-science. Eco-extremists dream of returning to some kind of technologically primitive society. Horse-logging is the only kind of forestry that these people can fully support. They see all large machines as inherently destructive.
• It is anti-democratic. This is perhaps the most dangerous aspect of radical environmentalism. The very foundation of our society, liberal representative democracy, is rejected as being too ‘human-centered’. In the name of “speaking for the trees and other species,” we are faced with a movement that would usher in an era of eco fascism. The”planetary police” would “answer to no one but Mother Earth herself.”
• It is basically anti-civilization. Eco-extremism rejects virtually everything about modern society. We are told that nothing short of returning to primitive tribal society can save the Earth from ecological collapse! No more cities, no more airplanes, no more polyester suits. This is a naive vision of a return to the Garden of Eden.
(more on Greenpeace’s heroic deeds in the next part)
While everyone from Software Social Engineers to Nuclear Saints to NSG Mafia and even the Green Monster Hulk seemed to be overly interested in the welfare of the villagers of a relatively unknown remote village the name of which they hardly can pronounce; no one from our own establishments tried to clear the air and offer a reasonable explanation of what really was going on. The answer however could be found 3000 miles away in Iran.
New Era of Warfare
Last year Iran captured and executed many spies accused of cyber attacks. However these were no regular spies with no regular cyber attacks. They were accused of carrying out a very serious cyber attack of a worm called STUXNET.
When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. However, after a detailed research conducted by a German control system security consultant Ralph Langner and his team its purpose and its perpetrators were unmasked.
PURPOSE
Although current and former US officials agree Iran is years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead and has no secret uranium-enrichment site outside the purview of UN nuclear inspections recent revelations of the Stuxnet computer virus that destroyed several hundred centrifuges in Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility constitutes an act of deliberate and unparalleled sabotage. Stuxnet remains the most sophisticated malware discovered thus far, the virus targets Siemens’ Simatic WinCC Step7 software,which controls industrial systems such as nuclear power plants and electrical grids from a Microsoft Windows-based PC. The virus exploits security gaps referred to as zero-day vulnerabilities, to attack specific targets. Prior to its discovery, Stuxnet was previously undetected and remained unidentified by anti-virus software, as the malware was designed to appear as legitimate software to Microsoft Windows. Upon delivery of the Stuxnet payload, the malware manipulated the operating speed of centrifuges spinning nuclear fuel to create distortions that deliberately damaged the machines, while giving the impression of normal activities to the monitoring operator and disabling their emergency controls.
PERPETRATORS
Let’s hear it out from the expert himself who cracked the code.
Chris Anderson [Host]: I’ve got a question. Ralph, it’s been quite widely reported that people assume that Mossad is the main entity behind this(STUXNET). Is that your opinion?
Ralph Langner: Okay, you really want to hear that? Yeah. Okay. My opinion is that the Mossad is involved, but that the leading force is not Israel. So the leading force behind that is the cyber superpower. There is only one, and that’s the United States — fortunately,fortunately. Because otherwise, our problems would even be bigger.
To get a full understanding of the workings of this 21st-century cyber weapon, check out this talk by Ralph Langner :
http://www.ted.com/talks/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21st_century_cyberweapon.html
Last year anonymous government officials came forward to tell The New York Times that researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory, which is overseen by the US Department of Energy, passed technical information to Israel regarding vulnerabilities in cascades and centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant. That information, it is believed, was used to design the Stuxnet worm that set Iran’s nuclear program back an estimated two years.
There are serious accusations that STUXNET was tested in the never-acknowledged nuclear arms program at the Dimona Complex, Israel.
“To check out the worm, you have to know the machines,” said an American expert on nuclear intelligence. “The reason the worm has been effective is that the Israelis tried it out.”
The US and Israel have long been accused of collaborating on the virus in a bid to damage Iran’s nuclear program. While accusations against Washington and Tel Aviv have never been confirmed by either government,a NATO Commission has now confirmed it as an “act of force.”
Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright has been told he is a target of the probe, NBC News and The Washington Post reported Thursday. A“target” is someone a prosecutor or grand jury has substantial evidence linking to a crime and who is likely to be charged.
On 1 June 2012, an article in The New York Times said that Stuxnet is part of a U.S. and Israeli intelligence operation called “Operation Olympic Games“, started under President George W. Bush and expanded under President Barack Obama.
Add to this more than 5 Iranian Nuclear Scientists who were assassinated while on their morning commute in a similar fashion.
A couple of years ago, Iranian television broadcast the confession of one alleged agent who described studying a scale model of the home of the scientist he helped assassinate by hiding a bomb on a motorcycle outside the front door. “It was the exact copy of the real one,even the size, material, its color, the tree next to it, its asphalt, the street curb, the bridge,” said Majid Jamali Fashi on the air. He said he viewed the model in Mossad’s headquarters in Tel Aviv, which he described in detail. Intelligence sources confirmed Fashi’s involvement in a Mossad cell that the sources claim was revealed to Iran by a third country.
Although not content with that even the families of the scientists were wiped out.
The relatives of the nuclear scientists from Iran who were assassinated in 2010 have filed a lawsuit against Israel,the U.S. and Britain, saying the countries are responsible for the deaths of their loved ones.
In simple words what STUXNET did was infecting the very controlling systems of the plant itself. The controlling PLCs were manufactured by Siemens, Germany. Recently the Director of KKNPP has officially confirmed that Germany’s Siemens Corporation provided components for the construction of the nuclear power plant along with other companies.
India’s Space Research Organization(ISRO) is also a Siemens customer. According to the resumes of two former engineers who worked at the ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, the Siemens software in use is Siemens S7-400 PLC and SIMATICWinCC, both of which will activate the Stuxnet worm.
The recent arrest by the FBI of American space scientist Stewart David Nozette for espionage has cast a shadow over India’s Chandrayaan-I mission that successfully located water on the moon’s surface recently. The US scientist allegedly leaked information to Mossad.
The Russian power-plant company Atomstroyexport whose laptops were targeted and infected with STUXNET is believed to have brought the virus to the Iranian power-plant Bushehr. Atomstroyexport is currently also building a nuclear power plant in Kudankulam.
Whether KKNPP or ISRO or any other facility was infected or not could only be known after a thorough investigation is carried out.
However the figures released by Symantec & Kaspersky Lab Experts already show a troubling picture. According to these companies the figures indicate that it was actually India that was the epicenter of STUXNET activity.
If so, what were its targets and what are its implications ? To approach the question first we must fully understand the extent of threat posed by STUXNET. Here is a bit of its taste.
Next Pearl Harbour
STUXNET seemed like a Pandora’s Box with U.S. Intelligence Officials to Computer Security Experts all going crazy arguing it opened up a new era of warfare and that the Next Pearl Harbour could very well be a STUXNET-like Electro MagneticPulse(EMP) High Impact Low Frequency Cyberattack targeting key critical infrastructure able to shut down the nation’s power grid and other functions, such as food and fuel supply systems, sending the nation back to the 19th century; so much so that President Obama even in this fiscal climate have cut $1 billion from FEMA budget for a possible EMP recovery.
Stuxnet represents the new warfare
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/60-minutes-stuxnet-represents-the-new-warfare/70773
Yes I am talking about Firesale.For those of you who didn’t get it check out Die Hard 4.0; it brilliantly plays out this particular scenario to the edge.
Now that you get the gravity of the situation we can approach our question of the possible targets of STUXNET and implications of India being the epicenter of STUXNET activity.March 2011 >
The government fears a cyber attack on the power transmission lines and air traffic control systems by the new and sophisticated computer program Stuxnet. “One of the routers in the power sector was attacked by a very sophisticated stuxnet type of virus” said a senior official of Power Grid’s IT department.PowerGrid Corporation has about seven ‘Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition’ (SCADA)-based systems installed. “Previously, our systems were not connected to the internet.But now we need to provide data to various parties online. This increases risks and we need to secure our systems adequately,” the officer added. PowerGrid is the power supply backbone of India, which carries over 51% of electricity supplied in India.
“Systems that are installed at our load dispatch centres control the main backbone of the electricity distribution system of the nation and they need to be secured,” another PowerGrid official said.
July 2012 >
India experienced the largest power outage in history, occurring as two separate events on 30 and 31 July 2012. The outage affected over 620 million people, about9% of the world population or half of India’s population, spread across 22states in Northern, Eastern, and Northeast India. An estimated 32 gigawatts of generating capacity was taken offline in the outage
The three-member investigating committee consisting of S. C. Srivastava, A. Velayutham and A. S.Bakshi issued its report on 16 August 2012 concluding that four factors were responsible for the two days of blackout:
– Weak inter-regional power transmission corridors due to multiple existing outages (both scheduled and forced)
– High Loading on 400kV Bina-Gwalior-Agra link.
– Inadequate response by State Load Despatch Centers (SLDCs) to the instructions of – Regional Load Despatch Centres (RLDCs) to reduce over drawal by the Northern Region utilities and underdrawal/excess generation by the Western Region utilities.
– Loss of 400 kV Bina-Gwalior link due to mis-operation of its protection system.
However on September2012 >
A government official, privy to NTRO’s analysis and speaking on condition of anonymity, told India Today that of the 10,000 infected Indian computers at the time, 15 were located at what are called ‘critical infrastructure’ facilities.These included the Gujarat and Haryana electricity boards and an ONGC offshore oil rig. While the flaw caused Stuxnet to reach these computers, thankfully, it did not activate itself on them. In other words, India was only a few flawed lines of code away from having its power and oil sectors crippled.
Read more at : http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/stuxnet-cyber-war-critical-infrastructure-of-india-ntro/1/216107.htmlAs is the case in this game of espionage and Gang Wars of the so called Superpowers, it is always the third world countries that become the guinea pigs. I leave it upto you to draw your own conclusions.
To quickly bring us back on track – whats going on here is not some randomly funded anti-nuclear activities or a randomly planned espionage blackout. The question here is much bigger. It is a Resource War, more specifically in our case – Energy Geopolitics.