The plot behind Sabotage Kudankulam

[Sehwag1830]

March 5, 2012 Rakesh Krishnan Simha Fundamentalist Christian churches and remote-controlled NGOs are the new WMDs workers of mass disruption who are working in sync with their Western backers to weaken India economically and socially. Their first big hit: the Kudankulam nuclear plant. Source: RIA Novosti On the night of June 20, 2011 a Tupolev-134 jetliner with 43 passengers and a crew of nine took off from Moscow for Petrozavodsk, about 950 km to the north. Midway through the flight, the plane lost altitude and crashed onto a highway in the northern republic of Karelia. The passengers killed included Sergei Ryzhov, the chief designer of the light water nuclear reactors built by Russia in various countries, including Kudankulam in India. In fact, the entire leadership of the reactor design unit of RussiaÃÔ state nuclear corporation was wiped out. The cause was of the crash was never satisfactorily established. The tragedy, however, did not stop Russia from completing RyzhovÃÔ unfinished job in Kudankulam. ThatÃÔ because the allure of the atomic power is very strong in India where high economic growth is creating an unprecedented demand for power. If the country hopes to grow at a rate of 8 percent over the next 25 years, which will lift its entire population to middle class status, then India must triple its energy supply. Nuclear power alone can meet these goals, and end IndiaÃÔ overdependence on oil from the volatile Gulf region. Sounds like a good plan, but the problem is thatÃÔ not how the West sees it. The re-emergence of a fiercely independent India has long worried the West, but things are now getting out of hand. India is not only refusing to play according to the Western script, it is publicly tangoing with the Russians. ThatÃÔ when the West switches to Plan B put India back in the box. WMDs workers of mass disruption IndiaÃÔ Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can be accused of many things that he speaks too little and when he does say something itÃÔ boringly banal. But nobody can accuse Singh of being prone to outbursts. Which is why his allegation that American-funded NGOs are behind the protests at Kudankulam made headlines all over, giving what was suspected for along an added credibility. He also accused American and Scandinavian backed outfits of trying to derail IndiaÃÔ biotech farming sector. Unlike the ceaseless flogging of the ÅÇoreign hand by late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s, SinghÃÔ allegation was backed by solid evidence ferreted out by Indian intelligence. His office revealed that the protests at the Kudankulam nuclear plant were orchestrated by NGOs and churches, which were bringing in truckloads of paid protestors (of which there is never a dearth in India). These outfits were in turn being funded by foreign sources. Within days India cancelled the licences of three NGOs; 77 more NGOs are on a watchlist, and the Home Ministry confirmed most were from the US and the European Union. In 2010, the US-based NGOs accounted for one-third of foreign funds worth Rs 90,000 million given to Indian NGOs. Subverting India in the name of God The nexus between the Western governments, evangelist churches and NGOs has happened because they work best as a pack. Their targeting of India started in earnest with the election of George W. Bush as the US president. In February 2002, Bush set up the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in the White House. His agenda was to promote government aid to churches, Christian faith-based organisations and charities. Bush was paying back a favour a favour so huge he would do anything in return. Despite losing the popular vote to Al Gore, Dubya was elected president mainly due to the support from far right Christian evangelists who run huge transnational missionary organisations (TMOs). According to V.K. ShashikumarÃÔ expose in Tehelka magazine, Ūn the decade 1990-2000 these TMOs were running a global intelligence operation which was so complex and sophisticated that in terms of its scale, magnitude and intensity of coverage, the real short-term and long-term implications from the point of view of India's territorial integrity and national security, were indeed frightfully staggering. This operation has succeeded in putting in place a system in India which enables the US government to access any ethnographic information on any location virtually at the click of the mouse. This network in India, established with funding and strategic assistance from US-based TMOs, gives US intelligence agencies virtually real time access to every nook and corner of the country. Organisations like the International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, Christian Aid, World Vision, Seventh Day Adventist Church and multi-billion enterprises run by evangelists and demagogues like Pat Robertson, Billy Graham and Roger Houtsma were running a coordinated conversion campaign in India under the banner of AD2000 from 1995 to 2000. What has made things easier for the missionaries is the opening up of India to US businesses. Billy Graham and his ilk openly admit that they dispatched spying missions to India. Just as Joshua sent out the spies to survey the land and report on its condition before the children of Israel moved out in obedience to God's command, many more missionaries and Christian workers are finding research information invaluable in laying their plans, says the AD2000 document. We want your soul, and your country This church-state nexus has been brilliantly documented by British-born academic Iain Buchanan in his book, The Armies Of God: A Study In Militant Christianity, in which he talks about the rise of US evangelism as a force in global affairs. He looks at the imperial relationship between Western and non-Western countries, and the main players in the process of evangelisation. In an interview to Yogesh Pawar of IndiaÃÔ DNA newspaper, Buchanan said, Ã…Â¥eep in Washington, self-professedly Christian pressure groups have both a highly influential membership and a powerful grip on policy. The network of evangelical influence goes far beyond this: there are scores of such groups at work in Congress, the military, and departments of state. All act to connect politics, business, the media, and the military with one another in pursuit of a common vision of a Christian American dominion over the world. So what does this mean for a targeted country? Quite simply, the US wonÃÕ stop at proselytizing for that would only be the gain of intangible Third World souls. Ūn addition, there must be infiltration of every sector of influence in a society, from religious groups to government departments to local charities to private business, in ways which blur the line between Christian indoctrination and secular change, says Buchanan. Local collaborators Evangelicals thrive on suffering and disaster. India-born evangelist K.P. Yohannan welcomed the tsunami of 2004 as Ã…Ãne of the greatest opportunities God has given us to share his love with people? He wasnÃÕ the only one expressing such sentiments. The tsunami in India was indeed a windfall for many American churches which poured in untold billions of dollars to convert large numbers of poor fisherfolk in the Kudankulam area. Flashpoints like Kudankulam are excellent for plucking martyrs a key ingredient for conversion in the evangelists scheme of things. American evangelists have a continually updated list of names said to identify martyrs in any given district of India, and this heroism is publicised as a mark of honour for the local villages to emulate. This database is a veritable machine for generating misinformation about Christian deaths that could be blamed on others. Often deaths may have been entirely unrelated to religion. It wouldnÃÕ be surprising if five years from now a ôt Kudankulam appears in Indian ChristianityÃÔ pantheon. Targeting Russia The protests and roadblocks in Kudankulam are also directed against Russia. The plan was that the Russians would get tired of waiting around and pack up their bags and leave. Not only would the sterile concrete and steel edifice become a symbol of victory for the protestors, it would also be a stark reminder to Russia of the perils of doing business with India. However, the Russians refused to be baited. (unlike the British who launched into an orgy of hate-India theatrics when their Typhoon fighter aircraft was rejected). RussiaÃÔ ambassador to India Alexander M. Kadakin, an Indophile with a deep emotional attachment to the country, understands the predicament India currently faces. In fact, he can see a parallel in this Christian-American-NGO nexus back home. The WestÃÔ invasion of RussiaÃÔ near abroad, BulgariaÃÔ NATO membership and the bombing and the subsequent division of Serbia are all visible aspects of the embattled state of Orthodox Slavs. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the West has attempted to destroy the Russian Orthodox Church, a key pillar of Russian nationalism. The Roman Catholic Church sees a huge opportunity for conversions in the CIS region, with the Vatican sending in its stormtroopers to go out and bring Russia into the Catholic fold. Fission and friction So what happened to Plan A? The Nuclear Suppliers Group, the global cartel which controls the export of nuclear fuel, equipment and technology, is in reality a grouping of 46 mostly Western countries that was created to stymie IndiaÃÔ nuclear ambitions. It was hastily set-up in 1974 as a response to IndiaÃÔ atomic bomb test earlier that year. The NSG is an idea whose time has gone. Today it includes members like New Zealand, Latvia and Austria which have absolutely no nuclear technology. For more than three decades the NSG has practiced a form of nuclear apartheid designed to exclude India from the high table. All sorts of sanctions, including denial of travel visas to Indian nuclear scientists to member countries of the NSG, were imposed. It is indeed ironic that the NSGÃÔ growing irrelevance started after yet another atomic explosion by India in 1998. With the leading Western nations deciding that IndiaÃÔ market was worth more than keeping the NSG on life support, the nuclear apartheid crumbled. But the bickering didnÃÕ end there. Even as the 2009 India-US civil nuclear deal opened a market for equipment and technology estimated at $175 billion, the US found itself shut out of the same market while the Russians were already close to completing two reactors at Kudankulam. This nuclear heartburn is the reason why the Russian-built plant is being targeted. It is because the US is not able to compete on even terms that it has called in the dirty tricks department. (The crash of the Tupolev-134 carrying Ryzhov and 42 other nuclear scientists and engineers could well be a Western job.) As Russians, Chinese and other emerging nations descend on Delhi to trade, barter and talk, the West becomes increasingly marginalised. However, it will use every tool at its disposal including churches and NGOs to stay in the game. Time to end the siege IndiaÃÔ power shortage is nearing a crisis and thereÃÔ little tolerance for anti-nuclear protesters, especially when it has been proved they are working for their Western masters. Hindu nationalists are getting aggressive, seeing this brazen attack on a symbol of IndiaÃÔ progress. With nationalist party workers attacking a group of trucked-in protestors last week, there is now the real possibility of this becoming a law and order issue, or worse, a communal tinderbox. India can either let Western detritus dictate terms over a $3 billion plant or give them the marching orders. How the countryÃÔ leadership acts will decide if power goes to peopleÃÔ homes or whether it will empower the enemy of the people http://indrus.in/articles/2012/03/05/the_plot_behind_sabotage_kudankulam_15040.html

[jairamesh]

Seriously! Is this the best the government and nationalists can come up as excuse for incompetency to build a proper nuclear power plant. Whatever the case of foreign influence, it's a pathetic excuse (let the Arabs and nutjobs use that excuse), politicians and idiot blind lazy nationalists need stop looking for excuses and start putting the effort, determination and hardwork. What happened to this indigenous Indian Thorium Nuclear Power Plant Project, it looked so promising: Nl5DiTPw3dk

[arun81]

^^^ How do you know it is incompetently built ? Are you a F'in nuclear scientist ?

[jairamesh]

^^^ How do you know it is incompetently built ? Are you a F'in nuclear scientist ?

???? What are you on about? I am said the government is so incompetent at delivering nuclear power plants or matter fact the government is fecking incompetent at improving Indian energy infrastructure to meet future demands. There are plenty of competent Indian scientists, the success of Thorium Reactors is one example. Thorium is cheaper to process than Uranium, abundant in India, waste is less toxic (incredibly low half-life compared to spend uranium), has higher safety integrity level, and best of all thorium by-product doesn't produce weapons grade radioactive material like uranium does. But yet the government continues to pu$$y foot around it's energy policy. And the Chinese recently got interested in this reactor too, with smuggling of thorium ore in the north-east on the rise. India has the biggest reserve of thorium in the world, yet this incompetent government is concerned about some hippy neocon christian protestors! It's just too easy and lazy to blame your failure on someone.

[surajmal]

???? What are you on about? I am said the government is so incompetent at delivering nuclear power plants or matter fact the government is fecking incompetent at improving Indian energy infrastructure to meet future demands. There are plenty of competent Indian scientists, the success of Thorium Reactors is one example. Thorium is cheaper to process than Uranium, abundant in India, waste is less toxic (incredibly low half-life compared to spend uranium), has higher safety integrity level, and best of all thorium by-product doesn't produce weapons grade radioactive material like uranium does. But yet the government continues to pu$ foot around it's energy policy. And the Chinese recently got interested in this reactor too, with smuggling of thorium ore in the north-east on the rise. India has the biggest reserve of thorium in the world, yet this incompetent government is concerned about some hippy neocon christian protestors! It's just too easy and lazy to blame your failure on someone.

do you think these ignorant protesters will stay quite about some experimental nuclear technology when they aren't willing to accept tested/proven nuclear technology? These protesters have to be nipped in the bud this instant because it isn't just about Kudankulam. NGOs have been an obstacle in development of this country's infrastructure for the last 40 years. Anyways, Kalapakkam FBR is supposed to come online next year. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/article2912804.ece

[jairamesh]

^^^ Fµck the protesters, the government needs more investment in these experiemental reactors and get a commercial plant online. Why go begging overseas every-time. And Thorium safetywise have a much higher safety integrity level where any out-of-control reactions doesn't lead to a meltdown or massive build-up of pressure which can blow the reactor vessel and release contaminants. Pls do your reading up.

[surajmal]

^^^ FŽµck the protesters, the government needs more investment in these experiemental reactors and get a commercial plant online. Why go begging overseas every-time. And Thorium safetywise have a much higher safety integrity level where any out-of-control reactions doesn't lead to a meltdown or massive build-up of pressure which can blow the reactor vessel and release contaminants. Pls do your reading up.

LFTR (liquid fluoride thorium reactors) are safe - US built a prototype back in the day and China is investing heavily in this model now. But India is working on Fast breeder reactors that uses sodium as a coolant and sodium as you know is a volatile metal. So it might be safer than current nuclear technology but in comparison to LFTRs it loses out heavily.

[surajmal]

here is a 2 hour long video on LFTRs (from a lobbyist) - quite informative. P9M__yYbsZ4

[jairamesh]

Tension mounts as protesters stay put near Kudankulam Nuclear Powerplant http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3877598.ece?homepage=true Protest leader, Dr. SP Udaykumar's concerns:

If the VVER reactors being built by Russia are the best in the world, the supplier could have accepted the Nuclear Liability Bill in its present form and these reactors would have been accepted by the West Bengal government. The Union government is making sustained attempts to target Tamils by establishing these nuclear reactors at Kudankulam

[Crookbond]

The video title reads "LFTR in 5 minutes" and the duration of the video is 2 hours :facepalm: