The Indian government is ramping up efforts to fingerprint and iris
scan the entirety of its 1.2 billion citizens in an ambitious scheme to
issue national ID cards with biometric details. The plan has so far
already enrolled 110 million people and issued 60 million numbers, with the aim of enrolling 200 million by this March and 600 million by 2014.
The project stems from two separate, overlapping schemes,
the Unique Identifcation program (UID), aimed at providing India’s 200
million poorest citizens with failsafe access to the country’s welfare
system, and the National Population Register (NPR), aimed at providing a
national ID card to help identify and deport undocumented immigrants.
TEHRAN (FNA)- More people were killed in the US drone attacks in
Pakistan after security officials confirmed that at least five people
were killed in two strikes carried out by a US drone in the Pakistani
North Waziristan tribal region.
Security officials said on Monday that the American drone targeted a
vehicle and a house with two missiles, killing five people at Degan
village near Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan on the Afghan
border.
The death toll is expected to rise, and the rescue operation is underway in the area.
The US has resumed its drone operations after it halted the
CIA-operated strikes in November 26, 2011, when 24 Pakistani soldiers
were killed in NATO attacks on two Pakistani military border checkpoints
in Mohmand agency.
The use of unmanned armed aircraft over Pakistan has been a sore
point with the public and Pakistani politicians, who describe them as
violations of sovereignty that produce unacceptable civilian casualties.
Sixty-four US missile strikes were reported in Pakistan's tribal belt last year, down from 101 reported in 2010.
The US refuses to discuss drone strikes publicly, but the program has dramatically increased during the Obama administration.
But the missile strikes fuel widespread anti-American resentment,
especially high since the deadly US air strikes on November 26.
Islamabad is now reviewing its entire alliance with the US and has
kept its Afghan border closed to NATO supply convoys for two months.
Several more strange eyewitness stories emerge indicating potential widespread vote deception
Yet more evidence of voter fraud has emerged, this time in the wake
of Saturday’s primary in South Carolina, where it was reported that at
least 953 votes had been cast by people who were listed as dead.
The Associated Press reports
that South Carolina’s attorney general, Alan Wilson, has notified the
U.S. Justice Department of potential voter fraud in the Palmetto State
this weekend.
“In a letter dated Thursday, Wilson says the analysis found 953
ballots cast by voters listed as dead. In 71 percent of those cases,
ballots were cast between two months and 76 months after the people
died. That means they ‘voted’ up to 6 1/3 years after their death.”
Wilson has asked the State Law Enforcement Division to investigate the situation.
In addition to stories that have emerged from both Iowa and New
Hampshire in the past few days, the revelations once again suggest that
voter fraud has become a common occurrence throughout the country.
The same situation occurred last week in New Hampshire, where the
State attorney general also raised questions over possible voter fraud.
One activist posted video of himself walking into New Hampshire
Polling locations during the Presidential Primaries, and asking for the
ballots of deceased residents. The man had obtained the names from
local obituaries.
“The names of the deceased were both Registered Republican and
Democrats And in almost every case, saying a dead person’s name, we
were handed a ballot to cast a vote.” wrote the activist on his Youtube
channel.
None of the allegedly fraudulently obtained ballots were actually cast.
Watch the video:
Associate Attorney General Richard Head confirmed his office had
learned about the possible fraud on election day and immediately began
investigating. “That investigation is ongoing,” he said. “Based on the
information received on Election Day and the information on the video,
we are undertaking a comprehensive review of voting procedures with the
Secretary of State,” the report states.
In Iowa, the results of the January 3rd Caucus have been completely
glossed over, despite major questions arising from the vote.
Following the declaration of Mitt Romney as the winner, GOP
officials in Iowa recounted the votes and changed the decision, naming
Rick Santorum as the victor. However, votes from at least two precincts
were lost in the process, and the tallying wasn’t even properly
certified.
Both Mitt Romney’s and Rick Santorum’s vote tallies were altered,
but no mention was made whatsoever of Ron Paul’s total, despite the
fact that he finished a close third, in what was essentially a three
way tie.
As I’ve pointed out since day one, the Japanese government and Tepco
have covered up the extent of the radiation released by Fukushima and
its health effects on the Japanese and others. See this and this.
The government inspectors declared Onami’s rice safe for consumption after testing just two of its 154 rice farms.
Then … more than a dozen [farmers] found unsafe levels of cesium.
An ensuing panic forced the Japanese government to intervene, with
promises to test more than 25,000 rice farms in eastern Fukushima
Prefecture, where the plant is located.
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The repeated failures have done more than raise concerns that some
Japanese may have been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation in their
food, as regrettable as that is. They have also had a corrosive effect
on public confidence in the food-monitoring efforts, with a growing
segment of the public and even many experts coming to believe that officials have understated or even covered up the true extent of the public health risk in order to limit both the economic damage and the size of potential compensation payments.
Critics say … the government can no longer pull the wool over the public’s eyes, as they contend it has done routinely in the past.
“Since the accident, the government has tried to continue its
business-as-usual approach of understating the severity of the accident
and insisting that it knows best,” said Mitsuhiro Fukao, an economics
professor at Keio University in Tokyo who has written about the loss of
trust in government. “But the people are learning from the blogs,
Twitter and Facebook that the government’s food-monitoring system is
simply not credible.”