India Launches Project to ID 1.2 Billion People

[Meg]

Here it goes...

India Launches Project to ID 1.2 Billion People - WSJ.com

India's vaunted tech savvy is being put to the test this week as the country embarks on a daunting mission: assigning a unique 12-digit number to each of its 1.2 billion people.The project, which seeks to collect fingerprint and iris scans from all residents and store them in a massive central database of unique IDs, is considered by many specialists the most technologically and logistically complex national identification effort ever attempted. To pull it off, India has recruited tech gurus of Indian origin from around the world, including the co-founder of online photo service Snapfish and employees from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Intel Corp.

The sign-up effort is already under way in a handful of districts, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to kick off nationwide enrollment Wednesday. The government hopes to issue the first 100 million unique ID numbers by March and 600 million within four years.

[mattfivefour]

In India, with more than a billion citizens and its high proportion of illiterate or semi-literate rural dwellers, the idea is to come up with a foolproof social security index so that the government is able to ensure services get to everybody. Of course, as Sean and I have mentioned in other threads, this useful and beneficial technology will be perverted by the AC when he is revealed and will become a tool to enslave people rather than help them.

[Meg]

Egypt's doing something similar. Why do I find it hard to believe that there's this sudden awareness of the problems of extreme poverty and a brand new charitable spirit growing in the cold hearts of certain foreign governments. I mean really now, Bono's not that influential...

EGYPT: Women, children benefit from program to promote identity cards, birth certificates | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times)

EGYPT: Women, children benefit from program to promote identity cards, birth certificates

[micah719]

Mexico too, I seem to have read somewhere recently, and no, Bone?no wasn't involved. My earthquake tracking widget has been showing lots of 5's and 6's too. Exciting stuff...

[brethorn56]

A 12 digit ID number? Fingerprints and iris scans for over a billion people at a cost of $670 billion dollars? Are you kidding me! Next you will hear about injecting India’s poor with RFID’s just to make sure everyone is in compliance.

This does sound like something post Rapture!!!

Rev 13:16: He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead.

[Meg]

It certainly sounds like that final countdown, doesn't it? Hang on tight folks, this is getting very real indeed!

[Momof3angels]

It certainly sounds like that final countdown, doesn't it? Hang on tight folks, this is getting very real indeed!

Please come soon, Lord Jesus!

[Momof3angels]

India is dealing with a great deal of evil these days, and the innocent are being used as guinea pigs for all sorts of nightmarish experiments.

A couple of years ago, Monsanto, makers of genetically modified seed for soy, pushed their GM crops onto India with disastrous results. Under the Monsanto program, farmers are not allowed to save their seeds and must buy new, expensive seeds every year. Plus the GM crops don't perform as well as the original variety (think our Master Architect knew a bit more than we do about how to create seeds?)

As a result, the farmers are now going bankrupt and committing suicide in waves in India out of desperation. They kill themselves by drinking insecticide. It's a horrible way to die and can take up to an hour. Some 1,000 farmers in India kill themselves this way each month.

The corruption of corporations and other men in power, and the great harm it is causing is staggering.

[brethorn56]

India is dealing with a great deal of evil these days, and the innocent are being used as guinea pigs for all sorts of nightmarish experiments.

A couple of years ago, Monsanto, makers of genetically modified seed for soy, pushed their GM crops onto India with disastrous results. Under the Monsanto program, farmers are not allowed to save their seeds and must buy new, expensive seeds every year. Plus the GM crops don't perform as well as the original variety (think our Master Architect knew a bit more than we do about how to create seeds?)

As a result, the farmers are now going bankrupt and committing suicide in waves in India out of desperation. They kill themselves by drinking insecticide. It's a horrible way to die and can take up to an hour. Some 1,000 farmers in India kill themselves this way each month.

The corruption of corporations and other men in power, and the great harm it is causing is staggering.

Wow, I had not heard that before!!! That is terrible.

[Suzanne]

It certainly sounds like that final countdown, doesn't it? Hang on tight folks, this is getting very real indeed!

I'm in complete agreement. Sometimes it's hard to believe that we're still here.