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March 24, 2021
"I had true motherhood and femininity stolen from me because I fell for the feminist deception as most have fallen."
Thank you for "Confessions of a Recovering Sex Addict", Henry. I have been reading through much of your feminism articles recently after a friend recommended your site and it is good to finally understand the roots of such destruction in my life and in so many others' lives.
I had true motherhood and femininity stolen from me because I fell for the feminist deception as most have fallen. Although I am angry at myself for being tricked, I can also see how I never really had a fighting chance, just like most others. I am thankful that even though it is too late for me in many ways, at least I know and understand the truth of what happened and what is still happening to humanity.
My serious boyfriend after college was addicted to porn and when I found a whole stash of it, I berated him and told him to just get out (even though I didn't mean it). He left. I was so distraught, I thought to myself, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" and I went to a nearby strip club and auditioned. All those nights dancing on stage, I kept thinking, "I hope he walks in and can see me now." "Wouldn't he be pleased?" "Isn't this what he wants?" "This will show him!"
Mine is a long and sad story that later morphed into pushing aside staying-at-home to be a mother so I could get out of the house and continue competing with men in the workplace since I had been programmed to believe women only achieved value by having an impressive job and looking hot.
I likewise spent a lot of time shopping for clothes that showed off my body and even seriously contemplated getting a boob job, once going as far as putting down a $500 deposit but then calling it off before surgery.
I started figuring things out recently, but it is too late.
Now my children are high schoolers and I've lost them because I traded being a mom for a work cubicle. My kids think the truth I tell them about the world is crazy and they roll their eyes or get mad at me. They go to school where they are taught hyper and deviant sexual education; where they are told they must suffocate and muzzle themselves in masks; and where they will soon be able to get a Covid vaccine without parental notification.
All I can do is try to set an example and guide them to God. I hang news items and quotes on the fridge that will maybe peak their interest into doing some research beyond the mainstream lies and public school social engineering.
When I look at parents putting masks over their children's faces and offering them up for the experimental Covid shots, I think, "God forgive them for they know not what they do."
This same line applied to me for much of my life. I have asked God for his forgiveness. It is hard to not be angry at others for being so blind. But I was once like them and still there is so much I don't know and need to learn.
CONCLUSION
There is no feminine in feminism. That is the dirty trick of it all, and I do mean dirty. Feminism taught me how to be a man while looking like a sex bomb out of Penthouse. Just like the women in Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' look sexy on the outside, but inside they are basically men. I tried to be tough and competitive. Funny and a ball buster. Smart and aggressive. Dirty and dominant. And as much as I and other women tried to believe we wanted to be that way, men tried to believe they also wanted women to be that way.
It is all a lie, of course. Men love women for being soft, nurturing, delicate and pure just as women really want to be. And women love men for being powerful, smart, resourceful, strong and wise in the ways of the world just as men really want to be. Love is when these immutable truths blend in the hearts of men and women just as God intended.
The truth can be contorted and twisted for millennia by Satan and his stooges, but the truth is still the truth.
by DL
(henrymakow.com)
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First Comment from Robert K-
The Powers That Be have been trotting out feminist activism at intervals for centuries. It predates Karl Marx's "community of women" and goes back through the French Revolution to Adam Weishaupt. Revolutionists have always perceived women (as they perceive sexual outliers nowadays) as useful tools in the program to overthrow the institutions of society; i.e., continuous revolution. Followers of Emmeline Pankhurst resorted even to arson to get voting rights for women in the early part of the 20th century. They got the vote, but evidently it didn't accomplish much: a century later they are still griping about being powerless. Only lately have really significant segments of the population come to the realization that political voting rights have always been just a screen behind which financial and corporate power centralizers have controlled the world.
It is noteworthy that, in the result, all these purported "liberation" and "equality" movements have striven not to free people from financial coercion but rather, invariably, to conscript everyone into a Gadarene stampede to outdo their neighbours in "workin' hard" (as Bush Jr. put it) for the goals of the Establishment.
https://youtu.be/8npu9-ID8Ps
The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth 
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value.This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
(NIETZSCHE)
March 21, 2021
Interview with Elena Danaan
In our 2nd interview, Elena Danaan recounts her personal contact experiences, the most dramatic of which involved an abduction at age nine by five gray aliens. In the midst of two medical procedures involving implants, she was rescued by two human looking extraterrestrials using laser weapons. In the interview, Elena explains how her rescuers repurposed one of the implants so they could subsequently remain in telepathic communications. Elena learned that her rescuers belong to a Galactic Federation of Worlds that is helping Earth’s Great Awakening.
Elena explains how the Galactic Federation first became interested in Earth after it was advised by another extraterrestrial political organization, the Andromeda Council, that a future galactic tyranny could be traced back to Earth in the present era. This matches the testimony of Alex Collier who said, around 1991, that the sudden appearance of a galactic tyranny about 350 years in our future could be traced back to the Earth, Moon and Mars. In Defending Sacred Ground, Alex wrote:
Now, in our galaxy there are many councils. I don’t know everything about all those councils, but I do know about the Andromedan council, which is a group of beings from 139 different star systems that come together and discuss what is going on in the galaxy. It is not a political body. What they have been recently discussing is the tyranny in our future, 357 years from now, because that affects everybody.
Apparently what they have done, through time travel, is that they have been able to figure out where the significant shift in energy occurred that causes the tyranny 357 years in our future. They have traced it back to our solar system, and they have been able to further track it down to Earth, Earth’s moon and Mars. Those three places. (Defending Sacred Ground, p. 10)
Elena recounts how President Eisenhower was betrayed by the Majestic-12 Group which made an agreement with Gray aliens without his permission. This matches insider accounts that Eisenhower was on the verge of ordering the US Army to take over the Area 51 S-4 facility controlled by the MJ-12 Group in 1958 for their failure to fully brief him on their activities.
She also discussed how the Galactic Federation has been working with an Earth Alliance, and the four countries most active in this cooperation are Russia, USA, France and Israel. In addition, she corroborated Prof Haim Eshed’s recent claims that President Trump was actively collaborating with the Galactic Federation.
Elena further explains how in November 2018, she was advised by one of her alien rescuers, Thor Han Eredyon, that in two years, the Earth would enter a very dangerous phase, but at the end of it humanity would be liberated from the dark forces that have controlled it for centuries. This brings us to contemporary political events and multiple insider accounts that claim White Hats have set the stage for a series of earth shattering announcements.
Watch this fascinating interview for a glimpse into how different extraterrestrial factions are battling one another to steer humanity’s destiny.
Michael Salla, Ph.D.
https://rumble.com/embed/vc9fhh/?pub=4
Available on Rumble and YouTube
Note: The first Interview with Elena Danaan is available here.
Related Articles/Podcasts:
Controversy over Israeli Scientist claims of US Alien agreement & Galactic Federation
The Coming Solar Flash & the Galactic Federation – Q&A with Corey Goode
Are Middle East Wars a cover for Soldiers being sent to fight Extraterrestrials?
March 22, 2021
Jack Maxey was one of the first journalists to be given access to a copy of Hunter Biden’s hard drives, which contain shocking evidence of moral and financial corruption within the Biden family, in what Maxey calls “The biggest National security scandal in the history of our planet.”
Maxey says “There are a dozen hours of Hunter smoking crack and there is child pornography [including of Hunter with his own 13-year old niece]. The FBI had this laptop before the first [Trump] impeachment. There is a concentrated effort to protect the Biden family.”
The Hunter Biden files detail Hunter’s direct involvement with Chairman Xi Jinping, the Biden family’s Beijing-backed business deals all over the world and possible Chinese infiltration of the US Government with Hunter Biden’s help.
Emails show Hunter Biden and the Chinese eventually scrambling to clean up their mess, as the Bidens’ top business contacts end up arrested or “disappeared”. Hunter goes so far as to purposefully incriminate his own family members, including his president father to protect himself.
Perhaps the most stunning of all, the American intelligence community knew for years about what Rudy Giuliani has called the ‘Biden Crime Family’ and they did nothing about it for darker reasons than you might think.
https://banthis.tv/watch?id=60548fe18755fb509cb13cce
Woke Is A Tyranny Destroying Freedom - On The Way To Destroying Itself - David Icke Dot-Connector
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.” ~George Orwell
Sick of all those self-affirmation articles? Tired of all the self-help gurus blowing sunshine up your skirt? Need something a little more grounding? More down-to-earth? More humbling? Here’s a fresh batch of wake-up calls and kicks-in-the-shin straight from the oven. Get it while its hot…
1.) You are an animal:
“What a chimera then is humankind. What a novelty; what a monster, what a chaos.” ~Blaise Pascal
This one is painfully obvious, but you probably need a reminder.
You are a naked ape. You are blood and bones and improbable apposable thumbs. You were born from the womb and you will one day be food for worms. In the womb, you went through all the phases of evolution: from a single-celled amoeba to a multicellular tadpole to a brain-wielding infant.
In your short life, you will piss and shit and bleed. You will rage and cry and sleep. You will go through all the profane motions of being a mortal mammal within an amoral universe. And here’s the real kick in the teeth: it’s going to hurt like hell. Hope you have a good sense of humor, because you’re going to need it.
2.) You are fallible:
“Things fall apart. The center cannot hold.” ~W.B. Yeats
You are terribly imperfect. You will make mistakes. More so, you are mistaken about a great many things. Most of which you will probably never admit to yourself, because admitting you are wrong is one of the most difficult things a human being can do.
But it goes deeper than that. There are fallibilities within fallibilities. It’s a veritable fractal forest of fallibility. A fractal wrongness, if you will.
You are more wrong about things than you can possibly imagine, and yet you insist. You force your wrongness. You are fierce with it, ruthlessly certain with it. You are so hungry for rightness that you bludgeon the Truth with your wrongness. All the while imagining that you are right.
As it turns out, you are more likely to be right by admitting that you are probably wrong than by declaring that you are probably right.
3.) You are a hypocrite:
“You have not learned to play and mock the way a man ought to play and mock. Are we not always seated at a great table for play and mockery? Learn to laugh at yourselves as a man ought to laugh. Learn to laugh beyond yourselves, and learn to laugh well.” ~Nietzsche
You are a hypocrite by nature. By the fact that you perceive an unfathomable reality with fallible faculties. It’s not even your fault. Just the fact that you are a “you” precludes hypocrisy. The self is smoke and mirrors, masks and mayhem. More akin to a chaotic theater of actors than a single personality.
Indeed, the self is masks all the way down perceiving delusions all the way up. Hypocrisy was always inevitable. Merely the biproduct of a fallible self.
Amidst this mayhem of fallible selfhood, you will experience dissimulation and self-deception, dishonesty and deep pretension, inauthenticity and artificiality. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The rest is hidden beneath layer upon layer of subconscious/unconscious double-dealings, feigned sincerity, two-faced unctuousness, and the mealymouthed choruses of canting contradictions.
Your hypocrisy knows no bounds, so you might as well own up to it.
4.) You will fail:
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~Samuel Beckett
Failure is a given when you are merely a fallible, hypocritical animal going through the motions of living life in an uncertain universe.
But there is wisdom hidden in failure if you are keen to it. Setbacks can be transformed into steppingstones. Tragedy can be hardwired into comedy. Catastrophe can be whittled into accomplishment. You can build a ladder out of the shattered pieces of your life and climb out of the abyss.
But guess what? You will probably fail again. The higher you climb the farther you may fall. When it comes to failure, there is always a deeper abyss. Defeat, hard luck, and utter collapse are right around the corner. Disappointment is Accomplishment’s kissing cousin. Tragedy is Triumph’s red-headed stepchild. Today’s achievement could very well be tomorrow’s tripwire. So be it. Use it all as a sharpening stone for your all-too-mortal soul.
5.) You are never not broken:
“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” ~M.C. Escher
Wholeness does not imply perfection. It infers embracing brokenness as an essential part of being human. There is never a state in which you are not broken.
You are a walking, talking broken heart going through the motions of breaking apart and coming back together again. This also applies to the mind, the body, and the soul. You are constantly in a state of repair.
Your suffering is sufferable. What’s insufferable is your ideal of perfection. There will always be pain. There will always be heartache. There will always be existential angst. We wreck ourselves against these. Then we knock out the dents, mend the cracks, and heal the wounds. We do this in the hope that it will make us stronger. But perhaps it won’t.
The wound may or may not become a sacred wound. All you can do is hurt, heal, and hope. Hurt, heal, and hope. From fragility to robustness to antifragility, you will always be in a state of falling apart and coming back together again. Embrace it.
6.) You have a dark side:
“There are no shortcuts to wholeness. The only way to become whole is to put our arms lovingly around everything we know ourselves to be: self-serving and generous, spiteful and compassionate, cowardly and courageous, treacherous and trustworthy. We must be able to say, ‘I am all of the above.’” ~Parker J. Palmer
You have a shadow. Even your shadow has a shadow called the golden shadow. Your shadow is your repressed or unconscious self, struggling to be liberated and more conscious. Awareness is key. Becoming aware of our shadow side is shining a light into the darkness and giving our dark side permission to shine its blacklight back into the blinding light, which creates a unity of opposites.
An empowered dark side balances out the equation of the complicated human condition. Without this balance, you risk fragile one-dimensionality and a brittle ego terrified of taking responsibility for its shadow and thus fearful of the shadow of others.
You cannot fully know yourself without knowing your dark side and embracing your shadow. Such wholeness breeds wisdom and the ability to experience the full range of what it means to be human.
7.) Your beliefs limit you:
“If you adopt an idea or perception as the absolute truth, you close the door of your mind. Attachment to views, attachment to ideas, attachment to perceptions are the biggest obstacle to truth.” ~The Buddha
Your beliefs are incredibly restricting. You’ve been indoctrinated to think that you need to believe. Even worse, you’ve been brainwashed to believe more than you think.
In the battle against bewitchment, all beliefs, no matter how powerful or well-intended, are a hinderance to clear thought and self-improvement.
Better to think rather than believe. Thinking that something might be true allows for error, fallibility, and wrongness. Believing that something is certainly true cuts us off from all other possibilities. Belief is all or nothing, predicated upon faith despite facts or evidence. Thought is open-ended, taking beliefs, facts, and evidence into deep consideration and then using probability and validity to discover the truth.
More importantly, thinking rather than believing allows for skepticism and questioning. It is considered blasphemous to question a belief. Whereas questioning a thought is considered appropriate. Might as well just skip belief altogether and simply take things into thoughtful consideration.
8.) You are culturally conditioned:
“When war turns whole populations into sleepwalkers, outlaws don’t join forces with alarm clocks. Outlaws, like poets, rearrange the nightmare.” ~Tom Robbins
You are programmed to think a certain way. This programming has propped-up your identity into perceiving a particular worldview that may or may not be based in reality. It might not even be healthy. This identity tied up in your worldview is an abstraction of an abstraction, a story within a story that you’ve convinced yourself is true.
But you have the power to reprogram your programming.
We are all conditioned by culture. The key is to become aware of it and to weigh our conditioning against the truth of reality. Then recondition the conditioning. We each have our own Plato’s Cave to navigate.
The extent to which you can become aware of your own “cave” will be the extent of your flexibility, open-mindedness, and personal freedom.
9.) You know less than you think:
“Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.” ~Robert Rubin
You think you know more than you actually do. Your certainty about a great many things limits your imagination, creative thinking, and ability to question. It leads to dogmatic reasoning and close-mindedness.
ou are just so certain, aren’t you? Your certitude is so powerful that you cannot see past your beliefs. Hung up on what you’ve found, you have given up the search. Your journey has come to an end. Your certainty has led you to a dead-end. You are stuck. And the only way out is to question what you think you know.
The more you question, the more you realize that the only answer that makes any sense is to keep questioning. When you stop questioning the journey for truth comes to an end and stagnation, sloth, and dogmatism begin to rule your world. Keep things in perspective by accepting that you know less than you think you do and keep questioning.
10.) Your life is terribly inconsequential:
“Don’t slip on the banana peel of nihilism, even while listening to the roar of Nothingness.” ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti
When it comes down to it, your life is a flash in the pan. It’s dust in the cosmic wind. It’s an infinitesimally insignificant spark in an unfathomably dark, unforgiving, and meaningless universe. But it is a spark.
What you do won’t matter in the grand scheme of things. But it’s very important that you do it anyway. Why? Because you are the universe attempting to become aware of itself. You are an awareness machine in an otherwise unaware cosmos. You are a meaning-generator in a reality void of meaning. You might be nothing more than a speck in the universe, but you are also the entire universe in a speck.
Either way, you will one day be dust. Your tiny insignificant life will end. Face that fleetingness with a fierceness. Laugh into the abyss. Face fear with fearlessness. Climb the highest mountain and kick God in the nuts. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Or not. None of it will matter in the end. You will still be the butt-end of the cosmic joke. It’s all laughable. So you might as well have a laugh.
Gary Z McGee, Self-inflicted Philosophy
Waking Times
Gary ‘Z’ McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide awake view of the modern world.
March 21, 2021
According to FEMA whistle blower Celeste Solum, Americans have been cast in the role of Jews in Nazi Germany and will meet the same fate.
Global governance means we'll have to play by a "totally new set of rules."
If Celeste Solum is right, we are in much worse trouble than we think. She comes from an Illuminati background and worked as a FEMA planner for 20 years. So she is in a position to know.
Her horrifying vision is the darkest you will find. I cannot confirm that it will transpire but this may be a case of "forewarned is forearmed." Prepare for "a world of hurt."
She doesn't write so I couldn't find a text to repost. Instead she gives interviews to people like Mike Adams, Dave Hodges and David Icke. I listened to a few and provide some of her claims:
With robotics, most human beings have become redundant to the Illuminati. When there are famines and power blackouts, people will stream to "reception centers" (at Costco's and Walmarts of all places?) where they will be interned and sent to concentration camps where they will be gassed or guillotined. The goal is to offload 90% of the population.
Covid tests are intended to collect your DNA. The vaccines contain aborted fetus stem cells and human proteins that have been bred in plants and mice ("a human in a mouse suit.") They also contain "hydrogels" - nanoparticles that permanently fuse with your tissue, that connect with a 5G computer network that "monitor your health" at all times and determine if you can go to work or buy food.
Speaking of food, meat will be phased out and concentration camp rations --"micronutrients" -- introduced for the general public. There will be no "going to the supermarket." We will not be allowed "to take anything from nature" and must downsize to half our carbon footprint. If we live in a mansion, we must move to a bungalow. (I know it sounds crazy.)
FEMA estimates only 3% of gun owners will resist gun confiscation by force.
They are making an inventory of everything of material value. All private property "will be federalized."
CRACKPOT?
It is tempting to dismiss Solum as a crackpot and a fear monger. There were many red flags. She tends to exaggerate, claiming she grows 500 varieties of tomatoes on her farm in Montana and there are "seven million drones" monitoring us. She places a lot of emphasis on cosmic changes: "2000 year cycles'; "the sun has gone silent" and the "magnetosphere" has weakened. We are in the "end times." She claims that a second Wuhan virus was released- a "plant destroyer" that decimated her orchards in Montana.
On the other hand, consider her message in the context of what is actually happening. Trillions have been spent and millions of lives have been disrupted or destroyed for a virus that has a .25% mortality rate. 68,000 Britons have been fined for lockdown breeches. A young couple was terrorized by 12-man SWAT team who thought they were having a party. An 82-year-old grannie was watching TV in bed when police arrived to warn her about having tea in her garden with two friends earlier that day. A Michigan restaurant owner was led away in shackles after publicly warning Americans they were being enslaved.
Make up your own mind. But my view is prepare for the worst and pray for the best.
https://www.henrymakow.com/
Related - Clive Maund- Genocide is the End Game
Gary Barnett - Eugenicists Plan to Depopulate the Planet
March 20, 2021
Wildlife Board denotifies Galathea bay sanctuary to build port, trade zone.
In what appears to a re-run of recent developments in Little Andaman Island (A bullet through an island’s heart, The Hindu, February 1), more than 150 sq. km. of land is being made available for Phase I of a NITI Aayog-piloted ‘holistic’ and ‘sustainable’ vision for Great Nicobar Island, the southernmost in the Andaman and Nicobar group. This amounts to nearly 18% of the 910 sq. km. island, and will cover nearly a quarter of its coastline. The overall plan envisages the use of about 244 sq. km. – a major portion being pristine forest and coastal systems.
Projects to be executed in Phase I include a 22 sq. km. airport complex, a transshipment port (TSP) at South Bay at an estimated cost of ₹12,000 crore, a parallel-to-the-coast mass rapid transport system and a free trade zone and warehousing complex on the south western coast.
Also read | ‘Any exploitation of Sentinel Island will wipe out tribals’
What stands out prominently in the whole process, starting with the designation in mid-2020 of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation (ANIIDCO) as the nodal agency, is the speed and co-ordination with which it has all unfolded. The other is the centrality of the NITI Aayog. First, on September 4, 2020, the Director, Tribal Welfare, A&N Islands, constituted an empowered committee to examine NITI Aayog’s proposals for various projects in Little Andaman and Great Nicobar Islands. A copy of the 2015 ‘Policy on Shompen Tribe of Great Nicobar Island’ was part of the communication sent out, giving an indication of the aims of the committee.
Significant changes have also been effected to the legal regimes for wildlife and forest conservation.
Ecological uniqueness
In its meeting on January 5, 2021, the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) denotified the entire Galathea Bay Wildlife Sanctuary to allow for the port there.
Also read | Hands off, eyes on the Sentinelese, says Anthropological Survey of India Deputy Director M. Sasikumar
The NBWL committee seemed unaware that India's National Marine Turtle Action Plan that was under preparation then (it was released on February 1, 2021) had listed Galathea Bay as one of the ‘Important Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Areas’ and ‘Important Marine Turtle Habitats’ in the country. It is included in Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ)-I, the zone with maximum protection.
Then, on January 18, another Environment Ministry expert committee approved a “zero extent” Ecologically Sensitive Zone (ESZ) for the Galathea NP to allow use of land in the south-eastern and south-western part of the island for the NITI Aayog plan. The October 2020 draft notification for this zero extent ESZ had ironically listed out in great detail the park’s ecological uniqueness – that it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, houses a range of forest types, has one of the best preserved tropical rainforests in the world, is home to 648 species of flora and hosts 330 species of fauna including rare and endemic ones such as the Nicobar wild pig, Nicobar tree shrew, the Great Nicobar crested serpent eagle, Nicobar paradise flycatcher and the Nicobar megapode. It also notes that the park is home to the indigenous Shompen community.
The notification says that an ESZ is needed to protect the park from an ecological, environmental and biodiversity point of view, but goes on in the very next para to propose a zero extent ESZ for nearly 70% of the periphery of the park.
It is almost as if the unique diversity of life just listed suddenly disappeared because of an arbitrary line drawn to allow a slew of high value projects.
This is illustrated in the case of the Giant leatherback turtle and the Nicobar megapode, two charismatic species for whom Great Nicobar is very important. The beaches here, like at the mouth of the river Galathea in South Bay are among the most prominent nesting sites globally of the Giant leatherback. It for this reason that the bay was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1997, but has now been denotified to allow for the transhipment port.
Also read | How tsunami rehabilitation robbed the Nicobarese of their sense of home
In his 2007 study of the Nicobar megapode, the globally endangered bird unique to the Nicobars, K. Sivakumar of the Wildlife Institute of India documented 90% of this ground nesting bird’s nests to be within a distance of 30 m from the shore. He notes that the existing protected area network in Great Nicobar is not designed for the protection of the megapode and recommends that the entire west and southern coast of Great Nicobar – precisely the area sought for the NITI Aayog proposals – be protected for the megapode and other wildlife like nesting marine turtles. This is also in stark contrast to the current move to create a zero extent ESZ for the Galathea National Park.
Threat to Shompen
Similar concerns exist about the impact on the Shompen community. The proposed project areas are important foraging grounds for this hunter-gatherer nomadic community and the official Shompen Policy of 2015 specifically noted that the welfare and integrity of these people should be given priority “with regard to large-scale development proposals in the future for Great Nicobar Island (such as trans-shipment port/container terminal etc.)”. Now, large forest areas here could become inaccessible and useless for the Shompen.
Also read | The less known Shompens of Great Nicobar Island
Available evidence suggests that issues of the geological volatility of these islands are also not being factored in. The December 26, 2019, tender document by WAPCOS Limited for a ‘Traffic Study for Creating Transshipment port at South Bay, Great Nicobar Island’ justifies the port here by noting that “the topography of the island is best suited, which has not been damaged much even by the tsunami on 26.11.2004 (sic)”.
Yet, a 2005 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Special Earthquake Report by a multi-disciplinary team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, recorded witness accounts of 8-metre-high tsunami waves hitting the Great Nicobar coast on December 26, 2004. “The lighthouse at Indira Point, the southernmost tip of the Great Nicobar Island, which was on high ground before the earthquake,” the report notes, “is now under water, indicating a land subsidence of about 3-4 m.”
Also read | How a bloody incident of piracy changed the lives of the Nicobarese forever
Loss of life and property then was limited because the Great Nicobar coast is largely uninhabited. This raises questions over safety of life, property and the investments in this zone and that too without accounting for the complex ecological, social and geological vulnerabilities here. Little, if anything, is also known of the NITI Aayog vision document itself – What is its rationale? What was the process of its creation? Which agencies/individuals were involved? What impact assessments, if any, have been done at all?
Neither the NITI Aayog nor the agencies that are facilitating it with zeal and efficiency have made this available.
(Pankaj Sekhsaria has been researching issues of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for over two decades. He is also author of five books on the islands.)
