Staging an event

Dec 22, 2022.

Warning: Some scenes may be disturbing to people, so if you are of the sensitive type, you might want to skip. I would however recommend that you read the article, and come to your own conclusion.

This is about an event that happened in Coimbatore (a city in south India), on Oct 23rd, 2022, a day before Deepavali (Diwali). Deepavali is a major festival in India, where crackers/fireworks are an important part of celebration.

It is almost two months since the event, and it is no longer of any importance now. In spite of non-stop media coverage, it barely registered with ordinary people with their daily concerns. But someone raised questions about this incident, and I sort of repeat them here along with explanation and photos. The police had warned against “false” information in social media, but I bet they no longer care now.

I’m not going full “Miles Mathis” on this event, this is a far simple observation of the media narrative, inconsistencies, absurdities, and as Miles would have added, continuity issues.
If you haven’t read him, you should. He gives a good perspective of how emotions get manipulated against the man on the street with fake events. Most of the dramatic, and historical events have been faked! I have heard about him more than 10 years back, but only now have I started reading his articles – mileswmathis.com. He also has interesting science and mathematical research papers.

In spite of the earlier “graphic” warning, from what I can see, no Muslim was harmed by this event, and neither were any Hindus saved. One might say the reputation of Muslims were harmed, but as in the case of never-ending SCOVID (SCOundrels’ VIrtual Disease), we see many leaders, Presidents, Prime Ministers, the Queen, prince and princesses, Health Ministers, journalists, media, doctors, social influencers, gurus and other authorities had their reputation “burnished” by the scandal. So this loss of “reputation” to Muslims, or Islam is mostly irrelevant, because the word means just the opposite of what it used to mean.

Here’s the event as posted in “The Hindu” newspaper. Around 4.02 AM (this is early morning, when it is dark), on Oct 23rd, 2022, someone was driving a car, near Ukkadam area in Coimbatore. This person (we’ll refer to him as YZ, we won’t even use his name or initials JM) on seeing a police check-post, panicked, stopped his car, got out and tried to escape. The car exploded, there were three explosions, two minor,and one major. Someone called fire service at 4:06AM, the fire engine came from Coimbatore South Fire Station at 4:08AM (two minutes after the call), the fire was put out by 4:20AM. The police noticed a charred body near the driver’s side of the car.

This story was further enhanced the following day. Initially it was thought a gas cylinder inside the car burst. But nails, marbles were found at the blast site. So it was determined that this was a terrorist act, since nails and marbles can become shrapnel and cause extensive damage. The guy YZ had 2 gas cylinders, and 3 metal canisters with explosives and shrapnel in his car. Police suspicion got confirmed when the house of YZ was searched. The police found lots of explosives, bomb making material in the house. The person was also Muslim, indicating this is a terrorist act gone wrong. Although this didn’t cause any damage, except to the car, and the terrorist YZ, if things had gone the way the terrorist planned, lots of damage, and big loss of life would have happened.

So after a lot of hue and cry raised by the opposition party in Tamil Nadu, and a few other organizations, the case were handed over by Tamil Nadu police to NIA (National Investigation Agency).

A pretty cut-and-dry case, one might say. Except that almost half the people of Tamil Nadu, for various reasons don’t believe this. It happened too conveniently, the date was convenient (a day before Deepavali, a major festival) for propaganda by some parties (political or otherwise). I’ll not use names, as far as possible, because it is mostly irrelevant. You can ignore people with uncovered faces in the photos. People have their roles which establish their reputation or street-cred, or pays their salaries, so they do what they do.

The pictures used are screen grabs from YouTube videos of various news channels, including a few from alternative media. You can safely ignore the names of the news channels, or of any people who are in the pictures, they aren’t of much importance. If at all any one had any good reputation, self-respect or common-sense, they would have established that during the SCOVID (SCOundrels’ VIrtual Disease) and not participated in this fake event, or outed this blast as fake.

The main stream narrative that “The Hindu” published was that the driver of the car saw a check-post, panicked, got out of the car and tried to escape when the cylinder burst. This was the statement given by police manning the check-post. If the guy just got out of the car, you wouldn’t call it trying to escape. He should have run some distance, before you can decide that the guy YZ panicked and fled, abandoning the car.

But an alternative “explosive” revelation, was that the guy YZ went over a speed-breaker, and the car stalled. When the guy got down to check his car, the contraption he had for his terrorist attack went off. Fortunately no one other than this guy YZ was nearby, so only that guy was killed.
Now even if there is a speed breaker nearby (I couldn’t see any in subsequent videos), what is the chance that the car breaks down exactly between two temples after going over a speed breaker?

The first picture is from the initial stages, car is burning, apparently taken sometime after the fire engine arrived.

Car is on fire, and based on news in The Hindu, the fire engine reached in 2 minutes after a call was made to the firestation. The time would be around 4:08 AM when it will be very dark. The car that exploded, Maruti 800 has Vinayaka temple to the driver’s right (also our right here), and Kottai Easwaran temple to the driver’s left. The fire-engine faces the car, in this picture, and subsequent ones. The road is very narrow, about 10 feet wide, the car is about four and half feet wide.

The video posted is a small segment, which cuts off just after the door of the fire-engine is opened, and out steps a “fireman”. This photo was taken sometime after that, we can see the hose, and two “firemen” holding it, spraying water.
Anything unusual here? In this picture the car is facing the fire engine. So driver’s side is to your right. Left-side driving in India. Where are the firemen? They have walked to the back of the car, and are spraying from there. Another thing, the camera is to the back of the firemen, so you can’t see their faces.

Why not stop the fire engine, and spray water from where you are, instead of walking around the car? After all the police eye witnesses heard three explosions, one major and two minor. The natural thing would be to stay next to the fire engine and spray, instead of walking around a just exploded car.

We’ll get back to this scene later. But note the police on the other side, they are close to the front of the car. We can see the rear bumper on the road, on our side, so we are facing the back of the car.

A note on fire engines and the city of Coimbatore. You may live in the heart of Coimbatore, and you wouldn’t have heard or seen one for 10 years or more. But this time, the fire engine was on scene, in about two minutes. Did they have it ready for the event?

And to counter the previous argument, they sent a fire engine, around various parts of the city, with the bells ringing, couple of weeks after the event, to remind everyone they have an effective fire fighting capability. Coimbatore, if one didn’t know, is a smart city.

The next picture is graphic, not sure if this picture, or the one after this has been taken earlier. Let’s figure that out.

Here we see one fireman, spraying a water mist. There is no fire, so this is just a pose for a photo. Too far to identify the fireman.

Now, for the second picture, we have moved next to the fire engine. The Vinayaka temple is to our left, Kottai Easwaran temple is to our right, the car is facing us, and fire engine is behind us. In all this the car and fire engine remain facing each other.
What is wrong with the body? At this point no one knows it is a terrorist event. So the first thing, at least in India, one would have expected, is to move the person or body away from the burning car.
Did the policemen not say, they found a charred body. We don’t see any charring, except the left feet looks black.
Check the pose, looks like a mannequin from a dress store. We can see the straightness of the “body” and the raised heel position typical of mannequins. What is the chance that even if the guy YZ got out of the car, started running, would have fallen ramrod straight and died? His left foot looks like burnt plastic from what I could make out.

His autopsy report, which came later, stated that the cause of his death was due to a nail puncturing his heart. Charred body with a punctured heart.

Not only was the body left in position, but the firemen had to step over it to get to the other side. Remember the firemen didn’t spray the car from next to the fire engine. They walked over the body, the cylinder (not seen in this picture), moved to the back of the car, and only then they spray, in the first and second photos. May be the dummy was moved into position for this picture.

The green leaves are from the sacred Peepul or Pipal tree, typically present in Vinayaka (Ganesha, the elephant-faced God) temples.

Now for the third picture, which could have been second, if only because we have 3 firemen, and the water comes out in force. We are in the same position as in the second picture, with the fire engine behind us. But there is an anomaly, we’ll get to it in a moment.

Once again this is a pose for photo. There is no fire. Looks like a cellphone camera with distorted perspective. Look at the first fireman’s head!. You can make out a gas cylinder lying next to the car. It hasn’t been moved yet. Actually where was it in the second photo? Was the mannequin moved into position for the second photo, and the cylinder for this (third) photo?

Also look at the flimsy wooden tables in the shop to your right. Kottai Easwaran temple is to the right, Vinayaka temple is to our left. We have just moved back some distance, so one can’t make out the “body”.

The firemen have now moved next to the fire engine. They found the best position and the full staff to fight the fire, after the fire has been extinguished! They also maintain a safe distance!

If they are posing for a photo, why hide the faces? Fire department has already established a reputation, that they could get to a fire in just two minutes, at an unearthly hour of around 4AM. Why not let the heroes bask in glory, instead of hiding their faces?

Even with the distorted perspective, you will notice that the road is just about 10 feet wide.

Although there were several people with their cellphones, and quite a few policemen, we don’t have many photos or videos.

“The Hindu” newspaper has some daytime photos with police vans blocking the view, that they credit to their staff photographer. Others are “by special arrangement”. So most of the news media I presume got their photos and videos through “special arrangement”.

It is daytime. We’ll look at the later photos, and see if we can once again try to put them in sequence.

Here’s one that is sufficiently detailed. Oh, the horror, see the marbles all around. The terrorist YZ had added marbles to his contraption to cause extensive damage. But are the policemen removing the marbles or putting them there?

This next picture is a high quality one. No marbles around. Notice the steering wheel, it is there, rusted, but still in place. We need this information on the steering wheel to decide which one came first, steering wheel intact, or steering wheel down, with marbles spread all around.

The back of the car, near the right rear wheel, there are no marbles. Also notice the guy in center has glove in one hand, no glove in the other.

Forensics would require good quality photos, this is one such photo, so they are doing good. You can definitely see it is a narrow road, and Maruti 800 is a very small car. It was introduced in 1983 and discontinued in 2014.

See the condition of the car, looks like it got into an accident, was sent to the scrap yard, sat in the sun and rain for a very long time, and got rusted.

Subsequent “investigation” (i.e. made up story) by the authorities confirm this. The guy YZ got this car from someone who thought he was selling it as scrap. Ownership changed 10 or 12 times depending on the news media. So they took an old rusted car involved in a bad collision, from the junkyard for this event.

If you have a keen eye as Miles Mathis, you would also have noticed that the registration plates that should have been both in front and back are nowhere to be seen. The back has “blasted” off, but the front should have had the registration place.

Getting to the marbles used as shrapnel to multiply the damage. Fortunately we have a close up of the photo with marbles.

There you can see the marbles next to the rear wheel. You might say this is an earlier photo, the marbles were subsequently removed. If it was earlier, what happened to the steering wheel, you can see it next to the policeman’s hand (right hand of the policeman to the left), the whole steering wheel with shaft/column has fallen down.

Marbles when steering wheel has fallen down, and no marbles when steering wheel is upright. Which photo should come first? Did the steering wheel/column mysteriously turn back upright after the marbles were removed?

Edit: Added photo on Dec 26, 2022.

If you can’t place the fallen steering wheel in the previous photo, you can see it clearly now, next to the front right of the car (i.e. to your left).

As Miles Mathis would say “lazy script writers and lazy event coordinators”, and perhaps poorly paid actors.

There was one reporter who has been doing crime reporting for more than 20 years, who in fact prefixes his name with “Crime” who was struggling to explain this event in a youtube video. Several people have commented about his struggle. The anchor interviewing him, however, put on a very serious expression nodding to his every statement.

The “crime reporter” wanted to dramatize, and although the event narrative just mentioned nails, the reporter extrapolated to iron shrapnel. Without pictures he had a hard time making up what iron shrapnel meant.

Most of the media have been given notes about the event, and they were just reading from it. Today’s journalists either in mainstream media (some of which have been around more than a hundred years), or from alternative “bold and brutally honest” alternative media are simply expected to read from notes. But to elaborate and to exaggerate to drive listeners emotions, you would need pictures, which made these journalists struggle.

Marbles generally mean glass marbles, which kids use for play. But that is sort of ridiculous, so reporters and opposition politicians changed that to steel balls (used in ball bearings).

Since the “marbles” are all black, it could be steel balls.

Look at the rear bumper, it is intact when compared to the damage to the car. Like the “body” with no injuries, this is inconsistent with the rest of the scene. They could have skipped the bumper, but yet got an intact bumper for this event.

I don’t know, but for some reason, the Chief Minister refused to comment on this event, subsequently handing over the investigation to NIA (National Investigation Agency). While opposition leaders were blaming him for not calling this a terrorism event.

You can also see the police sort of smiling/laughing in the press conferences and photos (I don’t have them here), seeming to indicate that all is not well with the staging.

Here’s one photo closer to midday I presume.

I have put it here, not for the people in it, but to show the shops on the right (Kottai Easwaran temple side) with flimsy wooden/plywood tables. You can see them both on this side, and further away on the other side of the entrance. Unfortunately the blast seems to have attracted some plywood panels from the shop to the front of the car. No need to search for the front number plates, I couldn’t see them in any photos, the plywood is not covering it, there wasn’t any plate in the first place.

This one is a little later, the shops are still there.

And there is a load of tender coconut next to the electric post. If you go back to the second photo with the “body”, you’ll notice that the tender coconuts are just a couple of feet from where the body was. Event staged, photos and videos recorded, time to enjoy some refreshing coconut water?

The next photo is just a street view.

The next photo shows everything cleared up.

Possibly the next day. Kottai Easwaran temple entrance is decorated, people have left the footwear outside, and have gone inside to worship.

Nothing to be seen on the road. What happened to the shops? They don’t want anyone searching for embedded nails in the flimsy wooden shelves from the blast. The story was that the guy YZ died because a nail pierced his heart, perhaps a few might have pierced the wooden shelves?
If they are removed, then you don’t need to bother with that bit of forensics.

After much ruckus by the opposition party the case was handed over from the State police to a central agency NIA (National Investigation Agency).

A couple of photos, not sure where they were taken, but presented by the media as part of investigation into the event.
The first one, the pose of the four officers is strategic, we don’t know who they are, and we don’t know where it was taken.

Terrorism case, so they don’t want to show their faces. Perfectly understandable. If that is so, why wear NIA overcoats in the first place? Do they really look like NIA, they seem to take comfort huddling together.

Another one with three officers, similar attempt to hide.

Why does the guy to the right find the whole thing funny? Poor acting in a terrorism event!

Staging the event is finally over. Could someone take photos of the damaged car, and confirm that the damage is from a cylinder blast? No luck, here either. The limited set of photos and videos come through “special arrangement”.

The car is covered by a blue tarpaulin, and removed from the scene. Perfect climax to a fake!

We can see that no one was killed, the “body” is a mannequin, there was no terrorist, it was all made up. No Muslim terrorist died, and no Hindus were saved.

To add to the strangeness, YZ was married with two daughters, but his wife is fortunate to be both deaf and dumb. Not that any reporter, even from alternative media would investigate or contact the relatives of YZ to get their side of the story. We know YZ is a mannequin, so it doesn’t matter anyway. All media reporters are given notes, they read, and spin it accordingly.

One can go back and watch party leaders, alternative media journalists, crime reporters, news media make the case for terrorism, see how they spin the whole faked event.

What is the story behind this fake? Actually before that, one has to look at another possible fake – the case of Shraddha Walker. She was killed by her live-in boyfriend, in Delhi, her body chopped into 35 pieces, and scattered in some semi-forested area. Her “Muslim” boyfriend’s name is Aaftab Poonawala. Poonawala or Poonawalla? Slight differences in spelling.
The name just means a person from Poona (or Pune), a city in Maharashtra, so almost everyone from that place can consider themselves Poona wallas. However only people from a certain community (or perhaps communities, not sure) have that last name, so it is pretty rare.
SCOVID scandal put a hero in the limelight since beginning of 2020 – Adar Poonawalla.
He owns Serum Institute of India, that produces 60 percent of world’s vaccines, and was a major player in SCOVID with the CoviShield vaccine. This Poonawalla, sort of fell out of limelight, but he is back in the media now with SCOVID revival in China.
Why would they fake a murder and the “murderer” share the same last name?
Shraddha is equally strange, since this is important in Hinduism, and means faith or devotion.
Walker? Where did a Christian Walker come from?

(Edit: Dec 26, 2020 – Walker is pronounced as wall-cur, also spelled as Walkar, so I’m wrong here. Not familiar with some of the names from that place. Still I don’t think there was a murder, or chopping of the body).
Why should I say it is fake? I see one video of “Aftab”, he has a mask covering his mouth, , wears full-sleeve shirt and stands behind a glass partition. You can make out his body type. In another video where he is taken to recreate crime scene or retrieve body parts, his face is fully covered, wears full-sleeve shirt, and his head is covered too. This guy is definitely not the other “Aftab”, he is stouter and taller. Why can’t they use the same “Aftab” for both the scenes? Why this cloak and dagger when they have released at least one photo, and a video with uncovered head, showing most of his face?

His lawyer and the other lawyers and people in their meeting with the press after his bail application hearing, seem to smile as if something funny is going on.
And the other thing is a “narco-test”. Apparently the criminal is injected a drug combination, acting like a anesthetic, which will put him in a “hypnotic” state, and make him reveal the details of the “murder”. Truth Serum and Serum Institute, is that how they are related? Is that even legal? Hypnotic state will make him suggestive to whatever they want to put in his head as real.

I’m not linking any videos or news articles for any of the cases. You can go online and check them out for yourselves.

For the blast, reasons given are to facilitate entry of a national party in Tamil Nadu, which has so far been dominated by two regional parties. The other is that, this is purely business, get established businesses out, and bring in outsiders. The third reason, is to be ahead of the terrorists, fake an event, and raid their houses or whatever. Also this may be used to “modernize” police forces, and increase surveillance.
We’ll ignore the last one, since in India the authorities can raid if they have reasonable cause, rather than create a fake event.

I’m actually inclined toward the second one.
Big businesses are getting into supplying fruits and vegetables, cooking oils, other food items generally handled by smaller companies. Muslim businesses were damaged during the 1998 blasts in Coimbatore, and that continues to this day. Big businesses will make sure that all Indians wear clothes made from polyester, rayon, viscose, and other synthetics, some made to mimic cotton.
Rich merchant classes during colonial times were Parsis, Jains, Muslims, and some Hindus who were involved with opium trade. They simply adapted to the times, made their money, and then moved to legitimate businesses later.

Such fake events can be favorable to some business groups, others may withdraw, giving up control of their businesses. With technology and rapid changes, businesses and employees have to use every means to stay ahead. Dishonesty is one of the means. If they can find a way to ruin the other side, they’ll definitely go for it.

If a business were to produce and something useful for people, remains private or family owned, recycles profits to keep the business running through good times and bad times, and dislikes government interference, then they will likely be raided by the authorities and brought into compliance.

And big businesses try hard to place their people in governments and bureaucracy, to continue their hegemony.

Sometime back not giving money as part of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) was a criminal offence, where the owner of the company was liable to be jailed.

Doesn’t a small business know more about the needs of the people, and provide a useful product? Doesn’t the business by producing useful products do a greater service, than that dictated by those in government. Most governments really are a benami front for dynastic merchant classes. While they simultaneously rail against benami properties, corruption and dynastic politics!

Anyway most small businesses will have to find out ways to keep the government out, and be useful to their communities. Otherwise cotton clothing will be too expensive, or not available. Fruits, vegetables and grains will lack nutrition, become tasteless. Cooking oils will be as fake as modern “edible” cooking oils. People too should do their part, and find genuine people with genuine products and encourage them.
Big businesses and merchant classes and families may be good for latest tech products, but not for groceries.

Back to the acting during the staged event. We all love watching movies, most of heroes are movie heroes. Their exaggerated actions, lighting props and dress to make them beautiful or handsome, and all the fake theater, fake comedy convinces us that they are larger than life, and we look up to them. Many leaders come from acting, or have interests in the movie industry. Some serious acting may help governance, and keep people in compliance. And the movie industry has created cultural artifacts of song, music, and dance which we like.

In normal social situations we may find acting funny, a useful distraction. But in a larger context, such shallowness can be disconcerting. We need genuine people, whom we can trust, and have genuine interactions.

Our leader Modi, according to Wikipedia is an actor. “His teachers describe him as an average student and a keen gifted debater, with interest in theatre. Modi preferred playing larger-than-life characters n theatrical productions, which has influenced his political image”. When he came to the national stage, he was called “feku” (fake), which seemed very strange. Did others know something that I didn’t?. Was that because he was an actor?
Nearly all of the leaders in Tamil Nadu were from film industry, or had some stake in it. So Modi being an actor, wouldn’t be a concern, it would actually imply he was talented in politics.

It was Trump with his dramatic fights with news media, exposed the media as fake theater. His claim that ISIS was a creation of the Obama administration, made many rethink terrorism, and who is behind it. Trump was an actor too, but being too old, might have outed a few fakes, perhaps unwittingly. Many new skeptics should thank Trump for calling news media as fake, and bringing fakeness center stage.

SCOVID theater was carried out in all seriousness. Now China (or the media) has apparently revived SCOVID theater with the usual props – PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) encased actors, throat/nasal swabs, injections, long queues at the crematoriums, etc.

Less than a year into the SCOVID theater, a guy and his wife were arrested in New Delhi, I presume because they were not wearing masks inside their car. The lady was arguing why all this theater about Corona virus. They were arrested. At that time it seemed that in whole of India there was only one real man and one real woman, the rest were diapered idiots praising lockdowns, masks, PPEs and vaccines. Surreal!

The word surreal was also used by SCOVID supporters who felt it was surreal, because the “pandemic” had brought the world to its knees. The world is overrun by fakes, you don’t even know what words mean.

Now one can go back to the Coimbatore blast, and watch again the news channels, “alternative media”, pundits, anti-new-world-order pundits, crime reporters, crime investigators, political leaders, people who claim themselves to be potential terrorism targets, and wannabe Ministers.

Watch them discuss the event, provide dramatic details, link it to other blasts, and warn you about the grave implications of this staged event. It will provide a comical distraction. It may also unfortunately reflect the sad state of a nation that was once socially, culturally and spiritually rich.