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Vaccine Passport / Digital ID Thread: 🧡
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The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West.
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India:
The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend.
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Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including her monthly allotment of 25kg of rice.
No fingerprints, no rations! Denial of grains.
science.thewire.in
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When her fingerprint failed to register with the shoddy system, Devi was denied her food ration. Throughout the course of the following three months in 2017, she was repeatedly refused food until she succumbed to hunger, alone in her home.
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Premani Kumar, 64, woman also from Jharkhand, met the same demise as Devi, dying of hunger the same year after the Aadhaar system transferred her pension payments to another person without her permission, while cutting off her monthly food rations.
aadhaar.fail
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A similarly cruel fate was reserved for Santoshi Kumari, an 11-year-old girl, also from Jharkhand, who reportedly died begging for rice after her family’s ration card was canceled because it had not been linked to their Aadhaar digital ID.
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These three heart-rending casualties were among a spate of deaths in rural India in 2017 which came as a direct result of the Aadhaar digital ID system.
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With over 1 billion Indians in its database, Aadhaar is the largest biometric digital ID program ever constructed.
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Besides serving as a portal to government services, it tracks users’ movements between cities, their employment status, and purchasing records. It is a de facto social credit system that serves as the key entry point for accessing services in India.
indiatoday.in
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Having branded Aadhaar’s creator, fellow billionaire Nandan Nilekani, as a β€œhero,” initiatives backed by tech oligarch Bill Gates have long sought to bring the β€œAadhaar approach to other countries.”
news18.com
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With the onset of the Covid-19 crisis, Bill Gates and other mavens of the digital ID & ID2020 industry have an unprecedented opportunity to introduce their enslavement programs into the wealthy countries of the Global North.
ledgerinsights.com
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For those yearning for an end to pandemic-related restrictions, credential programs certifying their vaccination against Covid-19 have been marketed as the key to reopening the economy and restoring their personal freedom.
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The implementation of passports is also accelerating the establishment of a global digital id infrastructure.
As the military surveillance firm and NATO contractor Thales recently put it, vaccine passports β€œare a precursor to digital ID wallets.”
thalesgroup.com
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The CEO of iProove, a biometric ID company & DHS contractor said β€œThe evolution of vaccine certificates will actually drive the whole field of digital ID in the future. So therefore, this is not just about Covid, this is about something even bigger.”
forbes.com
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Digital immunity passports will promise unprecedented controls over populations wherever such systems are to be implemented.
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Ann Cavoukian, the former privacy commissioner of Ontario, Canada has described the vaccine passport system already active in her province as β€œa new, inescapable web of surveillance with geolocation data being tracked everywhere.”
tvo.org
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Now, with grassroots protest building against an exclusionary regime of vaccine passports, the captains of global capitalism are campaigning with more urgency than ever to bring digital ID to the West.
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For these elite interests, the digitization of immunity passports represent a critical tool in a long-planned economic and political transformation.
Now only we remain and stand in their way.

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