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Push for digitisation is a global threat

Push for digitisation is a global threat

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The hidden agenda behind digital IDs are being kept from us, says the writer.
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There has been a noticeable, aggressive push for digitisation around the World by unelected global technocrats and philanthropists.
The World Economic Forum, the United Nations and the World Health Organization have become a breeding ground for socialist, Marxist ideologies, and the writing is on the wall for all of us.
Individuals such as Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, George Soros and Klaus Schwab, to name a few, have become the engineers of global chaos, fear, control and manipulation. Lockdowns are being pushed while profiting from vaccines, and policies are being funded which destroy economies and mental health.
These madmen don't just spread viruses, they infect society with fear, division and digital enslavement. They called it a Pandemic, but the real virus wears a suit, sits on panels, funds media narratives and engineers crises from behind the scenes.
The CDC receives millions from the Gates Foundation, Pfizer, and other Big Pharma giants through the CDC Foundation, which bypasses Congressional oversight. These are not conspiracy theories! It's happening before our very eyes! These are hazardous people, playing perilous games.
To top it all, central banks are quietly building a new financial prison, where programmable money will allow these psychopaths to control how and when your money is spent!
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Do not be fooled for one second when governments around the World are telling us that digitising our home affairs system to enable digital ID, will 'protect us from fraudsters', or 'flush out illegal immigrants....although these initiatives all sound perfectly normal and carries a degree of credibility, the hidden agenda behind digital IDs are being kept from us. It's all a smoke screen, and we are busy falling for it.
Newly developed Banking services, such as facial recognition, are just another tool with which globalists are herding us all together into the pen of digital nightmares!
Lastly, Elites aren't buying tech stocks. They are buying soil, seeds and water rights. When inflation hits, supply chains break, and war breaks out, land wins every time!
No wonder Bill Gates is buying so much farm land in the USA, among other nefarious things such as spraying fresh produce with chemicals to make it look fresher for longer, generically modifying our foods, injecting vaccines into live stock and spraying harmful chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere to try block out the sun- who knows where all of this is going to end!
My best guess is that Agenda 2030 is front and centre of these evil people's minds. Vaccine mandates, digital ID, carbon emissions tracking, social credit scores like those being used in China....it all leads to one destination: unimaginable, irreversible global, digital imprisonment.
The only losers in this story are you and I, the average tax-paying citizen! It's time to resist! It's time to start asking more questions!
When the DA's Leon Shreiber starts mentioning Digitisation of Home affairs, be careful not to get lost in the smokescreen of 'betterment for everyone'- we all know, or should take note, of the DA's ties with the World Economic Forum.
L Oosthuizen Durban
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