Venezuelan government mandates fingerprint biometrics for food
TennesseeWatchman
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People in Venezuela now have to use their fingerprints to get food.
The move to biometric scanners has become a reality, even
though the effort began a few years ago by President Nicholas Maduro. It
is called the “Fingerprints for Food” program by the socialist
government, as reported by the Miami Herald. With it, people can only
get minimal goods, medicine and supplies from the state-owned grocery
stores.
Maduro said fingerprinting was necessary to prevent hoarding and to keep price-controlled food from being resold for profit.
Consumers must also show ID.
For years, Venezuela has been short on food, which has
been made worse from the global oil glut, since they depend heavily on
oil revenue, along with other socialist, Latin American countries.
“All these governments — Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador
or Venezuela — were still wholly dependent on the sale of commodities.
So the Drop in commodity prices really has exposed the vulnerability
of many of the leftist governments,” said Tinker Salas, a Professor of
Latin American History at Pomona College in a Sputnik interview.
Inflation has skyrocketed. Al Jazeera
has cited price controls, a lack of U.S. dollars, supply chain problems
and food being moved to Colombia to be sold for more money as the main
contributors to the problem.
Citizens were persuaded into signing up for the program after the government promised discounts and prizes.
The food lines are so bad, people often line up overnight and sleep there. Soldiers are stationed outside stores.
One woman told the Wall Street Journal she got in a line at 3 a.m. and left empty-handed at noon.
People have hit the streets in protest. Venezuelan troops
have responded, but the government is blaming the U.S. The Daily
Caller has reported Caracas has warned that the U.S. could invade.
Riot police officers fire tear gas during
clashes with opposition supporters in a rally to demand a referendum to
remove President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, May 18, 2016.
REUTERS/Marco Bello
In March 2015, President Obama issued an executive order
stating the Venezuelan government was a national security threat and
issued sanctions.
The Elite Are Preparing To Chip Everyone, Starting With Our Children -
Children Will be Microchipped Very Soon
An NBC News report that promotes the microchipping of children asserts that it will happen “sooner rather than later” and that Americans will eventually accept the process as something just as normal as the barcode. It goes on to highlight mother of three Steffany Rodroguez-Neely, who talks about how she briefly lost her daughter after she hid behind a rack of clothes, bringing to the fore, “every parent’s nightmare when you can’t find your child.”
“If it’ll save my kid, there’s no stuff that’s too extreme,” says Rodroguez-Neely. “Micro-chipping would be an extra layer of protection, if something bad does happen.” Rodroguez-Neely goes on to explain how she has braved skepticism from members of the local Tampa Bay Moms Group, people like Kerri Levey, who are wary about implanting their own children. READ MORE
Worse than RFID Implant – A 666 Tech Device Under Production for Mass Release!
Google has patented a “needle free” device that has been dubbed by Gizmodo as “the Vampire Watch.” The device uses hyper speeds to suck blood out of your body (literally) and into a negative pressure barrel. Google describes the device as a particle accelerator that you wear around your wrist.
The accelerator opens an “aperture” into your body and removes a small quantity of blood without you feeling anything. Some people might think a device like this would be good for anybody suffering with Diabetes or other types of diseases that need frequent monitoring…however, there are many things about this device that should be investigated.
We
know from Revelation 13 that all people will receiving some type of
“mark” on their foreheads or in the back of their hands. There are some
who debate what this mark could be, whether it is an RFID chip or
something else.
My
opinion is that the “mark” involves hard-wiring the human body to the
WWW matrix through a type of technology. Both an RFID and the Vampire
Watch would qualify as types of “marks” that somebody could receive in
their bodies. The human body has been called the Temple of God on
several occasions in scripture.
1 Corinthians 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
While Google describes the Vampire Watch device as a particle accelerator, there is a much larger and more famous particle accelerator that is under operation. CERN uses large magnets to accelerate particles to nearly the speed of light. There are several CERN scientists that have come out and suggested that CERN is attempting to open up black holes in their facility. Other scientists have said that something could be on the other side of the black hole, perhaps entities from another dimension.
Lastly, please reject propaganda telling you that it’s ok to get an RFID microchip implant. FEMA pastors and some Christian Youtube channels are telling their subscribers that the mark of the beast isn’t a chip, and that it’s fine for them to get an RFID chip or other implantable technology! BEWARE! You are hard-wiring yourself to the WWW matrix if you do this!!!
VIDEO: The mark of the beast now seems a probable reality
(LifeSiteNews) -- Under the guise of fighting homophobia, sex education, freedom of choice, LGBT rights, and non-discrimination we are experiencing the imposition of an ideology that is asserted all over the world with religious fervor. Unlike the Christian faith however, this set of beliefs is imposed rather than proposed. It employs the education system, national legislation, attacks on religion and the Church in an effort to achieve total adherence, forbidding dissent.
Across North America and Western Europe for the last 20 years we’ve seen bakers, wedding photographers, florists, professors, counselors, health care workers, media personalities, professional sports players, bed and breakfast owners, mayors, printers, politicians, foster parents, fire chiefs, magistrates and police fined and some lose their jobs for failing to adhere to the new dogmas of the religion which paints itself as neutral and objective -- the arbiter of the acceptability of various expressions of the multiplicity of world religions.
In the movement for life and family we have long seen international economic pressure used on developing nations to force them into compliance with the new dogmas of false freedom, gender ideology and a warped conception of human rights. The United Nations, Europe and North America have conditioned aid money to poor countries on the acceptance of contraception, abortion and homosexuality. According to Bishop Badejo of Nigeria, even help with fighting Boko Haram was impeded by the nation’s refusal to accept homosexual ‘marriage’.
Of late however we have seen use of these same economic pressure tactics on a national level. In the United States, large corporations have effectively usurped democracy by strong-arming elected officials into betraying the people they represent with the threat of financial ruin.
It was foretold by a homosexual activist financier in March of 2015. Tim Sweeney spoke of defeating religious freedom exemptions in the U.S. within three years. “We are at a crossroads where the choices we make will mean we will fight religious exemptions for two to three years or have a protracted twenty year struggle on our hands,” Sweeney told leading business executives and others attending the Out & Equal Workplace Advocates executive forum, held in San Francisco.
Such corporate financial pressure has exploded in the last number of months into a monster-threat to democracy recognized even by some liberals as a concerning development. Even the descriptions of the situation from media cheering the developments read like a horror novel. Here’s the description of the situation from the New Yorker magazine of April 25:
Last month, executives at more than eighty companies—including Apple, Pfizer, Microsoft, and Marriott—signed a public letter to the governor of North Carolina urging him to repeal the state’s new law (protecting religious freedom). Lionsgate Studio is moving production of a new sitcom out of the state, Deutsche Bank cancelled plans to create new jobs there, and PayPal has cancelled plans for a global operations center. In Mississippi, G.E., Pepsi, Dow, and others attacked the law there as “bad for our employees and bad for business.” Disney said that it would stop making movies in Georgia, which has become a major venue for film production, if the governor signed the bill. Something similar happened last year in Indiana, after the state passed a religious-freedom law allowing businesses to discriminate against L.G.B.T. customers and employees. At least a dozen business conventions relocated.We have seen the financial coercion go from the international level to the national. As I mentioned earlier we have also begun to see it affect certain individuals. I would suggest it will not be too long before that pressure is applied to each individual.
A little corporate muscle flexing can work wonders, it turns out. Last month, Georgia’s governor vetoed its religious-freedom bill, implicitly acknowledging that the state could not afford to lose Disney’s business, and South Dakota’s governor, citing opposition from Citigroup and Wells Fargo, vetoed a law that would have required people to use the bathroom that corresponded to their biological sex at birth. Last year, Indiana and Arkansas amended their religious-freedom bills after a corporate backlash (led, in Arkansas, by Walmart).
Such a development was predicted over 2000 years ago in the Apocalypse or the book of Revelations. In the 13th and 14th chapters of the Apocalypse we read about the so-called “mark of the beast.”
16 And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads. 17 And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.Having some mark which allows buying and selling is not evil in and of itself, thus there must be something attached to getting the mark which makes receiving it worthy of eternal damnation. It would follow logically that in order to have the means to buy and sell people could perhaps be required to be upstanding citizens. Might not they be expected to sign on to some statement of human right to attest to such a state?
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice: If any man shall adore the beast and his image, and receive his character in his forehead, or in his hand; 10 He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mingled with pure wine in the cup of his wrath, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels, and in the sight of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torments shall ascend up for ever and ever: neither have they rest day nor night, who have adored the beast, and his image, and whoever receiveth the character of his name.
For over 20 years the ideologues of the new global religion have worked to insert language into United Nations human rights documents that would support the new ideology. They have had partial success and with every new UN conference comes new incursions.
The purveyors of the new religion have achieved a level of global saturation in the developed world which seems ready to demand from each and every citizen adherence to their dogmas. With false love and false mercy a universal salvation is promised to all those who ‘lovingly accept others’ sexual lifestyles without discrimination and bigotry.
Many have wondered how, when persons with homosexual tendencies form such a small minority of the population, they can have acceptance of their deviant sexual lifestyle made a universal requirement.
With most of the world engaged in aberrant sexual behaviour such as the use of pornography or contraception, the link to protecting the sexual aberration of homosexuality becomes clear. One cannot allow for the condemnation of one sexual perversion when he is himself engaged in another, rather all should be protected and accepted.
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The coming years will see an increase in persecution I’ve described thus far. There is an increasing hatred for those who dare to dissent from the dogmas of the new religion coming from the general public which has been taught that most of the world’s problems are due to those unwilling to embrace love and tolerance.
It is instructive to remember the passage from chapter 11 of the Apocalypse where the two end-time prophets are finally slain by anti-Christ. The Scriptures note that their bodies shall lie in the streets for three days and all shall rejoice and exchange gifts “because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth.”
In what way did they torment those on earth? By giving voice to their consciences.
In the end there remains hope along with faith and charity. Cardinal Caffara was sent a letter by Sister Lucia of Fatima who wrote him saying “the final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family.” She added: “Don’t be afraid, because anyone who works for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be fought and opposed in every way, because this is the decisive issue. And then she concluded: however, Our Lady has already crushed its head.”
The battle is the Lord’s and He has already won. We are on the winning team, despite what the situation may look like. Ours is but to do our best to carry out the will of the God in our lives and accept even with thanks all the circumstances He sends our way.
Just as the Passion brings us Easter, the tougher the times the greater good God will bring from them. He never gives us more than we can bear and all things work for good for those who love Him.
As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said in his Easter Homily in 2012, the Resurrection of Jesus assures us that: "Life is stronger than death. Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Truth is stronger than lies."
The Shift To A Cashless Society Is Snowballing
Tyler Durden
Love it or hate it, cash is playing an increasingly less important role in society.
In some ways this is great news for consumers. The rise of mobile and electronic payments means faster, convenient, and more efficient purchases in most instances. New technologies are being built and improved to facilitate these transactions, and improving security is also a priority for many payment providers.
However, as Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins explains, there is also a darker side in the shift to a cashless society. Governments and central banks have a different rationale behind the elimination of cash transactions, and as a result, the so-called “war on cash” is on.
Despite the magnitude of this overall shift, what is happening from country to country varies quite considerably. Consider the contradicting evidence between Sweden and Germany.
In Sweden, about 59% of all consumer transactions are cashless, and hard currency makes up just 2% of the economy. Yet, across the Baltic Sea, Germans are far bigger proponents of modern cash. This should not be too surprising, considering that the German words for “debt” and “guilt” are the exact same.
Within Germany, only 33% of consumer transactions are cashless, and there are only 0.06 credit cards in existence per person.
Governments have been increasingly pushing for a cashless society. Ostensibly, by having a paper trail for all transactions, such a move would decrease crime, money laundering, and tax evasion. France’s finance ministerrecently stated that he would “fight against the use of cash and anonymity in the French economy” in order to prevent terrorism and other threats. Meanwhile, former Secretary of the Treasury and economist Larry Summers has called for scrapping the U.S. $100 bill – the most widely used currency note in the world.
By eliminating the prospect of cash savings, monetary policy options like negative interest rates would be much more effective if implemented. All money would presumably be stored under the same banking system umbrella, and even the most prudent savers could be taxed with negative rates to encourage consumer spending.
While there are certainly benefits to using digital payments, our view is that going digital should be an individual consumer choice that can be based on personal benefits and drawbacks. People should have the voluntary choice of going plastic or using apps for payment, but they shouldn’t be pushed into either option unwillingly.
Forced banishment of cash is a completely different thing, and we should be increasingly wary and suspicious of the real rationale behind such a scheme.
In some ways this is great news for consumers. The rise of mobile and electronic payments means faster, convenient, and more efficient purchases in most instances. New technologies are being built and improved to facilitate these transactions, and improving security is also a priority for many payment providers.
However, as Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins explains, there is also a darker side in the shift to a cashless society. Governments and central banks have a different rationale behind the elimination of cash transactions, and as a result, the so-called “war on cash” is on.
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist
ON THE PATH TO A CASHLESS SOCIETY
The Federal Reserve estimates that there will be $616.9 billion in cashless transactions in 2016. That’s up from around $60 billion in 2010.Despite the magnitude of this overall shift, what is happening from country to country varies quite considerably. Consider the contradicting evidence between Sweden and Germany.
In Sweden, about 59% of all consumer transactions are cashless, and hard currency makes up just 2% of the economy. Yet, across the Baltic Sea, Germans are far bigger proponents of modern cash. This should not be too surprising, considering that the German words for “debt” and “guilt” are the exact same.
Within Germany, only 33% of consumer transactions are cashless, and there are only 0.06 credit cards in existence per person.
THE DARK SIDE OF CASHLESS
The shift to a cashless society is even gaining momentum in Germany, but it is not because of the willing adoption from the general public. According to Handelsblatt, a leading German business newspaper, a proposal to eliminate the €500 note while capping all cash transactions at €5,000 was made in February by the junior partner of the coalition government.Governments have been increasingly pushing for a cashless society. Ostensibly, by having a paper trail for all transactions, such a move would decrease crime, money laundering, and tax evasion. France’s finance ministerrecently stated that he would “fight against the use of cash and anonymity in the French economy” in order to prevent terrorism and other threats. Meanwhile, former Secretary of the Treasury and economist Larry Summers has called for scrapping the U.S. $100 bill – the most widely used currency note in the world.
“SMOOTHER” AGGREGATE DEMAND?
It’s not simply an argument of the above government rationale versus that of privacy and anonymity. Perhaps the least talked-about implication of a cashless society is the way that it could potentially empower central banking to have more ammunition in “smoothing” out the way people save and spend money.By eliminating the prospect of cash savings, monetary policy options like negative interest rates would be much more effective if implemented. All money would presumably be stored under the same banking system umbrella, and even the most prudent savers could be taxed with negative rates to encourage consumer spending.
While there are certainly benefits to using digital payments, our view is that going digital should be an individual consumer choice that can be based on personal benefits and drawbacks. People should have the voluntary choice of going plastic or using apps for payment, but they shouldn’t be pushed into either option unwillingly.
Forced banishment of cash is a completely different thing, and we should be increasingly wary and suspicious of the real rationale behind such a scheme.