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1/ Thread: The truth behind the government's claim that #Aadhaar will check child marriages, #dowry blackmail, bigamy & Violence against women. google.co.in/amp/s/m.busine…
2/. A network of wedding scam artists, where women would make fake #Aadhaars ids (so they couldn't be identified), marry unsuspecting men, rob them and then flee. m.bhaskar.com/news/MP-IND-HM…
3/. In UP, a family got an #Aadhaar made stating their daughter is 18, when she's actually 11 years, and got her married. The girl reported her family! Or we'd never catch this #childmarriage. Govt says #Aadhaar is the "Voice of Truth." An absolute must! timesnownews.com/india/article/…
4/. In Kerala, a woman said she had been raped by a man who blackmailed her into marriage, converted her to Islam & got her a new #Aadhaar id to traffick her to the mideast scroll.in/latest/857517/…
5/. As for #widows, who are already marginalized in India, #Aadhaar is a nightmare. Hundreds of widows, many elderly have been deprived of their pension or food ration because their Biometrics don't register or has been intercepted by someone. Now there are reports of deaths!
6/ Consider 68% of India's adult illiterates are #women. Imagine what a nightmare the #Aadhaar sys is which needs digital expertise to manage your own life & navigate the bureaucracy & corruption around Aadhaar linked services m.timesofindia.com/india/Women-68…
7/. The govt uses poor, elderly widows as bait to advertise the system of cash withdrawal from bank a/cs linked to #Aadhaar which is very unsafe! Urban Indians refuse because we are educated & know. But who'll save the illiterate, poor village women from #cybercrimes?
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Yes #SmashBrahmanicalPatriarchy and every other kind of patriarchy, misogyny & #sexism regardless of the caste, class, race or religion that habits it. And they all do. But this poster #JackDorsey held was interesting for a number of reasons which I will discuss in this thread.
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3/ In fact it is this kind of stereotype about what Dalit women look like and do, which Jack's poster reinforces, that Dalit women in India have been fighting. #jackinindia
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11 signs that the government is gaslighting all citizens in India with #Aadhaar.

Do READ this and think about it! 👇

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/here-t…
2/ #Aadhaar is system, govt & pvt co. are using to enslave Indians by gaslighting. #Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. Govt has
brainwashed us to question our OWN identity. Am I who I say I am?
3/ Since gaslighting is a tactic of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders, the goal of using #Aadhaar as a #gaslighting tool is by now pretty clear. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed.
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UIDAI forcing banks to ONLY hire Deloitte (a UK) firm for audits, giving it a monopoly, pay it ₹1,94,700 a unit is for the mandatory internal security audit for Aadhaar & also pay for the travel, boarding and lodging of Deloitte officials!
The #Aadhaar CIDR is neither w/UIDAI nor govt of India but is owned by a pvt US agency that is contractor for the FBI & CIA. Deloitte, the ONLY agency allowed by UIDAI to audit Aadhaar cybersecurity of Indian banks, also has an FBI connection! www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/ab…
Ti put his thread in context for those of you who are unfamiliar about what has been stated by army veterans before the Supreme Court about how India's Aadhaar biometric data base is practically in the hands of the FBI & CIA.
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Because of course @AndrewScheer refuses to address the issue of violence against women in rural work camps to score cheap political points. A #Thread on the horrific record of the @CPC_HQ on women's issues. #cdnpoli #feminism #cdnmedia
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#THREAD
Gemalto has apologised for publishing erroneous report on Aadhaar data breach. But why would a world class firm mislead the people of India? What has Gemalto to gain from it? Does Gemalto has stakes in #Aadhaar? Lets see which journalist has the courage to report this.
To understand whats really going on you must first know the background of Gemalto and where it comes from, that would bring things into clear perspective. Then we would address the Aadhaar issue and how the People of India is being mislead by UIDAI.

Neville Pattinson Vice President, Government affairs at Gemalto is board member of Smart Card Alliance a RFID industry group, also serving US Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy & Integrity Advisory Committee - inchanrge of various Govts biometric programs like Aadhaar
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Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post”

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THE TRUMP-HITLER COMPARISON.
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# @RBI is empowered by the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 to regulate payment systems in the country. rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Publicat…
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