Patrick Robson

"The COVID operation...[was used to] lay the groundwork for CBDCs...these vaccine passports...[are] a way to push digital IDs, which are a precondition for CBDCs." Professor Richard A. Werner, who holds a First Class Honors BSc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford and who also served as a member of the European Central Bank's "Shadow Council," describes for James Patrick (@BigPictureWatch) how the "COVID operation" was used to "lay the groundwork for CBDCs." That is, central bank digital currencies. Werner, who has previously warned that a key end goal of the central bankers is to implant computer chips in people for monitoring/controlling their behavior (e.g. by controlling what they spend their money on), notes that the push for so-called "vaccine passports" is crucial for the implementation of digital IDs, which are a precondition for CBDCs. Partial transcription of clip: "The COVID, operation, I mean, it's quite clear that many of the policies had no proper medical justification or purpose. And so whereas is if you have the hypothesis that partly was used to even, you know, sort of lay the groundwork for CBDCs, there's plenty of evidence. I mean, why did the Bank of England come out, in March 2020? Around around the time when the first lockdown was announced with its first sort of public consultation meeting online about, you know, why we're locked down, about introducing CBDCs and all the benefits and needs of c CBDCs. "Also, of course, this vaccine passport, you know, it was a way to push digital IDs, which are precondition for CBDCs. In order to introduce CBDCs, you need digital IDs. And digital IDs were meant to be introduced with, vaccine passport or health, you know, passport, which is a form of digital ID. And so there is a direct connection there to these COVID policies. I mean, the COVID policies were given that they were medically not really justifiable, and some of them were very contradictory and nonsensical. And so, you know, this is a combination of somewhat unusual policies, let's say. Say. Some quite surprising. But every country in the in the world seem to have the same policies. Well, mostly certainly in Europe, and and North America. And so there was an extraordinary degree of coordination that was revealed to us. And clearly that didn't come from any democratic process, but somehow top down from behind the scenes. "So I think a lot has been revealed about these processes, from that experience. And that's really another reason why we should be against CBDCs. They've, you know, they've shown us what they're gonna do. And an example is in in Canada, in Ottawa, the demonstrations by the truckers, freedom demonstrations, very peaceful quite clearly, peaceful demonstrations, but annoying for the government and criticizing government policies and all the restrictions on individual freedoms. So the prime minister wanted to stop that. And what did he do? Well, he quickly ran through a new law that allowed the government to force the banks to freeze people's accounts, which is exactly the powers you will have with CBDCs. And and so I think they showed their cards there. Of course, it was still more complicated because a law had to be passed. But once you have CBDCs, the central planners can do this for you."