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Showing posts with label central bank digital currency. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 6, 2023

A War to Destroy America

 


I first heard of attorney Tom Renz last month, when I read about the effort in Missouri to pass legislation requiring meat producers to disclose injections of mRNA vaccines into livestock.  Part of the transcript & report of “Another Renz Rant” was published at Freedom First Network; he enumerates some of the many wrecking balls destroying our culture and our way of life:

Ohio-based lawyer Thomas “Tom” Renz has warned the American people that a war is being waged to destroy and destabilize the United States.

Renz said the enemies are hitting America from different directions, including from within.

“Whether it’s [Wuhan coronavirus] COVID-19, whether it’s the economy, whether it’s just military operations, invasion through the southern border, trafficking – it’s just everywhere,” he said during the Episode 60 of “Another Renz Rant” podcast.

“Everywhere you look, you see a lot of the push to end free speech in America is coming from outside. But coming from outside, they can’t do anything. It can only be done if they can manipulate us inside. And that’s what’s happening.”

According to Renz, these attacks have become possible because of corruption.

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[Mr Renz] pointed out that America has an open southern border, where drug and child trafficking are rampant. He added that the energy supply is under attack with power stations being shut down and legislation being passed to bar energy-producing facilities like coal-fired power plants. Globalists and climate alarmists are also pushing for more widespread use of electric vehicles and the destruction of energy production capabilities.

The attack on food supply also continues, with the killing of animals either by fire or gene therapy injections. Food processing plants and farms are also being destroyed. 

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And then there’s the push for central bank digital currency (CBDC) and the destruction of the dollar.

“If you wanted to put a plan in place to destabilize and destroy America, what would you do differently than what’s happening now? The answer is nothing. They are destroying American families, American culture, the American way of life,” Renz said.

Those who dare to speak out are being censored. . . .

Read the full report here.  Video at the link.

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

Cashless ATM cards? Bad idea.

 

 

A report by Eric Lendrum at American Greatness references “cashless” ATMs – an obvious step on the way to digital currency.  Mr. Lendrum points out that several cities and states have banned cashless ATMs.  Ohio is not yet one of them:

A variety of businesses have begun implementing “cashless” ATMs that give out stored-value cards in exchange for cash.

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However, several states and cities have passed laws to forbid businesses from doing so, in order to accommodate customers who don’t have bank accounts or credit cards of their own. The Federal Deposits Insurance Corporation (FDIC) says that these “unbanked” Americans account for roughly 4.5 percent of the overall American population.

The cities that have banned such devices include New York City, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia. The states of Colorado and New Jersey have also implemented bans on cashless ATMs.

The complete report is here.  It’s one way to resist Central Bank Digital Currency.  Well, at least it’s a start.

RELATED:  Justin Haskins at Fox News:  “Biden administration is quietly planning for a future where you don’t own money”

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

What is Project Icebreaker? (Hint: it's about digital currency)




What is Project Icebreaker?  What is the BIS?  Brandon Smith answers both questions at InfoWars.  First, two major take-aways re: the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs):

In a cashless society most people would be dependent on digital products for exchanging goods and labor, and this would of course mean the end of all privacy in trade. Everything you buy or sell or work for in your life would be recorded, and this lack of anonymity could be used to stifle your freedoms in the future.

With CBDCs in place and no physical cash in existence, your savings will never be truly yours and you’ll never be able to hold your purchasing power in your hands. The means of exchange would be bottle-necked by the banks, and governments would have the option to freeze your ability to transact.

And now for two answers:

. . . The Orwellian nature of CBDCs cannot be overstated. In a cashless society most people would be dependent on digital products for exchanging goods and labor, and this would of course mean the end of all privacy in trade. Everything you buy or sell or work for in your life would be recorded, and this lack of anonymity could be used to stifle your freedoms in the future.

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It’s important to understand that central bankers are moving at breakneck speed to develop and introduce digital currencies. It’s not a matter of experimentation, they already have these systems ready to implement. The Federal Reserve’s instant transfer program “FedNow” is set to debut this July, which is not a CBDC but it is an intermediary step towards instituting CBDCs in the near term.

In my investigations of various CBDC programs and how quickly they are progressing I came across an interesting program called “Project Icebreaker” being run by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). For those not aware, the BIS is a globalist institution with a clandestine past known as the “central bank of central banks.” It is the policy making hub for most of the central banks in the world. If you ever wondered how it was possible for so many national central banks to operate in tandem with each other instead of acting in the interests of the countries they reside in, the BIS is the answer. In other words, organizations like the Federal Reserve are not necessarily loyal to Americans or to American officials, they are loyal to the dictates of the BIS.

The BIS is at the forefront of the movement towards the adoption of CBDCs. . . .

. . . Project Icebreaker in particular grabbed my attention for a number of reasons. The BIS describes the project as a foreign exchange clearing house for Retail CBDCs (retail CBDCs are digital currencies used by the regular public and businesses), enabling the currencies to be traded from country to country quickly and efficiently. This is accomplished using the “Icebreaker Hub”, a BIS controlled mechanism which facilitates data transfers for an array of transactions while connecting banks to other banks. . . .

Read the full report here.   This blog has previously posted on the subject of digital currency, e.g., here and here.

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Monday, April 10, 2023

Digital Currency = Political Tyranny

 


Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has announced his bid for the Democrat Party’s nomination for President in 2024.  He’s been an outspoken (and published) critic of the COVID "vaccine” mandates and Dr Anthony Fauci, and now he’s taking on the imminent introduction of global bank digital currency (CBDC).  A digital currency challenges the dollar as the world's reserve currency.  Ben Bartee at PJ Media reports:

RFK Jr. Warns of Serious CBDC Threat to Liberty

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Taking to Twitter, RFK Jr. succinctly laid out the reasons for his principled opposition to central bank digital currencies:

The Fed just announced it will introduce its “FedNow” Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in July. CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny.

While cash transactions are anonymous, a #CBDC will allow the government to surveil all our private financial affairs. The central bank will have the power to enforce dollar limits on our transactions restricting where you can send money, where you can spend it, and when money expires.

He goes on to warn of the obvious social control implications that this newfound government power to turn off the financial spigot on a whim will confer to the bureaucracy — of the hellish CCP social credit score variety.

“Watch as governments, which never let a good crisis go to waste, use Covid-19 and the banking crisis to usher in a new wave of CBDCs as a safe haven from germ-laden paper currencies or as protection against bank runs,” the son of the legendary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. concluded. . . .

July is right around the corner.

RELATEDBRICS Nations challenge US Dollar’s dominance (America First Report)

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Monday, February 13, 2023

Stopping the push for digital currency

 


Dr Joseph Mercola talks about “What Can YOU Do to Stop CBDCs [Central Bank Digital Currency]?” at America First Report:

Editor’s Commentary: It’s a good thing that more conservative and alternative media outlets are warning people about Central Bank Digital Currencies. Unfortunately, most are not offering recommendations on what to do about them. Thankfully, Dr. Joseph Mercola, show host James Corbett, and financial expert Catherine Austin Fitts are filling the gap.

In a recent article and video, they recommended 10 ways people can work to both stop CBDCs and to prepare for them if and when they become a full-blown reality. With the totalitarianism inherent in such forms of money, it’s important that we do what we can now before it’s too late. I discussed this on the latest episode of The JD Rucker Political Report. Here’s the article I referenced…

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • In 2023, 11 countries have fully launched a digital currency while more than 20 more will move toward starting one
  • 114 countries, which represent more than 95% of global GDP, are looking into CBDC — up from just 35 countries in 2020
  • Finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts details 10 practical steps individuals can take to stop implementation of CBDCs
  • Tips include using cash as much as possible and minimizing your use of digital systems, including avoiding biometric technology and QR codes
  • Doing business with local people and entities you know and trust, and ditching large, multinational banks in favor of trustworthy local banks or credit unions will also help

Read the full report here.

RELATEDHere's a report (Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge) on how this is playing out in Brazil in real time. 

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Happy

 


Dutch Journalist and Filmmaker Alain Grootaers has a guest essay at Dr Robert W Malone’s Substack, and it’s about the World Economic Forum (WEF).  Dr Malone prefaces the article with a cautionary comment: “It is important to understand that what has been happening to all of us over the last three years has been globally coordinated.”

Transcommunism is coming: Better watch out

. . . Today, we see the 'Never let a good crisis go to waste' reappearing in all kinds of bizarre initiatives: the best-known statement on this is of course that of WEF leader Klaus Schwab, who saw in the COVID crisis and the reactions to it not death, economic misery and an attack on fundamental human rights, but rather (as he stated) 'a narrow window of opportunity' to roll out the scenarios that have been ready since a few years ago and about which the man has been very frank.  You can read it all in his book “The Great Reset”.

Now, the mainstream press is always a bit gun-shy about the WEF, and very much underestimates the influence the 'little club' has on government leaders and policy.  Anyone who comments on this is quickly dismissed as a conspiracy thinker.  It is nothing more than an informal meeting of world leaders, influencers, NGOs and captains of industry, the specialized financial press said as recently as this spring.

That now appears to be slightly different.  

[Mr Grootaers then expands on current global initiatives currently underway in Canada and the Netherlands, for example.]

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Such a digital Euro, centrally controlled by the ECB [European Central Bank] is the prelude to a total social control society on the Chinese model. With it, every financial transaction can not only be monitored but then adjusted or even banned.  Linked to credit or debit cards, your spending patterns can be accurately tracked. Linked to your “Covid Safe” card or app (which will be soon renamed as a Health Certificate) your money can be blocked in case of 'undesirable behavior'.

Bought too much meat or avocados from Africa this month causing your carbon footprint to go into the red? Then your digital money for these products will be blocked. Put too many bottles of Moët et Chandon Champagne in your shopping basket while your digital health certificate knows you have high blood pressure?  "Better not drink any more alcohol this month anyway" your digital money will say to you.

Anyone who already takes a plane once in a while will not be able to book their next flight if as a result your 'CO2 plane points' have been exceeded.  Airmiles will suddenly take on a whole new meaning.

Maybe the green tick on your digital pass will suddenly jump to red if it turns out that you have not been vaccinated, and you will be unable to buy anything at all.

And if you protest about it and want to hit the streets, the red tick might give a free pass to riot police to beat you up.  Excessive?  It already happened consistently last year at peaceful demonstrations in the Netherlands, Canada, Belgium and France.  And it’s all been happening in China.

"You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Happy", they once told us in a video at the WEF. The first part of that slogan is getting close.  Allow me to have my doubts about the second part.  Transcommunism is knocking at the door.  Better not open.

Read the full article here. 

RELATED:   John Knox posted a thread by ‘The Mallard Reborn’ at Not The Bee.  It’s about surviving everything collapsing around our ears.  Not for the faint-of-heart.  Click here

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Friday, October 28, 2022

Central Bank Digital Currency: bad idea


At Big League Politics (Oct 26), Jose Nino reported:

During an interview on CoinDesk TV, Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes said that the United States government should create a central bank digital currency (CBDC). He believes the US must do so in order to not be “left behind.” 

Countries such as Australia, China, Japan, and Russia have rolled out pilot projects to test run CBDCs.

Himes stated that the US should get the ball rolling on developing a CBDC so that “we’ve got the option to move forward” when it comes to competing wit’s other great powers using similar currencies.

. . . [BUT, as Mr Nino comments]

CBDCs are just another way globalists want to take control of people’s economic livelihood. While technology can enhance people’s lives, it can also be used as a way to exert control over them.

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Instead there should be the promotion of a separation of central banking and state through legislation that allows for competing currencies to operate freely in the marketplace. 

The solution to these economic issues ultimately lies with mechanisms that promote more economic freedom as opposed to economic control. 

Read the full report here. Another wrecking ball if this plan succeeds.

RELATED headline: "New British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is World Economic Forum Globalist, Pushing Banker-Controlled Digital Currency"

 


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