The Spectator Australia weekend e-mail mentioned digital currencies. I was gratified to see that a full 16% of the UK population has no smartphone (assuming the newspaper's information is correct, of course). I refuse to get a smartphone myself.
I don't want to come across as black pilled, but there is no stopping it. When your property taxes, income taxes, insurance, debt, all these shackles that have been place on us demand that we pay with CBDCs, we will be forced to use them, however there are those of us that will become adept in bartering and the black market that will develop. I've been self employed most of my life and already do many of the things that CAF and Dr Mercola mentioned. I live by cash, keep my cash at home, just put money on a debit card for online purchases and most importantly out of debt. I live on a small farm with gardens, chickens, rabbits and cattle, I'm able to raise most of my food, I already barter my services for hay and am in the position to do more. Now would be a good time for everyone to develop a barterable skill set. We can break this totalitarian grip by coming together and helping each other, this evil that's enveloping the planet cannot stand against "Loving thy neighbor as thyself"
"The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . .
And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union." ?
All excellent advice Joel - thank you - CAF knows the score. We are deep in rural SW England, going off-grid and local - on the way now - using cash is just a start: https://globalwalkout.com/keepcashalive/
My son and I , the youngest of six spread over twenty four years, were riding with others one day in Hawaii. The driver made small talk by asking "how we were doing in the economic downturn".
We were hitch hiking, mind you. "Well, " I replied, as my 13 yr. old looked on quizzically, "from where we are, there's no down to turn to. "
When I related this episode in real life to a friend later, they said to me "Poverty is economic security."
I am still confused as to whether decentralised block chain digital currencies represent a viable alternative to centralised CBDCs. The 10 points mentioned by CAF to prevent the implementation of CBDCs do not specifically recommend using Bitcoin or any of the other decentralised digital currencies. The advice is also aimed at US residents. My intuition tells me that we should be setting up a tangible, real alternative to central bank currencies right NOW, consisting of a market place where you can trade (barter) tangible goods in exchange for other tangible goods or CASH ONLY. People should be defaulting to using this instead of resorting to the big online retailers, which we all know are so alluringly convenient, but are leading us down the pathway into slavery. So who's for setting up Barter Town online?
I just wanted to say it was great to meet you on Thursday evening. I talked to you briefly just before the meeting and thanked for every thing you have done regarding covid.
Tiny glimmer of hope in the incoming digital nightmare. Hackers!
They for sure can & will get into any system anywhere on earth. Then watch the digital implosion.
The Spectator Australia weekend e-mail mentioned digital currencies. I was gratified to see that a full 16% of the UK population has no smartphone (assuming the newspaper's information is correct, of course). I refuse to get a smartphone myself.
I don't want to come across as black pilled, but there is no stopping it. When your property taxes, income taxes, insurance, debt, all these shackles that have been place on us demand that we pay with CBDCs, we will be forced to use them, however there are those of us that will become adept in bartering and the black market that will develop. I've been self employed most of my life and already do many of the things that CAF and Dr Mercola mentioned. I live by cash, keep my cash at home, just put money on a debit card for online purchases and most importantly out of debt. I live on a small farm with gardens, chickens, rabbits and cattle, I'm able to raise most of my food, I already barter my services for hay and am in the position to do more. Now would be a good time for everyone to develop a barterable skill set. We can break this totalitarian grip by coming together and helping each other, this evil that's enveloping the planet cannot stand against "Loving thy neighbor as thyself"
Digital currencies 'need' electricity.
No BAU?
"The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . .
And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union." ?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/
They have already shown what they are capable and willing to do...
...Canada used to be a free country
Will Castreau confiscate the bank accounts of everyone who subscribes to Jess?
All excellent advice Joel - thank you - CAF knows the score. We are deep in rural SW England, going off-grid and local - on the way now - using cash is just a start: https://globalwalkout.com/keepcashalive/
Hopefully we can offer a guiding light to those emerging out of their dark dystopian future: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-localisation?s=w
I use cash as much as possible.
My son and I , the youngest of six spread over twenty four years, were riding with others one day in Hawaii. The driver made small talk by asking "how we were doing in the economic downturn".
We were hitch hiking, mind you. "Well, " I replied, as my 13 yr. old looked on quizzically, "from where we are, there's no down to turn to. "
When I related this episode in real life to a friend later, they said to me "Poverty is economic security."
And "Davos bro's" are so affraid of the cyber attacks and warning us about cyber pandemic, so they have to digitalize everything.
The irony is dead.
Please watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIodNOYXumc
Please read "The Lost Science of Money" and "Real Honest Money".
Go here to educate yourselves:
https://monetary.org
https://www.monetaryalliance.org/#who-we-are
https://internationalmoneyreform.org/
Understanding what real money is and creating it is the only real solution.
I like Fitts, but I can't see how the introduction of CBDC can be prevented. It would take several miracles:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/how-could-you-save-america-in-2022
I am still confused as to whether decentralised block chain digital currencies represent a viable alternative to centralised CBDCs. The 10 points mentioned by CAF to prevent the implementation of CBDCs do not specifically recommend using Bitcoin or any of the other decentralised digital currencies. The advice is also aimed at US residents. My intuition tells me that we should be setting up a tangible, real alternative to central bank currencies right NOW, consisting of a market place where you can trade (barter) tangible goods in exchange for other tangible goods or CASH ONLY. People should be defaulting to using this instead of resorting to the big online retailers, which we all know are so alluringly convenient, but are leading us down the pathway into slavery. So who's for setting up Barter Town online?
Dr.Rose have you seen this and what are your thoughts ? Puerto Rican member of parliament.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/puqTKQuTyT8t/
'''as our elders and loved ones were exterminated in hospitals''
Also free A5 flyer for distribution on CBDC -
https://globalfreedom.substack.com/p/digital-id-flyer
Thanks for the tips, Ms Fitts most honorable.
I just wanted to say it was great to meet you on Thursday evening. I talked to you briefly just before the meeting and thanked for every thing you have done regarding covid.