After my latest outline, on the looming probability of a dollar based Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) {SEE HERE}, I found myself saying, “I hate to say this, but most people really don’t care. For some, the issue is esoteric, abstract, and difficult to comprehend. For others, there is a massive blanket of comfortable ambivalence until the consequences hit. For the few who understand, this is extremely troubling.”
Then I step back, breathe and reevaluate my ability to communicate.
A few recent comments have me looking for something, anything, that will help people understand the scope and breadth of what I am trying to communicate, and the challenge therein. EXAMPLES:
[COMMENT #1] – I don’t know, this is way over my head, and I consider myself at least somewhat intelligent and informed. Other than a few twenties I keep in my wallet, all money of consequence in my life is already just digits in computer networks as far as I can perceive. I never actually see a check for my wages, much less any dead presidents.
[…] Not that I disagree, I just don’t understand. I’m at a loss as to why this is so qualitatively different as far as my financial security goes. Maybe it’s because I’m a resident of Illinois and have some sort of Stockholm Syndrome from knowing they can already, and do, raise my taxes – as much as they want, any time they want – and there is nothing to stop them. {link}
[COMMENT #2] I apologize for this stupid question, but I’m confused. How do the grey countries fit into this digital money and “world order” Pippa refers to?
Pippa states, “But what I see our superpowers introducing digital currency, the Chinese were the first the US is on the brink, I think of moving in the same direction the Europeans have committed to that as well.”
China is grey on the map, as is Russia. If we, the mapped yellow USA, are being boxed in by the Russian sanctions how is it China is grey yet they were the first to introduce a digital currency? These insane, drunk with power “superpowers” – is their goal to color the entire world map yellow with the SWIFT network digital coin to control the entire world? {link}
You come here for understanding the world that exists, not the one we may hope to exist. If you are confused, I need to do a better job.
So, let me start.
I will start first with some information perhaps some do not know.
♦ Ever since the Western sanctions against Russia were created, an entire new black market of finance has been created in the “grey zone” that circumvents the sanctions and assists the people trapped by them.
Almost no one, sans a handful of people I have met, really have a full scope understanding of what is going on.
You cannot discover this information within the yellow zone. You cannot get this level of comprehension from behind a keyboard safely in your home office or den. You have to put your boots on the ground, take some risks and see exactly how it works. {Example Here}
The Russian sanctions were not created to block the Russians. The Russian sanctions were created to wall-in the West.
There are now networks of people who operate in various places that create proactive financial mechanisms for what you might call, “financial preppers.”
These people and groups set up bank accounts in foreign countries for you; they organize addresses (needed), phone numbers (needed), and create accounts that you can access that are outside the control of the dollar-based financial system. You can even get an official passport in the process.
These people also sell hardware [to support the phone numbers (really digital ids)] that is completely different from what exists behind the wall of the yellow zone.
How many Americans know that an iPhone-15 sold in the USA is completely different from an iPhone-15 sold outside the yellow zone? Meaning, the internal hardware is different. How many Americans know that?
How many Americans know that an iPhone-15 sold inside the USA has different originating software than an iPhone-15 sold outside the USA?
How many people know that when you purchase one of these “ghost phones”, the data network automatically identifies the disparity when the phone crosses into the yellow zone, and shortly thereafter the cellular network transmits a software update to bring the “ghost phone” into USA (yellow zone) compliance?
How many Americans know phone apps and internal app functions can exist on phones outside the yellow zone that do not exist inside the yellow zone?
Example: use a ghost phone, and you can access a digital wallet in Telegram; you can transmit funds to other Telegram users. However, use a USA compliant phone and you cannot. The function is there but the service is, “not available in your area.”
Why?
It’s about control.
If you don’t update the software, the function exists inside the yellow zone. However, update the software and the function disappears.
This happens.
Another real-life example was recently missed by many people when the story of the Apple Watch Series 9 was found to have violated patent technology and was banned for sale in the USA. {STORY}
To get into legal compliance, Apple transmitted a remote software update disabling the function of the patent technology in the USA. Again, for emphasis, only in the USA. Bring your non-compliant Series-9 into the range of a wifi network, and bingo auto-compliance. I mention this story only to highlight a modern compliance capability that many people do not know exists.
In essence, your tech devices -and the capability therein- are different than an identical tech device sold outside the Western control zone.
♦ Technology is intertwined with Central Bank Digital Currencies. Tech companies are regulated by the U.S/Western government, and the tech companies have to comply. The regulatory compliance is part of the process of control. There are regulatory walls around us that most do not understand. The same regulatory principle applies to finance and banking. Hence, the origination motive of the yellow zone wall, built under the auspices of Russian sanctions.
Let me make one big point resoundingly clear before moving on. When the WESTERN Central Bank Digital Currency system begins, all forms of cryptocurrency will be blocked and made unlawful inside the Western zone – either by regulation or by legislation.
Let me repeat this. Cryptocurrency in all forms will be banned.
Crypto is not technically a currency; it is a barter based on trust. However, at a certain point (origination or end) crypto must have the ability to transfer into currency value. Dollars (or another currency) are needed to purchase BitCoin,…. or BitCoin eventually sold or exchanged for Dollars (or another currency). [BitCoin only used as a familiar type of crypto.] This process is where crypto gets blocked.
Ownership of Crypto may not be unlawful, but any effort to use Crypto as an alternate digital currency to exchange value will be unlawful once the dollar based CBDC is launched.
A fully implemented govt controlled central bank digital currency will not allow competition. Alternate crypto currency will be banned. Without any doubt!
Back to the original questions:
“China is grey on the map, as is Russia. If we, the mapped yellow USA, are being boxed in by the Russian sanctions, how is it China is grey yet they were the first to introduce a digital currency?”
The grey zone can trade amongst themselves however they want; the yellow zone (West) has no capability to stop them. Ex. if Russia wants to trade 1,000 barrels of oil with China for 100 boxes of intel microchips, they can. Or, if China and Russia want to exchange digital yen for digital rubles, they can; the West cannot stop them. However, if China wants to interact with a yellow zone member, the yellow zone financial rule makers have rules. China would have to be compliant with a dollar based CBDC to exchange value within the yellow zone.
Similarly, if you want to exchange a bushel of corn for 10 dozen eggs with your neighbor, you can; there is no mechanism to stop you. However, if you need to pay your mortgage, you will have to be compliant with a dollar based CBDC to exchange value, ie pay your bill.
Which brings me to the next question:
“All money of consequence in my life is already just digits in computer networks as far as I can perceive. … I’m at a loss as to why this is so qualitatively different as far as my financial security.”
This is the common mistake that most people make.
There is a big difference between “electronic transactions” of dollars, and the existence of a “digital dollar.”
Let me give you a metaphor using a casino as the reference.
♦ CURRENT – You go to the casino window and exchange $10,000 dollars for poker chips valued at $10,000. You give the teller $10,000 in cash, bankers check, money order, a credit card or debit card transaction, and the teller gives you chips worth $10,000 in that casino. You can use the chips gambling and perhaps win more chips. Return to the window with $12,000 in casino chips, and the teller exchanges the chips for $12,000 dollars – cash or check or deposit into your electronic card.
You meet a man in the casino willing to give you his fancy Rolex watch in exchange for $5,000. You give the man $5,000 worth of your poker chips and he gives you his Rolex watch. That man can then go to the teller window and exchange the chips for $5,000 in cash. You have the watch.
♦ DIGITAL DOLLAR – You go to the teller window and produce your bank card containing a digital dollar balance. You exchange $10,000 worth of your digital dollars for $10,ooo dollars’ worth of poker chips. Except this time, with a digital dollar, each poker chip has your fingerprint on it. You spend or bet your poker chips, and each chip you win also arrives to you with your fingerprint on it. You win $12,000 dollars. You return to the window with $12,000 in chips, each with your fingerprint, and the teller uploads your card with $12,000 digital dollars.
You meet a man in the casino willing to give you his fancy Rolex watch in exchange for $5,ooo. However, you cannot give the man your poker chips because they are unique to you and are carrying your fingerprint. If he takes your fingerprint poker chips to the window, his fingerprint does not match the chip; his request for $5,000 in digital dollars would be denied. He cannot sell you his watch. Your transactional capability is limited by the digital fingerprint.
[If he was planning to sell his watch for $5,000 in order to purchase a motorcycle worth $5,ooo, it is possible for you to purchase the motorcycle, exchange it for his watch and then carry on. However, the motorcycle would be digitally registered to you, and you would be digitally registered to the motorcycle. A reconciliation process is needed.]
A digital dollar creates a unique id attached to that digital dollar. Ultimately, the central bank that issues the digital dollar controls what the digital id can do (that’s you), and what those digital dollars can be used for (what you can do).
Digital dollars can be blocked from gun purchases, and digital ids can be used to stop unapproved users from purchasing guns – or a gas guzzling suv, or a house that’s too big, or the non-compliant fridge, or whatever.
Sellers of goods (or information) can have their ids banned from receiving digital dollars, just as VISA and MasterCard blocked sellers of guns from accessing their electronic transaction system. With digital dollars, “demonetization”, an alarmingly familiar modern term, can become a function of a financial regulation system. “Debanking” another alarmingly familiar term, also becomes much easier.
Ultimately, a dollar-based US-Central Bank Digital Currency, ie a “digital dollar,” is about control.
Every transaction has a unique digital fingerprint, and every digital dollar can be traced by the IRS to the digital id associated with it.
There is a BIG difference between electronic funds (current), and a digital dollar (future).
I hope that helps.
I miss the 1970’s.
Things were so much simpler and honest then.
Clarity.
Still the groundwork was being laid for today.
Yes old age does have its advantages – if we are too callous to NOT care for our grandchildren.
Yes, some of us will be gone before the full impacts hit.
Hah, you probably thought the whole hippie movement was organic, and had no idea it was initiated and guided by the Cee Eye Aye, huh?
Me either…’simple’ lol.
I was born just past the hippies. I remember being dragged to a party at the age of 15 and watching hundreds of 20 to 28 year old hippies doing all kinds of drugs, saying “hey man”, and doing nothing to better their lives.
When I met some female party goer who told me that her name was “Kabala” I just about rolled my eyes and laughed. I regarded them as a bunch of posers who thought that they were going to change the world by burning our society down.
Looking back, I can see that these drug filled morons were being pushed and nudged by behind-the-scenes-influencers into thinking the motto “We are who we’ve been waiting for” applied to them.
I can now see that most of the strife, violent protests, demands for change, and tumult was initiated and maintained by powerful people who were set on destroying this nation in order to control it.
Ditto, my peers and I missed the summer of love, but came of age just in time for the hang over, venereal diseases, withdrawals, economic malaise, etc…
None of it was an accident.
Dave McGowan:
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/
A great place to start.
Thank you for that reference. A very interesting – and disquieting – article.
I was never interested in the Hippie movement.
Boring. Unproductive.
Despite what the media says today, the Hippies were a very SMALL part of our 70’s Culture.
I considered the Hippies to be self-absorbed narcissists.
I was right, and most of them became Democrats.
Again, i prefer the 1970’s over today HANDS-DOWN.
Even the Music was better.
The only thing the Hippies and i have in common is that we both loved the 70’s music.
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So true!
Hippy movement was an intelligence op:
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/
“… Barry Miles has written in his coffee-table book, Hippie, there were some hippies involved in anti-war protests, “particularly after the police riot in Chicago in 1968 when so many people got injured, but on the whole the movement activists looked on hippies with disdain.” Peter Coyote, narrating the documentary “Hippies” on The History Channel, added that “Some on the left even theorized that the hippies were the end result of a plot by the CIA to neutralize the anti-war movement with LSD, turning potential protestors into self-absorbed naval-gazers.” An exasperated Abbie Hoffman once described the scene as he remembered it thusly: “There were all these activists, you know, Berkeley radicals, White Panthers … all trying to stop the war and change things for the better. Then we got flooded with all these ‘flower children’ who were into drugs and sex. Where the hell did the hippies come from?!”
As it turns out, they came, initially at least, from a rather private, isolated, largely self-contained neighborhood in Los Angeles known as Laurel Canyon…”
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/
“And so it goes as one scrolls through the roster of Laurel Canyon superstars. What one finds, far more often than not, are the sons and daughters of the military/intelligence complex and the sons and daughters of extreme wealth and privilege – and oftentimes, you’ll find both rolled into one convenient package.”
“…It is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the ‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ will result in the immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted Tonkin Gulf Resolution…. what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns out, is an ‘attack’ that never took place at all. The entire incident, as has been all but officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth….
…Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world in those early months of 1965, a new ‘scene’ is just beginning to take shape in the city of Los Angeles. In a geographically and socially isolated community known as Laurel Canyon…One of the earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim Morrison, the enigmatic lead singer of The Doors. Jim will quickly become one of the most iconic, controversial, critically acclaimed, and influential figures to take up residence in Laurel Canyon. Curiously enough though, the self-proclaimed “Lizard King” has another claim to fame as well, albeit one that none of his numerous chroniclers will feel is of much relevance to his career and possible untimely death: he is the son, as it turns out, of the aforementioned Admiral George Stephen Morrison….”
I was crushed just recently when I learned about the Laurel Canyon connections. I really thought it was all organic. I was 20 in 1968.
It will be more like 70 B.C. soon….
Anyone not compliant with the CBDC will need to barter exchange like our ancestors.
“So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses and the flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he fed them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.” Genesis 47:17
In other words, start prepping by converting any cash you can to a physical medium (gold, bullets, oil, livestock, etc.). I will setup an exchange market outside the wall in our dystopian future.
You are assuming you will be able to hold on to those things you need.
State controlled bank and financial regulations? Katherine Austin Fitts-The Solari Report – has interesting suggestions and solutions ideas.
But JFK was assassinated November 22, 1963 by the CIA and other members of the USA government. Then they whitewashed the killing with the Warren Commission and absurd theories about “magic bullets.” They invented the phrase “conspiracy theories” just to quell the rising speculation about the rush to judgment.
That was not honest and not simple.
That was the 60’s.
Not the 70’s.
I hate to promote FBook but there is a group there , The 70s Flashback Page, that is really fun. So many happy memories and hilarious pics. The male clothing ads often have me LOL. A nice lil mental vacation.
Crystal clear. Seems our corrupt communist criminal cartel govt has always been about control.
I find it fascinating that outside the USA digital control is not on cell phones.
I am extremely troubled by all of this.
I also can’t see what’s so hard to understand.
My short explanation to people is that they’re trying to turn us into a Chinese style totalitarian dictatorship. Most understand what that means.
Unfortunately, way too many people don’t care and prefer their convenience of using a card instead of cash – I am shocked at how little they’re willing to do for something as important as this.
Freedom is everything!
Note – I am in Australia, not America. But we’re all being screwed over.
Also, both sides of my family escaped communism post WWII.
Same here in Canada. Amazing that those who should know better after losing family to the Holocaust, can still willingly follow the new totalitarians and be a part of them.
Not all boxcars have four wheels and run on tracks.
…and not all identifying “tatoos” are visible.
BOOM!
Same during the scamdemic. Shouldn’t be surprising considering how everyone bowed to the tyranny without a second thought.
Yep – I’m still disgusted by that.
Me too.
I’d venture to say that a fair percentage of people who read and/or post here are not in the “everyone” category.
You’d be surprised. At the height of the masking craze people here were incredulous that I got away with it when I wrote that I never masked.
I never wore a mask and when grocery shopping I was called out twice to the store manager by other customers who complained I was putting them in danger. One confronted me loudly, trying to shame me in front of other customers.
I always carried a hardcopy of the Virginia governor’s EO regarding masks, which had an exemption for anyone with a breathing condition (I have partially blocked sinuses). I whipped out that document and showed it to any store manager who asked that I don a mask, and they always gave me a pass.
Regarding the poison vaccine, just yesterday I learned my DIL’s brother-in-law had a serious stroke while vacationing in Hawaii. He’s a DoD contractor, so is surely vaxxed. Praying for his recovery, as he is scheduled for brain surgery next week.
My cousin’s wife (age 45) had a stroke last year, another friend (age 60) had one, a good friend and a neighbor both died of heart attacks a year ago. All were vaxxed.
It was presented as “protecting others”. Appealing to better natures. The most odious, duplicitous tool used to gain compliance. In hindsight this is glaringly obvious. A Hillary Clinton styled ” it takes a village” explanation for the tyranny which was always planned. The Petri dish for the despotism that is all too apparent now and which has wrapped its tentacles around the body of Western countries.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
Some of us had foresight and knew those phrases were nothing but rank manipulation. My anger meter was off the charts. Never complied.
Nor I, Eliza. Critical thinking and discernment skills…plus just plain old fashioned “Spidey” sense (that little voice millions seem not to have which says that something terrible is amiss here) were and continue to be in short supply.
That, plus the naïve belief that the government has our best interests at heart, which even in the face of proof positive it does not, millions can’t seem let go of. There is no cure for that until the pain of despotic servitude slaps the chains on their wrists.
And maybe not even then.
SPOT-ON- ! This ^^^^^^^ is the single most concisely accurate description that I’ve ever seen, of the mask-and-vax agenda psy-op; emanations and penumbras included. Are you a professional writer in the so-called real-world?
Some of us didn’t.
Some of us stood firm in our belief of freedom.
Because of those who did bow to the tyranny, the rest of us will pay the price for the stupidity. SPIT!
It was always about my God given liberties enshrined in the Constitution for me. I was bitterly disappointed in my fellow citizens when they didn’t agree. Thankfully those of us who stood firm had an impact. Thank God for all the heroes who fought the tyranny. The godless attack upon our freedoms was beyond the pale.
yes, people do not value their privacy properly. its like those grocery cards…
you save a few bucks, but the grocery store can create a full profile of you based on your buying habits. same with a credit card. is your privacy worth the few bucks you save or the inconvenience of having to get cash for purchases?
Yep – and because so many don’t care, the few of us who do will also be forced into this totalitarian dictatorship.
Have started alternating between cash and credit card. Anything I buy that’s no one’s business, I pay for in cash. To keep up a consumer profile, however, routine grocery items go on the credit card. So … if I’m upping my food storage and buy pounds of salt or five bags of flour, those are definitely cash items. I also frequent a variety of grocery stores so the clerks won’t mentally tag me when I’m lugging 25 pounds of flour out to my car. I’ve got two consumer personae, on purpose. And I really, really resent having to play that game.
For sure a game, but one that must be played to survive. It is unbelievable how naive and oblivious people are regarding what TPTB have in store for us.
“My short explanation to people is that they’re trying to turn us into a Chinese style totalitarian dictatorship.”
A totalitarian vassal under the coming “multi-polar global governance” which will led by China.
That’s why.
why are you shocked?
they wore the masks didn’t they?
Exactly. Even in my community most were masked despite the local gov NOT using resources to force compliance. We live in a nation of chicken littles.
WE got hooked in by 3 illusions;
Illusion of Convenience
Illusion of Safety/Security
Illusion of Prosperity
and we pay a tremendous surcharge, for these ephemeral ILLUSIONS, thay of coarse don’t really exist.
Its not REALLY “more convenient” or “safer” or making you more “prosperous”; its just an ILLUSION.
Brought to you by the puppets of the beast and his system of destruction.
His eternal reward burns with anticipation for his arrival.
I was one of the confused 😵💫😵💫
This explanation ….
now I understand 👏👏👏
Thanks!
By day’s end you should have about 500 upvotes — if we’re gonna be really honest here! I just added mine:)
yes, sundance, thank you so much, always and forever, for how you help light the way. the road is dark with many turnings.
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Sundance – this is very helpful. Although I was not one who failed to see the threat, I was absolutely at a loss for how to explain it to others. The casino analogy is excellent.
The darkness of these times is magnified when we focus on it. Similarly, the strength of our assembly, the moral good we seek to uphold, and divine providence will grow larger in our minds and hearts if that is what we set (and keep) before us. Take heart my friends and do not be afraid…Do not be afraid! Do not be afraid! And should fear grip your throat with its vile claws, you must fight with all your strength, and even if you are overcome, with your final gasp you must spit in its face.
WOLVERINES!
Faith in Jesus Christ is the antidote for fear.
Amen. Has He not commanded us? Be strong and courageous.
I agree Sundance has outdone himself.
I found the following British video explaining CBDC to be short and to explain the fundamentals and potential consequences to be a good starting point: https://rumble.com/v2d6kvk-an-excellent-explanation-of-what-exactly-a-central-bank-digital-currency-is.html
It’s unfortunate (and a commentary on their lack of command of English) that they couldn’t make their argument/explanation without using the name of the resurrected Savior as a throwaway profanity at the 12:00 mark.
“God … has highly exalted Him and given him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God, the Father.” (Phil 2:9-11)
“In essence, your tech devices -and the capability therein- are different than an identical tech device sold outside the western control zone.“ — Sundance
This sounds an awful lot like the region / zone controls that were implemented on VHS tapes / dvd players back in the day.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
Same girl, different dress.
Expect the largest black market ever conceived to spring into existence in North America over night is the CBDC takes effect. All holders of pre 1965 US silver coins will have the MOST liquid money existing. It may go well beyond its intrinsic value because it is untraceable.
As some Treepers have noticed, more and more venues/stores are only accepting a digital payment. The ground is being prepared for CBDC.
Yes. Sporting events.
Entrance to National Parks.
They`ll go under or be robbed.
I would hope that individual states, or a consortium of states can print/mint our own cash money and tell the commies to (expletive)-off. There is a historical precedent for this in the Old West. And maybe The Dollar was always really backed by American productivity, anyway.
My 2 cents
I found this particularly chilling. From Brookings:
A central-bank digital currency can also be a useful policy tool. Typically, if the Federal Reserve wants to stimulate consumption and investment, it can cut interest rates and make cheap credit available. But if the economy is cratering and the Fed has already cut the short-term interest rate it controls to near zero, its options are limited. If cash were replaced with a digital dollar, however, the Fed could impose a negative interest rate by gradually shrinking the electronic balances in everyone’s digital currency accounts, creating an incentive for consumers to spend and for companies to invest.
Wow.
Or other words.
Leave it to Brookings to describe something so disturbing as a “useful policy tool.”
“If cash were replaced with a digital dollar, however, the Fed could impose a negative interest rate by gradually shrinking the electronic balances in everyone’s digital currency accounts, creating an incentive for consumers to spend and for companies to invest.”……………..
Yes, and easily functionally eliminating the power of a bank run in such instances because there would be no place to run. Untagged ‘official’ cash one can carry on their person ceases to exist. One can still use what outlaw cash they still have to the extent it’s accepted/trusted which would be a very minimal marketplace, at least at first.
Clever, eh? That’s what those big brains in humans cook up. We know what the solution is. Why do we comply and accept? Think about it. The enemy humans don’t share that reason. We can change that. I work at it daily. It’s all about getting to the real life confrontations with the enemy. Nasty but that’s how life is. It’s war then one dies. Enjoy the time, the brief time, when it’s not (war). I think we’ve all had those moments. I treasure mine. 🙂
light bulb going on So with CBDC the government can tax, at will, your purchases based on who you are, where you are, and what you’re purchasing.
Also, as we now see, different laws enforced for different people so different tax rate applications for different people would be too tempting to not put into play.
Cue the individual ESG scores.
The “government” – or the central bank – can also cut off your access to your account if you refuse to be a good sheeple.
What I see happening – as a “useful policy tool” – is that, for example, if vaccines are required.
If your digital ID has not had a vaccine, you lose access to your money.
If you fail to go to the doctor for a yearly check-up, you cannot access your digital money. (After all, it is for your benefit.) And your medical information is uploaded to the same digital ID.
Comrade citisen;
We see you have a firearm xxxx registered to you. Please turn it in by x date, or your acct. will be frozen.
Or, it could be you are homeschooling your kid, not getting vaxxed, your “carbon footprint” is too big, or are accessing forbidden websites like CTH.
THEY can monitor every aspect of your financial or internet “social” behavior, and control such behavior by restricting or not, your access to your digital currency.
Exactly! and if you say things like that to people theey look at you wide-eyes and say, “They’d never do that!” Really now???
Why bother.
They are already shrinking my real dollar bank account.
It is called inflation.
And they won’t stop that. It will be too big a temptation to keep giving people more funny money.
Thank you, Sundance. This does make it clearer. However, I still find it hard to get my head around the full extent of it—probably because it’s so dystopian.
Me too. Like in this description:
“ …. Except this time, with a digital dollar, each poker chip has your fingerprint on it. You spend or bet your poker chips, and each chip you win also arrives to you with your fingerprint on it.”
I don’t understand how poker chips that circulate among many people, back and forth, would arrive to me with my fingerprint on it. I understand it’s not a literal physical fingerprint, but still … 🤔 … I can’t wrap my head around the massive surveillance and tracking infrastructure that would have to exist in order to monitor what everyone is spending their “money” on.
Actually, I just read a bunch of different articles explaining CBDC and differentiating it from money in electronic form. One descriptive word stood out to me, distinguishing it from electronic money by describing it as “programmable.” That made something click in my brain as to how, exactly, they get your fingerprint on it. It originates with you. It did not exist before. It is programmed into existence to your identity.
“I don’t understand how poker chips that circulate among many people, back and forth, would arrive to me with my fingerprint on it. ”
That’s just it. Each new transaction (circulation) has a “new current” fingerprint. If you are allowed to purchase/pay for something, those particular ones will have “new current fingerprint” added so that they can be accounted for and traced back to origination, if needed. If you’re not allowed to purchase/pay for something, you still have them, OR, you are penalized for attempting to use them illegally and they are cancelled.
The chip will also have the older fingerprints on it. The government will be able to build the network of your trading friends. CONTROL
I’m still trying to understand the fingerprint explanation. HOWEVER, Sundance did an excellent job. I’m beginning to see what’s coming down the pike.
Your very own ESG score.
I try to take comfort in the enormity of the problem THEY face. Sundance’s casino analogy is better than even he might realize. The NSA, with all their AI and supercomputers, must still play by the odds, as do we. As long as he isn’t hit by a truck, the average American has better than even odds of making it through the next day, safely and soundly. Count that as a win. In the casino, people always seek to improve their odds of winning. We must do the same in our dystopian lives. Live in the shadows. Keep your gas tanks full, but don’t hoard. Use cash, but also use cards occasionally. Go to the range to practice, but not too often. Be unpredictable. Leave your cell phone home occasionally. It’s liberating, especially at church. In other words, seek to project yourself as a very boring person in their eyes. Pay your taxes and don’t run red lights. Avoid the big cops.
This massive surveillance and tracking infrastructure is probably already in place and being refined for implementation in the next couple of years.
Dystopian is the perfect description.
The extreme control is inevitable if one believes the end time biblical prophecy describing the day when you cannot buy or sale unless you are marked. It’s coming and we can’t stop it. I believe your fingerprint analogy was quite good. The actual technical placement of this print will involve block chain and each CBDC unit will carry its history of exchange all the way back through all its “owners”. There’s no such thing as a discreet purchase. A CBDC will be more like a “permission” that can be selectively denied.
Holy 💩
Thank you for the clear and succinct explanation. Makes perfect sense. We could use that same system to bait and set up the enemy. The enemy is human and mortal. I have a couple experiments running in that regard already, my bait phone below being one of them.
Where I live now in the forest there is no wi-fi and I’ve always wondered why my bait phone, a cheap Samsung, refuses to update software over cellular data, or at least give the user the choice. Hence, it’s never updated and sits on a shelf with the mobile hotspot running 24/7 to, among other things, post my missives here. I bought it unlocked and have sim for it and prepay for its service.
It looks like my choice to develop a presence in the alternative economy outside of the system was a sound one. Digital fingerprints are something I’m probing right now.
In fact, I had a curious development. I used a paid off credit card to buy a ballistic helmet just yesterday and, suddenly, after 20 years of the same credit limit, just as that order hit the card, two alerts came in, one that the card had been used and another that my credit limit had been cut to less than half of what it was prior. Coincidence? For those who do not know, a ballistic helmet is what soldiers wear on the battlefield these days. I got one made in the USA, my preference, and it was pretty pricey. I’ll use it in the SbS (that’s a beach/forest vehicle) and on my bicycle too. Very useful.
Buy something the system is programmed to see as ‘bad’ and a digital fingerprint is attached and stuff happens? What I experienced could be one way of denying purchases using digital dollars in general; a reduction in access beyond a certain level of exposure, selectively. Not cutting access off totally.
Next experiment is a crate of belted machine gun ammo. They’ve got me curious now. I have no fear of exposure or death. I’m old and my family is dead. This is fun. Be safe. 🙂
Good point that Control is aquard, if its only “on/off”.
Think of driving a car, or even something like a television, you want to be able to adjust the volume up or down, not just on off.
They want CONTROL, so not just “your account is frozen” but because you ate meat, your balance after the purchase went down, but if you buy/eat bugs, it goes up.
Also, Communists LOVE wage/price controls, cause of the CONTROL.
CBDC’s enable them to have unlimited CONTROL, as they can raise and lower prices, and wages to an infinite degree.
There will be a mammoth amount of information for the enemy to control for 350 million people. I can see Hal’s eyes rolling around in his head and in his computer voice repeatedly saying “information overload”, 404 error.
Millions of mistakes incoming because the computers are only as good as their programmers. For instance I recently moved and every single day there has been an error to correct.
Yup. That is exactly why ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is more artificial than it is intelligent.
Amen! AI is dumb. I’ve tried to interact with it before and all I ever get is dissatisfaction and no real response.
Excellent explanation for those of us who feel like something is wrong but cannot define it with the limited knowledge we have. Thank you, Sundance!
So cryptocurrency will be banned. I fully expect ownership of physical gold and silver to be outlawed also. I’m sure they have a devious plan to quash all work-arounds to their control system.
As a businessman are they going to make accepting the CBDC free for exchange purposes or are they going to still charge me <Vig> to accept CBDC.
I’m guessing my business will still be forced to pay a percentage just like accepting credit cards & generally higher rates for AMEX and the like.
I’m also guessing it will be sold as WE as merchants PAY for the system when in reality YOU the customer will be paying for the privilege just like now … tho right now there is a secondary system merchants are using that add whatever percentage of the sale directly to your card.
Someone was trying to sell me on that system but … I find that just wrong and most people I have talked to will refuse to do business with you after that happens to them once … so … no/less repeat customers.
So now I have to pay a percentage on ALL transactions if there is no more cash transactions, guess prices are about to go up a percent or two & probably more since there can be no more “politician” transactions in say … gold bars.
I also foresee at some point the IRS will just deduct a percentage of a transaction as their cut of my business transactions that I would have to reclaim in tax season … but not pay any interest on it tho the GVT will use instead of me having the use of it to spend on a deductible expense that is tax neutral but ….. can’t cause I don’t have it to spend.
Oh, and they immediately get their cut of ALL tips, even the ones that used to tip in CASH, guess I could add a sign for tips in say … accepting 9mm rounds and such./s
Current value of 9mm, is $0.50 each, actually applies to .45, .38’s, as well. Also .223.
So, 2 for a dollar, an easy exchange rate.
Given the described intent of the CBDC creators to eliminate any potential competition like Bitcoin etc this surely also creates an problem for anyone trying to use gold/silver/etc as a store of wealth or medium of exchange?
To the extent that PM’s, or any other raw material, remain in demand for use, they will store that commensurate value, though turning that value into digital dollars may be severely restricted or eliminated, hence why I suggest to folks to get conversant with and learn the nuances of the alternative economy.
PM’s still, for now, are a compact method of storing and moving assets. Being physical, they can be defended with deadly force if necessary. They can also be great bait. Remember the gold rush? How was human avarice handled then? Some people work hard and risk their lives to extract precious metals from the earth and others express their immorality and avarice by seeking to take what has been worked for. The results were often deadly for either party. Why? Conflict, back then, often resulted in death. Fear of death was a law unto itself.
Are we really more civilized now? Good question. IDK.
That’s the true reality of the idea of evolution, the strong might survive while civilization spirals and fails.
If it comes to be, people will learn the hard way that many of the things they do are actually subject to more government oversight.
”Oh hey there Mr. and Mrs. American. Looks like you had a yard sale this year and made $3,000 dollars. We are going to need you to pay income taxes on that.”
CBDC is fundamentally unAmerican. You will only exist with your government’s permission. Couple the information that will be made available to the government with AI, and you are in for a real treat.
Yes, there are always different prices for the current 2 different methods of payment. How much is this? Well, if you pay this way, its flat $5. This way its $5 + 7-8%. Take one of those away and………..
Have you seriously not heard of the Chinese Social Credit system? 👀. I guess this plays into @Sundance’s overall point.
I wasn’t entirely sure how it all worked, other than them completely controlling us, so thanks for the explanation!
And your digital dollars probably have a life expectancy. Kind of like those Visa gift cards that start to lose value. You need to spend it now (within 30 days) or your account is automatically reduced and money probably returned to the system.
Savers are killed more than already are.
Building wealth is not allowed.
Yes, my understanding of digital currency is that it can EXPIRE!
Trump used The Wall, Lock her Up, ..2 pillars of his 2016 campaign.
He’s using EVs , but currency and digital currency and the problems therein – Russian sanctions can be tied around Biden neck and trump never mentions it – or at least not in a “build the wall” sort of way.
He needs to. Such rich opportunity for normies to understand – Biden is your enemy. Pls get this info to trump!
Trump has also walked himself in to Truth Social. He needs to write code that will copy his Truths to Twitter asap. He needs to broaden his audience. He has his base. Needs to wake the normies up
President Trump, please tear down this wall.
CBDC is the ultimate weapon of government control of classes of people or even individuals.
CBDC would enable government to control what you can or cannot purchase as an individual.
CBDC would enable government to control what a class of people could purchase or even at what price.
For example “MAGA extremists” may not be allowed to purchase air travel with CBDC, where Democrats would be able to purchase air travel.
For example, classes of people with positive MAGA comments on X may not be allowed to purchase a gas cooktop or even gasoline for their car with CBDC, where Democrats would be able to make those purchases.
So, if the government likes you or approves of you you would have freedom of purchase as a reward, and if the government doesn’t like you, you’re screwed.
CBDC would enable the government to know everything you have purchased.
For those of you who blame the banks for everything. Please notice the repeat use of the word “government”.
The long term need for banks is ZERO.
Let’s not forget who gets their student loans written off and who doesn’t, who qualifies for home purchases or mortgages, etc.
Ah, another good parallel example is like voting. Certain programs are set up to add votes to……or take away votes based on the establishment preferred candidate.
Replace word candidate with the word purchased item.
This is clarifying! Two questions. 1. Any thoughts on what becomes of gold housed inside the US. There are many people advertising gold IRAs for example. Does that get confiscated by USG? What about physical gold that is in one’s personal possession?. 2. Is it (will it) be technologically possible to access the grey area from inside the yellow zone? Internet access required…but auto updates to your tech happen as soon as you access the network.
Here’s a basic answer. Anything done online/digital can/will be controlled. Only what you hold in your hand will be uncontrolled.
Which is the gold IRA?
Or as we know, the Chinese people are pretty compliant. I wonder why that is.
I know we have 2A, but digital dollar pretty much ends any further purchases of 2A tools. And do we think courts will be on our side?
Do you trust the courts now?
Are we any less compliant than the Chinese? Be honest. Complaining doesn’t count.
Don’t you think the yellow zone will make some accommodation for crypto holders, such as a one time, value set conversion, like a gold confiscation? Or will there be a conversion deadline, after which there will be no recourse other than to leave the country, or use crypto only outside the yellow zone?
And how would that work with bitcoin being allowed in people’s retirement accounts now?
I am thinking that a forced conversion (selling) could crash the value in retirement accounts based on crypto. How would USA regulators deal with people upset over their retirement accounts?
Would USA regulators say that individuals couldn’t own crypto, but that institutions could?
CBDC would enable the government to even control pricing of a product or service to every individual.
For example pricing to a wealthy person for a bag of pretzels could be 10 CBDC dollars and pricing for a poor person could be 1 CBDC dollars.
For example pricing to Mike may be 8 CBDC dollars and pricing to Joan may be 2 CBDC dollars. How’s that possible? The pricing will be on your phone, not on the store shelf.
Make no mistake, CBDC is the ultimate weapon of the government to control people, to control the individual however they see fit.
Bitcoin fixes this. Study it.
Uh, did you not read Sundances’ article? CBDC would eliminate Bitcoin.
Uh, it would eliminate it because Sundance says so? Government has and will try to eliminate it.. it has become antifragile… attacks have made it stronger.. I suggest you learn about it.. it is the life raft.. or you can bend over and take what they will do to you
In order to have CBDC they will have to eliminate Bitcoin. Of course, if you are in the gray area of countries it seems likely you will be able to keep and trade in Bitcoin.
CBDC either controls the entire system or it controls nothing. Now in the USA, we have a Central Banking system. (Since 1913 and Jekyll Island and all that.)
I think (but am not sure) that there is no bank or currency that is outside it in the USA except for crypto and perhaps some state or local barter or gold-backed coin systems.
I already see that with federal income taxes lol
And ability to communicate is aided greatly by explaining weird acronyms like CBDC or whatever that was.
Central Bank digital currency. This initial stuff drives me nuts too.
Holy cow SD…light bulb just switched on and it’s rather frightening. Ignorance is bliss and I am no longer blissful.
A Day in The Life…
Picture this: Pick a day, any day, and track every purchase you make via cash, debit or credit. Write it down. from there, break it out to each item (what specific grocery/staple items, gallons of gas, KWH of electricity, etc.). Now share that with the all seeing eye. Did you do anything that will cause the gaze to fall upon you?
Buy a 24 oz Latte from an unapproved vendor?
Buy gas 2 days in a row?
Turn up the heat in your home?
Buy a box of Oreo’s when you are already 20# overweight?
Buy a pack of smokes?
Donate to the Trump campaign?
Donate to The Conservative Treehouse?
But none of us do anything wrong, and have nothing to hide…Right?
You might have done nothing wrong, but going forward you will not be allowed to “think” wrong either.
You’re already not allowed to think wrong without penalty in certain situations. That, specifically, is what hate crimes are designed to deal with.
The invention of hate crimes as a category back in the 1970s made it possible to no longer simply punish someone for the action/crime they committed….it provided the government a way to punish them for what they were thinking while they committed the crime.
Actually, far too few people have done this, but everyone ‘should’ for at least 1 month, 3 months even better, do exactly what you suggest.
Its called creating a BUDGET, so that YOU know where every $ goes, and specifically how much you ACTUALLY spend each month to meet Maslos Hierarchy of needs; food, clothing, shelter, transportation, etc.
Around 70% of Americans have NEVER DONE THIS, and so actually have NO CLEAR IDEA how much they are spending, for various neccesities or luxuries, or “what they can afford”.
They get by, by robbing Peter to pay Paul, and putting it on their credit card, and then just paying the minimum balance.
WHATS IN YOUR WALLET,…?
And, WHERE and HOW are you spending it?
Do you even know?
I know–to the penny. And I balance my checkbook 3/4 times a month.
I know where every penny of my money goes. But what good will that do? They will still prevent you from buying what you think you need. Or am I missing the point? Please explain how a budget will help prevent what they are denying us.
Que the slogans from the millions of Ramsey alumni. Learn how to tell your money where to go. etc.
So how does all this affect say tag sales, Craigslist purchases, even the illicit drug trade? Will these underground financial transactions become extinct?
Thats one of my questions; no way they are going to make illicit transactions cease to exist; drug addicts will still be drug addicts.
However, they HAVE been moving to legalise crime; decriminalising drug use and even dustribution, at least for MJ, and making robbery/burglary of $900 or less a misdemeanor in Cal.
And the IRS maintains that they want income declared, even if its illegal income, so theres that.
I think they face some irreconcilable challenges, in attempting to implement CBDC’s and the inherent Universal Biometric I.D.’s, and will likely make most citisens into criminals, before they are done.
Courage will be the most valuable commodity very soon.
If you can’t bring yourself to destroy your cellular tracking device, then wipe it (you know, Hillary & FBI style), take it to your local pawn shop and trade it for some silver coins. They will come in handy soon enough.
Silver coins, sure some.
But diversify; brass and lead.
.22, .223, .38, .45. 9mm. 12 G and .380, 30/06, 30/30.
And spme dispensers, over and above what you need for personal use, to use AS an alternative currency.
Or a perfect example of, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
Ehh I see it as the government will know every single thing you purchase, everywhere you go, what you eat what you like,
Add in a few apps …. They will know you and who you know better than you know you and who you know.
With absolute control of your money maybe you can have it when you need it and maybe they don’t want you to have it when you want it.
Add in a celluar phone… and apps …. They will have a profile on you like a family tree with everything you ever did … where ya went wha where ya ate out at for last 20 years to the time and date.
Basically the government becomes your probation officer!
Add in the new modifications to legislation that was introduced for 2026 vehicles here in USA
May as well put a leash around your neck..
As always those who believe they are gods have no idea that their plans to rule always have flaws. First of all, for the CBDC to work as they imagine, every single human would have to be universally online. Believe it or not, many are not. Given that air gapping is a rising solution for businesses, as well as individuals, to thwart hacking and ransomware hijacking, having access to bank accounts, especially businesses, will be an open door for yet more thievery.
I can add that true criminal activity will grow exponentially. As in the old saying, when guns are outlawed only criminals will have guns. In the history of humankind based on the survival instinct, work arounds will ensue. Bartering will become a real thing. And when you have something someone needs who is willing to exchange for something you need, nothing has monetary value anymore.
I call this action/reaction – measure/counter-measure. It is an ancient reality of humans.
I suggest you consider taking this moment in time to gather essentials that will someday soon be way more valuable than digits on a computer screen.
You say: “First of all, for the CBDC to work as they imagine, every single human would have to be universally online.”
I say: Ummmmm, I hate to break it to you, but that is precisely their plan. Yuval Harari and others are already talking about how humans are computers that can be “hacked” and “controlled.” Musk is building Starlink to reach every corner of the Earth, and he’s also created Neuralink to connect your brain to the Internet. One way or the other, they are going to make sure that everyone is under their control system!
Yes, that is their glorious plan. But best laid plans of satan often do not work out as he and his minions think they will. They do not understand that they are not in charge. Evil has been rising up and being smacked down in a repeating pattern for millenia.
In work around world, if you buy $10,000 worth of poker chips with digital money and you win $2000 and a man wants to sell you his Rolex, you ask him if he would like to trade the watch for your diamond ring. If he agrees then you can trade the watch for something someone else has and before the day is done, you can net your $2000 in digital currency in your account as you go home with something you needed more than money.
Besides that it was Divine will that the Nazi’s were beat back, it was those brave souls who became the Resistance who helped win WW2. I know how humans come up with workarounds by the ancient instinct to survive. Be the resistance.
Royal pain when we have been able to just buy what we wanted (and could afford).
I hope they’ve bitten off more than they can chew. We refer to “them” as all seeing, all knowing, etc, but they are not gods. They are only humans, barbarians, cannibals and criminals.
Demons in human form.
I was researching a stock on Charles Schwab online
and noticed three boxes on the report.
1) environment
2) social
3) governance
A score was listed between 1-10.
That explanation, Sundance, scared the heck out of me. Thank you for the simplicity. I now understand.
Wild guess. This will be the system for “citizens”. Elected and appointed officials and others will be exempted.
Just so. Also include immigrants and criminals in the exempt category.
Why is life so difficult for old people who have worked their entire lives to enjoy their remaining few years?
Right there with you…
Empty the magazine! God will provide.
Build a better mousetrap.
That’s what smart people do when “club members” attempt to shut you out of doing business/operating in their “club”.
President Trump has been doing that his entire life. Building a better club/building a better mouse trap. He just did it with a social media company.
Do you really think “the club members” are so fearful of him because he builds hotels, golf resorts, and social media companies?
Nope.
They are fearful of him because of the mouse trap being built that completely removes ALL of “the club members” power and control.
Wait for it, wait for it…
It was never about politics. It was always about removing power and control from the evil ones who have been wielding it for so long.
The BEST is yet to come.
You should lead with the next to last sentence. It will help clarify what follows.
The need for a physical fungible currency will remain as this is the economic lubricant for a “free” society to exist. Most likely an alternative physical currency will be created by States or other organizations.
I see States seceding right and left if CBDC is implemented.
US Constitution, Article I, Section 8: “…To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures…”
BUT
Article I, Section 10: “No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility…”
“…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a tender in payment of debts…”
That’s do-able.
Already exists,…AMMO.
Impractical to counterfeit.
Comes in various denominations and quantities.
Enough in circulation that it can function AS a currency.
Has inherent value.
Indefinite shelf life.
Its obviously such an appropriate alternative, it will be Universally recognised and adopted.
Heh! Love it! Not sure I could carry enough to buy groceries.
Seriously, once you’ve spent your supply, what then if the govt shuts down ammo sales &/or you have to use ammo to buy ammo?
I’ve being telling friends and family for sometime that the phone is the digital ID – not so much the phone alone, but the phone hardware ID plus software configuration on it. Wean yourselves from your phones – apps first and you will begin to see what Sundance is talking about.
I have been experimenting with moving away from the technology that Sundance alludes to but believe it can easily be made mandatory as a digital ID within the US borders. Big Tech, Big Finance and Federal government are one in the same.
Banking: One day my mobile banking app would not let me log in. I called the bank and they said for “security reasons” they would not enable it unless I came in the bank with ID, or, replied to their text message from my phone. Clearly a text message is not an ID. It had nothing to do with security and everything with establishing my phone as my banking ID. I deleted the app permanently.
Apple software “push”: I first suspected this many years ago when I was still using my old iPhone5 which allowed the option of declining software updates. I declined updates, having no reason to update a phone that worked perfectly well. This went on for a couple of years and one day my phone simply refused to connect to the cellular network (AT&T) for calls, data or text. I called AT&T and they said it wasn’t them, Apple had disabled it. Apple said I had to update the software in order to use it.
Ghost: Next I decided to buy a non-US GSM phone and installed open source de-Googled Android. It offers privacy, a means to monitor surveillance, and runs the kind of “non-US” apps which Sundance alludes to. One day, it just would not connect to the cellular network. AT&T simply told me they refuse to support my phone. It works fine on any public or private WiFi including VOIP phone calls – just not though the AT&T cellular phone network.
It is a gilded cage we grow complacent and comfortable with – the door will slam shut.
Spot on!
I am a Google refusenik. No google account…so if I want an app for my phone I use apkpure.net website instead of the “play” store. Also my Android phone is 6 years old and some apps won’t run on the 6.x operating system. Heck, I didn’t even HAVE a “smart” phone until 3 years ago. I’ve read that many people are returning to the earlier flip/non-smart cell phones. Good on them!
Works so far, but then again I have very few apps on my phone. I didn’t even have a QR code reader app on it until recently when I had to use one to download another app that was only obtainable through a QR code URL.
Some restaurants still make you use a QR reader just to see their menu! A hold-over from the Covid scam.
“…it can easily be made mandatory as a digital ID within the US borders.”
Except for voting, anyway.
i add my thanks to you Sundance. Before reading this piece I was in a state of MEGO if I tried to inform myself about digital currency.
“Digital dollars can be blocked from gun purchases, and digital ids can be used to stop unapproved users from purchasing guns; or a gas guzzling suv, or a house that’s too big, or the non-compliant fridge, or whatever.”
That’s the crux of it. I’ve thought a lot about this because I receive Social Security, which is already government controlled “money”. Anyone who receives government funds will be under the burden of CBDC. Want to buy beef? Denied. You will eat the bugs. Want to buy a car? Denied. You will purchase an electric vehicle. Taking a long trip and need to purchase gas along the way? Denied. You’ve used up your allocated gas money. Track every item you purchase for a month and realize you will have none of those things unless you worship the Beast. The anti-Christ.
So, how I have been preparing is this: I have tried to create a lifestyle where I can barter with like minded people for the things I need. I grow food (on the farm). I am stocked up for the long term on items I cannot grow/raise myself. I consider that my Social Security will be taken over by the new system, so things like the mortgage, insurance, property taxes, the electric bill, auto-deduct from that account. All other things need to be bartered outside the financial system.
I realize that at some point, under the new system, The Powers That Be may decide that my house is not mine, but theirs since they decided that humans should get a 10’x10′ living space and the other spaces will go to illegal immigrants. I have a goal of being “mortgage free”, but not sure I can swing it.
There are so many levels of this and details that it is unfathomable and hard to list a fraction of it, but it is exactly what Stalin did when he took over. Millions upon millions of people died. He “requisitioned” all the farming land. He killed or starved to death the non-compliant.
This is why our 2nd Amendment is so critically important. My red line is my property line. Once the property line is breached, via finances or physically, I will defend it, or die trying. That’s the brutal fact of it. If people don’t understand that, this is going to be far rougher on them than those of us who are willing to face the music.
I do pray that we do not descend into mortal combat over control of America. But, I cannot see how we do not unless The Powers That Be back off and go live in their luxury bunkers. Just sayin’. The handwriting is on the wall y’all.
This reminds me of the Jab. So many willing Americans lined up for it without doing any research at all, without critically thinking, without looking at the medical literature that was freely available if one would only look. And now people are dying from “turbo cancers” (I personally know those who have), or have permanently impaired immune systems, etc. These are good people. People who wanted to do “the right thing”, and yet they were so easily manipulated. THEY TRUSTED THE SYSTEM. Big mistake.
I’ll stop. I could write a book. CBDCs give people who do not have your best interest at heart TOTAL CONTROL over your personal choices in every aspect of your life.
“I have a goal of being “mortgage free”, but not sure I can swing it.”
Consider a reverse mortgage. They are not for everyone, but in my case it worked out great. There are restrictions on who qualifies, but generally if you are over age 62 and have at least 50% equity in your home, you will qualify.
There is a lot of negative press about reverse mortgages, so choose wisely and make sure you obtain a HUD-guaranteed reverse mortgage. We still own our home, the deed is in our names, and our particular mortgage has a line-of-credit of over $100k which grows at the same interest rate as the mortgage, and also never has to be repaid (non-recourse).
Good info at the link below. I exchanged email questions with the site owner who was helpful in understanding what’s involved, but used a local credit union in the end to get the mortgage. There is a lot of paperwork involved since the HUD underwriters scrutinize heavily.
https://reverse.mortgage/how-does-it-work
Absolutely NEVER get a reverse mortgage!
You do not own your home any longer. Bid deal, your name is on the deed of someone else’s home!
HUD guaranteed indeed! The guarantee will protect, maybe, the owner, and that is not you!
Besides, the USA terrorist government is WAY PAST flat broke!
It is nothing more than a scam to cheat you
or your heirs out of what you worked so hard to earn with the offer of easy money.
This ought to scare the heck out of any rational person.
NOTHING is free or easy, keep your nose to the grindstone and do it right.
A very lucid explanation, by Sundance, of how CBDCs function in the real world and how they differ from the currently ubiquitous electronic funds.
Incomplete, however, is the explanation of why CBDCs are being implemented. It’s fair to say that CBDCs are about control, and that they could be used to restrict one’s purchases of goods and services ; but there’s more to them than just forcing everyone to become a bug-eating wokester. They’re first and foremost about limiting capital flight.
In a world where the US$ is no longer king, US$ holders would want to exchange their cash for more viable currencies. To some extent, this is already happening. Were it to happen rapidly on a large scale, the US$ would abruptly collapse in value, thereby destroying the remaining economies based upon it while also destroying the economies into which the capital fled. Imagine the Swiss manufacturer or the Russian farmer trying to sell his goods in a world where US$-priced imports were available at 1/10th the price – or the imports-reliant US consumer trying to purchase a China-made vacuum cleaner that would now cost a month’s salary.
The strongest argument against CBDCs is their absolute reliance upon electricity and data transmission networks, which can and will be compromised or fail outright. The elimination of cash would place everyone everywhere continuously at the mercy of hackers, saboteurs, severe weather events including space weather, and mechanical malfunction.
The strongest argument against CBDCs is their absolute reliance upon electricity and data transmission networks, which can and will be compromised or fail outright. The elimination of cash would place everyone everywhere continuously at the mercy of hackers, saboteurs, severe weather events including space weather, and mechanical malfunction.
This! would affect not only us but TPTB seeking to control us.
God is great. Truly he is. He has been preparing me for this my entire life and i am grateful for that.
I suppose this all kicks off between November and January