It’s seemed evident for a while that the current fiat monetary system is, at best, unstable. At worst, it’s a Ponzi scheme whose time has expired. If that’s the case, I suspect the central bankers and 0.1% know this and might be prepared to usher in the new system before the old one collapses on itself – even as they loot it on the way down with the most significant wealth transfer in human history.
To anyone who pays attention to these trends, it seems evident that Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) will be that new system.
Every indication is that CBDC’s arrival is imminent. On Tuesday, several global banks announced a partnership with the New York Federal Reserve to pilot digital dollars. Given the ubiquity of credit and debit cards, payment apps and other online payment systems, digital money has been bound to happen for some time. The risk isn’t the electronic part, that’s inevitable – it’s the fact that a central bank will oversee the digital currency.
From my vantage point, it’s impossible to overstate the risk presented by CBDC. Whether it’s a utopian vision based on good intentions or a sinister plot to crush our sovereignty, the result may be the same: control. A Central Bank Digital Currency has all the downsides of fiat money, plus the added layers of surveillance and programmability overseen by the state.
So many people on Team Reality have likely felt like dissidents over the last few years simply for challenging anything beyond the herd mentality. Asking questions or speaking against the narrative about topics including the likely origins of the Covid virus, usefulness of PCR, risk to most of the population, benefits of early treatment, advantages of natural immunity, safety and efficacy of vaccines, pros and cons of masks and lockdowns, and the utility of vaccine passports created an environment where people were stigmatised, alienated or outright censored. Imagine a monetary system with features baked-in to socially engineer how we live. For example:
- Health: “You didn’t take your booster… sorry, you’re not allowed in public spaces.”
- Energy: “You used your energy allotment this month… sorry, your electric car won’t start.”
- Food: “You ate too much meat this week… sorry, your money is only good for plants (or bugs).”
- Savings: “If you don’t take your rations soon… sorry, your money will expire at the end of the month.”
- Free Speech: “You shared info that we disagree with… sorry, our algorithm is fining you.” (PayPal has already started doing this.)
If CBDC ultimately becomes the new monetary system, its core features will make it so that world governments will no longer need something like a global health crisis to print money or close society. Lines of code can shape our behaviour and ensure we’re forced to stay home. The entire platform will be designed to expel labour that is no longer deemed necessary. While I initially believed the state-led pharmacological interventions were an isolated, acute threat in this era, it’s become evident they were simply one tentacle in a much larger beast. Whatever forces are insinuating this direction on the world (looking your way, Davos), it’s revealed itself to be unrelenting in its pursuit of perpetuating fear and power.
I’m well aware this must sound insane, especially to anyone that hasn’t paid attention to this trend for a while. A few years ago, I would have thought it was preposterous, but after witnessing the Government’s lies, deception and grab for control, I’ve become fearful that this may be where we’re headed. When you consider that vaccine mandates had no medically justifiable purpose, it’s entirely plausible that they were simply an on-ramp to normalise a ‘papers please’ society. In NYC, where I lived until recently, most people accepted vaxports and loved the Excelsior Pass mobile app because it was convenient. How many will feel the same about digital money, which will undoubtedly come with its share of benefits?
Central Bank Digital Currency will enable governments to impose top-down control, à la Chinese Social Credit Score. Some central bankers are even saying the quiet part out loud. Whether or not this is the programme’s objective, has there ever been a time in history when governments rejected the power they are given? At this stage, this isn’t some tinfoil hat theorising, either. There are many examples of how this type of finance-driven coercion is already underway.
- “Now the Government is asking people to apply for plastic My Number cards equipped with microchips and photos, to be linked to driver’s licences and the public health insurance plans. Health insurance cards now in use, which lack photos, will be discontinued in late 2024. People will be required to use My Number cards instead.”
Source - “The new pass will guarantee the allocation of fuel quota on weekly basis. A QR code will be given for each National Identity Card number (NIC), once the vehicle identification number and other details are verified.”
Source - “According to a report from 9News Queensland, the department has ruled that unvaccinated teachers who have been allowed to return to their employment this term after being placed on leave without pay, will cop yet another financial blow, with a ‘reduction in remuneration’ for a period of 18 weeks.”
Source - “The trial, which is voluntary, will use facial recognition to identify people and how many tickets they have. The technology could be extended to cover automated purchases at concession stands, restaurants and bars.”
Source - “As part of plans recently announced by the Government, Uganda will begin harvesting DNA and biometric data from its citizens when their cards expire in 2024 to be used in its redesigned digital identity programme.”
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This is just the tip of the iceberg, and it’s global. As we saw with the lockdowns, China is the model emulated in the west. Like the creep towards health-related authoritarian measures, unelected globalists with financial interests lurk in the background.
I’d love to be wrong about all this. However, until there is evidence, we need to be suspicious of anyone perpetuating this dangerous path, regardless of their motivations.
For a deeper dive into this topic, I highly recommend this essay by Fabio Vighi about Long Covid Monetary Policy. Edward Dowd has also spoken extensively about the relationship between the monetary system and Covid, including at this eye-opening presentation. Next, the excellent Maajid Nawaz has covered the drivers behind CBDC. Others, such as Marty Bent, Saifedean Ammous, and Allen Farrington have been ahead of the curve in identifying these risks. I share their assessment in realising that Bitcoin likely solves this.
If you have yet to notice, a primary theme of the last three-plus years (at least) is ‘freedom vs. control’, so it’s not hyperbole to suggest that the future must be decentralised if we want to ensure our children grow up in a free world.
Joshua Stylman is a tech entrepreneur and investor who co-founded and ran Threes Brewing, a popular New York brewery until March 2022, when he resigned for reasons related to his public opposition to the New York City vaccine mandates. Find him on Twitter and on Substack, where this post first appeared.
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Yes we’re all ‘far-right’ now, no matter the agenda that we are opposing. This article nails it I think;
”It is striking how ‘far-right’ has become an all-purpose insult in Europe and the West. It is a label slapped on anybody who stands outside the narrow conformism of woke politics. Whether it’s parents protesting against drag queens preaching trans ideology to children, or citizens concerned about anything from the EU’s crusade against cars and farmers to the imposition of vaccine passports or mass migration, they are all apparently ‘far-right’ now.
The message is always that ‘these people’ are basically scum, beyond the limits of respectable debate, and should not be engaged with. Instead they should be cancelled, arrested or banned altogether.
Little wonder then that the police, politicians and media seized with relish on the ‘far-right’ counter protest in London on Armistice Day last weekend. They focused on a few hundred white working-class football fans who briefly skirmished with police near the Cenotaph on Whitehall (before respecting the two minutes’ silence for the war dead), as a welcome distraction from facing the truth about the massive ‘peaceful’ pro-Palestinian demonstration up the road, which was really an anti-Israeli, often antisemitic, hate march.
Amid the furore about the ‘far right’ in London last weekend, a rough home-made banner displayed by one of those counter protestors provided more clarity and insight than all of the worthy media waffle around the mass protests. ‘It’s Not Pro-Palestine,’ read the hand-painted sign, ‘It’s Anti-British’. That is one thing those branded ‘far-right’ surely got right.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/democracy-watch/democracy-watch-why-is-it-now-far-right-to-hate-hamas/
midwestern doctor an excellent substack. If you are on statins, read his recent article on them. And get off them asap. They are poisonous filth, and all the more so as papers show that higher cholesterol levels mean a longer life. They are an essential cell building block, and more so in the brain.
Agree. AMWD provides well-researched and thought-provoking articles not just on medical issues. We should all be questioning diagnoses of chronic diseases, long-term medication and poly pharma. Drugs like statins, PPIs, SSRIs etc have serious side effects and don’t address the underlying cause of symptoms that are usually due to diet, evironmental toxins and pharma products such as vaccines. Starting with a real food diet, avoiding sugar, starchy and processed foods, is usually the answer to recovering your health though the damage done by pharma products such as vaccines can be difficult to reverse.
A long one, but worth a read:-
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-were-the-economic-consequences?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
More on the integrity and accuracy of data pertaining to human casualties reported in Gaza, data which is disseminated and parroted then by organizations and the MSM outlets;
”The guidelines for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which reports on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “state that human suffering must be addressed wherever it is found.” That is why their silence in response to Hamas’ devastating attack on Israel is so concerning.
The OCHA’s office for the “Occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA-OPT)” claims to provide “information management services to the humanitarian community.” What the international community doesn’t know is that the OCHA-OPT continually underreports and ignores Palestinian violence against Israelis. They refuse to hold Hamas accountable for violence against Israelis. The OCHA-OPT’s record is even more concerning because of the volume of reports they produce.
Since the massacre on October 7, OCHA-OPT has not published a single report or statement detailing the horrors perpetrated against Israelis. They have instead launched a misguided and harmful campaign detailing the war in Gaza without any context. Israel’s pleas for Palestinians to leave the conflict zone have been condemned, while reports that Hamas has prevented civilians who want to leave from doing so have been ignored.
One of Hamas’ favorite tactics is to use civilians as part of their terrorist operation. They regularly use schools and hospitals to provide human shields for their bases. By omitting the context for Israel’s military actions, namely Hamas terrorism and willingness to sacrifice their own people, the OCHA-OPT are guilty of preventing any objective analysis from the international community. They also effectively encourage Hamas to use civilians as human shields by protecting them from scrutiny.
Many of the numerous people, organizations, and governments who regularly rely on the OCHA-OPT are unaware of how much misinformation they report.”
https://www.meforum.org/65219/the-dangers-behind-the-un-silence-toward-israel
For those who prefer video, this congressman is making the same point. ( 5mins )
”The “Ministry of Health” in Gaza is lying, overexaggerating the civilian death toll.
“Palestinian” terrorists not only include Hamas members blending in as normal citizens, but also non-Hamas members like the regular Gazans who participated on 07/10.
When they are rightfully killed, they suddenly become “innocent civilians”.
Many of the “children” aren’t even children. This is a gaslighting technique aimed at idiots in the UN.”
https://twitter.com/NiohBerg/status/1726172319842791672
This really sorts the wheat from the chaff.
https://twitter.com/hilzfuld/status/1726197487864529397
Covid Jab Airline Industry Disaster –
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Strange this significant news isn’t in the Round-Up. I can only assume it was a time zone thing. Milei is the new President of Argentina;
”Economist Javier Milei, a cable news fixture who was elected to the Argentine Congress riding a wave of anti-socialist sentiment in 2021, was elected the nation’s president on Sunday.
Milei will take office on December 10.
Milei campaigned as a libertarian, capitalist anti-socialist, leading his young political movement, Liberty Advances, against the long-standing Peronist socialist establishment. As a Latin American libertarian, he also took socially conservative positions that do not align with the common understanding of mainstream libertarianism in the United States, such as opposing the legalization of abortion and discouraging business dealings with communist countries, including one of Argentina’s top trade partners, China.”
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2023/11/19/populist-libertarian-javier-milei-wins-presidency-of-argentina-in-landslide/
I think this is giving “TikTok” far too much credit. Anti-semitism has been a thing for a quite a while now, on and off. Should TikTok take down anything “anti-semitic” or should they leave things stand and allow people to make their own minds up, having heard many arguments and understanding who thinks and says what, and why?
I’m sure the beginning of the nazi uprising started just like this one hundred years ago in 1923! Different century different reasons, same hatred! this modern political inertia just doesn’t feel right! If we forget why things happened in the first place, then they’ll probably happen again!
Love the guy shouting at the Just Stop Oil protesters. That video should be shown on all
media platforms. Interesting to see one woman actually looking at her jacket. No joined up thinking by the protesters whatsoever.
It’s great, isn’t it? “If you want to stop oil you need to stay at home and go live in a forest.”
Priceless.
These people aren’t driven by logic or reason, feelings and virtue signalling are the new currency of the woke.
Yesterday evening JJ Couey presented to MD4CE – another excellent presentation.
Also available to view is a presentation by barrister Dr Ann Loufti on the difficulties encountered in getting information about what children are being taught in schools under the Relationships & Sexual Health banner as the teaching material is provided by private companies & parents deemed to have no right to know what their children are being exposed to. The information she shared is sobering & concerning to anyone who cares about the grooming of children.
Both can be viewed here: https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
The reason that academia is packed to bursting with pillocks like this bloke is that they are all incapable of productive work, so rely in effect on benefits. Paid by the taxpayer. Close ’em down. University should now be called “Diversity” and made to fund its own polluted nonsense
Lying to us about UK Inflation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsp9ajJCJ-4&list=WL&index=4 Published by Sasha Yanshin – almost dark humour.
New syndrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UJqhG1I7tY&list=WL&index=7 by JC. I’m not advertising, at least not financially.
Wonderful defence of free speech by Tom Slater.