Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), as they are called, mark the end of true freedom in a land, not just financially but also in the broader sense as a whole. Unlike cash and physical money, CBDCs can and will be readily tracked and monitored. Every transaction, sale, purchase, donation and gift, will leave behind a digital record and receipt of what you do.
Personal privacy and how you spend your money is no longer a reality and a liberty. Wherefore this makes it all the more easier for central banks and the government to tax the people, first and foremost, as every cent will have a traceable name it.
Furthermore, common things that we all take for granted, like putting money in birthday cards, allowances and small payments for work, selling vegetables on the street or having a yard sale; are essentially wiped-off the table because of a CBDC.
But the even bigger issue are them being linked to a social credit score, which is what China currently has. If you don’t behave a certain way, buy and support something the government does not like, and so on and so forth, this retroactive score will lower and you will be unable to participate as much in society because you are not obeying what the state says to do. Conversely, you obey and do what they want you to do, think, and behave, the score will reflect positively and will open more extremities to you.
True freedom and civil liberties will be gone for good.
Needless to say, they need to be avoided at all costs. But how?
Here are some ways you can help slow their introduction and to not become ensnared by them yourself.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Some of the suggestions listed below draw inspiration from a piece published by The Solari Report, though I have not listed all of their suggestions below.
Cash, Cash, Cash
The first and most obvious one is to pay in cash, physical tender, and coinage is much as you possibly can. Try to limit only purchasing while making a concerted effort to buy more things in-person, at a store or local business, serviced by a person. Also use checks if the situation calls for it.
Reduce Digitalization
Even though it is difficult in this modern world, try to avoid doing most if not all of your purchases and shopping online. There are some things that in most cases buying online is the only option. But if you can try to make these purchases physical.
Furthermore, avoid the use of biometrics and QR codes, and other forms of deeply invasive surveillance systems. This includes the use of smart phones. This also includes anything that has a digital ID or driver’s license, or vaccine passport attached to it.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have been making an increasing number of harassments these last several years, to target gun owners for buying certain weapons and attachments. They know this because these purchases were made online. To better avoid the confrontation and harassment, paying for the weapons and upgrades in cash will reduce this.
Avoid using self-checkouts, especially the ones that do not take cash and coin, even if that means standing in a long line if you only have a few items.
Also, try to not even use or have payment cards with you in your wallet or purse, as to reduce the temptation to want to swipe a card, if that perhaps has become a crutch and bad habit.
Support The Little Guy
Support and do business with people with integrity. Do business with people who are smaller and are more grassroots, especially in the case of things like food and farming.
Even if it costs a bit more, try to avoid going to bigger chains, businesses, corporations, and banks. For example, grocery chains like Walmart, Target, Costco, and many more, have utterly spoiled and destroyed small family shops and mercantiles; by artificially forcing prices down and supplying their stores will lower-quality goods and services, and sending jobs overseas for cheap slave labor, and by the sheer amount of them all over the country. And then companies like Amazon have since only compounded upon that, by not only suppressing prices down even more, but they are able to then ship items extremely fast for free or very cheap; which has forced the other big brands to try and match that.
It may cost more, but it is better to support the little guy and family businesses more often and as much as you can.
Prudent Banking
Keep minimal cash in the banks. Keep only the bare minimum in there that the bank may require, and enough to pay some bills and online fees, and limited online purchases. Again, use cash but keep the strong majority of it out of the banks.
Perhaps also diversify the number of banks that you use, so that not all of your eggs are in one basket, if in the event of fraud, hacking, grid-down scenarios, or just because of slimy management at a bank.
In Nigeria, the banks have been ordered to program their ATM’s to only allow $45 withdrawals per day. Same applies with teller transactions. Why? Well, according to the central bank it is because they want people to adopt their CBDC. Thus, having multiple bank accounts, while a pain and an extra chore, is one of the ways to defeat this by pulling cash from multiple banks and locations.
Furthermore, avoid banking with groups that promote and are already incentivizing a proto-social credit score and ESG investing. These are the precurssors for a social credit score.
SEE: Australian Megabank Begins Tracking Carbon Footprint In The Form Of An Early Social Credit Score
Also, avoid banks and apps that penalize you for “bad speak.”
SEE: PayPal Quietly Reinstates $2,500 Fine For Spreading Misinformation. Mainstream Media Silent
Discern Propaganda, Grassroots Messaging
Learn what the propaganda and sales tactics look like. It is very easy to get enticed, especially when cheap thrills, prizes, and “free” money are attached; coupled with the talks of “easier to use,” and it being “much more convenient,” or that it is “safer,” not to mention “healthier” because of all the germs.
This is what the media and some large corporations and franchises did (and still do) during the initial onslaught of the Covid pandemonium: cash was demonized because it could spread Covid, and some media outlets took it even further and said that payment cards are just as bad.
SEE: The REAL Reason Sweden Did Not Lockdown
Beware of the “FOMO” (Fear Of Missing Out), beware of peer pressure and group think. Beware of the pundits putting a nice spin on it.
SEE: Ignite The Right: Candace Owens Endorses Social Credit Score App Marketed For “Patriots”
Learn the propaganda tactics and know them well.
SEE: 6 Key Tenets Of Propaganda According To One Of The Masters Of It
And, arguably most important, simple word of mouth and warning family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and co-workers, and so forth. Word of mouth always is the best form of advertising and messaging.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Solari Report also listed things like talking to your congressmen and senators, but that is such a vain waste of time. Those people are NOT allowed to contradict the banks, ever. If they do, they are replaced or terminated. Do not waste a second writing letters to your “representatives.”
But many will say, ‘What’s the point of fighting and warning people if this system is coming anyways?’
[7] Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: [8] For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. [9] For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; [10] Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Thessalonians 3:7-10; 1 Corinthians 16:13
We are to FIGHT and resist this stuff. The abominable heresy of, “When in Rome, do as the Romans,” or to be a slothful loser, who will “own nothing and be happy” – is contrary to the doctrine found in the scriptures.
And just because the whole world wants to do wickedly does not mean you should.
The Lord will see your struggles and steadfastness, and he will reward you in the long run, both in this life and the life to come.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Great encouragement Jacob.
3 John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Anyone watching what’s happening this weekend in Canada ?
https://m.youtube.com/@rightblend/videos
Thank you. Wise advice. Not that there’s much here to ‘diversify’! But all of us can be choosier in, & give more thought to, who we patronize & empower, & why. Especially where there’s still a choice. As well as getting better in distinguishing needs from wants, what has real value & usefulness, is able to be bartered, etc given a variety of potential scenarios as these things unfold.