{"id":234382,"date":"2023-05-01T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=234382"},"modified":"2023-04-29T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T08:20:20","slug":"all-roads-are-leading-toward-an-international-cbdc-in-a-cashless-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/05\/all-roads-are-leading-toward-an-international-cbdc-in-a-cashless-world\/","title":{"rendered":"All Roads Are Leading toward an International CBDC in a Cashless World"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_234384\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/money.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/money.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/money.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/money-300x150.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-234384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Daily Sceptic<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"><i class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u201cThe masses are still oblivious to the machinations of their shadowy overlords.\u201d<\/i><br \/>\n\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/quinn-wall-was-too-high-you-can-see\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Jim Quinn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"><em>26 Apr 2023 &#8211; <\/em>The idea of government \u201cof, by and for the people\u201d has become a sick joke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Federal\/corporate power dominates a fearful public from which it has effectively separated itself. Elected representatives consort with lobbyists flush with cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">A collective of unelected 3-letter agencies \u2014 IRS, SEC, CDC, FDA, DHS, DEA, FCC, FBI, CIA, EPA, etc., <strong>say \u201cObey!<\/strong>\u201d, and a conditioned public goes along.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Above it all sits a shadowy body of globalists, aka \u201cthe Cabal\u201d, and coming down the pike is the final piece of their game plan for total control of the human family: abolishment of physical money and establishment of a programmable electronic currency dubbed CBDC for Central Bank Digital Currency.<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Why CBDC entrapment would be absolute is clear \u2014 that one\u2019s every buy\/sell action, down to penny candy, would be recorded;<\/li>\n<li class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">that CBDC is controllable as to where, when, and how it may spent; that \u201cbail ins\u201d (reductions in one\u2019s account) could be done anytime government might wish;<\/li>\n<li class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">that a time limit can force spending and make saving impossible; that should one have unwanted opinions, or refuse some governmental dictate, their CBDC account could be frozen, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">It would be as thorough as any high security prison. And what is most alarming is that an apparently unaware majority is being guided toward CBDC, stepwise in a process of normalization. Here is what\u2019s going on now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Item:\u00a0NY City\u2019s citizens will now have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2023\/04\/no_author\/new-york-city-to-track-personal-food-choices-using-credit-card-data\/\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">food purchases tracked<\/a> through credit cards.<\/li>\n<li class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Item:\u00a0Big box stores like CostCo now have automatic check out options, some \u201ccash or card\u201d, others \u201ccard only\u201d. Card only options will doubtless become the norm.<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Item:<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span>The attack on cash started with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/02\/16\/its-time-to-kill-the-100-bill\/\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">large bills only<\/a>, the rationale, as per Harvard\u2019s Lawrence Summers, being that criminals use them. Harvard\u2019s Kenneth Rogoff\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/rogoff\/files\/paper_money_is_unfit.pdf\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">is open<\/a> in that his problem with cash is that it\u2019s \u201canonymous\u201d, and that it \u201chandcuffs\u201d central banks. Rogoff even wrote a book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Curse-Cash-Large-Denomination-Constrain-Monetary\/dp\/0691178364\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=361E5AT6AO8LP&amp;keywords=the+curse+of+cash+by+kenneth+rogoff&amp;qid=1682027335&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=the+curse+of+cash,stripbooks,124&amp;sr=1-1\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Curse of Cash<\/a>.<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Item:\u00a0This issue isn\u2019t just national, it\u2019s global. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6qQmloWj8gw\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Here is Christine Lagarde,<\/a>\u00a0president of the European Central Bank, threatening citizens making payments of over 1000 Euro in physical cash, with prison.<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Item:<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span>Google has a digital payment system called a <a href=\"https:\/\/wallet.google\/\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cGoogle Pay Wallet\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that allows users to \u201ctap to pay anywhere Google Pay is accepted\u201d. It\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/google-tests-new-airfare-savings-program-lure-consumers-using-mobile-wallet\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">being tested now<\/a> in the airline industry as a price guarantee program for Google Flights.<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Item:<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span>For the past year, Amazon\u2019s \u201cpalm reading payment technology\u201d has been used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/dozens-whole-foods-stores-allow-customers-pay-palm-print-biometric-data\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">at Whole Foods stores<\/a>, where a wave of the hand gets the bill paid. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2023\/03\/cashless-society-panera-bread-debuts-frictionless-palm-payment-system.html\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Panera is considering<\/a> this \u201cfrictionless\u201d method. Panera\u2019s loyalty program includes 52 million customers. As increasing numbers of companies move to \u201cfrictionless\u201d payment, the procedure becomes ever more seen as normal and fussing with cash or cards as pass\u00e9. In time, all forms of electronic exchange could be organized, bit-by-bit if necessary, into a single, integrated, global system.<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Has a level of \u201cnormalization\u201d within society been reached in order for the Establishment to move more aggressively?<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Well, let\u2019s see: On April 10, 2023, at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the <a href=\"https:\/\/dcma.io\/\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Digital Currency Monetary Authority<\/a> (DCMA) [and who the hell gave them authority?] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/the-digital-currency-monetary-authority-dcma-launches-an-international-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc-301793163.html\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">launched an International CBDC<\/a> called the \u201cUnicoin\u201d, a \u201cuniversal monetary unit [that] strengthens the monetary sovereignty of participating central banks\u201d. And a mere 4 weeks earlier (March 6), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), aka \u201cthe Central Bank for central banks\u201d, concluded a multi-country study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bis.org\/about\/bisih\/topics\/cbdc\/icebreaker.htm\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Project Icebreaker<\/a>, regarding the use of cross-currency\/cross-border financial transactions using CBDCs. Both, designed to protect the stability of central banks, are moves toward a single global electronic currency.<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">You might argue that physical money continues to be in great supply, so where is the danger of a global CBDC when society is awash with cash?<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Well, training a culture to use electronic money is requiring expanded time, even generations, for normalization to become established. However, cash can be made scarce \u2014 and then to dry up \u2014 relatively quickly. And within the past two years, a senior fellow at no less an economics and policy research group than the Brookings Institute published an oped in the NY Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/opinions\/cash-will-soon-be-obsolete-will-america-be-ready\/\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cCash will soon be obsolete. Will America be ready?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Will we? One can estimate the inclination of the majority, and of society\u2019s general direction, at the marketplace \u2014 Target, Walmart, a super market, whatever \u2014 by observing fellow citizens. Speed and convenience are clearly guiding decisions in a society in which \u201cprogress\u201d is understood primarily in terms of technology and efficiency. While some observers claim people are now \u201cwaking up\u201d to the perils inherent in where we are being herded, such people seem still to be a small minority. If the many unrelenting and diverse steps toward CBCDs are to be stopped and reversed, that minority needs to swell by an order of magnitude, and soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\" style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">Economist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2023-04-22\/biden-administration-raises-costs-homebuyers-good-credit-help-risky-borrowers-first\" class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">George Gammon clarifies<\/a> how the Biden Administration\u2019s move to raise mortgage rates for those with good credit is yet another move to CBDCs. At the moment, individuals cannot have accounts with the Federal Reserve, so the little guy can\u2019t benefit from discount windows enjoyed by big banks. \u201cNot fair\u201d declares the little guy, who now is inclined to advocate for Fed accounts for everybody, unaware of the implications.<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">What this mortgage policy demonstrates is that credit can be issued by the Fed based not on merit but on what Gammon calls \u201cnarrative\u201d. In this instance, the narrative is about social policy, but it could be about absolutely anything a government might want. Because the Fed creates credit out of nothing, it can offer rates all the way to zero. No bank can compete, and that favors the argument for Fed accounts for all, which, as Gammon makes clear, is a highway leading straight to the entrapment of CBDC.<span class=\"yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316Apple-converted-space yiv5544694192ydpf6155abeyiv5513853316ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Bill Willers is an emeritus professor of biology, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. He is founder of the Superior Wilderness Action Network and editor of Learning to Listen to the Land, and Unmanaged Landscapes, both from Island Press. He can be contacted at <a href=\"mailto:willers@uwosh.edu\">willers@uwosh.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/all-roads-leading-toward-international-cbdc-cashless-world\/5817144\" >Go to Original &#8211; globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 Apr 2023 &#8211; The idea of government \u201cof, by and for the people\u201d has become a sick joke. Federal\/corporate power dominates a fearful public from which it has effectively separated itself. Elected representatives consort with lobbyists flush with cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1023,232,3050,1246,354,555,562,1650,176,1070,2841],"class_list":["post-234382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","tag-banksters","tag-capitalism","tag-cashless-society","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-economics","tag-elites","tag-finance","tag-human-experiment","tag-money","tag-plastic-money","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234386,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234382\/revisions\/234386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}