I suspect they have multiple attack vectors (chem/bio, Ukraine escalation, financial, cyber) ready to accomplish the CBDC transition. A crescendo of panic will be necessary for them to reach critical mass on this.
ONE BIG PROBLEM: What will they do with all the paper USD floating around the world - cancel the old denominations? e.g. there are countries and/or economies who, for all intensive purposes, have dollarized (But usually they only want NEWER denominations of crisp clean bills....) or have good portions of their economies running on non-local paper currencies e.g. Argentina, Cambodia (ATMs spit out USD), Zimbabwe, Central America etc...
Double parallel currencies. Exactly what did they did in the past. Accommodation and discounts to using the new currency. Then an exchange ratio that’s unfavourable. Pay property taxes only through new currency. Then window closed.
The UK is discontinuing paper money or something in favor of plastic notes. I saw a posting or something on an expat FB group from someone who needed to exchange old paper currency but was not planning to go back to the UK anytime soon. Not sure if they had UK citizenship. They were looking for someone who might be going back to the UK soon who already had new notes they could exchange them as then whoever takes the old notes can exchange them on their trip to the UK....
IF you are not in the UK, I guess it might be a bit of a hassle as instead of going to any bank branch, you probably need to go to a particular an overseas branch of a UK commercial bank during banking hours where I live and no doubt fill out a bunch of paper work to satisfy the tax people in both countries to prove you are not laundering money, where the money came from, etc.
Yea but the problem is it sounds like there is a deadline to exchange old paper UK notes or they become worthless... I am not British, so I don't know the details... But yea, in SE Asia, paper notes can rot or get filthy or torn... Money changers are very particular about serial numbers or dates - won't take old USD etc
See Yugoslavia 1990 to 1992. Paper currency is replaced all the time. Swapping for a new sort with a deadline leaves many people suffering loss. But the aristocrats in power hate us and worship demons. They want you to suffer.
During that awful crisis in Yugoslavia, new tycoons emerged from the people who borrowed millions of dollars in the domestic currency and later had to repay only a miniscule amount.
Some businesses are refusing to accept cash. Despite that being illegal. Or in the case of grocery stores they just put a note on there that says card only.
Exciting times coming. May it be the kunlangeta who suffers the most. [This posted double when I first commented; then when I deleted one, the other was deleted too. So this time I'm leaving it up.]
Thanks for introducing me to that term. Hadn't heard of it before. It's an apt description of who these people are. May there be a lot more people who push them off the ice - but this time, it had better be in the world's full view, with due process and the full court press.
We should also be more worried about a forest fire in an area that has been artificially free of forest fires for a long time. There is more old timber to fuel a fire.
Regarding the gold - all of the "Patriot" sources have been pushing "buy gold (or silver)" since early 2020, and I have always feared that this is the same playbook as 1933, for the gov. to come and take it all away after the upcoming financial crash.
Regarding the great CEO exodus, the "Q" movement sold it as a result of Trump's September 12, 2018 executive order 13848, which gives the right to basically take the property of any entity involved in election fraud.
And somehow we still believed we lived in the land of the free, home of the brave; but actually we're living in the land of the fake, home of the brainwashed.
I didn't know about it either, until just a few years ago. I never heard my parents or my grandparents say this but then again, these were the same people who had me believing in Santa Claus and swamp angels to get me to stay in bed at night.
in the summer of 1964, when I was 9, I was staying with my great-grandmother. Can't remember exactly what we were talking about, but at one point she held out two dollars to me, a paper dollar in one hand, and a silver Peace dollar in the other, and told me to pick one. Naturally I took the paper one, 9 year olds didn't much handle 'folding money' then. She gave me the silver dollar and told me to always keep it. The paper one could burn up, but the silver would always be there. She emphasized it was REAL money, long before the paper ones came around... She was born in 1886, so had seen first hand the deceit of the central bank, and she would pass away near Christmas that year. I think she would be glad I remembered her lesson, and have added greatly to that saved silver.
Historically, the tyrants always moved populations around to keep them unstable.
Given the chemical-train crashes, they could do this as well.
We don't know what they could hit us with.
My best guess is to learn survival skills - how to grow food, get water and purify it. Basic survive off the grid skills.
Learn how to steal...... Figure out where the food sources are... Read holocaust survival stories...
Stay positive - you give up, you lose.
Alot of what they are doing isn't real, they are just firing shots and them amplifying them with media and social media. Like the pandemic, and... like the vaccine side effects. Real, but not as powerful as they are making us think.
the further need is the fact they don't trust each other, they want collateral, so the BIS made gold a tier one asset, same as cash or Treasuries/gov't bonds, even better than MBS. They speak among themselves of a line item they all keep, which is the current difference between acquisition costs and current retail for gold. Not a big stretch to revalue that line to a desired level to make all the illiquidity go away.
They never "came for the gold" in '33. Idiot people trapsed into the FBI traps at the banks and turned it all in, willingly. Stupidly. Moral f the story: Don't keep your gold in a bank. Keep it in or near your home and don't tell anybody you have any.
The idiots planning all these irrational changes never consider the high probability of unintended consequences wrecking their silly plans. Most of these pretend intellectuals all share the same brain cell.
China was originally a Rockefeller social engineering project. It's a Western creation where Google (NSA), originally developed its surveillance system. And ultimately, it will all be deployed in the West. Gangsters never offer concessions.
Agreed. Debt-based "Capitalism", Communism, Fascism, Socialism, tin-pot dick taters, are all experiments in human governance by those who got us onto this debt money scheme. Best survival tip: do what you can but throw all your cares upon God. He's the only one who has the proven ability to handle them.
Activist groups have been teaching a certain subgroup how to scam the disability system for decades. Once a month on Sundays in church basements throughout the country. The rent/auto scam was just a new play on an old trick.
I had a major head injury and looked into disability for a little while. To me it seems like the only purpose of it was for scammers like that. It wasn't enough to live on in any meaningful way.
I was able to get a ‘closed period’ award for a 3 year period for facial injuries I suffered in a botched dental operation. It left me barely able to eat and speak.
But it took me 5 years and an actual lawsuit. I was eventually successful for 3 reasons. Persistence. I was a lawyer. I had a great disability attorney.
I was tempted to give up. But what I learned about along the way, and the scam involved, made me more determined than ever to see it through.
Had a friend whose sister had liver failure, and had to move from OK to TX to get her disability claim through. In OK, you only won if you were Indian.
Why buy when you can just bankrupt the competition?
Another angle - the media says environmental startups were hit - this could be used as another excuse why the environment is getting worse "we failed to save it".
If we use the working assumption that there are MULTIPLE larger than state level actors making these plans that are not beneficial to us mere mortals then we have to assume they are either warring with each other, competing or cooperating. To me it seems that each of these options would have totally different motivations for what we see happening around us. Why should EU, Russia, and/or China cooperate with the USA in destroying markets to favour others the way they seem to be doing?
My real questions are, what is a better investment, property (own home) or gold?
Should one try to own a property that is mortgaged to the hilt or one that is paid-off? We see large operators hoping for security through gold during the transition to digital. Is their fear/knowledge that hidden assets will be erased the driver or the potential inflation of digital currency that will make it a worthless asset?
Why is Billy collecting viable farmland instead of gold or dollars?
I think that the set of players and motivations is murky.
I've recently been attacked and pressured for reporting on some groups at various levels. And even where there is bad behavior, I'm not even sure that I understand who the *most* bad guys are. Are there quasi-good guys who have to lie a lot in order to confuse the larger enemy? This is an unusual moment, and it's good to be broadly prepared, remain unfazed by fear elements, and build community.
Billy's mission is to gain control of the means of food production, in order to enforce scarcity, as a means of population control (both birth rate and behavior).
Scarlett: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again."
Is it a planned demolition accelerating a move towards a central bank digital currency. Notice, how politicians rail against China, while Western trillion dollar asset management firms want to replicate their totalitarian technocracy.
So this is all being planned as the mechanism to introduce CBDCs?
I believe so.
I think its two-fold: CDBC and a massive consolidation of banks.
won't need too many banks with digital
I'm a big fan of your work Mathew. I found this game the Pentagon played in 2009 I'm calling Dollar Wars.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lawyerlisa/p/dollar-wars?r=3kbp6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I've come to the same conclusion.
Analogous to from gold to the dollar? This is the next transitional black swan event to move from the dollar to cbdc’s?
I suspect they have multiple attack vectors (chem/bio, Ukraine escalation, financial, cyber) ready to accomplish the CBDC transition. A crescendo of panic will be necessary for them to reach critical mass on this.
A few more strategically placed train derailments should do it...the pace has been on point.
Looks like "they" are using a two-pronged approach, i.e. federally and through the back door in the states:
Kristi Noem Sends Warning About State Level Effort to Redefine Currency, Same Legislation Currently Hitting 20 States
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/11/kristi-noem-sends-warning-about-state-level-effort-to-redefine-currency-same-legislation-currently-hitting-20-states/
ONE BIG PROBLEM: What will they do with all the paper USD floating around the world - cancel the old denominations? e.g. there are countries and/or economies who, for all intensive purposes, have dollarized (But usually they only want NEWER denominations of crisp clean bills....) or have good portions of their economies running on non-local paper currencies e.g. Argentina, Cambodia (ATMs spit out USD), Zimbabwe, Central America etc...
"intents and purposes"
Double parallel currencies. Exactly what did they did in the past. Accommodation and discounts to using the new currency. Then an exchange ratio that’s unfavourable. Pay property taxes only through new currency. Then window closed.
The UK is discontinuing paper money or something in favor of plastic notes. I saw a posting or something on an expat FB group from someone who needed to exchange old paper currency but was not planning to go back to the UK anytime soon. Not sure if they had UK citizenship. They were looking for someone who might be going back to the UK soon who already had new notes they could exchange them as then whoever takes the old notes can exchange them on their trip to the UK....
IF you are not in the UK, I guess it might be a bit of a hassle as instead of going to any bank branch, you probably need to go to a particular an overseas branch of a UK commercial bank during banking hours where I live and no doubt fill out a bunch of paper work to satisfy the tax people in both countries to prove you are not laundering money, where the money came from, etc.
I don't really know the full details though...
Yea but the problem is it sounds like there is a deadline to exchange old paper UK notes or they become worthless... I am not British, so I don't know the details... But yea, in SE Asia, paper notes can rot or get filthy or torn... Money changers are very particular about serial numbers or dates - won't take old USD etc
Interesting. I had that same miss interpretation of that phrase for over 30 of my 75 years.
See Yugoslavia 1990 to 1992. Paper currency is replaced all the time. Swapping for a new sort with a deadline leaves many people suffering loss. But the aristocrats in power hate us and worship demons. They want you to suffer.
During that awful crisis in Yugoslavia, new tycoons emerged from the people who borrowed millions of dollars in the domestic currency and later had to repay only a miniscule amount.
Some businesses are refusing to accept cash. Despite that being illegal. Or in the case of grocery stores they just put a note on there that says card only.
They must have been instructed to do that. Just like universities which mandate vaccination.
Exciting times coming. May it be the kunlangeta who suffers the most. [This posted double when I first commented; then when I deleted one, the other was deleted too. So this time I'm leaving it up.]
Thanks for introducing me to that term. Hadn't heard of it before. It's an apt description of who these people are. May there be a lot more people who push them off the ice - but this time, it had better be in the world's full view, with due process and the full court press.
Matthew, I have putting off reading this because I know I am gonna be pissed of after.
But thank you in advance for writing this.
When they bail the bank out on Monday, so all those poor billionaires won't lose their money, and I have to pay for it, I will be beside myself.
Better to be pissed off than pissed on, Duchess.
I’m right there with you. And Biden will send another billion to Ukraine 🤬🤬🤬
A financial crash doesn’t worry me. Just like a forest fire is necessary.
What worries me is that this one is and will be intentional, and we know exactly why.
We should also be more worried about a forest fire in an area that has been artificially free of forest fires for a long time. There is more old timber to fuel a fire.
Hi Mathew, great post!
Regarding the gold - all of the "Patriot" sources have been pushing "buy gold (or silver)" since early 2020, and I have always feared that this is the same playbook as 1933, for the gov. to come and take it all away after the upcoming financial crash.
Regarding the great CEO exodus, the "Q" movement sold it as a result of Trump's September 12, 2018 executive order 13848, which gives the right to basically take the property of any entity involved in election fraud.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-13848-imposing-certain-sanctions-the-event-foreign-interference-united
Didn't know they came for gold once upon a time. Is there really no safe plan for the typical person, then?
From 1933 (FDR's decree) until 1974 (Nixon's gold "window" closing, and the petrodollar deal), it was illegal for Americans to own gold.
And somehow we still believed we lived in the land of the free, home of the brave; but actually we're living in the land of the fake, home of the brainwashed.
I don't know how I didn't know this. Born in 75, but still, I never heard my parents say this.
I didn't know about it either, until just a few years ago. I never heard my parents or my grandparents say this but then again, these were the same people who had me believing in Santa Claus and swamp angels to get me to stay in bed at night.
in the summer of 1964, when I was 9, I was staying with my great-grandmother. Can't remember exactly what we were talking about, but at one point she held out two dollars to me, a paper dollar in one hand, and a silver Peace dollar in the other, and told me to pick one. Naturally I took the paper one, 9 year olds didn't much handle 'folding money' then. She gave me the silver dollar and told me to always keep it. The paper one could burn up, but the silver would always be there. She emphasized it was REAL money, long before the paper ones came around... She was born in 1886, so had seen first hand the deceit of the central bank, and she would pass away near Christmas that year. I think she would be glad I remembered her lesson, and have added greatly to that saved silver.
Historically, the tyrants always moved populations around to keep them unstable.
Given the chemical-train crashes, they could do this as well.
We don't know what they could hit us with.
My best guess is to learn survival skills - how to grow food, get water and purify it. Basic survive off the grid skills.
Learn how to steal...... Figure out where the food sources are... Read holocaust survival stories...
Stay positive - you give up, you lose.
Alot of what they are doing isn't real, they are just firing shots and them amplifying them with media and social media. Like the pandemic, and... like the vaccine side effects. Real, but not as powerful as they are making us think.
Wishing all of us the best.
the further need is the fact they don't trust each other, they want collateral, so the BIS made gold a tier one asset, same as cash or Treasuries/gov't bonds, even better than MBS. They speak among themselves of a line item they all keep, which is the current difference between acquisition costs and current retail for gold. Not a big stretch to revalue that line to a desired level to make all the illiquidity go away.
They never "came for the gold" in '33. Idiot people trapsed into the FBI traps at the banks and turned it all in, willingly. Stupidly. Moral f the story: Don't keep your gold in a bank. Keep it in or near your home and don't tell anybody you have any.
You can't buy it without transactions and bank checks. It's all recorded.
The idiots planning all these irrational changes never consider the high probability of unintended consequences wrecking their silly plans. Most of these pretend intellectuals all share the same brain cell.
China was originally a Rockefeller social engineering project. It's a Western creation where Google (NSA), originally developed its surveillance system. And ultimately, it will all be deployed in the West. Gangsters never offer concessions.
Agreed. Debt-based "Capitalism", Communism, Fascism, Socialism, tin-pot dick taters, are all experiments in human governance by those who got us onto this debt money scheme. Best survival tip: do what you can but throw all your cares upon God. He's the only one who has the proven ability to handle them.
Is this where banks collapse and central banks take over?
I don't know, but that's the right question.
Thinking again about the recent simultaneous three Pemex explosions in the context of the Texas pipelines and Nordstrom destruction...
I have a load of silver and a bread knife... Lots of ground and seeds though... Special powers - lighting fires.
Activist groups have been teaching a certain subgroup how to scam the disability system for decades. Once a month on Sundays in church basements throughout the country. The rent/auto scam was just a new play on an old trick.
I had a major head injury and looked into disability for a little while. To me it seems like the only purpose of it was for scammers like that. It wasn't enough to live on in any meaningful way.
I was able to get a ‘closed period’ award for a 3 year period for facial injuries I suffered in a botched dental operation. It left me barely able to eat and speak.
But it took me 5 years and an actual lawsuit. I was eventually successful for 3 reasons. Persistence. I was a lawyer. I had a great disability attorney.
I was tempted to give up. But what I learned about along the way, and the scam involved, made me more determined than ever to see it through.
Had a friend whose sister had liver failure, and had to move from OK to TX to get her disability claim through. In OK, you only won if you were Indian.
Thanks for this.
Investment tip: Pitchfork and torch prices are going to explode. Buy now!
like buying pharma or funeral services before the pandemonium
Another option is that this strengthens the hi-tech oligarchs by bankrupting the startup competition.
The tech biggies usually just buy competitors out.
now at new reduced prices.....
Might be new rules in play now.
Why buy when you can just bankrupt the competition?
Another angle - the media says environmental startups were hit - this could be used as another excuse why the environment is getting worse "we failed to save it".
This is disaster capitalism big C variety.
And I predict that it's going to take years of under the radar struggle; too many parties warring
I heard it from a psychic and they are always right, right?
Dear Mathew,
If we use the working assumption that there are MULTIPLE larger than state level actors making these plans that are not beneficial to us mere mortals then we have to assume they are either warring with each other, competing or cooperating. To me it seems that each of these options would have totally different motivations for what we see happening around us. Why should EU, Russia, and/or China cooperate with the USA in destroying markets to favour others the way they seem to be doing?
My real questions are, what is a better investment, property (own home) or gold?
Should one try to own a property that is mortgaged to the hilt or one that is paid-off? We see large operators hoping for security through gold during the transition to digital. Is their fear/knowledge that hidden assets will be erased the driver or the potential inflation of digital currency that will make it a worthless asset?
Why is Billy collecting viable farmland instead of gold or dollars?
I think that the set of players and motivations is murky.
I've recently been attacked and pressured for reporting on some groups at various levels. And even where there is bad behavior, I'm not even sure that I understand who the *most* bad guys are. Are there quasi-good guys who have to lie a lot in order to confuse the larger enemy? This is an unusual moment, and it's good to be broadly prepared, remain unfazed by fear elements, and build community.
Billy's mission is to gain control of the means of food production, in order to enforce scarcity, as a means of population control (both birth rate and behavior).
They’ve done part of that with the experimental gene therapies.
all of Billy's farmland comes with water rights
I like your last question the best.
Owning property outright AND gold would be best, seems to me. And, property you can defend, with space to have a garden ...
best 2 seconds of that movie is talking about their now-worthless bonds
Scarlett: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again."
Is it a planned demolition accelerating a move towards a central bank digital currency. Notice, how politicians rail against China, while Western trillion dollar asset management firms want to replicate their totalitarian technocracy.
I personally think that China was simply the testing ground for a lot of the surveillance tech to be deployed in the West.