Central bank digital currencies (“CBDCs”) are deeply unpopular with the general public and we have a chance of stopping them in their tracks, writes James Corbett. We’re already seeing a massive global pushback against the CBDC agenda. And this pushback is already causing the banksters to panic and pull back on their grand plan for world domination.
If you listen to the stenographers and presstitutes of the
establishment dinosaur media, you’ll believe that CBDCs not only
represent an exciting opportunity to bring our outdated paper money
system into the digital age but that they’ll be bestowed on us by the
benevolent central banker technocrats in the next year or two (if we’re
lucky!).
If you listen to the pundits in the alternative media, however,
you’ll believe that CBDCs not only represent the greatest threat to
human freedom in our lifetime but that they’ll be forced upon us by the
evil central bankster overlords in the next year or two (no matter what
we do to fend them off).
Do you see the similarities in these two “competing” narratives? In
both cases, you and your opinion about CBDCs are utterly irrelevant.
It’s a fait accompli. You can love ’em or hate ’em, embrace them or recoil from them, but whatever your position, you will be forced to use them.
But this just isn’t true. In fact, we’re already seeing a massive
global pushback against the CBDC agenda. And this pushback is already
causing the banksters to panic and pull back on their grand plan for
world domination.
Global Pushback
As we all know, when globalists are looking for a population to test
out their latest technology of enslavement, they turn to Africa. From genetic manipulation to vaccine experiments to agricultural “revolution,”
there is no shortage of examples of pathocrats disguising their
experiments in technocratic tyranny as philanthropic concern for the
poor, beleaguered people of that continent. It’s hardly surprising,
then, that Africa is once again serving as a laboratory for the latest
globalist technocrat pet project: digital money.
Accordingly, Nigeria became one of the first nations in the world to
adopt an official, national central bank digital currency when the
Central Bank of Nigeria (“CBN”) launched the eNaira amid
much fanfare in October 2021. Promoted with the slogan “Same Naira,
more possibilities!” the bankster class collectively held its breath as
it watched this trial run of digital money unfold before their eyes.
The early results of this experiment, however, were not promising for
the money manipulators. Despite a massive push of the eNaira by the
government and breathless coverage of its rollout in the establishment
media, it was revealed one year
after the digital currency’s launch that a mere 0.5% of the population –
one in every 200 people – had actually used it.
Not to be dissuaded, the CBN imposed new banking regulations last
December, limiting cash withdrawals from ATMs to just ₦20,000 ($45) per
day in a bid to increase the adoption of the nation’s CBDC.
The result? Again, utter failure. In fact, worse than utter failure. An actual uprising!
Nigerians took to the streets in February of this year to protest the cash restrictions and even attempted to storm the central bank.
CBN officials are now rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, upgrading the eNaira app to allow contactless payments, as if that was
what was keeping people from using the banksters’ new digital
enslavement tokens. But, try as they might to cover it up, the results
of this experiment in monetary manipulation are now clearly visible for
all to see. The eNaira is a failure of such gargantuan proportions that
it now serves as a cautionary tale to
central bankers around the world about how pear-shaped things can get
when a digital currency is shoved down an unwilling public’s throat.
But it isn’t just Nigeria where people are saying “no, thanks” to the banksters’ digital money agenda.
In the European Union, protesters are already marching against the European Central Bank’s (“ECB”) proposed “digital euro.” In Croatia, for example, activists are warning that
their government’s adoption of the euro “will be followed by the
introduction of a digital euro, and then you will have to kiss all the
freedoms you know goodbye.” In the Netherlands, meanwhile, demonstrators
have staged rallies warning about the coming European CBDC and the ECB’s plan “to control the spending habits of the population.”
In Russia, too – where Putin has just signed the
Central Bank of Russia’s “digital Ruble” into law as an official
national currency – people are already threatening to go Nigerian on
their government. Recent polls show
that a mere 6% of Russians are actually excited about their opportunity
to use the new CBDC. This widespread distrust of the digital Ruble is
reflected in the coverage of the currency on the nation’s alternative
news websites, which are filled with articles decrying the technocratic
tyranny. One such article sums
up the situation by noting that “we can only say that if citizens
actively use non-cash transactions, then they themselves will enter the
electronic banking concentration camp, seemingly completely
voluntarily.”
And how about in the bastion of liberty, the beacon on the hill, the
good ol’ US of A? Well, the grandstanding politicians – always eager to
get in front of a parade and pretend they’re leading it – are already introducing (and even passing) legislation to ensure CBDCs never sees the light of day in America.
Of course, readers of this column will know that these political
promises aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Nevertheless, the
proposed legislation is important because it reflects two underlying
realities. Firstly, it demonstrates that the American public is not on
board with the CBDC agenda. And secondly, it signals to the Fed and
other central banksters that they risk upsetting their whole rigged
monetary system if they push this agenda too far and too fast.
Banksters Running Scared
Yes, it’s safe to say that, on the CBDC issue at least, the momentum
is not in the banksters’ favour. In fact, things are so bad that the
establishment is now beginning to contemplate whether the mad dash
toward CBDCs might just wake up the public to the whole monetary scam.
In a revealing op-ed in The Financial Times last month, Brookings Senior Fellow Eswar Prasad warned, “Central banks must not be blind to the threats posed by CBDCs.”
After dutifully detailing all of the nifty features of programmable
money that would-be world controllers can take advantage of (“imposing
negative nominal interest rates to disincentivise saving,” for example),
he then cautions the central banksters that their pretence of
“political neutrality” might be exposed for the self-evident sham that
it is if central banks start meddling in people’s everyday transactions.
Central banks could be viewed as political agents if their visibility
into payment transactions is used for law enforcement or surveillance
purposes. [. . .] Central banks already face threats to their
independence, credibility and legitimacy. The more extensive the
functionality of the money they issue, the greater the political
pressures they will be exposed to. At a minimum, such innovations pose
risks to the integrity of central bank money.
Oh, won’t somebody think of the central banksters’ credibility!?
And – wouldn’t ya know it?! – just as Prasad and others are beginning
to warn that the banksters might be pushing too far and too fast with
this whole “programmable money” idea, it looks like the monetary mafia
are now stepping back from the CBDC brink . . . at least publicly.
Just this past week, the Central Bank of Colombia issued a white paper on the “Expected Macroeconomic Effects of Issuing a Retail CBDC,”
which admits that if central banks push the cashless agenda too far and
the situation “reaches a point where the use of cash is about to
disappear, central bank money could lose its role as a monetary anchor
for deposits and other forms of private money.” Also this past week, the
Bank of Canada issued a report on “Unmet Payment Needs and a Central Bank Digital Currency,”
which acknowledges that “consumers face few payment gaps or frictions
and therefore might have relatively weak incentives to adopt and –
especially – to use CBDC at scale.”
In other words, central bankers are quietly admitting there are no
real advantages to retail CBDCs, and there are even potential downsides
to their introduction.
Of course, as my astute readers will already know, this does not mean
that the issue is settled, that the bankers have given up, and that the
CBDC dream is officially done. No, it just means that they have to
change tack and try to find other ways to cajole the public into the
digital gulag. Perhaps this is why the central banking minions are now
openly strategising about how best to sell their digital money agenda to
an unwilling public.
Take the Bank of Israel, for example. It just released a new white paper purporting to identify “Principles for creating ‘Acceptance’ and ‘Network Effect’ for the Digital Shekel,”
or, in plain English: “Ways to convince the rubes to use our virtual
slave coins.” The document considers ideas for leveraging the “Network
Effect” to artificially stimulate the adoption of the digital shekel.
Naturally, the plan does not focus on ways to incentivise the use of
CBDCs but rather on ways to enforce their acceptance, including
obligating banks, payment providers and merchants to participate in the
scheme or forcing the government to officially declare the digital
shekel to be legal tender.
On its face, the fact that the banksters are now openly plotting how
best to stuff digital money down the public’s throat may be a worrying
development.
But, upon further reflection, the fact that the banksters are now
turning from the carrots of incentives and bonuses and discounts to the
stick of government regulation and enforced adoption does not mean that the anti-CBDC movement is doomed to failure.
On the contrary. The fact that the banksters are now actively engaged
in a struggle against the general public are signs that we are winning
and that CBDCs are not inevitable.
Resistance is Fertile
I’ve made the point before, but it bears repeating: the constant
stream of propaganda, conditioning and censorship that we are subjected
to from governments, establishment institutions and their lapdog media
is not a sign of their strength. It is a sign of their weakness.
The fact that they have to spend billions of dollars a year pumping
lies and misinformation into the heads of the citizenry to keep people
from seeing the truth is a tacit admission that our thoughts and
opinions actually do matter. After all, why would they bother
propagandising to us at all if they didn’t require our approval (or at
least our docile apathy) to continue pursuing their agenda?
Similarly, the fact that the banksters are ramping up the next stage
of their CBDC indoctrination operation – attempting to convince an
increasingly sceptical public that a complete overhaul of the fabric of
our monetary reality is somehow beneficial to Joe Sixpack and Jane
Soccermom – is a tacit admission that we are the ones who
decide whether CBDCs are implemented or not. They can tout the benefits
of their digital slave tokens all they want, but if we refuse to use
them, then the CBDC world order will not come to fruition.
The banksters, for one, are well aware of this fact. But are we aware of it?
I understand why this message – that pushback and protest do matter and that the globalist agenda is not inevitable
– is such an unpopular one in the “alternative” media. If the message
is simply: “Relax, everyone! The battle is over and CBDCs have been
defeated! Now go back to sleep!” then it is indeed no different from
enemy propaganda.
But that is not the message here. Instead, the message is
that the public is – for the time being, and until the propaganda
machine kicks into high gear – overwhelmingly on our side. People DO NOT
WANT programmable money and the vast majority see it for what it is:
another trick on the part of the establishment to take more power and
control away from everyday people and put it in the hands of the
banksters and their cronies.
That’s why this is the time to seize the momentum of public opinion and steer it into actual productive activity. We can encourage Cash Friday awareness. We can build up local trading communities based on alternative and complementary currencies. We can introduce those around us to Agorist.Market. We can promote community currencies and precious metals and decentralised cryptos and barter circles and the million other forms of survival currency that clued-in Corbetteers have been researching for years.
The time has come to harvest those seeds you’ve been planting! The public is on our side!
Yes, your resistance and pushback do matter. It does make a difference. We do have a part to play in this. Now, let’s go out there and put the final nail in the CBDC coffin.
What are we waiting for?
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