Posted on 07/11/2022 8:25:52 AM PDT by JV3MRC
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates flexed his leftist bona fides by advocating for world governments to centralize control over digital payments.
A June 29 World Bank press release stated that following the COVID-19 pandemic, “Two-thirds of adults worldwide now make or receive a digital payment, with the share in developing economies grew [sic] from 35% in 2014 to 57% in 2021.” The press release, which was based on findings from the Gates-supported 2021 Global Findex database, noted that “over 40% of adults who made merchant in-store or online payments using a card, phone, or the internet did so for the first time since the start of the pandemic.” Gates suggested in the press release that governments exploit this development and start investing in Orwellian digital public infrastructures for payments and ID systems.
“By investing in digital public infrastructure and technologies for payment and ID systems and updating regulations to foster innovation and protect consumers, governments can build on the progress reported in the Findex and expand access to financial services for all who need them,” Gates fawned in a statement. “The world has a crucial opportunity to build a more inclusive and resilient economy and provide a gateway to prosperity for billions of people.”
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In a cashless society, if you speak or act out of line, you are cut off instantly from buying ANYTHING.
I’m tired of Bill Gates is right, Holy sh!t this guy is evil.
I knew Gates was evil when he pushed WordPerfect out and pre-loaded his computers with Word.
Digital payment systems?
You mean like debit cards? Direct deposit? Online bill payment processes? Online stock investing? Online retail sales?
Cash will go away. It’s almost gone now… and people don’t seem to mind. Unless you were in Canada last week and you relied on Rogers for your internet.
So tired of this meddling priest.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Be ready believers, Christ is coming for his bride.
We’ve bought Windows from him for decades: it’s not surprising he thinks we’re idiots.
Why does this guy have any credibility at all? Who elected him? He’s nothing but a con artist.
I loved WordPerfect.
Ditto! Loved it.
Also, Sprint word processing by Borland. IIRC, Borland had Paradox relational database which I also loved. Gates did away with the workhorses and replaced them with toys.
Gates’ own project. “Alliance” includes Microsoft, GAVI(Gates) and Rockefeller Foundation
There’s nothing liberal about Gates.
Yeah, that’s a shame. Started out in computer graphics on MAC in 88. Never left.
You anti-Windowser, you—making it worse for everyone else!
Amen
If they implement all digital currency, it will be so easy to enact the crushing control their hero Xi is able to do in China.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4077530/posts
China crushes mass protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back
CNN ^ | Sun July 10, 2022 | Nectar Gan
Posted on 7/10/2022, 11:36:50 PM by MinorityRepublican
Chinese authorities on Sunday violently dispersed a peaceful protest by hundreds of depositors, who sought in vain to demand their life savings back from banks that have run into a deepening cash crisis.
Four rural banks in China’s central Henan province have frozen millions of dollars worth of deposits, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of customers in an economy already battered by draconian Covid lockdowns.
Anguished depositors have staged several demonstrations in the city of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan, over the past two months, but their demands have invariably fallen on deaf ears.
On Sunday, more than 1,000 depositors from across China gathered outside the Zhengzhou branch of the country’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, to launch their largest protest yet, more than half a dozen protesters told CNN.
The demonstration is among the largest China has seen since the pandemic, with domestic travel limited by Covid restrictions on movement. Last month, Zhengzhou authorities even resorted to tampering with the country’s digital Covid health-code system to restrict the movements of depositors and thwart their planned protest, sparking a nationwide outcry.
This time, most protesters arrived outside the bank before dawn — some as early as 4 a.m. — to avoid being intercepted by authorities. The crowd, which includes the elderly and children, occupied a flight of imposing stairs outside the bank, chanting slogans and holding up banners. “Henan banks, return my savings!” they shouted in unison, many waving Chinese flags, in videos shared with CNN by two protesters.
Using national flags to display patriotism is a common strategy for protesters in China, where dissent is strictly suppressed. The tactic is meant to show that their grievances are only against local governments, and that they support and rely on the central government to seek redress.
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and lotus 123
I hope that was sarcasm.
Yes. Lotus better than Excel. Definitely. /
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