We Are About to Witness a MAJOR Move Toward a Cashless Society

End Of The American Dream ^ | December 11, 2022 | MICHAEL SNYDER

[george76]

The war on cash has just gone to an entirely new level. When I heard that the European Union was planning to completely ban all cash transactions above 10,000 euros, I had a hard time believing it. There are so many wild rumors flying around on the Internet these days, and so I wasn’t going to write about this unless I could confirm it. Unfortunately, this particular rumor is quite real. Under the pretext of fighting “money laundering and terrorist financing”, the European Union will be entirely outlawing all cash payments greater than 10,000 euros. The following comes from the official website of the Council of the European Union…

By limiting large cash payments, the EU will make it harder for criminals to launder dirty money. An EU-wide maximum limit of €10.000 is set for cash payments. Member states will have the flexibility to impose a lower maximum limit if they wish.

So this means that in some countries the upper limit could potentially be a lot lower than 10,000 euros.

But instead of framing it as a major move toward a cashless society, the EU is trying to claim that this is all about fighting terrorists.

The following is what Zbyněk Stanjura, the Minister for Finance in the Czech Republic, has said about this upcoming change…

The economy is tanking and a “Digital Dollar” is in the works. Don’t procrastinate. Move wealth and retirement funds to physical precious metals and/or a self-directed IRA with America First companies who aren’t helping Democrats, the WEF, or the CCP. Here are three such companies who can help you immediately. Terrorists and those who finance them are not welcome in Europe. In order to launder dirty money, criminal individuals and organisations had to look for loopholes in our existing rules which are already quite strict. But our intention is to close these loopholes further, and to apply even stricter rules in all EU member states. Large cash payments beyond €10.000 will become impossible. Trying to stay anonymous when buying or selling crypto-assets will become much more difficult. Hiding behind multiple layers of ownership of companies won’t work any more. It will even become difficult to launder dirty money via jewellers or goldsmiths.

Meanwhile, the European Central Bank has been actively considering the possibility of introducing a “digital euro”. The following comes from the official website of the European Central Bank…

We are working with the national central banks of the euro area to investigate whether to introduce a digital euro. It would be a central bank digital currency, an electronic equivalent to cash. And it would complement banknotes and coins, giving people an additional choice about how to pay.

Well isn’t that convenient?

As they take cash away from the general population, it turns out that they have already been working on the replacement.

Incredibly, the ECB even has the gall to claim that this new digital currency will be “like cash”…

A digital euro would offer an electronic means of payment that anyone could use in the euro area. It would be secure and user-friendly, like cash is today. As central bank money issued by the ECB, it would be different from “private money”, but you could also use a card or a phone app to pay with digital euro.

Yes, you will be able to spend it just like you can spend cash.

But unlike cash, a digital euro will allow authorities to track whatever you buy and sell with it.

Won’t that be wonderful?

By the way, the Federal Reserve is currently working on a digital currency as well.

When the food crisis hits, they’ll launch government breadlines. Proteins will run low by design, so the breadlines will be replaced by cricketlines. If you won’t be eating cricket, stock up on organic, freeze-dried chicken from Prepper Organics. Use Promo Code “JDR” at checkout for $50 off.

And this is all happening as the private cryptocurrency industry is imploding all around us.

Many had believed that decentralized cryptocurrencies would be the future of commerce, but global central banks were never going to allow that to happen.

Instead, it appears that they intend to force all of us on to a cashless grid in which everyone uses digital currencies that are issued by them.

Needless to say, a lot of people out there are quite wary of any moves toward a cashless society because they believe that it is part of the “end times” scenario described in the Bible. According to one recent survey, approximately 39 percent of all Americans are convinced that we are living in the “end times” right now…

Nearly two in five Americans, including half of self-identified Christians and a quarter of the religiously unaffiliated, agree “we are living in the End Times,” a new study has found.

That’s about 39% of Americans who believe we are living in the End Times, according to Pew Research, highlighted by Lifeway Research.

Other surveys have come up with similar results.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of us, because global events have definitely started to spin out of control in recent years. At this point, even secular websites are publishing articles about the surging popularity of “apocalyptic scenarios”…

There’s no denying that the apocalypse is currently having a moment, culturally and politically. It could be driven partly by the pandemic and fears of climate change. Those are actual, frightening apocalyptic scourges. Russia’s war has also set off alarm bells for certain evangelicals, as there was a Cold War tradition of identifying the country, variably, with Gog or Magog.

Seeing Slate discuss such things made me chuckle.

But this is where we are.

Just about every day, more crazy things take place that have literally never happened before. For example, I came across the following story earlier today…

For past 12 months, scientists have been studying a 50-second burst of energy from over a billion light-years away that could change how we understand how stars live and die.

In December 2021, a massive blast of energy hit the Earth’s atmosphere. Its source was a gamma-ray burst – one of the most powerful explosions in the universe – but not just any gamma ray burst.

One scientist said at the time that the event – named GRB 211211A – “looks unlike anything else we have seen before”.

As time rolls along, things are only going to get even more weird.

If you have been waiting for life to “return to normal”, you can stop right now.

It simply is not going to happen, and I believe that global events will accelerate even more during the early stages of 2023.

[Grampa Dave]

“A digital euro will allow authorities to track whatever you buy and sell with it.”

What is/would/ be the difference between my current use of my main credit card or my wife’s?

95% plus of our total purchases and even credit card payments for insurance show up on/in our account sites, whenever we use one of those 2 cards.

I’m basically cashless on 98+ % of my purchases and other transactions.

My wife uses more cash/money, mainly tips.

[Grampa Dave]

“A digital euro will allow authorities to track whatever you buy and sell with it.”

What is/would/ be the difference between my current use of my main credit card or my wife’s?

95% plus of our total purchases and even credit card payments for insurance show up on/in our account sites, whenever we use one of those 2 cards.

I’m basically cashless on 98+ % of my purchases and other transactions.

My wife uses more cash/money, mainly tips.

[napscoordinator]

I personally thought they’d do the opposite and ban under 10K. I’m surprised they only went for 10K and over.

[metmom]

Buy precious metals!

I just heard about this outfit:

https://www.goldback.com/

Small-denomination gold money.

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Brass and lead, too.

[Disambiguator]

Copper and steel, too.

[spintreebob]

never let a crisis gp to waste.

now should we wait for the crisis ... or create one?

soros made his money creating crisis and then playing on it.

there are several models out ther. of course covid was no such trial run.

[metmom]

Yup.

[familyop]

"In December 2021, a massive blast of energy hit the Earth’s atmosphere. Its source was a gamma-ray burst – one of the most powerful explosions in the universe – but not just any gamma ray burst...and I believe that global events will accelerate even more during the early stages of 2023."

A little music to fit the mood.

The End Of The World - Skeeter Davis [1 hour loop, reverb, slowed]
https://youtu.be/fTFnyl1Ddt8

For more horror,...

End Of The World - (Skeeter Davis cover) - Terry Harrison
https://youtu.be/5l2Cq3H3N1k

[Dr. Franklin]

The EU used to have a 500 Euro note. They got rid of it due to concerns about money laundering. I think cash gets replaced by diamonds if the world goes cashless, since they are easier to hide.

[SaveFerris]

Yep

🛐🙏✝️

[Larry Lucido]

You are both correct. I have fat thumbs.

[DoughtyOne]

I’ll say this, I’ve not seen anything in my lifetime that comes
closer to looking like prophecy fulfillment of the days before
Jesus Christ’s second coming.

Our government wants absolute control over each one of us, and
they aim to have it shortly.

I DO NOT agree with this, but I wasn’t under the false
impression that my opinion would matter at all.

It is a task we all should be thinking about, getting right
with the Lord.

[caww]

Well you can bet they'll make it sound like it's for the betterment of society worldwide.....and of course there are plenty of people who will buy into it too! - in mass.

[Secret Agent Man]

It all goes back to Seinfeld.

“Seinfeld” is the English equivalent of “42”.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“ Dark Ages ahead....”

They’re here.

Now.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I think the only time life is “normal” is when you are a little kid, blissfully unaware of the world, and Mom & Dad kept you from learning about it. Then, somewhere around the time you entered High School, you began to get a sense of what the world was really like. It wasn’t real pretty, but you learned to ignore it or blot it out most times.

[SheepWhisperer]

I just heard about this outfit:
https://www.goldback.com/
Small-denomination gold money.

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One goldback.com $5 denomination bill...
Contains 1/200th oz, of .999% gold each.

Based upon this site which sells the bills...
https://www.moneymetals.com/5-new-hampshire-goldback-veritas-1200th-troy-oz-9999-gold-backed-bill/595

...the $5 denomination bill cost is $18.59 each for quanties 10-600

200* $18.58 = $3718/oz

Spot gold price as I post, according to kitco.com...
$1811/oz

$1811/oz to —> #3718/ox...
3718/1811 = 205.53

This is a 205% premium?

OUCH!

...am i missing something here?

[5inch38gunner]

No

[SaveFerris]

[I’ve not seen anything in my lifetime that comes closer to looking like prophecy fulfillment of the days before Jesus Christ’s Second Coming.]

Yes, and let no man deceive you (or anyone else). That day WILL NOT COME until the Man of Lawlessness arise first. Now, some don't agree with me. Okay, that's their prerogative. I do believe the Church is raptured just before the 7 years of 'Peace and Security' are confirmed.

YMMV

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 King James Version

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2%3A3-4&version=KJV

[SaveFerris]

[It is a task we all should be thinking about, getting right with the Lord.]

Amen - I invite lurkers to see my homepage - links to Bible verses (clickable)