Yesterday Zero Hedge published a post about problems withdrawing cash from the bank. What will you say if your bank challenges you about why you’re withdrawing – or transferring – your money?
Should your bank be allowed to question you about what you do with your own money? Or worse, to ask to see proof of that?
It’s one thing to try and help protect customers from fraud, but this seems to be more. Read more here.
The WHO is working on introducing a new Pandemic Preparedness Treaty. You can read the UK parliament’s research briefing – it all sounds very well-meaning.
However, some people are worried about the treaty goes too far and will take away our sovereign rights, i.e. the UK’s ability to act locally, control its own response and work in the best way for its citizens (yes, that’s us).
The proposed treaty, and the associated amendments to the International Health Regulations, would give away control of public health response to the WHO, an unelected international body. The WHO is partly funded by the UK, and is not controlled by anyone – however it is vulnerable to influence.
For example, in 2020-21 the WHO’s second largest contributor was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ($751 million). Its sixth largest contributor was the GAVI Alliance ($432 million). Given this large amount of funding from vaccine-focused organisations, at minimum the WHO is likely to lean heavily towards vaccination as a pandemic solution.
The constant barrage of “it’s safe and effective” and “get the jab to protect others” was bad enough with sars-cov-2. What happens if the WHO says to the UK, “you MUST vaccinate 85% of your population”? What happens if it says, “all your children MUST be vaccinated”?
Concerns have been cited by many in the UK, including the group UsForThem which campaigns for children’s wellbeing. In their Substack of 25th March 2023 they detailed their concerns. You can access and download their full briefing paper from the link.
Of particular concern are the proposed amendments to the wording of the International Health Regulations. Perhaps the most concerning is the proposed change to Article 3 (1) Principles. The current text reads: “The implementation of these Regulations shall be with full respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons.” However, the proposed amendment will change this to, “The implementation of these Regulations shall be based on the principles of equity, inclusivity, coherence and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities of the States Parties, taking into consideration their social and economic development.” References to respect for our dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms are completely deleted.
In the UK, over 156,000 people signed the petition “Do not sign any WHO Pandemic Treaty unless it is approved via public referendum”. In November 2022 the government’s official response said that “COVID-19 has demonstrated that no-one is safe until we are all safe” and that “the Government does not consider a referendum is necessary, appropriate or in keeping with precedent for such an agreement.”
Petitions with over 100,000 signatures are considered for debate in parliament, and this issue was debated on 17th April – you can watch the debate on YouTube and read the transcript here.
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to be deeply concerned about this issue. It’s simple: we should not surrender our sovereign control in the aid of international cooperation. We are capable of cooperation without this straightjacket of a treaty, without a set of rules that strip away individual rights.
We should not surrender our national sovereignty, nor our individual rights and freedoms, to anyone.
Unfortunately, we think the answer to this is probably YES.
Not only has US bank SVB gone down recently (apparently its UK business has transferred seamlessly to HSBC without any cost to the taxpayers, so phew) but Credit Suisse shares have plunged in price, causing further worry.
The Bad Cattitude newsletter writes that it’s “bank crisis groundhog day” – this is well worth a read. A quote from which possibly sums things up:
the simple fact is that banking is largely opaque. we could sit down with every piece of public and regulatory data about deutche bank and spend a month going over it and still wind up with what ultimately amounts to a black box bet on the soundness and hedging of a derivatives portfolio nearly 3 orders of magnitude larger than their total equity.
Richard Vobes interviewed Justin Walker (co-founder of HARE – the Hardwick Alliance for Real Ecology) on his YouTube channel yesterday – the episode is called Stop the Collapse! Justin tells some very interesting stories, and suggests that some people want a financial collapse, as an excuse to bring in CDBCs (central bank digital currencies).
Justin says there is an alternative to CDBCs – the Bradbury Pound, as introduced in 1914. He has written about this on UK Column. His document Sovereign Money is available here: https://richardvobes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SOVEREIGN-MONEY-Original.pdf
If CDBCs are brought in, governments and banks will be able to track every single transaction. Not only will there be no privacy, but the potential (likely?) next step is to use the CDBC to control you. For example, you might have already used up your budget for petrol for the month, so you would not be allowed to buy any more fuel. Perhaps you won’t be allowed to buy meat, if the government decides that you shouldn’t. Perhaps you will only be allowed to purchase certain things from “authorised suppliers”.
There’s also a very real possibility that if you do something you don’t like – perhaps you speak up against a pro-vaccination narrative, or drop litter – the CDBC system will be used to punish you. This already happens in China – social credit scores have prevented people from using their money to buy plane or train tickets.
There’s a good article which goes into the good, the bad and the ugly about CDBCs on crunchbase.com.
Is there anything we can do about this? To fight back against CDBCs, the best thing is to use cash as much as possible – the more cash is being used, the harder it is for the government to bring in a CDBC to replace it. Try to use #CashEveryDay.
Suggestions for further reading:
#CashFriday and #CashEveryDay
https://rescue.substack.com/p/stop-digital-dictators-with-cashfriday
The Solari Report on how to stop CDBCs https://home.solari.com/i-want-to-stop-cbdcs-what-can-i-do/
Peak Prosperity – Chris Martenson writes on the economy and the site has a wealth of information on prosperity and resilience.
As always, don’t just believe us – look into the issue yourself. But we do think this is something to be pretty concerned about.
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