Auto manufacturers, companies, and governments increasingly have the power to track our every movement and prevent us from driving our own vehicles. Supposedly democratic governments can lock us down or even freeze our bank accounts on a whim (see also "Canada" and "Trudeau"). In this increasingly dystopian world, large multinational corporations are working hand-in-glove with said governments to reshape society in their preferred image, garden-variety citizens be damned.
To that end, MasterCard and the United Nations have joined forces to produce a credit card that measures your carbon footprint. Once you reach your "limit," you can't purchase anything else...at least with that card. Well, isn't that special? What's next? We may not want to know.
But perhaps I'm too cynical. What could be the downside?
Would it prevent the cardholder from purchasing, say, cigarettes? Put a cap on how much one could spend at a liquor store? If we were to try to order Glenn Beck's new book, The Great Reset, from barnesandnoble.com, would it generate a message like "incorrect purchase, authorization not allowed"? If we wanted to use it to pay for our subscription to the New York Post, would a pop-up notice appear saying, "Transaction disallowed, inappropriate material!"?
I guess the consumer had best read the fine print on the cardholder agreement: "This card not authorized for transactions at Chick-fil-A, Hobby Lobby, and certain other retailers ..." [I jest.]
Knowingly or not, we are gradually ceding complete control over our actions and very lives. The powerful and elite already control the media, academia, and perhaps even our election process — if not the outcomes. They attempt to control our thoughts and emotions. They try to control our fear with crises — legitimate or contrived. They can dial it up or dial it down based on who's in office and what they wish us to believe.
And now they are working on developing "transmissible vaccines." (That'll show those of us whom they dub vaccine "deniers." Don't wish to be injected with an experimental gene therapy? Too damn bad!) In the halcyon days of yore, "vaccines" were to prevent transmission, not promote it.
As recent events have shown, when it comes to controlling the little people, there's virtually nothing the government-corporate oligarchy cannot do...or will not attempt.
Brave new world? No. Depraved new world? Indeed.
And one increasingly devoid of free will.
#1: Pinguinite To: Ada (#0)
Pinguinite posted on 2022-03-27 13:35:47 Reply Private Reply
#2: BTP Holdings To: Pinguinite (#1)
When China and Brazil put controls on Bitcoin it took 20% drop overnight. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2022-03-27 13:54:18 Reply Private Reply
#3: Pinguinite To: BTP Holdings (#2)
I think that was before Bitcoin hit its all time high of $68k 5 months ago.
Pinguinite posted on 2022-03-27 15:26:45 Reply Private Reply
#4: TommyTheMadArtist To: Pinguinite (#1)
Biden is already doing his master’s will with that.
TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2022-03-27 16:51:51 Reply Private Reply
#5: BTP Holdings To: TommyTheMadArtist (#4)
Biden is kept well insulated from the press. He has already stumbled a few times during press conferences. If things keep going as they are the 25th Amendment might be invoked to remove him from office.
And when Kamala is sitting in the Oval Office, we will find out quickly that she is not sitting on what it takes to run the country. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2022-03-27 19:35:19 Reply Private Reply
#6: Pinguinite To: TommyTheMadArtist (#4)
It is true that the Fed Reserve will be the instigators of the crypto- dollar, which will be an extension of the Federal Reserve Dollar, however, the notion that the crypto dollar (FedCoin - "One Coin to Rule Them All" as its satirically described) will be "tied to" free market crypto - if by that you mean the value of bitcoin and ethereum will be fixed to a certain number of crypto dollars - is not true and cannot be true.
Because if it were attempted, an instant black market would open up, though it wouldn't actually even be black. If the true market price was above the official dollar price, people will buy crypto from the US gov and sell it on foreign markets and use the profits to buy more. If it were less, then the cycle would be reversed. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Free market cryptos are borderless so international markets would take advantage of any such price controls imposed by a single country.
Perhaps you are describing a situation where the US dollar would be declared by the USA to be backed by bitcoin? That move would basically make Bitcoin the World Reserve currency, replacing gold, in which case, holding it beforehand would make one filthy rich.
The current status quo with fiat dollars is what has enslaved the country, and yes, a Fed crypto would be so much worse, but free market crypto is so much better than Fed greenback cash. There is one exception to that, and that is that all transactions with MOST free market cryptos is publicly visible. But some cryptos -- Dash, Monero and Zcash -- even address that aspect and are called privacy cryptos.
I'm sure your info comes from some source that sounds authoritative, but I would challenge its accuracy and the knowledge of any author of it that suggests that free market, decentralized crypto is anything nefarious that banks and govs can use to their advantage. The best they can do is create their own competing centralized crypto. And they will do that, but free market crypto will remain independent of any such coins.
Pinguinite posted on 2022-03-27 23:33:45 Reply Private Reply