{"id":65494,"date":"2023-07-16T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65494"},"modified":"2023-07-16T06:39:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T11:39:07","slug":"shut-up-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65494","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShut up \u2014 or Else!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cShut up \u2014 or Else!\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n

Certain establishment types consider my ideas extreme. They accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist or some kind of kook, way outside the boundaries of acceptable consensus.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s fine, I expect that. If you threaten powerful interests, you can expect that they\u2019ll try to discredit you.<\/p>\n

The fact is people are conditioned to accept whatever the authorities tell them. It\u2019s a powerful urge that actually goes back to evolutionary biology.<\/p>\n

If you challenge what the authorities say, you become a threat to group cohesiveness, and, therefore, a threat to group survival.<\/p>\n

In that vein, I\u2019ve been warning my readers for over a year about the dangers of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) that are being rolled out by central banks around the world.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., I\u2019ve called them \u201cBiden Bucks.\u201d I\u2019ve warned that they could quite possibly lead to a total surveillance state in which the government can track your every purchase \u2014 and regulate the most minute aspects of your life.<\/p>\n

Total Control<\/b><\/p>\n

CBDCs are programmable. They allow central banks (or regulated commercial banks) to monitor your purchases.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with artificial intelligence (AI), purchases and other uses of money (charitable contributions, political contributions, travel, etc.) can create a profile that identifies you as an enemy of the people as described by the government.<\/p>\n

CBDCs can be used to freeze your account, require you to spend money at the risk of confiscation in the form of a \u201cfiscal penalty\u201d or to impose withholding tax on professionals and independent contractors who are not currently subject to withholding.<\/p>\n

Your \u201cBiden Bucks\u201d could also be made to stop working at the gas pump once you\u2019ve purchased a certain amount of gasoline in a week. Or you could be banned from buying a steak at the grocery store if you\u2019ve exceeded your weekly quota of meat consumption.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cShut up \u2014 or Else!\u201d Certain establishment types consider my ideas extreme. They accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist or some kind of kook, way outside the boundaries of acceptable consensus. That\u2019s fine, I expect that. If you threaten powerful interests, you can expect that they\u2019ll try to discredit you. The fact is people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[120,2299,11023,4955,13599,5570],"class_list":["post-65494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-control","tag-daily-reckoning","tag-digital-currency","tag-james-rickards","tag-mass-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65495,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65494\/revisions\/65495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}