{"id":67871,"date":"2024-05-05T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67871"},"modified":"2024-05-05T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T15:43:07","slug":"wef-panelist-says-covid-response-made-people-more-receptive-to-central-bank-digital-currencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67871","title":{"rendered":"WEF Panelist Says COVID Response Made People More Receptive to Central Bank Digital Currencies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WEF Panelist Says COVID Response Made People More Receptive to Central Bank Digital Currencies<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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COVID-19 the path for a cashless future, according to Bahrain’s central bank chief at WEF.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) \u201cglobalism caravan\u201d was in Saudi Arabia late last month, when one of these \u201cspecial meeting\u201d panels heard about the usefulness of what one might call \u201cbehavioral population lessons learned\u201d during the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n

Specifically, regarding the current push to introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) around the world.<\/p>\n

The pandemic itself may have done a sudden \u201cdisappearing act\u201d about two years ago \u2013 but it\u2019s clearly seen by some as paving the way for a host of other things.<\/p>\n

One \u2013 the vast majority of people responded to extreme movement and activity restrictions that profoundly affected their lives, plus vaccines \u2013 without basically any resistance.<\/p>\n

And this by no means went unnoticed.<\/p>\n

And that has clearly emboldened a certain class of policy-makers to make further assumptions, about other controversial policies (like CBDCs).<\/p>\n

A Gulf central bank chief \u2013 Khalid Humaidan of Bahrain \u2013\u00a0told WEF\u2019s Riyadh \u201cDigital Currencies\u2019 Opportunity in the Middle East\u201d panel<\/a>\u00a0that his country is working to get rid of cash altogether, and replace it with digitally centralized, (therefore almost perfectly controlled and tracked) CBDCs.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s in and of itself not a Middle East thing \u2013 many governments around the world want to do the exact same. Nevertheless, Humaidan for some reason \u201cwent there\u201d and actually made the link between what some theorists see as \u201cthe great social experiment\u201d \u2013 namely, the pandemic \u2013 and how it has opened the path for, effectively, corralling billions of people into a certain pattern of thinking and acting.<\/p>\n

Humaidan had an interesting take on what \u201ccontrol over cash\u201d means \u2013 according to him, central banks were previously \u201cvery much in control with all aspects of cash.\u201d<\/p>\n

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WEF Panelist Says COVID Response Made People More Receptive to Central Bank Digital Currencies COVID-19 the path for a cashless future, according to Bahrain’s central bank chief at WEF. The World Economic Forum (WEF) \u201cglobalism caravan\u201d was in Saudi Arabia late last month, when one of these \u201cspecial meeting\u201d panels heard about the usefulness of […]<\/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":[2,4,6],"tags":[28642,28643,2938,29192,33879,29428,607,33878,14742,889],"class_list":["post-67871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-cbdc","tag-central-bank-digital-currency","tag-collusion","tag-covid19","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-lockdowns","tag-pandemic","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-wef","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67871","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=67871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67872,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67871\/revisions\/67872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}