{"id":7604,"date":"2015-04-26T15:41:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2015-04-26T15:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T20:41:06","slug":"the-end-is-near-part-1-the-war-on-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7604","title":{"rendered":"The End Is Near, Part 1: The \u201cWar On Cash\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dollarcollapse.com\/creeping-fascism\/signs-that-the-end-is-near-part-1-the-war-on-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\">The End Is Near, Part 1: The \u201cWar On Cash\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As the saying goes, you can know a person by the quality of his or her enemies. This is also true of societies, where moral evolution can be traced by simply listing the things on which they declare war. Not so long ago, for instance, the world\u2019s good guys \u2014 the US, Europe\u2019s democracies and a few others \u2014 fought existential battles against fascism and communism. Then they went after poverty and discrimination. They were, at least in terms of their ideals, on the side of personal freedom and opportunity and against institutionalized control.<\/p>\n<p>But then came the war on drugs, in which the US imprisoned millions of non-violent people guilty only of voluntary transaction. Not long after that we declared war on \u201cterror,\u201d using the enemies created by our own incompetent foreign policy as an excuse for a vast expansion of surveillance and police militarization.<\/p>\n<p>And now, seemingly out of nowhere, comes a new enemy: cash. Around the world, governments and banks are making it harder to save and transact with paper and coin. The ultimate goal seems to be the elimination of private tools of commerce, in favor of transparent (to governments and banks) plastic, checks and online payment systems. The following excerpts are from longer articles that should be read in their entirety:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The End Is Near, Part 1: The \u201cWar On Cash\u201d As the saying goes, you can know a person by the quality of his or her enemies. This is also true of societies, where moral evolution can be traced by simply listing the things on which they declare war. Not so long ago, for instance, [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[63,1035,2299,951,204,4955,1491,379,4948,765],"class_list":["post-7604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-banks","tag-cash","tag-control","tag-currency","tag-democracy","tag-digital-currency","tag-fascism","tag-government","tag-paper-currency","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604","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=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}