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One last one - and this one was staged I think....

just like so much is these days - but some of us know better and we are none to pleased.

Central effing bankers are on notice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnBc8KKU85c

we know...

https://winepressnews.com/2022/11/16/federal-reserve-launches-12-week-cbdc-pilot-program-with-major-banks/

and another...

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2021/11/15/na111621-five-observations-on-nigerias-central-bank-digital-currency

and another again about FAILURE

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/03/06/nigerians-rejection-of-their-cbdc-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-other-countries/

Hey P&S (a smile towards you direct) - you know I could go on - I could keep posting more links, keep making edits endless but principles stand strong. You are incorrect if you think I'm pulling my punches - the game has gotten serious - I play to win, and I play for my family when it gets serious I don't play for kicks, and if you think you (not "you" direct I hope you know) are going to prevail with ideas harmful to innocence I would say to the central bankers then you must not have any idea about the forces out there so much stronger and fearsome to say the least.

Fearsome and fearless - the pack will prevail and eff the central bankers who cause harm.

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Bravo Ken - you are true trooper and I am grateful that you are with me in the trenches. When the SHTF close buddies are priceless as I found out early in life. And when at sea - I was ever humbled by the gifts given asking nothing in return. It's the way it works in seafaring.

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Thansk Ken. I only read the IMF link about Nigeria which was very telling, including:

"The eNaira is account-based, and transactions are in principle fully traceable, unlike token-based crypto asset transactions."

We will watch everything you do and you will obey!!!

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I'm not going to argue with this from the article:

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"If this can be achieved, the China model of sophisticated, centralised command and control of their volumes of physical cash in circulation and of their financial system (effectively a system of semi-private banks that provide credit money upon command) combined with a free-wheeling, entrepreneurial real economy will be fully confirmed as superior to the Western model."

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But and this is a BIG but, just because you are better than a "corrupt system as it is now from the inside out" ain't saying much. There are better systems for economic development just around the corner. Consider Schumacher as one who elucidated this in the 1970's I think it was in his seminal work:

"Small is Beautiful"

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So, applause for China, but central control is a dead end road and I can prove it.

BK

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You are bang on my good friend Ken. I spoke to BOOM on Skype this week and we agreed that the options were twofold. This is what I said to BOOM:

"And China is proving their money supply model is a winning formula but it does depend on totalitarian control. So it's not much of a choice really. Either we stay in the hands of these evil Banksters or we to submit to a communist system with Chinese capitalist characteristics.

Do you think that CBDCs (if they ever worked) is the BIS solution to the obvious failing western financial system? If not, and assuming they disregard your QB, where are the 5-Eyes banks going by 2030?

My preference is for multiple, networked local economies where money supply is controlled by community banks owned by all the community along the lines of UK original building societies before Thatcher destroyed them.. https://ilsr.org/rule/bank-of-north-dakota-2/

I think you were rather too kind on the Banksters, but then I realise you don't want to alienate your readership! I can be a free agent and tell it as I see these robber barons. Nothing has changed for millennia of course. Have a laugh for 3 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c-X8HiBng

Seriously though - what's your take on this analysis...

https://www.globalresearch.ca/boom-bust-bailout-process-that-placed-nations-debt/5827600"

Just a snippet of what goes on over here Ken! LOL

Blessings

AP

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Let me add this as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

(Monty Python's take on "witches" - let me tell you..........oh forget it..

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Ha ha - one of my favourites Ken.

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That poor witch - if I was there I would have saved her and as she and I went over the hills, I would of said - eff the king.

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I think CBDC's in trial efforts have proven themselves to not be "popular". Consider Nigeria.

When it comes to Africa, the continent of it, can anybody cast dispersions on the leaders there demanding fair treatment? I mean when the covid shit happened, the leaders who said...."un uh".....some of them are now dead, but the reality is you can kill a member of the pack, but the pack remains.

Central authority is a DEAD end road for all of US. Better ideas are in the wings.

Peace to you P&S.

Ken

ps - per the link, when economics is local in nature - bust and booms might still happen, but they happen fairly given the whims of "nature" true....when central authority interferes with that - then they cast the spell of their own fate - they doom themselves because nature is not ruled by central authority and even the town fool knows that.

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You are very much over the target Ken, thank you. You fill me with confidence - it would be great to share a pint with you in the flesh but that is in the hands of the angels!

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Hey P&S - after some "offline" time I just happen to be online presently as you were sharing your comments and I'm happy to report that my keyboard now seems to be functioning properly if you know what I mean - but really - that is the only reason I was quick to respond to your messages.....I wonder this: do think it is a coincidence?

Well the answer is obvious: Yes it was!

Peace P&S and if we share a brew I have only one request: I want it to be a cold porter dark.

Bless you in your efforts is what I think.

Your friend from afar.

Ken

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You are a wonder Ken and it is so good to share with you - I will stay with my favourite IPA (India Pale Ale) and you with a dark porter! LOL

We can get drunk together - I would enjoy the repartee!

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Wilkos. One of my favourite shops but it seemed (to me) to have been very slow to get out of the 'High Street'. Its one out of town store, here, is always busy. Meanwhile, in my area anyway, "Home Bargains" and "B&M Home Stores", our other 2 bargain basement stores, have been moving to larger out of town properties and seem to be booming.

The local High Street, which was slowly dying, has changed character into a breakfast and foreign quick eats spot, with a successful weekly tent market and a few successful stores such as cheap clothes, services, Robert Dyas (expensive but convenient hardware), and eye wear shops.

Adapt or die!

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Adaption is built in Greg - Darwin discovered the magic of our Creator's secret of how to survive on a changing planet. So I agree with 'evolutionary adaption' but that doesn't mean that the infinity of DNA appeared out of nowhere. It was by design and this mathematician proved it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Undertaker-Has-Science-Buried/dp/0745953719

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Darwin did a great job showing how creatures adapt to changing environments, but to base current evolutionary theory on that, is crazy. Sounds like an interesting book.

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Yes, Greg, this book convinced me that a Creator had to be imputed by math alone! Worth a read IMHO. Dawkins is so far off track and is losing the argument now.

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When the BBC World Service can get away from its favourite topics of 'Global Boiling' and Gender bending, it broadcasts some good programmes. This morning it was interviewing some people in China, focusing on its economy.

My non-expert take - in many cities, unemployment is rising and people with some savings are putting their money in property or hanging on to it. The CCP cannot seem to get people spending their money, so the local economies are spiralling down and more people are losing their jobs. Some are struggling to feed themselves and their families.

1. Where does it go from there? I've no idea.

2. “Can China maintain positive GDP Growth while experiencing negative CPI inflation (deflation)”? I would say - no! It sounds like an economy in trouble plus people cannot return to the countryside as there is no work there either.

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All good questions Greg and regrettably I have no answers and neither does BOOM. "If the Chinese can deliver this economic nirvana in the longer term while western economies stagnate, then the Western advanced economies will (arguably) have no choice but to abandon their 400 year-old, private banker dominated financial model.

AND hopefully adopt the sensible option from BOOM: https://boomfinanceandeconomics.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/boom-as-at-15th-december-2019/

But the Banksters won't adopt it because they will lose control.

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On a whim here is some music I would like to share and this is a fun conversation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O192eo9zbT4

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Beautiful Ken, I know it well. You may not know but I teamed up with Steve C and a few guys at TBP to publish classical music each Sunday morning. It's worth signing up to TBP for this alone, if this is your choice of classics. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/08/13/sunday-morning-classics-on-tbp-178/

I had to drop out last year with great regret because Plan 'B' but when I am settled into SA next year I will re-join. They are a fine team at TBP.

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Hope the settling goes well.

There is an interesting article today on Turbulent Times regarding SA electricity generation and attempts by the eco-lunes to move it to renewables. Fat chance.

https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/net-zero-green-colonialism-backfires/

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LOL fat chance indeed Greg. We are self-sufficient and off-grid so they can do whatever with their silly grid system - it matters not when you have 9 months of sun! Go south young man - where energy is free! :-)

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The good the bad and the ugly....

final duel....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJCSNIl2Pls

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I do ponder what the world will look like when We remove the need for money... I posted an article on that just today...

Technological Nature (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/technological-nature

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I have no money... No way to obtain said. Otherwise I would happily read said book. Do People trade and barter...?

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Now - when you say you have "no way to obtain said".....suggest to me what you think "money" is is not the same as what I think it is because per my view I could walk outside and in less than 1 hour I could get somebody to give me $100....but I don't particularly care for fiat currency - in fact if I was forced to choose twixt a genuine one troy ounce silver coin and a "Franklin" (ain't he the one on the bill?), I'd take the coin being it is real and basically won't burn (direct emission weaponry excluded I reckon for eff sake??????).....

Anyhow - do you get the drift of what I'm expressing - if not, no skin off my back.

BK

* Moreover, and I'm not trying to be "mean", but are you incapacitated or something such that you are not able to get paid for work done?

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I am elderly, disabled (arthritis and bone spurs in My thumbs - typing hurts, but I do it anyway, slowly), denied assistance, lost everything, destitute but for the pittance of social “security” I now receive (that is MY money paid in for many decades!) – not 1/2 a studio apartment’s rent; just barely enough for food and sundries – and homeless, crashing on friends’ floors and using Their web on My 10+ year old laptop.

I am not a beggar, and around here, there's no One to beg to. And even if someOne gave Me some money... I have no accounts, no credit cards, no phone, nothing that I could use to move the money online to make a purchase.

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Don't make me cry.....today I got in the car with my neighbor she has had a few organs removed, cancer a couple times over, and is suffering from back pain which the recent surgery didn't seem to help......she can't get around much these days, but I invited her over to my place and she shared her salsa recipe with me and for that I am most thankful and I would pay her if she wanted me to.

I like your ideas so please don't get me wrong, but truly there needs to be a "means for exchange" and I refer to that as "currency". Barter is best, but a silver coin will work as well.

I wish you good health and appreciate what you share with the rest of us!

BK

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There is something. We use it for many things. It's called social currency and is accounted for in Our hearts and minds.

Here's a novella I wrote showing the functioning (in case You're familiar with the "new age" garbage the CIA put out to obfuscate My work called "The Abundance Paradigm" know that this came first and is not woo in the least.):

The Abundance Paradigm (novella): https://tapyoureit.boards.net/thread/242/abundance-paradigm-novella

(If I am not over the target, why do They need to obfuscate Me and My work. I am shadow banned most everywhere - seriously shadow banned! Before the castration of the web, when One did a search for Me, a number of sites came up that had My work. Once the web was castrated, I did not show up at all. I commented about that fact, and *POOF* They added one site. Now there are sites that I haven't been to in years showing up, but nothing current except recently They added My Odysee channel towards the bottom of the first page.

Oh, and a "solar company" sprang up in the last few years called... Amaterasu Solar. Pretty fishy.)

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Get a clue Amaterasu Solar (I say in sort of jest cause I've been at your place), but for the sake of being less facetious just let me say this:

Yes "People" do trade and barter - local folks mostly.

Barter is best and currency is needed for instances where goods are needed by one who has the currency to proffer.

Duh!

(I like you site but you seem a tad argumentive to potential readers....just saying - none my business I know...)

Best to you,

BK

ps - I can tell my keyboard is about to "flip out" again....so I think I'll just go listen to some music and then maybe take a dip in the river literal - one of the oldest rivers around....not kidding - its name ironically is the "New River"....

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I have spent 40+ years studying money, economies, and all. I even was a Ayn Rand fan for a fair while, reading everything She wrote.

It was in reading Jeremy Rifkin's book, Entropy, that I grasped the intimate link between money and energy. He said, "All money is is stored energy credits."

Money accounts for Our energy added into Their system (slaves must account for Their energy added). And that is true with ANY form, from trade/barter on up to electronic bits.

It also provides power over Others. Any who dispute that are lacking in knowledge of the adage, "Money is power."

And also having studied psychology, and psychopathy specifically, and the fact that most genetic psychopaths LUST - and I do mean LUST - after power over Others, it became clear that They would do quite literally anything, Ethical or unEthical, to get and keep that power.

Today, We have psychopaths in control because of that. (Or do You dispute that with the lockstep plannedemic worldwide?)

I also studied places where no energy accounting arose - "island paradises" like Tahiti, for one - where all They needed was there for the taking.

It became clear that the reason We started accounting for Our energy added, ensuring everyOne was adding Their "fair share," came about in scarcity, where all hands were needed for needed things.

And today, We do have abundance. And tech We never had before - like robots and free energy (though the free energy is well hidden because it makes accounting for Our energy pointless, and money is Their single tool to power, buying all the rest They use - the things and the People).

Add to that, You, personally, are a multimillionaire - and so are the rest of Us born to this planet, but They hide Our wealth in "trusts."

Electrogravitics: Gravity Control & Energy from the Aether (9 min): https://odysee.com/@amaterasusolar:8/electrogravitics-gravity-control-energy:6?lid=eeff9e0c80138ce03e22d76bcd5f2f873ff46b72

The Detailed Blueprint (for a Society of Ethical Sovereigns) (7 min): https://odysee.com/@amaterasusolar:8/the-detailed-blueprint-vocal-redo:9?lid=eeff9e0c80138ce03e22d76bcd5f2f873ff46b72

Is Money Evil? (14 min): https://odysee.com/@amaterasusolar:8/is-money-evil:9?lid=eeff9e0c80138ce03e22d76bcd5f2f873ff46b72

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Therefore you will like my colleague here, AS who argues as you do that the real economy is based one energy but the financial economy is an chimera. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/

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I'll check Him/Her out! Thanks! EDIT to add: Him. Haha!

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I think AS needs faith in pursuing a path to peace and serenity. I have already given him a road map based on what I would do in his situation. But that's my solution to his problem but can never be valid for another.

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I usually don't bother making corrections... But... SHE has no clue what that "roadmap" is, outside of what appears to be religion... [shrug]

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Can you elaborate on who "SHE" is?

Or would I be advised not to even query on this?

If the latter, please just indicate as such....

and I'll read your material, but at your site you must know easier to catch a fly with honey.

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"Banks don't take deposits" can't be played enough.

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Yep Darius - but still so few understand! I met a retired banker the other day - 30 years with HSBC, and he was astounded to learn that bankers don't lend out deposits! He said that his colleagues would be intrigued to learn what I had told him. I pointed him to my book - but I doubt he will read it!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358117070_THE_FINANCIAL_JIGSAW_-_PART_1_-_4th_Edition_2020

I trust he might spend 15 minutes watching Prof. Richard Werner!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asxt3bPN8io

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