The british government is notoriously bad at IT projects - the track and trace app they spent billions on during covid which had to be abandoned, the NHS IT systems, etc., and then there was all the postmasters who got jailed for embezzelment but which was actually an accounting bug in the new post office software. I don't see them being able to pull off a workable CBDC platform based on this expierence
I worked as a programmer for four decades, and while I like the thought this CBDC platform will be full of bugs and be unworkable, there's a danger in the middle. Suppose it is still full of bugs (guaranteed) but works just well enough to make people think it's reliable. Then these bugs could cause any amount of harm: deleting people's accounts, "accidentally" moving money from one account to another, etc. This is the same sort of harm you mentioned, where postmasters got jailed due to a software bug. Buggy and biased sentencing AI being used by courts is another example of this kind of potential harm.
This is my concern as well. There is a brilliant documentary that I keep recommending left and right... it's called "Plug and Pray," it's about Joseph Weizenbaum (the creator of the first "chatbot" Eliza). He crested it as a science project and then protested the direction other people were taking his invention but it they didn't listen. The documentary has a scene where he is trying to do something on the computer, and it just keeps breaking. it is inevitable that this arrangement (a total dependency of digital wallets, IoT, etc.) will create a lot of disruptions, not to mention it makes fascism very easy.
It also means that the resilient and infinitely creative human animal will find effective workarounds.
Likely it will be a functional failure and still launched because that is what the MBA-like practices are: it doesn't matter if the plan doesn't actually work because the model of it works perfectly in the MBA-itis flowcharts and projections.
It is an interesting tell of language that in psychology it is important to withdraw our projections in order to see what is really there and happening. Yet in business they rely on the delusion of disconnected and disembodied projections in order to make their decisions. Hmmmm. These odd things that make me go hmmmm. Lol!
Yes, and also weak security and proneness to cybercrime - this could be "identify theft" which essentially exiles you from society, or being able to buy food!
No doubt. Though we will find out how many people started seeing through the deception - in the last couple years - in terms of who complies. Let's hope we see a big uptick.
The peasant scientist in me (heartfelt h/t our sharp-minded authoress!) insists on extrapolating this keen observation in scope, geography, and time: to everything any gubmint ever does 'for the greater good' & 'to everyone's benefit' 😊
I too cling to that hope. However, as we know, these projects are being pushed from a UN/WEF/globalist/elitist standpoint so I don’t think it’ll be led by your average civil servant IT project manager and delivery team. We often hear the “public/private partnership” phrase these days in the context of ESG etc. and that’s what it’ll be here - with more of the emphasis on private. I believe as each country is brought into the CBDC “pilot” (as they’re all currently selling it), we’ll see bright minds from cloud, blockchain, and cybersecurity tech deployed into the key roles on these projects ...
I have been amazed at how people have embraced the whole "tap and pay" thing with credit cards. The banks don't even give you a choice. It's just enabled. You have to go in and demand to have the function removed from the card. Same with the facial recognition on the banking apps. I fought with them for about two hours to have them restore my pin and remove the face thing. Everything just becomes easier and easier and more and more convenient. People love cute new technologies. It makes them feel so powerful to wave a card and voila! - they've bought something. Or show their face to the phone and - Open Sesame! I have absolutely no doubt that most will run into the arms of CBDCs with unbridled joy. It will be so cool! So convenient! No more purses! No more credit cards! Isn't technology great!
We are truly our own worst enemies. So many will not recognise they're being led to the totalitarian slaughterhouses until the doors are bolted and the chopping blocks are running with blood.
Parallell physical currencies (barter) will be established, and state will spend uncountable and unaccountable billions to combat barter instead of accepting that it is the planned economy that is the problem.
It took the Soviet Union 70 something years to rot from within. But it took tsarist Russia centuries to rot and decay so badly it made communism look as the better alternative.
And the Roman republic and empire lasted over a thousand years, and offered people more freedom than any modern state, despite not having any of our "human rights" or democracy.
Thank You, Tessa. Our electricity was out all day Friday and we had a busy weekend putting finishing touches on the house I've been building, and moving things into it.
If you (generic you) could use an invigorating jolt to your withering hope for our abjectly lost world <-- Heroes Return 😊 --> barsoom.substack.com/p/2043
The limit they are talking about it not a monthly payment (which would be a lot of money even at current prices, more than most people in this world ever made). From the looks of it. It's a limit on holdings. if we are talking an older person's life's savings, for example, it's a whole different animal.
"The Bank would place some limits on holdings of digital pounds, at least during its
introductory period. An individual limit of between £10,000 and £20,000 is proposed."
And the control aspect of it is of course what the "crazy conspiracy theorists" have been screaming about forever!
"They create and change them at wish." Exactly, and that's a big problem!
I am not attached to any isms (I think of it more in terms of Steven Newcomb's "system of domination," which I think is a brilliant framework) but most certainly, if the people are deprived of a medium of commercial exchange, then the people have a lot less power. And that's the goal of the dominators!!
The british government is notoriously bad at IT projects - the track and trace app they spent billions on during covid which had to be abandoned, the NHS IT systems, etc., and then there was all the postmasters who got jailed for embezzelment but which was actually an accounting bug in the new post office software. I don't see them being able to pull off a workable CBDC platform based on this expierence
And therein lies our hope :)
I worked as a programmer for four decades, and while I like the thought this CBDC platform will be full of bugs and be unworkable, there's a danger in the middle. Suppose it is still full of bugs (guaranteed) but works just well enough to make people think it's reliable. Then these bugs could cause any amount of harm: deleting people's accounts, "accidentally" moving money from one account to another, etc. This is the same sort of harm you mentioned, where postmasters got jailed due to a software bug. Buggy and biased sentencing AI being used by courts is another example of this kind of potential harm.
This is my concern as well. There is a brilliant documentary that I keep recommending left and right... it's called "Plug and Pray," it's about Joseph Weizenbaum (the creator of the first "chatbot" Eliza). He crested it as a science project and then protested the direction other people were taking his invention but it they didn't listen. The documentary has a scene where he is trying to do something on the computer, and it just keeps breaking. it is inevitable that this arrangement (a total dependency of digital wallets, IoT, etc.) will create a lot of disruptions, not to mention it makes fascism very easy.
It also means that the resilient and infinitely creative human animal will find effective workarounds.
Likely it will be a functional failure and still launched because that is what the MBA-like practices are: it doesn't matter if the plan doesn't actually work because the model of it works perfectly in the MBA-itis flowcharts and projections.
It is an interesting tell of language that in psychology it is important to withdraw our projections in order to see what is really there and happening. Yet in business they rely on the delusion of disconnected and disembodied projections in order to make their decisions. Hmmmm. These odd things that make me go hmmmm. Lol!
Yes, delusions and also, in an increasing manner in relation to how high a person sits, intentional lies!!
Very spiritually or philosophically, is not a lie one of the greatest of the delusions?
The way I think about it, a delusion is an internal lie, a lie is an external lie. :)
Yes, and also weak security and proneness to cybercrime - this could be "identify theft" which essentially exiles you from society, or being able to buy food!
I agree with your conclusion. They will attempt it and it will fail.
Yep. Sadly, a lot of havoc can be created in the meanwhile
No doubt. Though we will find out how many people started seeing through the deception - in the last couple years - in terms of who complies. Let's hope we see a big uptick.
I don't think so either, but some will make some more millions out of it, as i happened with the previous attempts.
The peasant scientist in me (heartfelt h/t our sharp-minded authoress!) insists on extrapolating this keen observation in scope, geography, and time: to everything any gubmint ever does 'for the greater good' & 'to everyone's benefit' 😊
I too cling to that hope. However, as we know, these projects are being pushed from a UN/WEF/globalist/elitist standpoint so I don’t think it’ll be led by your average civil servant IT project manager and delivery team. We often hear the “public/private partnership” phrase these days in the context of ESG etc. and that’s what it’ll be here - with more of the emphasis on private. I believe as each country is brought into the CBDC “pilot” (as they’re all currently selling it), we’ll see bright minds from cloud, blockchain, and cybersecurity tech deployed into the key roles on these projects ...
I have been amazed at how people have embraced the whole "tap and pay" thing with credit cards. The banks don't even give you a choice. It's just enabled. You have to go in and demand to have the function removed from the card. Same with the facial recognition on the banking apps. I fought with them for about two hours to have them restore my pin and remove the face thing. Everything just becomes easier and easier and more and more convenient. People love cute new technologies. It makes them feel so powerful to wave a card and voila! - they've bought something. Or show their face to the phone and - Open Sesame! I have absolutely no doubt that most will run into the arms of CBDCs with unbridled joy. It will be so cool! So convenient! No more purses! No more credit cards! Isn't technology great!
We are truly our own worst enemies. So many will not recognise they're being led to the totalitarian slaughterhouses until the doors are bolted and the chopping blocks are running with blood.
Parallell physical currencies (barter) will be established, and state will spend uncountable and unaccountable billions to combat barter instead of accepting that it is the planned economy that is the problem.
It took the Soviet Union 70 something years to rot from within. But it took tsarist Russia centuries to rot and decay so badly it made communism look as the better alternative.
And the Roman republic and empire lasted over a thousand years, and offered people more freedom than any modern state, despite not having any of our "human rights" or democracy.
🗨 Community, and democracy, do not scale. ~~@FabiusMinarchus
🤷
My aha moment with the mask issue was that you can still smell farts. 😂
That's a very logical thought process! :)
From what I can tell, so far the citizens of the world have emphatically rejected CBDCs: https://open.substack.com/pub/faybomb/p/africa-and-bitcoin-a-case-study?r=et5uj&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
If this happens to Americans, will Bill Gates and his ilk agree to live on a budget?
No https://twitter.com/WillHild/status/1623080578504441857 :)
Bill should take Wendell Berry's advice: stay home and drink water.
But Bill is special, don’t you know 😂
Hi Tessa. Wondering where we can find out more about NY teacher flagging. What kinds of teachers? Where to find out more???
As of this second, all I know is what Jessica wrote https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-relevance-of-underimmunization
She quotes https://teachersforchoice.org/2023/02/09/fingerprints-of-unvaccinated-nyc-teachers-flagged-to-fbi/ it has a lot of additional info
Tessa is brilliance and kindness in human form.
Thank you so much, my dear! You are too kind!!
off-topic, on dioxins: https://open.substack.com/pub/planetwavesfm/p/palestine-ohio-train-wreck-its-the?r=1k5dmk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thank you, Eric did a great job!
Here is more on the CBDC rollout, and how to drag-heels and resist it, to be sand in that machine.
https://planetdecentral.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about
It's a good time to stack silver & gold to barter for essentials in the future.
Thank You, Tessa. Our electricity was out all day Friday and we had a busy weekend putting finishing touches on the house I've been building, and moving things into it.
"Soul Man" John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OX2HwWy-o
Watch POD PEOPLE BARBECUE. Origin of mask-wearing zombies revealed in song!
https://turfseer.substack.com/p/pod-people-barbecue
Shakespeare meets Vaccine Injury Denial. Listen to Turfseer’s PERCHANCE TO DREAM. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/perchance-to-dream
The people graduate “with honors” from this institution of “higher learning.” Watch SHEEPLE UNIVERSITY. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/sheeple-university
“Country” stands up to Medical Tyranny. Watch Turfseer’s “They Tried to Kill Country (But Country Fought Back).” https://turfseer.substack.com/p/they-tried-to-kill-country-but-country
BONUS: Free Download. THE ALTERNATIVE COVID-19 NARRATIVE HANDBOOK. A Collection of useful links. Get it here: https://turfseer.substack.com/p/the-alternative-covid-narrative-handbook
Subscribe to Turfseer's Newsletter. Songs, music videos and much more.
💬 #4. A beautiful essay
If you (generic you) could use an invigorating jolt to your withering hope for our abjectly lost world <-- Heroes Return 😊 --> barsoom.substack.com/p/2043
The limit they are talking about it not a monthly payment (which would be a lot of money even at current prices, more than most people in this world ever made). From the looks of it. It's a limit on holdings. if we are talking an older person's life's savings, for example, it's a whole different animal.
"The Bank would place some limits on holdings of digital pounds, at least during its
introductory period. An individual limit of between £10,000 and £20,000 is proposed."
And the control aspect of it is of course what the "crazy conspiracy theorists" have been screaming about forever!
"They create and change them at wish." Exactly, and that's a big problem!
I am not attached to any isms (I think of it more in terms of Steven Newcomb's "system of domination," which I think is a brilliant framework) but most certainly, if the people are deprived of a medium of commercial exchange, then the people have a lot less power. And that's the goal of the dominators!!