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Central Bank Digital Currencies; CBDCs

The Nazis were viewed as a joke by the world at first. And for a subsequent time after they appeared on the scene. No one, no one except for Winston Churchhill, who at the time was considered an old windbag washed up politician with no pull or power in England saw the Nazis as the tyrannical fascist threat they were. There was also one solitary American, a man whose name escapes me and I have been unable to find online that also was vocal about the reality of the Nazis. He was also discredited, mocked, and ignored just as Winston Churchill was.

I can understand very well why a person not in Christ, not truly in Christ, not truly a child of God lives in fear, confusion, and doubt as they perhaps place their faith in a government, another person, someone in power, and certainly themselves refusing the illuminated truth within the Word of God. I understand a person such as that. Pretending. Keeping busy. Otherwise distracted. Thinking about the real Truth and deep matters of life but perhaps continuing to repress, and suppress them downward as if that will remove those fears, doubts, and thoughts.

But…

Don’t permit the evil of the world, do not allow Satan nor any of his ministers and millions of minions to speak into your heart and mind to distract, disillusion, dismay, or misdirect. To make the Evil One’s lies appear as truth since he does appear as an angel of light, as do his ministers. Do not become deceived nor overcome.

I do not publish any news here, not so much as one article, commentary, or sentence to cause fear, to cause anxiety, attempting to scare anyone. Everything posted here is done so with the intent in my heart and mind to shed light on the great and growing darkness in this fallen world, how the people have been given over to their wicked, unrighteous, reprobate minds as told in Romans 1, and how every word within the Word of God is unfolding. We are in the last of the last days.

And the only thing that could slow or halt the swiftness of the coming of the end of all things as they have been known and the return of the Lord Jesus Christ would be genuine, deep, turning to God and Christ, turning back to God and Christ, turning to the Scriptures by a massive amount of individuals worldwide.

Only that could stem the tsunami of evil washing over this world and its people to kill them. To ensnare them to the Second Death.

If a true believer, if truly regenerated of mind and spirit, born anew by faith and submission to the Spirit of God having thusly been changed of heart and mind within to no longer be darkness, in darkness, and to have become a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ no fear, no worry, no faithlessness, no great anxiety ought to exist within that individual. They ought to live joyously, expectantly, faithfully looking heavenward from within. Their hope in the Lord. Their faith in every word within the Word.

Seeing, hearing, smelling the times as they are and seeing how every word within the Word of God is true and there is nothing, nothing that is taking place on earth that is not part and parcel of the escalating spiritual war every person on earth is enjoined in.

Worldwide economic tyranny and fascism is coming. Sooner than expected. Sooner than most people may want to think about or believe.

The control of wealth, the control of money — the love of such, the love of the power, and what money can bring root of all evil — is swiftly being installed.

Worldwide economic tyranny and fascism is coming. To control every dollar, pound, yen, dinar, euro, franc, yuan, rupee, and ruble — there are about 180 current worldwide currencies — all to be done away with. Digitalized. Taken over and controlled by silicon electronic power. Granted to the rich and powerful, the governments of the world by their service to evil. Oh, it’s all being done under the pretense of making life easier, more equitable, safer, and secure. All done with the honey-dripping lying lips of evil no different than when evil first appeared to man and woman in the Garden. Nothing has changed. Not really. Anyone who believes there has been such great change since the Garden of Eden fall of man is sorely deluded.

Control the money and you control people.

Consolidate economic wealth into one digital currency worldwide and what do you imagine that can possibly usher in? Not safety, security, equality, and prosperity my friends.

What is swiftly forming and coming is going to make the tyranny and fascism of the Nazis appear like children playing in a sandbox, on a playground in comparison. Oh, it’ll begin all sweet and wonderful sounding — as in the past — and the overwhelming majority of people worldwide will be duped. Made foolish. As they follow and believe the Great Liar and his lies, as most always have and do, but this time it’ll be different. There will be a focal point. An individual and his false prophet the world will become mesmerized with and adore to the point they will take his name branded into their flesh to serve him. As if he were the answer. As if he were God.

Only to be quickly thereafter led to their Second Death, their eternal death.

But likely not before witnessing the fulfillment of every jot and tittle, every word within the word of God revealed and for them to witness the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

All the tools, and all the means to bring this about have either already been created and put in place, or are in the rapid process of being so accomplished.

From the turmoil and confusion, the anger generated, the divisions created, the constant barrage of lies the people are drawn to as they refuse the truth, the so-called political and cultural wars which are nothing but the spiritual war taking place and being misunderstood, misnamed and therefore not addressed or fought properly. In order to fight and win a war a soldier must have the right equipment for the task and recognize the enemy and have the willingness to fight. To overcome the Enemy.

Money, money, money…

Control an individual’s money and see what happens. How they react. What they will allow. They will follow and serve the controller of their money like a ravished by hunger dog would follow a butcher with a juicy, meaty, and fat laden bone!

Think that might be the place to begin to take control and introduce worldwide tyranny and fascism? While worshipping the earth, introducing more and more paganism, more and more immorality upon the people of the world? All this to keep people inundated and seeking pleasure, keeping them in fear in evil’s attempt to keep the people from God, from Christ, from the Holy Spirit, from the Bible, from salvation, from the truth?

Humm…

Read on.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Monday, April 24th, 2023

Project Icebreaker: The Beginning Of A One World Digital Currency System?

 

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April 11, 2023

By Brandon Smith

Reprinted from Activist Post & Prophecy News Watch

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There has been extensive discussion in the past couple of years within alternative media circles about the dangers of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs); a currency framework very similar to blockchain-based products like Bitcoin but directly controlled by central bankers. It’s a threat that some analysts including myself have been writing about for more than a decade, so it’s good to finally see the issue being addressed more in the mainstream.

The Orwellian nature of CBDCs cannot be overstated. In a cashless society most people would be dependent on digital products for exchanging goods and labor, and this would of course mean the end of all privacy in trade. Everything you buy or sell or work for in your life would be recorded, and this lack of anonymity could be used to stifle your freedoms in the future.

For example, say you like to eat steak regularly, but the increasingly authoritarian government decides to list red meat as a health risk and a “climate change risk” due to carbon emissions from cows. They determine by your purchase history (which they have full access to) that you have contributed more carbon pollution than most people by eating red meat often. They declare that you must pay a retroactive carbon tax on your past purchases of red meat. Not only that, but your insurance company sends you a letter indicating that you are a medical risk and they cut off your health coverage.

Products you consume and services you use can be tracked to create a psychological profile on you, which could then become a factor in determining your social-credit score, just as CCP authorities do in China today. Maybe you refuse to purchase an annual mRNA booster shot, and the tracking algorithm makes a note of this. Now you are under suspicion for being “anti-vax” and your social-credit score plummets, cutting you off from various public venues. Maybe you are even fired from your job.

In the worst-case scenario, though, economic access is the greatest oppressive tool. With CBDCs in place and no physical cash in existence, your savings will never be truly yours and you’ll never be able to hold your purchasing power in your hands. The means of exchange would be bottlenecked by the banks, and governments would have the option to freeze your ability to transact. If one day you get angry about a particular government policy and openly call the system corrupt on social media, they can simply shut off your option to transfer your digital money to others until you submit, or die.

CBDCs give establishment officials the leverage to starve their political opponents with algorithmic precision. It would be a new world of technocratic oppression.

It’s important to understand that central bankers are moving at breakneck speed to develop and introduce digital currencies. It’s not a matter of experimentation, they already have these systems ready to implement. The Federal Reserve’s instant transfer program “FedNow” is set to debut this July, which is not a CBDC but it is an intermediary step towards instituting CBDCs in the near term.

In my investigations of various CBDC programs and how quickly they are progressing I came across an interesting program called “Project Icebreaker” being run by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). For those not aware, the BIS is a globalist institution with a clandestine past known as the “central bank of central banks.” It is the policy-making hub for most of the central banks in the world. If you ever wondered how it was possible for so many national central banks to operate in tandem with each other instead of acting in the interests of the countries they reside in, the BIS is the answer. In other words, organizations like the Federal Reserve are not necessarily loyal to Americans or to American officials, they are loyal to the dictates of the BIS.

The BIS is at the forefront of the movement towards the adoption of CBDCs. They have been funding a vast array of projects to test and refine CBDC technology and as of this year they estimate that at least 81 central banks around the world are in the midst of introducing digital-currency systems.

Project Icebreaker in particular grabbed my attention for a number of reasons. The BIS describes the project as a foreign exchange clearing house for Retail CBDCs (retail CBDCs are digital currencies used by the regular public and businesses), enabling the currencies to be traded from country to country quickly and efficiently. This is accomplished using the “Icebreaker Hub”, a BIS-controlled mechanism which facilitates data transfers for an array of transactions while connecting banks to other banks.

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Investigating further I realized that the Icebreaker Hub in theory functions almost exactly like the SWIFT payment system used currently by governments and international banks. More than 10,000 financial institutions in 212 different countries use the SWIFT network to transfer funds overseas for their clients; it is an incredible centralization bottleneck that gives its shareholders considerable power.

As a point of reference, after the start of the war between Ukraine and Russia, the expulsion of Russia from the SWIFT network was used as a weapon in an attempt to crash the Russian economy. Russia has found ways around using SWIFT because of their trade relationships with major economies like China and India, but some damage has still been done to their financial structure.

Consider this, however – What if all monetary transactions were centralized through CBDCs and the BIS-controlled the hub in which all retail CBDCs are exchanged globally? This is what Icebreaker is.

Now imagine that you operate a business that relies on overseas transactions; say you need to pay manufacturers in Vietnam or Taiwan to produce your products. With CBDCs in place you will most likely be completely dependent on a system similar to the Icebreaker Hub to move than digital money to Vietnamese banks and into the accounts of your manufacturers. Say officials at the BIS, for whatever reason, decide they don’t like you and they initiate Russian-style sanctions denying your access to the hub. Your business is now dead.

What if you had to meet certain standards in order to be allowed use of the hub, and the BIS dictates the standards? What if the BIS decides that your company needs to meet woke ESG related categories before you can get permission for Icebreaker transactions? Now the BIS has the ability to manipulate social and cultural trends using your business and millions of other businesses as forced messengers.

For the average consumer who does most of their transactions within their home country this might not sound like a big deal. But, for the business world, a SWIFT-like hub for retail CBDCs could be used to dominate all international trade. Running any kind of larger organization or company would mean bowing to the whims of the BIS.

It gets worse, though…

Part of the process of the “spoke and wheel” exchange method used by the Icebreaker Hub includes the exploitation of a “bridge currency” to fill gaps in exchange rates and liquidity. On the surface this seems like a clever way to speed up transactions by avoiding cross-currency shortages at banks. That said, I want readers to think about the long-term path that this kind of “bridging” sets in motion in the realm of CBDCs.

Let’s say there is a global-scale economic crisis event which causes many currencies to fluctuate wildly. Lets say, for example, that the U.S. dollar loses its world-reserve status and petro status and this sends FX (foreign exchange) markets into a panic. Price inflation becomes rampant and banking institutions falter under liquidity pressures. Let’s say that central bankers introduce CBDCs as a solution to the problem, and the BIS Icebreaker Hub as the intermediary for international trade. The populace is so frightened by the economic crash that they then embrace the digital framework. Now let’s say that the BIS claims they still can’t find a currency they consider stable enough to act as a means to bridge most global transactions. What happens then?

Well, “luckily” for all of us the BIS and IMF have been working on their own GLOBAL CBDC. In the case of the IMF, this one-world currency would be based around the Special Drawing Rights basket system they have been using for decades to broker currency transfers between national governments. The BIS then uses this one-world currency product as the bridge for Icebreaker going forward.

Eventually the BIS, IMF and various central banks will ask the public the inevitable question: “Why are we bothering with these national currency exchanges when we have a perfectly good bridge currency in the form of this one-world CBDC? Why don’t we just get rid of all these superfluous national CBDCs and have one currency for everyone?”

Thus, total global financial centralization would be achieved. And once you have a one-world currency, a completely centralized and micro-managed global economy and the most vital trade systems in the world controlled by a tiny handful of faceless unelected bureaucracies, why then have nations at all? Global government would be the next and final step.

I can see the nightmare play out when I look at projects like Icebreaker. They are seemingly innocuous, but they act as the DNA by which economic tyranny is given birth.