This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group
During the 2020 pandemic hysteria there was a mad rush by globalist institutions like the WEF, IMF, BIS and numerous national central banks to speed-run the concept of “CBDCs” (Central Bank Digital Currencies) into the mainstream consciousness. The idea of digital currencies rooted to a blockchain ledger was presented as a solution to the pandemic. A number of globalists asserted that digital exchange would be necessary because “paper money carries the covid virus.”
This was, of course, complete nonsense. There was zero evidence that shifting to digital would prevent the spread of the virus in any way. But, as I’ve said for years now, covid was their big play. It was intended to become a nexus point for a global coup; the “New World Order” takeover. The elites figured the population was so terrified that they would agree to anything without a logical reason.
They were wrong, at least in the long run. The virus was a dud (which seemed to catch them by surprise) and the death rate was minimal (0.23% median IFR). The public eventually woke up to the deception and the agenda was forced to dissolve, largely due to nearly half of all US states blocking the mandates. If Americans could live just fine without restrictions, then the rest of the world was going to follow.
I mention the pandemic once again because the attempted coup gave the general public a once in a lifetime insight into the plans and motives of the globalists. This event changed everything. Millions of people who once thought that “conspiracy theorists” were crazy just had their eyes opened to a dark reality. There really is an international cabal. They really do make evil plans in smoky rooms. They really do want a “New World Order.”
And, a big part of this new order is a global digital currency scheme.
As researchers, all of our suspicions were confirmed. Seeing the intended plans of the elites across Europe and developing nations like China and India, it’s clear that CBDCs are the ultimate economic control mechanism. Why? Because without physical money, the populace can no longer engage in trade without governments and central banks acting as the middle man.
Look at it this way: During the pandemic mandates the Biden Administration and many other governments sought to institute the first stages of what would ultimately become a vaccine passport system.
First, employers would be required by law to check workers for updated vaccination, or face endless fines. Once this became the norm, then mandatory covid tracking apps would be introduced as the only way to enter government buildings and mass transit. Eventually, everyone would be forced to use their phones (and a QR code) to get access to public places or purchase anything anywhere.
The final domino would be CBDCs and a cashless society, but Biden and friends did not have this technology in place.
Without CBDCs the control system falls apart. With physical cash, there’s no way for the government to control transactions. They can de-bank individuals who refuse to comply (as the Canadian government did), but with physical exchange there is always a path to rebellion.
Even without cash, the public could use gold and silver or barter. People could create their own black markets and survive. However, with CBDCs widely entrenched, participation in the wider economy would be impossible.
The globalists asserted that de-banking and economic banishment was not a program of “forced vaccination” (although that was the ultimate endgame). Rather, they argued cynically that people still had a “choice” – They could take the vax and live a somewhat normal life within the system, or, they could refuse the vax and be cut off from the economy, and thus cut off from most of society and likely die from abject poverty.
This is the political left’s “consequence culture” argument.
I really hope people never forget the insanity of this era and how close we came to an Orwellian hellscape. Never forget; the globalists and the political left tried to extort you into becoming a medical slave for the rest of your life. And their plan was to use economic access as the leverage to force you into submission.
So what happened? Where did all the rhetoric about CBDCs go? It was everywhere for four years and then, it was dust in the wind. Why have central banks gone radio silent?
Sadly the plan has not been canceled, it has only been moved to the background and it continues to develop behind the curtain. The Bank for International Settlement (BIS) seems to be at the helm, for now, and is pushing forward with various projects to test CBDCs in cross border trade and tracking. Currently, they are working on “Project Agora”.
Project Agora is testing the process for “tokenization” of central bank reserves – Meaning, they want to make it possible for central banks to trade assets with each other using a blockchain ledger without complications. This would be a primary step in the eventual tokenization of all central bank transactions, including transactions with corporate banks and governments.
It should be noted that the Trump Administration and the US Senate has been issuing executive orders and legislation to block the Federal Reserve from engaging in CBDCs until at least 2030. However, the Fed seems to be ignoring these demands. According to the BIS, the Fed is STILL participating in Project Agora and the Fed has not announced any withdrawal from that program.
Interestingly, the BIS avoids using the acronym “CBDC” in most of their latest project announcements. But, this is exactly what they are working on. They do mention all national legal frameworks still apply within their ledger transactions. To translate, that means that central banks and allied governments will retain tracking and control of all assets that are traded through the system (No anonymous transactions and all transactions can be frozen).
This should be worrying for everyone and the implications are staggering. The BIS and its central banking partners are quietly building the framework for national digital currency systems to interact with other national digital currency systems.
In the end, the BIS and its allies will become the middlemen for all the world’s transactions. Furthermore, once national CBDCs become the norm, the elites are only one step away from introducing a GLOBAL CBDC: A one-world digital currency.
I continue to believe that the introduction of this system will require the collapse of the US dollar. But, this event may not happen the way many of us originally imagined. I and many other economists initially believed that the alternative digital currency system to unseat the dollar would be introduced through the BRICS economic bloc, which has been working closely with the IMF.
We also argued that a crash would have to occur through internal sabotage, clearing the path for a dollar collapse.
Something seems to have changed. The influence of the BRICS has been greatly diminished in the past five years. The plan may not be to crash the dollar from within the US through domestic mishap or sabotage, at least not right away. Rather, the plan might be to introduce CBDCs in every western country that is politically cooperative with the globalists and cut out the dollar over time as the world reserve.
Recent announcements from the European Union and the European Central Bank suggest that they are preparing to bring in CBDCs regardless of what the US does.
In other words, it looks as though far-left governments in Europe, Australia and Canada plan to build a global currency network that cuts out the dollar in order to crash the dollar. They can then say it was entirely the fault of backwards conservative Americans who “live in the past and refuse to go digital…”
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues to work with the BIS and the globalists to make the dollar ready for tokenization with the expectation that Americans will eventually be forced to go along with the agenda, or risk being left in the dust.
Will this strategy work? It’s hard to say. The pandemic plan failed and only ended up radicalizing millions of people against the globalists by default. On top of that, the mass immigration agenda in Europe is not going over well and it’s driving the citizens to replace liberal governments with hard-right parties like Restore and AFD. But, when money becomes the weapon, things can turn ugly fast. CBDCs could create unprecedented social and political leverage for the globalists.
Luckily, the public is already well aware of the existence of CBDCs and many of the threats they pose. The globalists can try to hide their projects in a fog of obscurity and they can try to change the terms by using words like “tokenization”, but the populace is still going to recognize the dangers because their radar is now up.
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I’ve thought for a while that globalists are increasingly struggling to influence public discourse to the extent that their goals can be realized. They had the world’s attention at the onset of Covid. Then they moved much too fast with their ‘Great Reset’ agenda, believing I assume that they could not lose.
Do you think they’re timelines are now compromised? For example, the objectives of Agenda 2030.
After Covid, what can they do to hold the world in the palm of their hand again? For globalists to succeed, they need enough of the populace to acquiesce.
In many ways the Internet has become their bugbear. They push certain narratives only for them to die away in quick order. I don’t think they have people’s attention which is a big problem for them.
Good morning, Brandon!
Do you have any sources that would verify what this guy is saying is going to happen before July is over in his most recent post?:
https://dontspeaknews.com/?login=1
No. I’ve been seeing prediction posts like this for decades from various “insiders” and gurus and none of them turned out to be accurate. It’s a mistake to try to predict exact timelines for crisis events because even if the person is right about the overall outcome, it’s usually much slower and less dramatic than they expect. For example, I predicted that a global crisis event was going to occur during Trump’s first term, which would then be used to blame conservatives for economic decline and civil unrest. We were eventually hit with the combo of the covid pandemic, BLM riots and the stagflation crisis all at once in 2020 and conservatives were blamed for trying to “destroy democracy”. However, the effect didn’t look like what I expected, which was a dramatic inflationary avalanche. Instead, the crisis was limited and ultimately, we came out of it without a collapse (and that’s a good thing). It’s good to prepare for the worst and warn people about the potential dangers, but it’s a mistake to consistently predict the worst every few months. Collapse is a process, not an event.
Inflation and covid nonsense peaked early in the Biden administration. May have started in trump’s last year but went into overdrive later. Biden got more of the blame except from the extreme left.
Covid and inflation peaked in 2022 well into Biden’s term. That didn’t stop the media and the globalists from trying to blame Trump. Failure of an agenda is not evidence that the agenda doesn’t exist. To this day, Biden and the media still blame Trump for inflation AND the pandemic. My point stands.
“… The idea of digital currencies… was presented as a solution… globalists asserted that digital exchange would be necessary because ‘paper money carries the covid virus.’”
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The only virus anyone needs to worry about is the Pandemic of Globalism. In the end, this true Pandemic will have killed off more people that all of the diseases suffered by humankind in all of history.
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“I really hope people never forget the insanity of this era and how close we came to an Orwellian hellscape.”
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Rest assured… The Dark Side will never rest until They force this crap fully into the World and down everyone’s throats. They will wear people down and box them in until there is no alternative. It may take five years or ten or one hundred… but They will never stop trying until They get their way.
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“… the populace is still going to recognize the dangers because their radar is now up.”
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Look how easily people became fully addicted to their hand-held Instruments of Obedience. All of a sudden, nobody could live without these small demonic beasts. So it will be with Digital Currencies some day without some of miraculous Black Swan intervention. First you hook people on the device. Then you hook them on the faux-monetary software. And then what happens? The Great Reset. The Great Regret. That Planetary prison door slamming tight shut for the final time. And all the generations that follow wont know anything else and wont know the difference.
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The Digital Currency System is not just the Mark of the Beast. It is also the Mark of the Thief-s. The final slamming of the prison door of the Digital Prison that will enslave all within it for Eternity.
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The Book of Revelation has been around for a damned long time. No one can say we weren’t warned.
Not to mention- conservative states like Florida under Desantis has outright banned CBDCs from being legal tender on the state level- and lots of attempts by Trump and conservatives on federal side. Lots of awareness on the conservative side no matter how they try to package this poison.
Correct. I think this is why the globalists are focusing on Europe. The people there are less aware of the agenda and they’re under tighter control by governments.
I don’t remember the correct terminology but I thought that the plan was not to bring in a CBCD (at first) but the corporations would issue their version of a CBCD.
No. Corporations cannot issue CBDCs (or anything similar) and even if they could, they don’t have the infrastructure to make them a usable form of currency. They can create crypto products, but this is not the same thing. What the BIS is working on is, basically, a global exchange system with AI monitoring and international participation by governments. The central banks are the only institution equipped to do this.
I basically agree with you about Europe…..but to try to introduce a CBDC now or the near future will bring about a situation the Globalists will not be able to control. I also suspect (right or wrong) that the citizens will not be without means of self defense the elitists won’t expect. I say that based on history. The means will automatically be under the radar of the electronics of the elites.
I expect the alignment of nations as “allies” or “not really an ally” is going to be radically changed before Trump is finished. I believe we are seeing the disintegration of former ties and strengthening of formerly weaker ties, even the creation of new ones.
Europe refuses to see that the world really doesn’t revolve around them. Cutting off Americans could be the best thing that happens to us….push us back toward awareness of things other than tv and social media.
Glad you are keeping up on that front….I had been asking myself about whether the CBDC plan had been dropped.
Brandon, what role do you see for stable coins? They seem to be getting set up for the role of a CBDC.
I don’t think they will have any significant role in CBDCs. Stable coins are just cryptocurrencies created by corporations and partially pegged to fiat currencies. I do think the entire crypto environment has been fostered by globalists in order to acclimate people to the idea of digital currencies. I don’t believe for a second that Bitcoin, for example, climbed to tens-of-thousands of dollars per coin without being artificially supported from behind the curtain by major banks. Almost no one you will run into anywhere in the world actually owns any Bitcoin – The demand is artificially driven by a tiny minority of whale investors.
Brandon, do you see a possible dismantling of OPEC as the catalyst that finally starts the ball rolling for a USD collapse thereby strong arming the US into going along with CBDC or go broke? I say this because when Nixon pegged the dollar to oil to keeps it’s value afloat via reserve currency so they could print&spend, this mechanism is now in jeopardy. No need to trade oil on the global market in USD if its decentralized, right?
Not really, because Nixon didn’t peg the dollar to oil; rather, he created protection agreements with large oil producers like Saudi Arabia and THEY pegged oil to the dollar. That led to the adoption of the dollar becoming the petro-currency. So, the protection agreements would have to falter or be replaced before US petro-status is lost. As far as I can tell, the break up of OPEC doesn’t really change the existing agreements with the US. All it does is change the existing agreements between OPEC members to limit production. Oil would still be traded in dollars. This is part of the reason why the US is bombing Iran – We are servicing our agreements with oil producers in the region. A lot of people think it’s all about Israel, but the Gulf States were the one’s calling most for the Iranian regime to be taken down (because if they finish developing nukes, the Gulf would fall into chaos).