They should have quit making pennies decades ago, when people began tossing them into those containers on the cash register counter. Nickels should be dumped as well, and quarters can be replaced with dimes and half-dollars.
Dollars, "cash," that is another matter. Put your plastic away and pay cash for everything you possibly can.
No, my friend, it was not the first step toward destroying our physical currency. The first step was in Anno Domini 1792 when the congress passed the most perverse price-fixing scam in the "mint act" which declared a "dollar" to mean a twentieth of an ounce of gold, or 371.25 grains of silver, or a certain number of penny weights of copper. This destructive act led to coin shortages.
The establishment of the unconstitutional "first bank of the United States" and its successor, the second bank, and the current Feral Reserveless scam were next steps. None of these things were quite so destructive as the 1933 executive order by evil communist demon worshipper Franklin Roosevelt banning the ownership of gold by Americans. He began inflating from $20/ounce to $35 per ounce.
The Bretton Woods accord was an attempt in 1944 to limit further damage. It lasted more or less until 1971. The murder of JFK led to the installation of LBJ as the puppet of the freemason demon worshippers of the "deep state" which is really the house of Windsor operating through cut outs. LBJ did another major thing to destroy our physical currency by taking the silver out of the dimes and quarters and reducing the half dollar to 70% silver. Nixon finished the job of making the physical currency into pot metal instead of precious metal. Nixon also ended in 1971 the last connexion to gold. Nixon was also a puppet of the deep state filthy Skull & Bones demon worshipping scum.
Yes, getting rid of the penny matters, and yes it is meant to hurt Americans as much as possible, and yes it is profoundly evil. But, no, it is not the first step. It is one of a long series of purposely evil choices to make other people suffer as much as possible. The politicians and bureau rats hate us and want our families to suffer, die, and the survivors to be enslaved to the demons they worship. They are profoundly, deeply, and in many cases irredeemably evil.
Happily a bunch of us got together and invented millions of kinds of alternatives to the dollar. Jim Blanchard got some of his wealthy buddies to donate enough money to deep state puppet Gerry Ford's re-election campaign so he ended the ban on American gold ownership. Some states have begun issuing "gold backs" and other gold and silver alternatives.
I've been in this business of free market money since 1998. In that time I've worked very hard to meet many of the people who do the work of making things happen and corresponding with others. Others like Roger Ver, Doug Jackson, Bernard von NotHaus, Dave Scotese, and more victims of state violence against freedom.
When I said "Whether we realize it or not, last week the United States took its first official step toward destroying our physical currency," I meant that in a very literal sense. Of course, the actions you mentioned above degraded the value of our currency, even sent it teetering in some cases. But they did not literally 'destroy' it, as in remove it from physical existence. This is indeed the first 'official' step to do just that, and to replace it with a CBDC.
And as I have already discussed many of the things you mention here - including Bretton Woods and E.O. 6102 - in previous articles, I did not wish to cover them further. After all, I do strive for brevity here, so keeping things tight without excessive repetition is vital.
Although I have never covered them removing silver from dimes, quarters, and halves after 1964 - that might be fun, especially when considering the who, when, and how.
You’re welcome, friend. I am not one to ever seek brevity.
It is true that there was this fellow Shakespeare who wrote this play about the tragic history of Hamlet, prince of Denmark. In that play he wrote a line for one of the characters, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” However, that character, Polonius, is one of the most long-winded characters, and he delivers this ironic morsel of advice during one of his most rambling speeches in the play. Thus, I have never taken it as serious advice. -grin-
Yes, I do think that taking the silver out of the coins was a fundamental destruction of the currency, because it made what had been 90% silver into nickel steel and copper. In 1982 the treasury began making the penny out of zinc with a micro-coating of copper so it would appear to be the same. Cut open one of today’s pennies with a hacksaw and you will find it is white metal inside. Not sure if it is a good source of zinc for human consumption, either. lol
One of the interesting consequences of the removal of the silver from the coins after 1964 was how Charles de Gaulle, the president of the fifth republic of France, reacted. He saw that action, debasing the coinage, as symbolic of the way the ancient Roman emperors tried to pass bad coins as good. Combined with the escalation of American involvement in Vietnam, a place the French used to call “French IndoChina” and about which de Gaulle was very familiar, led the French prez to conclude that the Americans were going to destroy the value of the dollar.
So it was primarily de Gaulle in 1964-5 who began the “run” on the gold stores in Fort Knox and at West Point. The French govt began redeeming their US dollar foreign currency reserves for gold, and word got around quickly. By 1968 there were daily airlifts of gold to London. A “gold pool” tried to suppress the world price, but it failed. They deliberately stacked too much gold on the weighing floor at Rothschilds where the redemptions were taking place, and broke the floor. It crashed into the basement. So they closed redemptions. But the bankers in Zurich were happy to open a redemption centre a couple weeks later, so the weighing floor got fixed. lol
About that time the price of gold on the world market was significantly above the redemption price of $35/oz so a person with international banking connexions could take dollars, redeem them for gold, sell the gold for more dollars, and redeem again, and again, and again. When Nixon was ordered to close “the gold window” the supplies in Fort Knox were mostly “coin melt bars” and other odds and ends. The world price was $42/oz and people were having a bonanza making the gold to dollars to gold trade work.
We live in a world made crazy by terrible people. A reckoning comes.
I will not be taking the black pill. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was treason against the citizens of the United States, and all "money" created since is by definition null and void - see Throckmorton (98 U.S. 61 (1878): "Fraud vitiates every thing, and a judgment equally with a contract -- that is, a judgment obtained directly by fraud, and not merely a judgment founded on a fraudulent instrument..."
I get that they cost more, that if we take this at face value, it makes sense but we can’t take anything they do at face value, we have to look at how it fits into wider agendas and sadly we know they want rid of cash entirely.
In Europe several countries skipped the 1- and 2-eurocent coins many years ago. At first the supermarket check-out rounded to 5 eurocent when people paid cash, then the actual coins disappeared.
Computer will be saying no to some people. I will be one of them. If I'm not it means I've sold out and I'm destined for the lake of fire,and maybe I already know.
Penny's used to be good for doing that thing where you snap your fingers behind your ear so you thumb could launch the penny at rocket speed towards someone's head. I mean, they were useful, man.
I won't lie. I've always had an aversion to pennies. I don't like touching them, unless I'm having to do a scratch off. Otherwise they have always ended up at the bottom of my purse, where they stay for the rest of all time lol.
My country lost its penny many moons ago now!! It irks me 😑
The reason losing the penny pisses me off is entirely sentimental...penny candy, my grandpa saving me his pennys in a gigantic industrial mayo container every day since I was born and handing it to me at 19 😆 finding pennys in the couch as a kid or on the street lol my brother and I would hunt all over for them...Just to take it to the corner store and stock up on those penny candies...
So understand this, Tara. I am one of those people who will stop and lean down to pick up a stray coin - including pennies - off the ground.. Sadly, they are working to bring those days to an end.
We lost our penny a long time ago in Canada. Still have cash. The new prime minister is worrisome, but he is not firmly in place. He barely made it in. Hopefully we can vote him out sooner than people imagine. I make an effort to use cash much as possible. That is a key way to stop the digital currency!
Over the last few years Canada has been more 'Liberty-minded' about physical money than the US (that $100 silver coin was brilliant, IMO), and when you all dumped your pennies the potential for digital currency wasn't even a thing yet. Hence my concern with this - the timing, along with Trump's push toward 'private' crypto-currencies. I am... let's call it, 'suspicious.'
And I agree, I use cash whenever and wherever possible!
The implement the Control Grid via gradual approximation. Set up proxies in the form of near similar methods, implement the full method when we are distracted by manufactured terrorism, financial crisis, bird flu, etc.
50-100-200 years ago, pennies made practical sense. Now with inflation they don't. But make no mistake, the government loves digital everything including money so they can track and control us. I still use cash as much as possible.
Well, how very gracious of you to 'wait' LOL Honestly, I was trying to answer with an in-depth post here, but it was starting to look like a new article. As there are far too many layers (many of which I have already covered in previous posts), I'll answer with a simple, one-paragraph response.
The difference is 'choice'. With a debt card you still have the choice to use it or not, since the option to use cash anonymously to make purchases, or give loans to friends and family, is available to you. With CBDC, however, that choice is eradicated, because (unless you reside around a locally-based economy which utilizes either barter or bullion as a means of trade) it is the ONLY option available. You either go digital (meaning they can control and track your every purchase), or you go analog... and maybe starve to death, since you are 100% outside of the system.
I am in the potentially willing to starve to death camp. I would like to not be subjugated and turned into a serf. I had contemplated having a “Just Say No to the Great ReSERF” t-shirt printed a few years ago after reading Klaus Schwab’s charming books and the report on the Going Direct Reset circa 2019 when the G7 bankers met in Jackson Hole. If this comes to pass, the digital gulag, a lot of people do not understand that even their own children will not belong to them. If one refuses a poison jab, their “money”….which it won’t be really…will simply not be available. It is so much more worse than track and trace. There are worse things than death….the digital gulag will be one of them.
To that end, my song of the day is Lenny Kravitz, Let Love Rule. Love….empathy, things psychopaths do not think about. It is the world I choose to live in, even if inside my own mind and heart, rather than the destructive one they prefer. I am definitely not in their club anymore.
I should add, though, before anyone assumes I am too nice, that I stated on court record that I’d start my own law firm and call it Bitches In Britches so I am just not that nice anymore.
Thank you. It is the perspective of one who played chicken with psychopaths so I know what we are up against. Thankfully, I read and am really smart, am good at pulling rabbits out of my *ss. They don’t have empathy or a value system that most humans have and they want literally everything, particularly complete control over others.
Didn’t mean to pick a fight. Just saying that on the trip that began with silver dollars and ends with cbdc, where we are now, with plastic cards and online banking statements, is far closer to cbdc than to silver dollars. They’ve softened us up. Went to a Springfield Cardinals game the other night. If you want to buy peanuts and Cracker Jacks NO CASH ACCEPTED!!! Debit cards only.
That is extremely frustrating, and I am really surprised a venture in Missouri is getting away with it; maybe our fellow citizens HAVE gotten soft, at least on this subject. We need to start pushing our state-house to reintroduce a payment-choice protection bill; they had one which failed in 2021, but the political landscape has shifted right since then.
And I agree 100%, we are FAR away from silver, while the CBDC is right on our doorstep; it's one of the reasons why I posted this, as a fair warning to those who might be invested in knowing such things :-)
So I watched this last night... wow. Even though I already knew much of what they covered, to hear it all at once, in such stark-yet-honest tones... again, wow!
Thanks, Tania. I watched the trailer, and as it sounds like many of the ideas I promote here on "The Stone Age" are included, I will undoubtedly enjoy it. Have it bookmarked to watch later - appreciate the suggestion!
With a debit card, you still have access to your money in the bank or wherever as an individual. Everybody has different debit cards and different accounts...not connected. With CBDCs they will be able to control your access from a central point, like having some A/i monster in control. All accounts will essentially be connected to that big brother dude in the cloud. Your digital account will still be yours somewhat, but they will be able to turn it off and on as they want....especially if you have been a bad little human.
Pretty sure they can do all that now. Don’t get me wrong, cbdc is bullshit, my point being is that they have already basically introduced CBDC, it’s just masquerading as debit/ credit cards. They have softened us up with plastic money. And it’s all for our convenience of course. And we pay interest and/or penalty fees for the convenience of using them. The central control structures have already been established, just not fully deployed yet. You can bet your life savings on it.
They should have quit making pennies decades ago, when people began tossing them into those containers on the cash register counter. Nickels should be dumped as well, and quarters can be replaced with dimes and half-dollars.
Dollars, "cash," that is another matter. Put your plastic away and pay cash for everything you possibly can.
What do you think coins are. They are cash as well.
No, my friend, it was not the first step toward destroying our physical currency. The first step was in Anno Domini 1792 when the congress passed the most perverse price-fixing scam in the "mint act" which declared a "dollar" to mean a twentieth of an ounce of gold, or 371.25 grains of silver, or a certain number of penny weights of copper. This destructive act led to coin shortages.
The establishment of the unconstitutional "first bank of the United States" and its successor, the second bank, and the current Feral Reserveless scam were next steps. None of these things were quite so destructive as the 1933 executive order by evil communist demon worshipper Franklin Roosevelt banning the ownership of gold by Americans. He began inflating from $20/ounce to $35 per ounce.
The Bretton Woods accord was an attempt in 1944 to limit further damage. It lasted more or less until 1971. The murder of JFK led to the installation of LBJ as the puppet of the freemason demon worshippers of the "deep state" which is really the house of Windsor operating through cut outs. LBJ did another major thing to destroy our physical currency by taking the silver out of the dimes and quarters and reducing the half dollar to 70% silver. Nixon finished the job of making the physical currency into pot metal instead of precious metal. Nixon also ended in 1971 the last connexion to gold. Nixon was also a puppet of the deep state filthy Skull & Bones demon worshipping scum.
Yes, getting rid of the penny matters, and yes it is meant to hurt Americans as much as possible, and yes it is profoundly evil. But, no, it is not the first step. It is one of a long series of purposely evil choices to make other people suffer as much as possible. The politicians and bureau rats hate us and want our families to suffer, die, and the survivors to be enslaved to the demons they worship. They are profoundly, deeply, and in many cases irredeemably evil.
Happily a bunch of us got together and invented millions of kinds of alternatives to the dollar. Jim Blanchard got some of his wealthy buddies to donate enough money to deep state puppet Gerry Ford's re-election campaign so he ended the ban on American gold ownership. Some states have begun issuing "gold backs" and other gold and silver alternatives.
I've been in this business of free market money since 1998. In that time I've worked very hard to meet many of the people who do the work of making things happen and corresponding with others. Others like Roger Ver, Doug Jackson, Bernard von NotHaus, Dave Scotese, and more victims of state violence against freedom.
I appreciate the extensive reply, Jim.
When I said "Whether we realize it or not, last week the United States took its first official step toward destroying our physical currency," I meant that in a very literal sense. Of course, the actions you mentioned above degraded the value of our currency, even sent it teetering in some cases. But they did not literally 'destroy' it, as in remove it from physical existence. This is indeed the first 'official' step to do just that, and to replace it with a CBDC.
And as I have already discussed many of the things you mention here - including Bretton Woods and E.O. 6102 - in previous articles, I did not wish to cover them further. After all, I do strive for brevity here, so keeping things tight without excessive repetition is vital.
Although I have never covered them removing silver from dimes, quarters, and halves after 1964 - that might be fun, especially when considering the who, when, and how.
So thanks for the suggestion!
You’re welcome, friend. I am not one to ever seek brevity.
It is true that there was this fellow Shakespeare who wrote this play about the tragic history of Hamlet, prince of Denmark. In that play he wrote a line for one of the characters, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” However, that character, Polonius, is one of the most long-winded characters, and he delivers this ironic morsel of advice during one of his most rambling speeches in the play. Thus, I have never taken it as serious advice. -grin-
Yes, I do think that taking the silver out of the coins was a fundamental destruction of the currency, because it made what had been 90% silver into nickel steel and copper. In 1982 the treasury began making the penny out of zinc with a micro-coating of copper so it would appear to be the same. Cut open one of today’s pennies with a hacksaw and you will find it is white metal inside. Not sure if it is a good source of zinc for human consumption, either. lol
One of the interesting consequences of the removal of the silver from the coins after 1964 was how Charles de Gaulle, the president of the fifth republic of France, reacted. He saw that action, debasing the coinage, as symbolic of the way the ancient Roman emperors tried to pass bad coins as good. Combined with the escalation of American involvement in Vietnam, a place the French used to call “French IndoChina” and about which de Gaulle was very familiar, led the French prez to conclude that the Americans were going to destroy the value of the dollar.
So it was primarily de Gaulle in 1964-5 who began the “run” on the gold stores in Fort Knox and at West Point. The French govt began redeeming their US dollar foreign currency reserves for gold, and word got around quickly. By 1968 there were daily airlifts of gold to London. A “gold pool” tried to suppress the world price, but it failed. They deliberately stacked too much gold on the weighing floor at Rothschilds where the redemptions were taking place, and broke the floor. It crashed into the basement. So they closed redemptions. But the bankers in Zurich were happy to open a redemption centre a couple weeks later, so the weighing floor got fixed. lol
About that time the price of gold on the world market was significantly above the redemption price of $35/oz so a person with international banking connexions could take dollars, redeem them for gold, sell the gold for more dollars, and redeem again, and again, and again. When Nixon was ordered to close “the gold window” the supplies in Fort Knox were mostly “coin melt bars” and other odds and ends. The world price was $42/oz and people were having a bonanza making the gold to dollars to gold trade work.
We live in a world made crazy by terrible people. A reckoning comes.
I will not be taking the black pill. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was treason against the citizens of the United States, and all "money" created since is by definition null and void - see Throckmorton (98 U.S. 61 (1878): "Fraud vitiates every thing, and a judgment equally with a contract -- that is, a judgment obtained directly by fraud, and not merely a judgment founded on a fraudulent instrument..."
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Well put, good sir!
And thank you kindly - hope your day has gone well, as well! :-)
I get that they cost more, that if we take this at face value, it makes sense but we can’t take anything they do at face value, we have to look at how it fits into wider agendas and sadly we know they want rid of cash entirely.
Ugh, this is so sad, penny's are magical.
In Europe several countries skipped the 1- and 2-eurocent coins many years ago. At first the supermarket check-out rounded to 5 eurocent when people paid cash, then the actual coins disappeared.
Computer will be saying no to some people. I will be one of them. If I'm not it means I've sold out and I'm destined for the lake of fire,and maybe I already know.
Penny's used to be good for doing that thing where you snap your fingers behind your ear so you thumb could launch the penny at rocket speed towards someone's head. I mean, they were useful, man.
Projectile weaponry... another lost benefit! :-D
I won't lie. I've always had an aversion to pennies. I don't like touching them, unless I'm having to do a scratch off. Otherwise they have always ended up at the bottom of my purse, where they stay for the rest of all time lol.
LOL Well, at least your handbag won't continue to get heavier after this is enacted... ;-)
My country lost its penny many moons ago now!! It irks me 😑
The reason losing the penny pisses me off is entirely sentimental...penny candy, my grandpa saving me his pennys in a gigantic industrial mayo container every day since I was born and handing it to me at 19 😆 finding pennys in the couch as a kid or on the street lol my brother and I would hunt all over for them...Just to take it to the corner store and stock up on those penny candies...
So understand this, Tara. I am one of those people who will stop and lean down to pick up a stray coin - including pennies - off the ground.. Sadly, they are working to bring those days to an end.
We lost our penny a long time ago in Canada. Still have cash. The new prime minister is worrisome, but he is not firmly in place. He barely made it in. Hopefully we can vote him out sooner than people imagine. I make an effort to use cash much as possible. That is a key way to stop the digital currency!
Over the last few years Canada has been more 'Liberty-minded' about physical money than the US (that $100 silver coin was brilliant, IMO), and when you all dumped your pennies the potential for digital currency wasn't even a thing yet. Hence my concern with this - the timing, along with Trump's push toward 'private' crypto-currencies. I am... let's call it, 'suspicious.'
And I agree, I use cash whenever and wherever possible!
I guess this means we'll all have to dig into our change jars. Probably have $2 worth of pennies laying around the house.
The implement the Control Grid via gradual approximation. Set up proxies in the form of near similar methods, implement the full method when we are distracted by manufactured terrorism, financial crisis, bird flu, etc.
50-100-200 years ago, pennies made practical sense. Now with inflation they don't. But make no mistake, the government loves digital everything including money so they can track and control us. I still use cash as much as possible.
What’s the difference between a debit card and CBDC? No rush, I’ll wait.
Well, how very gracious of you to 'wait' LOL Honestly, I was trying to answer with an in-depth post here, but it was starting to look like a new article. As there are far too many layers (many of which I have already covered in previous posts), I'll answer with a simple, one-paragraph response.
The difference is 'choice'. With a debt card you still have the choice to use it or not, since the option to use cash anonymously to make purchases, or give loans to friends and family, is available to you. With CBDC, however, that choice is eradicated, because (unless you reside around a locally-based economy which utilizes either barter or bullion as a means of trade) it is the ONLY option available. You either go digital (meaning they can control and track your every purchase), or you go analog... and maybe starve to death, since you are 100% outside of the system.
Humble opinion, natch.
I am in the potentially willing to starve to death camp. I would like to not be subjugated and turned into a serf. I had contemplated having a “Just Say No to the Great ReSERF” t-shirt printed a few years ago after reading Klaus Schwab’s charming books and the report on the Going Direct Reset circa 2019 when the G7 bankers met in Jackson Hole. If this comes to pass, the digital gulag, a lot of people do not understand that even their own children will not belong to them. If one refuses a poison jab, their “money”….which it won’t be really…will simply not be available. It is so much more worse than track and trace. There are worse things than death….the digital gulag will be one of them.
This is good, Elizabeth... I mean really, REALLY good *salute
To that end, my song of the day is Lenny Kravitz, Let Love Rule. Love….empathy, things psychopaths do not think about. It is the world I choose to live in, even if inside my own mind and heart, rather than the destructive one they prefer. I am definitely not in their club anymore.
I should add, though, before anyone assumes I am too nice, that I stated on court record that I’d start my own law firm and call it Bitches In Britches so I am just not that nice anymore.
Thank you. It is the perspective of one who played chicken with psychopaths so I know what we are up against. Thankfully, I read and am really smart, am good at pulling rabbits out of my *ss. They don’t have empathy or a value system that most humans have and they want literally everything, particularly complete control over others.
Didn’t mean to pick a fight. Just saying that on the trip that began with silver dollars and ends with cbdc, where we are now, with plastic cards and online banking statements, is far closer to cbdc than to silver dollars. They’ve softened us up. Went to a Springfield Cardinals game the other night. If you want to buy peanuts and Cracker Jacks NO CASH ACCEPTED!!! Debit cards only.
That is extremely frustrating, and I am really surprised a venture in Missouri is getting away with it; maybe our fellow citizens HAVE gotten soft, at least on this subject. We need to start pushing our state-house to reintroduce a payment-choice protection bill; they had one which failed in 2021, but the political landscape has shifted right since then.
And I agree 100%, we are FAR away from silver, while the CBDC is right on our doorstep; it's one of the reasons why I posted this, as a fair warning to those who might be invested in knowing such things :-)
Worth a watch -
https://cbdctheendofmoney.com/
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So I watched this last night... wow. Even though I already knew much of what they covered, to hear it all at once, in such stark-yet-honest tones... again, wow!
Thanks again for sharing it...
Glad you enjoyed it and found the film to be an interesting watch!
Thanks, Tania. I watched the trailer, and as it sounds like many of the ideas I promote here on "The Stone Age" are included, I will undoubtedly enjoy it. Have it bookmarked to watch later - appreciate the suggestion!
With a debit card, you still have access to your money in the bank or wherever as an individual. Everybody has different debit cards and different accounts...not connected. With CBDCs they will be able to control your access from a central point, like having some A/i monster in control. All accounts will essentially be connected to that big brother dude in the cloud. Your digital account will still be yours somewhat, but they will be able to turn it off and on as they want....especially if you have been a bad little human.
Pretty sure they can do all that now. Don’t get me wrong, cbdc is bullshit, my point being is that they have already basically introduced CBDC, it’s just masquerading as debit/ credit cards. They have softened us up with plastic money. And it’s all for our convenience of course. And we pay interest and/or penalty fees for the convenience of using them. The central control structures have already been established, just not fully deployed yet. You can bet your life savings on it.
I am on the same page as you Charles.