"(Norway has) now rejected the cashless agenda. From the 1st of October, all shops are required by law to accept real physical cash as a form of payment." For payments less than 20,000 NOK (about $1,800).
Just a little observation and please don’t think I’m criticising Bernie as I’ve seen this excuse many a time. Retailers and businesses say they can’t take cash for insurance purposes but that is FAKE information. Sorry, but they all can. It usually comes as part of an insurance package free of charge and cannot be removed to save money - this applies to shops and also often to offices. Cash limits tend to be £3k to £7.5k and if a business has a safe there are other limits depending on what they are. Usually there is no excess to pay but if there is one it’s usually low. A business is more likely to have a cyber attack now than a physical robbery but most shops don’t consider that & probably don’t have cover for that! Also, when the power goes off or the internet goes down how do they operate? Cash works in any situation. I present anyone telling me they won’t take cash with a risk assessment (verbally) based on the above and often I’ve found they often listen to me & the next time I visit they’re back with cash. Even if I pay by card I refuse to trade if they don’t take cash.
I’d challenge the retailer to check their insurance policy if they say they can’t take cash & while I’m at it, I would also ask if they have cyber cover for electronic trading. It just might make them think.
The larger chains may remove the cash part of their insurance to save money (these are usually bespoke combined policies); their policies will be underwritten differently, but they can add it back in if we stop using them…
Every time I listen to you, Ahmad, I love you more. I don't know if you're secretly reading my book or just eavesdropping on my dreams, but you keep bringing up the exact point I'm wanting to make, just when I've barely thought it.
My recent video, recorded after this but before I listened to it, is called BitCoin vs. the Caret, which is about my system: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/bitcoin-vs-the-caret. It responds to an interview of Mathew Crawford and, if you read the comments, has gotten quite ugly.
I felt his position that crypto-scams were 'a mosquito bite' was somewhat callous. He has now said that "The caret is a nonsensical system that nobody who has studied Economics well will spend much time discussing," that I am 'dancing on the first step of a very long stairway,' that I should do the research to prove to myself that I'm wrong rather than expecting him to 'hold my hand' through the basics. My decade of studying geo-economics was useless without a mentor or advanced technical degrees, so I'm like 'a person who doesn't know how to balance an equation designing a nuclear power plant, except the risks are much larger.'
His most recent comment is, "I do not have the time to explain how learning to do basic research and math is productive in technical fields. If you got to this age without trying it, and that the suggestion is merely an appeal to authority, then you have signaled to me that more time spent is both wasted and dangerous."
The caret system, that Mathew doesn't want to know about, is what you're describing in the principle of subsidiarity. It could turn all of our communities into Liberland without leaving home. The basic premise is that only the local community--a few thousand people--has the right to issue the mortgages and the credit to repay it, distributed equally to all commoners.
You mentioned ten years as the time set by Switzerland. In Santa Cruz, I would set it at 8 so that the swarm of college students, developers and homeless wouldn't be eligible for commoner benefits. In my Appalachian hometown, where they want to attract homebuyers, I'd make it immediate on buying a home. But I set 5 years as a hiatus where everyone who is a transient returns to where they were born or have family.
On migrants, you hit the nail on the head with, first, not creating them through military intervention and financial aggression. I was at some hot springs with my daughters and hanging out in the hot tub with a Latino couple. He had done a lot of the construction there. He told me about all the migrants he knew of personally coming in, getting benefits, with no papers, sometimes with felonies. He had gone through the process years ago to become a citizen and felt something bizarre was going on.
In my book, I talk about how only a militia from elsewhere will enact atrocities. Even the police and military won't follow orders against their own neighbors. It's how the Constitution got put into place after Shay's rebellion--and that's the one point on which I disagreed with you: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-constitution-coup.
In any case, it was chilling to have those reports confirmed. I hadn't known if they were fear-mongering but this was an unsolicited testimonial about people he knew.
And yes, I am known to be the queen of cash. We joke that it just makes its way around our whole dance and fitness community, in a full circle. But anonymity isn't necessarily a good thing-- the caret is based on your reputation as a commoner. Every exchange is a relationship. There's no tax when spent locally, only the pension contribution. There's no possibility of scams, it's entirely built on reciprocity. I can't wait until we get a chance to talk about it. It's going to be a great conversation!
During the plandemic in Italy you couldn't even go into your bank without the 'Green Pass'. My brother couldn't take cash from his own bank or do any other transactions as not only you were not physically allowed to go inside the bank without the Green Pass (which required you to be jabbed AND boosted at on point) but also the bank clerk couldn't log into your account without your Green Pass number!! Crazy dystopian times that were only a test for our dystopian future, which italians failed miserably unfortunately...
Total control of the masses via insidious 'nudges' (closing banks; removing cash points; providing 'cool' apps; tinkering with the law) and seductive ('convenience') means. It's ramping up. Usury on steroids. Stock up on food, etc.; pay off your debts; hunker down; read e.g. Dean Henderson's books; and keep your heart and soul intact.
Local people are getting together and realise the millions sucked out of their communities using credit cards. The debt folds over and over and over with every transaction when the simple solution is to just get two weeks or one month or more and your cc debt disappears. I know they've grown the impoverished populations that have no choice but there must be an answer to this with local community banks there to only serve the community.
The brainwashing over alleged Covid transmission and cash was incredible. In 2021 I travelled to a car dealership for a service on my car. I ignored the voice message the day before telling me they were cashless and turned up with cash to pay. I told them I’d had fraud on my account and had no card on me. Eventually they ‘decided’ to accept the cash.
The service advisor sanitised his hands (after I had counted out my money in front of him) and put on gloves. After checking the cash, it was put into an envelope and into the safe, presumably for ‘quarantine’.
He then removed his gloves and sanitised his hands once more for good measure.
I had a shocker of a weekend but thought i could do it today, Mon 2 Dec, they are no longer accepting evidence... this what it said below - (I'd have thought with that phrasing all day today was still acceptable!)
This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence
The deadline for submissions was Monday 2 December 2024.
They actually accepted my evidence! But asked me whether I wanted it to be confidential or anonymous? Bleddy hell it messed with my melon, we can be so slowed down by these questions!!
Apparently Norway recently passed laws to prevent the abolishment of cash: https://open.substack.com/pub/petersweden/p/it-happened-norway-just-rejected?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1hef7h
"(Norway has) now rejected the cashless agenda. From the 1st of October, all shops are required by law to accept real physical cash as a form of payment." For payments less than 20,000 NOK (about $1,800).
Just a little observation and please don’t think I’m criticising Bernie as I’ve seen this excuse many a time. Retailers and businesses say they can’t take cash for insurance purposes but that is FAKE information. Sorry, but they all can. It usually comes as part of an insurance package free of charge and cannot be removed to save money - this applies to shops and also often to offices. Cash limits tend to be £3k to £7.5k and if a business has a safe there are other limits depending on what they are. Usually there is no excess to pay but if there is one it’s usually low. A business is more likely to have a cyber attack now than a physical robbery but most shops don’t consider that & probably don’t have cover for that! Also, when the power goes off or the internet goes down how do they operate? Cash works in any situation. I present anyone telling me they won’t take cash with a risk assessment (verbally) based on the above and often I’ve found they often listen to me & the next time I visit they’re back with cash. Even if I pay by card I refuse to trade if they don’t take cash.
I’d challenge the retailer to check their insurance policy if they say they can’t take cash & while I’m at it, I would also ask if they have cyber cover for electronic trading. It just might make them think.
The larger chains may remove the cash part of their insurance to save money (these are usually bespoke combined policies); their policies will be underwritten differently, but they can add it back in if we stop using them…
I hope that helps
I do repeat myself! I need to learn how to edit on here 😊
Every time I listen to you, Ahmad, I love you more. I don't know if you're secretly reading my book or just eavesdropping on my dreams, but you keep bringing up the exact point I'm wanting to make, just when I've barely thought it.
My recent video, recorded after this but before I listened to it, is called BitCoin vs. the Caret, which is about my system: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/bitcoin-vs-the-caret. It responds to an interview of Mathew Crawford and, if you read the comments, has gotten quite ugly.
I felt his position that crypto-scams were 'a mosquito bite' was somewhat callous. He has now said that "The caret is a nonsensical system that nobody who has studied Economics well will spend much time discussing," that I am 'dancing on the first step of a very long stairway,' that I should do the research to prove to myself that I'm wrong rather than expecting him to 'hold my hand' through the basics. My decade of studying geo-economics was useless without a mentor or advanced technical degrees, so I'm like 'a person who doesn't know how to balance an equation designing a nuclear power plant, except the risks are much larger.'
His most recent comment is, "I do not have the time to explain how learning to do basic research and math is productive in technical fields. If you got to this age without trying it, and that the suggestion is merely an appeal to authority, then you have signaled to me that more time spent is both wasted and dangerous."
The caret system, that Mathew doesn't want to know about, is what you're describing in the principle of subsidiarity. It could turn all of our communities into Liberland without leaving home. The basic premise is that only the local community--a few thousand people--has the right to issue the mortgages and the credit to repay it, distributed equally to all commoners.
You mentioned ten years as the time set by Switzerland. In Santa Cruz, I would set it at 8 so that the swarm of college students, developers and homeless wouldn't be eligible for commoner benefits. In my Appalachian hometown, where they want to attract homebuyers, I'd make it immediate on buying a home. But I set 5 years as a hiatus where everyone who is a transient returns to where they were born or have family.
On migrants, you hit the nail on the head with, first, not creating them through military intervention and financial aggression. I was at some hot springs with my daughters and hanging out in the hot tub with a Latino couple. He had done a lot of the construction there. He told me about all the migrants he knew of personally coming in, getting benefits, with no papers, sometimes with felonies. He had gone through the process years ago to become a citizen and felt something bizarre was going on.
In my book, I talk about how only a militia from elsewhere will enact atrocities. Even the police and military won't follow orders against their own neighbors. It's how the Constitution got put into place after Shay's rebellion--and that's the one point on which I disagreed with you: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-constitution-coup.
In any case, it was chilling to have those reports confirmed. I hadn't known if they were fear-mongering but this was an unsolicited testimonial about people he knew.
And yes, I am known to be the queen of cash. We joke that it just makes its way around our whole dance and fitness community, in a full circle. But anonymity isn't necessarily a good thing-- the caret is based on your reputation as a commoner. Every exchange is a relationship. There's no tax when spent locally, only the pension contribution. There's no possibility of scams, it's entirely built on reciprocity. I can't wait until we get a chance to talk about it. It's going to be a great conversation!
During the plandemic in Italy you couldn't even go into your bank without the 'Green Pass'. My brother couldn't take cash from his own bank or do any other transactions as not only you were not physically allowed to go inside the bank without the Green Pass (which required you to be jabbed AND boosted at on point) but also the bank clerk couldn't log into your account without your Green Pass number!! Crazy dystopian times that were only a test for our dystopian future, which italians failed miserably unfortunately...
Total control of the masses via insidious 'nudges' (closing banks; removing cash points; providing 'cool' apps; tinkering with the law) and seductive ('convenience') means. It's ramping up. Usury on steroids. Stock up on food, etc.; pay off your debts; hunker down; read e.g. Dean Henderson's books; and keep your heart and soul intact.
Local people are getting together and realise the millions sucked out of their communities using credit cards. The debt folds over and over and over with every transaction when the simple solution is to just get two weeks or one month or more and your cc debt disappears. I know they've grown the impoverished populations that have no choice but there must be an answer to this with local community banks there to only serve the community.
The brainwashing over alleged Covid transmission and cash was incredible. In 2021 I travelled to a car dealership for a service on my car. I ignored the voice message the day before telling me they were cashless and turned up with cash to pay. I told them I’d had fraud on my account and had no card on me. Eventually they ‘decided’ to accept the cash.
The service advisor sanitised his hands (after I had counted out my money in front of him) and put on gloves. After checking the cash, it was put into an envelope and into the safe, presumably for ‘quarantine’.
He then removed his gloves and sanitised his hands once more for good measure.
I simply shook my head 🤦🏻♀️
I had a shocker of a weekend but thought i could do it today, Mon 2 Dec, they are no longer accepting evidence... this what it said below - (I'd have thought with that phrasing all day today was still acceptable!)
This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence
The deadline for submissions was Monday 2 December 2024.
They actually accepted my evidence! But asked me whether I wanted it to be confidential or anonymous? Bleddy hell it messed with my melon, we can be so slowed down by these questions!!
Write to your MP?
I wrote to treascom@parliament.uk anyhow telling them they still needed to accept it