[2012] cashless economy, here we come

I wanted to hold this post back as the political comment on the blog is best made by Sonus for a week while I concentrate on other issues but I got to my mate's too late today and it had already gone up. As you know, once readers get their RSS feed, there's nothing which can be done. It's a pity.

I'll still post the Incest post though and Sonus's part two will appear tomorrow morning.


As we all tighten our belts and fail to really comprehend what Wolfie said about the last quarter this year, reactions will vary.

Those who don’t accept the ‘Them’ scenario, that there is a malevolent, interlocked power keeping wars and human misery ticking over, will be buoyed up by the Roosevelt dictum, ‘All we have to fear is fear itself.’

Britain and America will pull out and let me quote Svali [§] again:

There will be massive bankruptcies nationwide. Europe will stabilize first and then Germany, France and England will have the strongest economies …

The economist pundits who were shown not to have a clue [or else they knew precisely what was going to happen and dissembled], will preach confidence and not to listen to the doomsayers.

Quite frankly, if there is a way out and the analysis of many, including myself, turns out to be wrong, if construction does begin again and the first shoots of confidence pop their heads up, then this blog, if it still exists, will issue a grovelling apology.

People like Lord T are basically optimists and it’s the optimists who get us out of things. So well done.

On the other hand, I left a bit out of that quote above.

… and will institute, through the UN, an international currency. Japan will also pull out, although their economy will be weakened. The good news is that if a person is debt-free, owes nothing to the government or credit debt, and can live self sufficiently, they may do better than others.

Yes, we do recover but into a brand new world where money and credit is now reconstituted, having been shown [by Them] that you can’t trust people, especially sub-primes, with it.

To enable Nanny to rebuild the devastated economy, a new currency needs to be in force [Brown’s contribution to saving humanity] and no one buys or sells except in this currency. It’s not even a currency but a cashless economy, a reaction against the huge, reckless borrowing by governments such as Brown’s which left the country up to it’s neck in debt.

With the stroke of a pen, all debt is now wiped out by good ole Nanny Europe and anyone playing along, e.g. Ireland by ratifying Lisbon, is rewarded.

After some time, even plastic becomes obsolete and a small veri-chip in the wrist is promoted with huge discounts on accommodation and food prices, which eventually means that the only way to eat is to have one of these.

How far away is this?

Look at what’s been happening at local level in Russia. There’s a post 1990 tradition of truly free enterprise, which the mafia naturally tried to muscle in on and control but it was beyond them as every time they closed someone down for selling, [see the film Brat for an example of this], grandmothers would pop up selling staple items such as coleslaw, other produce and cottage cheese.

People mostly have dachas or gardens and they can revert quickly to growing their own produce. The more enterprising keep livestock, kill a cow, chop it up and store the pieces over winter. Bottling with the vacuum sealing is also a long tradition there and can return quickly, as the infrastructure is still in place.

But here’s the rub. Local authorities won’t let it return.

From about 2001 onwards, there was a major move to construct hypermarts under local government control, with accredited [read ‘ripped off’] stall holders and the iniquitous system of ‘concessions’ in which the law colludes in killing off genuine free enterprise.

Then began systematic destruction of all local stalls, kiosks and people just appearing on the streets to sell their wares, which was the one major, positive feature about the Russian economy. They simply disappeared and people who could once come downstairs to buy something now had to travel by car to the hypermart.

At the same time, high end chains such as Metro and Bahetlye became emporia to which the new middle-class flocked. What people failed to realize was that it was the same process as in Britain years earlier.

Let’s check. Could I produce my own ready-cooked meals, soups, confectionery, as well as keeping a supply of cigarettes, go on to the street here with a little table and chair and start selling?

How long would I last and who would be the people to stop me?

Therefore, ASDA and Morrisons [or whoever your local is] assume huge importance in your life. Imagine you had to run your wrist through a small electronic hoop [see Casino Royale] even to enter the store. Imagine that one day your chip did not register [just as occasionally your card at the checkout shows credit limit reached] because someone in a ministry had decided that you ‘failed to qualify’.

Any reason – slow in paying council tax, wrote things against the government on your blog.

Where do you now go to eat? After two weeks or so, having exhausted your family’s patience, it will become apparent that it’s either going to be dustbin picking or the country to grow seeds.

Can you go to the country in Britain to grow seeds? Would the cabbages you grow happily remain in the ground or would someone come along to f--- you over?

Therefore, the only possible way to eat is going to be to keep well hidden within the extended family and let the family take up the slack.

Oh but how many don’t have the extended family any more? How many live either on their own or with one partner? To you, I’d say, ‘Your f---ed, mate.’ The instant someone decides you’ve been a naughty boy or girl [drugs, wheelie bin offence, it doesn’t matter], you’re off the list and don’t eat.

This is how they are going to do it. This is how they can most effectively have us by the short and curlies.

Independent thought? Libertarianism? Thing of the past, fellow citizens.


§ [Interviewer HJ Springer, Chief Editor CentrExNews.com., 2000]