Israeli Government Continues Push to Abolish Cash…

Are we prepared to survive in a cashless society?

 

Recently, I’ve read about the Israeli government pushing to cancel 200-shekel bills, as part of a long-term drift toward a 100% cashless future. I was aware that large-scale transactions in cash have been limited for some time now, but until this moment, I kind of overlooked the final goal of abolishing cash altogether.

This is an alarming trend.

Going cashless will hurt the most vulnerable, like seniors and technologically challenged people. Or think about a woman in an abusive marriage, who can’t access a bank account or credit cards. Those little bits of cash she manages to stash away may be her only path toward an emergency escape.

When you have no access to physical money, you can instantly become completely destitute if the government decides to freeze your account for any reason, like protesting mandatory vaccination. Abolishing cash means stripping away a large part of our independence, freedom, and privacy.

In Israel, the official pretext for limiting cash is cracking down on criminal groups. But a capable government should have ways of fighting organized crime without cutting into the rights and freedoms of law-abiding citizens.

“Stash up cash” is common preparedness advice. If there’s a natural disaster, war, or a massive cyber attack, if the power or WiFi are out and people can’t access banks or use their credit cards, physical money may be the only way to buy food and other essentials. In a country like Israel, with so much instability, canceling cash is an extremely short-sighted move.

All of this makes me think: how can you prepare for an emergency situation or a long-term crisis, with cash being no longer available?

Precious metals like silver and gold can be a huge advantage in this situation, since they’ve kept their intrinsic value for thousands of years. Foreign currencies may likewise be useful. [As a side note, governments that want to chip away at people’s freedoms may also crack down on the possession of precious metals and other valuables.]

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From Domestic Felicity, here.

REMINDER: The Shmini Atzeres Pogroms Were Coordinated by the State of Israel!

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” Rabbi Chananya Weissman is here to help.

An excerpt from his latest newsletter:

Thousands of invaders in dozens of locations all being totally on the same page about their ability to rampage in heavily protected border communities for hours, despite Apache helicopters and reinforcements being minutes away (and nothing being too far in Israel), is overwhelming evidence, beyond any reasonable doubt, of coordination.

On top of that add children and old men with canes being brought to loot in a supposed active war zone, also without concern that they would run into the IDF at any point.

We also have testimonies that soldiers were given stand down orders, and that urgent requests for help throughout the massacre went unheeded when help was minutes away. Testimony is evidence in every legal system.

The only reasonable explanation is corroboration to enable the attacks, though of course, if pressed, the criminals and their lawyers (devil’s advocates) will come up with some story and hope people buy it.  I see no reason to be a devil’s advocate and come up with stories on their behalf, or accept highly implausible stories on their behalf, and pretend this is reasonable and moral.

Even the media reported this: Israeli military abandoned kibbutz for hours during Hamas’ attack Oct. 7, IDF inquiry finds

Even when security forces did arrive at the entrance of the kibbutz, they failed to engage in combat amid scattered or conflicting orders, the inquiry found.

Some were following a command decision to “wait in order to evacuate civilians.” Others were fighting, then exited the kibbutz in response to a command decision, while some waited for a force commander and others remained outside the community to set up a perimeter.

There is also no plausible explanation for a lack of response for so long without stand down orders.  And soldiers who went on their own faced heat for it.  None of this is new.

The soldiers literally stood outside the kibbutz and watched the massacre.  Imagine how conditioned you have to be to follow such orders, regardless of the official justification.

Also imagine how conditioned the people have to be to take to the streets over nonsense, and only when called to do so by controlled organizations that manipulate them, but not over this.

The stated purpose of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) to exist is to defend Israeli citizens from just this sort of thing.  They ignored copious warnings for months on end, threatened to prosecute those who persisted to give warnings, confiscated weapons from the nearby communities, and stood down while our people were being slaughtered.  All of this and more is indisputable fact.

And then comes the Kill Shot:

“Israel should commemorate October 7 not with a moment of silence, but 8 hours of silence.”

Ouch.

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