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Jul 12, 2023·edited Jul 12, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Look if you don't want to use the digital rubles you don't have to. The Kremlin will not deprive its citizens of privacy its just that citizens who value privacy more than the well being of central bank share holders will not be able to participate in the economy as fully as before. But there is no compulsion involved here, the Kremlin is simply going to provide positive incentives like being able to legally buy and sell goods. Its obvious that the biggest obstacle to economic growth in Russia is lack of transparency on the part of average citizens who lack foreign bank accounts and make less than 50

billion rubles a year.

The guys fighting on the frontlines in Zaporozhye, Adveeka, Bakhmut etc aren't giving their all every day so that the bottom 97% of Russian wage earners can continue parasiting off the top 3%. Like some anonymous guy on the internet famously said, Russia has only 3 allies, the army, navy, and the shareholders of the central bank and all their friends and respected partners.

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Stalin coordinated with the Rockefellers and the transnational establishment the spawning into existence of the IMF/WB global financial order and the UN for everything else, "oligarch" is just the current trendier name, since the Russky emperors were doing the exact same thing long before Stalin was even born. Non-paid Putinism is laughable clueless clownfuckery for uniwitting taxcattle.

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"Look if you don't want to use the digital rubles you don't have to." That may be so for the moment. The bankers want to make a percentage on every financial transaction and that is what is driving that aspect and that is profit. On the other side is the Government will be able to get a tax for the transaction. I don't know if you have VAT in Russia, but that is what derived the Western Government.

Besides that the control element that is envisaged by the WEF is the ulterior motive.

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Jul 12, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Really interesting how the real movers and shakers within high finance can always play so much people,and no not only the "normies" but also the oh so awake indy media content creators and consumers,by providing simple dichotomies either left-right or east-west but no matter what happens "trust the scam!"

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"Ohh all roads lead to the "wall"" ...

... ohh definitely NOT. There is ONE pathway to freedom ... that has been made ALMOST invisible in PLAIN SIGHT -exactly as predicted - to ALL that subscribe to the same mindset - incl. THOSE proposing the NON- SOLUTION as THE SOLUTION as "they" - as the ringleaders - are equally susceptible/ gullible to THE DARKNESS - the mental prison cell - that THE MAJORITY has been lulled into!

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Riley, you don't understand. There is American and "collective West" digital currency, which is bad. And there is Russian and in general BRICS digital currency which is patriotic and whose usage is guaranteed to give the users goosebumps and make them feel like they are launching blows against the Empire. Don't you wanna help people revel in their illusions and delusions? 😂

Thanks a LOT, Riley! The degree to which so many here are determined to Not $ee is scary. Hey, that Czech treat looks good.

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Not among lots of "resistance" people i know here in the San Francisco Bay Area. And they come from two different backgrounds. Some are hard core right wingers for whom St Vladimir is a stalwart defender of Western Christian Civilization and national sovereignty. These include people who used to be hard core left who have switched, and view the world entirely through geopolitics, seeing humanity as capable of going no further than choosing between competing elite oppressors.

And some are leftists who are trapped in 1960s notions of seeing the Soviet Union and Mao's China as defenders of the very notion of progress (which they never were) and seeing Russia and present-day China as inheritors of those legacies. They cling to what they think are the last shreds of hope for a good turn on the part of humanity.

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See "my underground twin brother," who wrote this in January 1988. with an intro by me written in March 2014,

https://dailybattle.pairsite.com/2014/yuppies_moscow.shtml

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"... those that control the money control the world. "

This is what THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN has made THE MAJORITY to believe - the same way "they ' believe it - and as FAITH is ALL THERE IS it works both ways.

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Russia is Rothschild controlled. This is the final proof in need. They want a cbdc because the financial system is going to collapse and they want an controlled implosion and remain the masters.

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Jul 12, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Riley, "For better or worse (probably for worse, but you never know!)" .......

....... I think we know.

As the song suggests: "under my thumb...."

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Jul 12, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Well at least you had a good meal, Riley, although I admit that I'm jealous of the beer and an ashtray on the table.

The crickets in all aspects of Western Media, including the "alternative," is rather telling. Shh, can't have the proles realize the "cosmopolitan" nature of their problems. Keep doing your thing, Riley, your reporting is greatly appreciated by this nationalist.

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Jul 12, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Olga Skorobogatova, what a telling family name, for our western frens: « Olga Get-Rich-Quickoff »

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"I checked RT.com, the #1 source for Russia News. Nothing."

A scant one-line mention of the rollout appeared in the ticker on RT's live news—with the currency spelled "rouble".

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And in June, the IMF announced that they're working on a global CBDC platform:

"RABAT, June 19 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is working on a platform for central bank digital currencies (CDBCs) to enable transactions between countries, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday.

"CBDCs should not be fragmented national propositions... To have more efficient and fairer transactions we need systems that connect countries: we need interoperability," Georgieva told a conference attended by African central banks in Rabat, Morocco.

"For this reason at the IMF, we are working on the concept of a global CBDC platform," she said.

The IMF wants central banks to agree on a common regulatory framework for digital currencies that will allow global interoperability."

https://www.reuters.com/markets/imf-working-global-central-bank-digital-currency-platform-2023-06-19/

This is global dystopia rapidly unfolding itself.

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And you’d be an absolute fool to look to/think that any government, politician, or presidential candidate is going to save us. Unfortunately there are many fools - and new ones born every day. At the same time more and more people seem to be waking up to how the world really works and what’s really going on, including many parents who realize the insidious dangers posed by the education systems, popular culture, and pediatricians (i.e. vaccines) and are raising and homeschooling their kids to be physically and emotionally healthy and armed with critical faculties to defend themselves from the attempted multi-directional/dimensional onslaughts from the ruling classes and their minions, and, hopefully, equipped to eventually defeat them altogether.

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China is going to save us with their 15-minute cities.

"China advances 15-minute neighborhood construction

China will fully advance the construction of 15-minute neighborhoods, where residents could complete their daily activities within 15 minutes of walk, in the next three years as part of the country's efforts to restore and expand consumption, according to the Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday.

The usage of Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies will be encouraged to promote the digitization of supply chain, improve service quality and management efficiency, and reduce overall costs, according to the plan."

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202307/12/WS64ae5a77a31035260b816002.html

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Gracias, Anri_Jonis.

Video is looking excellent. I'm a little ways into it. It had me from 'Are they hypnotised? Am I hypnotised?'

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I saw RT's Rory Suchet, and another Limey Expat, on their news 1/2 hour, discussing the joys and convenience of the digital fiat Ruble - which is, of course, the only logical solution to circumventing Internationally Illegal, unilateral sanctions...

I'm beginning to suspect that we're all getting played... If Vlad the Magnificent wanted to declare 5-D Checkmate against the Globalists, and switch to a Gold-backed, paper Ruble - now would be the time for that to happen.

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ah ha. maybe the network covered it but not the website? because I still see nothing on the site.

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Right you are... Perhaps they're embarrassed by they transparent $hilling... And don't want to put it into writing, even.

The "News" coverage was worth watching, if only as a bad example of uncritical and one-sided reporting. It's what people crave.

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A "real digital ruble" is a contradiction in terms. Nothing digital is real. I can pick up 'real' and put it in my pocket, or take it out of my pocket and give it to somebody else in payment for something I want or need. If you want to invest in Bitcoin, be my guest, but don't make me laugh by claiming that Bitcoin is a safe haven in case of societal melt-down. When paper money is worthless, try buying food or a weapon on the black market with Bitcoin. They'll barter or accept gold (or maybe silver), thank you very much.

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“The main provisions of the law will come into force on August 1, 2023.”

Just in time for that ‘gold-backed’ BRICS currency due to be announced on August 22-24 in South Africa? 🥳 Seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them use a gold backing in order to ‘sweeten’ the deal for people accepting a CBDC, plenty of useful idiot Trump/Putin/MuskTards on ZeroclueHedge (who sold out to Google Adsense by the way) willing to sell their soul to the devil “because this time it’s different.” 🙄 /sarc

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YAY, congrats! World's first financial concentration camp!

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Coming soon to an IBS-controlled Central Bank near you!

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The general public are like calves being led to slaughter, frisky and frolicking one moment and dead the next.

You know all those novels about a dystopian future............this is what they were talking about.

YOU HAVE TO FIGHT AGAINST THE MADNESS.

WAKE UP. YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE.

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Sabotage? How do you sabotage a central bank? Do you want to run a 51% attack?

I'm not sure that's the right way.

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Fortunately, the magic digital ruble is as safe and effective as the magic science juice. There's a difference of course. The magic ruble is not administered with needles.

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Nope. Will be shoved elsewhere.

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It will still suck the life from us all, though... we are at the crossroads. Every country's leaders are in on it. I can't understand how seamless it seems. We have to kill everybody.

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from Seymour Hersh:

Biden’s anxieties over the Ukraine War and the election in 2024 come into view

Seymour Hersh

Jul 13

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, next to, from left to right, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, US President Joe Biden, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO Summit on July 12 in Vilnius, Lithuania. / Photo by Paul Ellis, Pool/Getty Images.

Let’s start with a silly fear but one that does signal the Democratic Party’s growing sense of panic about the 2024 Presidential election. It was expressed to me by someone with excellent party credentials: that Trump could be the Republican nominee and will select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate. The strange duo will then sweep to a huge victory over a stumbling Joe Biden, and also take down many of the party’s House and Senate candidates.

As for real signs of acute Democratic anxiety: Joe Biden got what he needed before the NATO summit this week by somehow turning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inside out and getting him to rebuff Vladimir Putin by announcing that he would support NATO membership for Sweden. The public story for Biden’s face-saving coup was talk about agreeing to sell American F-16 fighter bombers to Turkey.

I have been told a different, secret story about Erdogan’s turnabout: Biden promised that a much-needed $11-13 billion line of credit would be extended to Turkey by the International Monetary Fund. “Biden had to have a victory and Turkey is in acute financial stress,” an official with direct knowledge of the transaction told me. Turkey lost 100,000 people in the earthquake last February, and has four million buildings to rebuild. “What could be better than Erdogan”—under Biden's tutelage, the official asked, “finally having seen the light and realizing he is better off with NATO and Western Europe?” Reporters were told, according to the New York Times, that Biden called Erdogan while flying to Europe on Sunday. Biden’s coup, the Times reported, would enable him to say that Putin got “exactly what he did not want: an expanded, more direct NATO alliance.” There was no mention of bribery.

A June analysis by Brad W. Setser of the Council on Foreign Relations, “Turkey’s Increasing Balance Sheet Risks,” said it all in the first two sentences—Erdogan won re-election and “now has to find a way to avoid what appears to be an imminent financial crisis.” The critical fact, Setser writes, is that Turkey “is on the edge of truly running out of usable foreign exchange reserves—and facing a choice between selling its gold, an avoidable default, or swallowing the bitter pill of a complete policy reversal and possibly an IMF program.”

Another key element of the complicated economic issues facing Turkey is that Turkey’s banks have lent so much money to the nation’s central bank that “they cannot honor their domestic dollar deposits, should Turks ever ask for the funds back.” The irony for Russia, and a reason for much anger in the Kremlin, Setser notes, is the rumor that Putin has been providing Russian gas to Erdogan on credit, and not demanding that the state gas importer pay up. Putin’s largesse has been flowing as Ergodan has been selling drones to Ukraine for use in its war against Russia. Turkey has also permitted Ukraine to ship its crops through the Black Sea.

All of this European political and economic double dealing was done openly and in plain sight. Duplicity comes much differently in the United States.

Careful readers of the Washington Post and the New York Times can sense that the current Ukraine counter-offensive is going badly because stories about its progress, or lack thereof, have mostly disappeared from their front pages in recent weeks. ...

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