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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21911/central-bank-digital-currencies

“We are talking about a very dystopian future if we allow central banks to issue central bank digital currencies. You know, even if the original designers and heads of central banks who are launching this are super well-meaning, you know, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt, we just know what human nature is like and history is the best guide… I think the power would be abused, if not by the original generation of launchers, then by the next generation…. It will be a completely totalitarian system of such frightening proportions, it’s hard to imagine… The micromanaging decision [about your spending] will then be automated and… you have no right to appeal the algorithm… You just won’t be able to use your money for certain things and then there is nothing that you can do… That by definition ends freedom….” — Richard A. Werner, German economist, 2024,

The Biden administration was actively working towards an American CBDC, but in May 2024, the House of Representatives passed a bill to prevent the Federal Reserve from introducing a CBDC. Shortly after coming into office, President Donald Trump banned the establishment of a CBDC in the United States.

In Europe, the European Union is barreling ahead at full speed towards a central bank digital currency for those EU countries that are part of the eurozone, which includes the majority of EU countries. Yet, the dangers of this euro CBDC are nowhere near being discussed in mainstream European media. Of course, EU leaders stress that Europe must have a CBDC to “adapt to the digital age” – a vapid statement evidently intended to subdue skeptics, and supposedly to protect Europe against “increasing geopolitical fragmentation,” whatever that is, if it is even relevant to digital currencies.

Whatever the excuse, the impending CBDCs appear intended to give governments unlimited power: If the government does not like your speech, off to jail you go – as in the UK, where people are imprisoned for months and years for saying or writing things that the government disagrees with. Meanwhile, real crimes, such as the mass-rape of thousands of children over the past 20 years, in Rotherham and other cities, remain rampant and largely unaddressed.

Unfortunately, none of this is far-fetched. In Canada, during Covid-19 when the truckers went to Ottawa peacefully to protest government pandemic restrictions, then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau simply invoked the Emergencies Act, which allowed the government to force banks to freeze the truckers’ bank accounts. Problem solved.

Agustin Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, has admitted that CBDCs will give governments total control: “[I]n cash, we don’t know, for example, who is using a $100 bill today; we don’t know who is using a 1000 peso bill today. A key difference with the CBDC is that central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that we determine the use… and we will have the technology to enforce that.”

Your money will no longer be yours, but more like a credit or account that you will have with the government and that you will only have access to on condition that you follow the rules, whatever they might be.

Globalist leaders are working at full speed to introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). A CBDC is a digital currency that is issued directly by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve in the US, the European Central Bank in the EU’s eurozone, and the Bank of England in the UK.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited the Reichenbachstrasse Synagogue in Munich on Monday, September 15, 2025, for its official reopening after years of restoration

. Visibly moved, Merz delivered an emotional speech where he appeared to fight back tears as he recalled the crimes committed against Jews by the Nazis. 

During his speech, Merz addressed several key points:
Condemnation of antisemitism: He declared “war on all forms of old and new antisemitism” in Germany, stating that he was ashamed that Jewish communities still require police protection decades after World War II.
Acknowledged past failures: He admitted that German society and politics have “turned a blind eye for too long” to antisemitism brought into the country by recent migrants from countries where antisemitism is common.
Significance of the synagogue’s survival: Merz paid tribute to the restored synagogue, which was the only one in Munich to survive the Nazi regime, though it was damaged during the Kristallnacht pogroms in 1938.
Hope for the future: He expressed hope that Jewish life in Germany could one day exist without the constant need for police protection. 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/16/the-hysterical-entitlement-of-the-stop-trump-protests/

Are Britain’s bourgeois activists doing okay? Donald Trump’s second state visit to the UK is set to take place this week, and I am starting to seriously worry about the mental well being of the middle-class rent-a-mob.

Those planning to protest against the Great Orange Menace seem to have genuinely mistaken the US president’s two-day jaunt in Windsor for Mussolini’s march on Rome or the Nazis rolling into Paris. A viral video by the Stop Trump Coalition, fronted by professional activist Zoe Gardner, warns that fascism is about to take over Britain, pretty much as soon as The Donald touches down on UK soil.

‘How our nation reacts [to his visit] decides everything about our future’, intones Gardner gloomily. Apparently, unless we all show up to Wednesday’s ‘Trump Not Welcome’ protest in Parliament Square, then a dystopian, Trumpian century awaits. Miss the demo, then you’d better start practising your best Sieg Heil and hiding migrants in your attic.

The alleged indignities of a ‘Trump Britain’ are spelled out in the video through a series of mock news reports. These include a ‘literal genocide’ and a state-run paramilitary ‘British Defence League’, whose officers would disappear migrants ‘without a trace’. And, horror of horrors, large England flags being draped from Tower Bridge. Worse still, no one has taken the flags down, even though ‘complaints have been lodged’ with the authorities. Hell on Earth, indeed.

Let’s be honest, it is not ‘fascism’ the plummy anti-Trump protesters are really objecting to. Because Trump is not a fascist, nor anything remotely close. It is democracy – the will of the American people, who have now installed him in the White House twice – that most disturbs the activist set.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21903/china-russia-north-korea-iran-authoritarian

This was not simply an anniversary parade; it was a declaration of intent by a coalition of states that reject the Western-led order and seek to replace it with an authoritarian alternative.

When seen together, the gathering represented the closest thing yet to the formation of a new bloc: one that might aim to construct an entirely new world order defined not by democracy, but by coercion, censorship, and force.

Dismissing these events as mere theater would be irresponsible. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is a direct challenge to the stability of Europe –a challenge that that Iran and North Korea materially support. China, meanwhile, has been expanding its military footprint throughout the South China Sea and accelerating preparations for the possibility of a future confrontation with Taiwan. Together, these powers are testing the limits of Western resolve. They are also watching closely to see whether the United States, Europe, and their allies respond with hesitation or with strength.

They appear fully aware of what they are doing and why they are doing it: to reshape the world to where their authority dictates the rules, freedom is suppressed, and sickly, hesitating democracies are dismantled as they deserve to be.

The world has entered the hour of choice: Will Western nations deter this authoritarian quartet with unity and strength, or will they fall back on illusions that “diplomacy” – talking long enough — can contain belligerent ambitions?

The spectacle that unfolded in Beijing recently was unlike any other military parade the world has seen. China, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, staged its most elaborate display of military might, showcasing hypersonic missiles, advanced drones, cyberwarfare divisions, and an arsenal that left no doubt about its ambitions to be seen as a global military superpower.

What truly defined this moment, however, was not the weaponry rolling across Tiananmen Square, but the rare gathering of leaders who stood shoulder to shoulder. Xi Jinping hosted Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, with Iran regime’s President Masoud Pezeshkian also in attendance — all creating a tableau that symbolized far more than a military tradition. This was not simply an anniversary parade; it was a declaration of intent by a coalition of states that reject the Western-led order and seek to replace it with an authoritarian alternative.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21898/sharaa-syria-regime

The Trump administration will likely pressure Sharaa’s regime not to threaten Syria’s Kurds, who make up a large portion of the pro-US Syrian Democratic Army in northeast Syria.

Sharaa might also have to count on the US to resist pressure from his benefactor Turkey, which may be urging him to target Syria’s Kurds.

The question, however, remains if Sharaa is actually doing all he can to “protect all minorities” as he promised, or did Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, in pressuring US President Donald Trump to give Sharaa a chance to govern, set Trump up?

Is Sharaa truly on a path to joining the Western alliance, or is he really just a terrorist in a suit and tie?

One of the most unheralded geopolitical developments in the Middle East, following Israel’s military victories over regional enemies, is Israel’s diplomatic reaction to the new regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa (aka Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) in Syria. Recent meetings in Paris between high-level Israeli and Syrian diplomats have reportedly resulted in a de-escalation of tensions as well as in establishing significant security improvements for Israel along its border with Syria.

Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer was apparently successful in extracting a promise from the Sharaa regime not to dispatch Syrian military forces south of Damascus. This agreement exists in large part to safeguard Druze communities in Syria’s Suweida Province. Syria’s concession was in keeping with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stated intention to defend the Druze against any repeat of July massacres by regime-affiliated terrorists and Bedouin tribesmen. An estimated 1,300 people were killed in the attacks, many of whom were Druze civilians, including women and children. Netanyahu’s pledge of protection to the Druze was possibly given to thank so many of Israel’s Druze citizens who have loyally been serving in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Just as significant was the Syrian regime’s agreement to demilitarize two of its provinces, Quneitra and Dara, both of which lie along Israel’s border. Now, evidently, no heavy weapons will be permitted in these Syrian provinces.

Damascus apparently did not challenge Jerusalem’s recent move into a new area in the Golan Heights that had been administered by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force since 1974. The new area is now being safeguarded by the IDF as a buffer zone between Israel and Syria.