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  1. I was just vacationing in Wisconsin, we frequented a small coffee shop in the mornings, they gave a 6% discount if you paid in cash for your purchase.

  2. Digital financial censorship went into full swing this month and I fear Solari will soon be in the crosshairs.

    I hope my story can serve as a cautionary tale.

    If at all possible, please try to away from PayPal. They are now teaming up with the ADL to actively ban accounts and seize money via “liquidation damages” buried in their Terms and Conditions:

    https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/paypal-partners-with-adl-to-fight-extremism-and-protect-marginalized

    https://www.reddit.com/r/paypal/comments/owkvnw/here_is_what_to_do_when_paypal_steals_your_money/

    My own business, a small consumer electronics shop dedicated to selling privacy mobile technology, has had our money seized within the last 48 hours with seemingly no recourse aside from legal action.

    We have moved to an alternate payment processor, Stripe, but they also have a history of using payments as a political weapon against Gab. Reports from small to mid-size businesses are that Stripe is marginally better in this respect than PayPal. However, being in the US, we have scant other options for our e-commerce business.

    Cash Friday is a hugely important concept, especially for brick and mortar. But those of us who’ve made our living on the Internet are now in serious danger of losing our livelihood altogether.

    1. Joshua,

      I don’t know if this could fit your business model, but have you thought about accepting checks and money orders? You don’t send the merchandise until the check is cleared.

      Also, there is the gold and silver calculator, so like if a customer needs to pay you $100.00 USD, in junk silver that would be the face value of $5.98 or 4 – one ounce silver coins and a check for $6.48 cents.

      I know what you mean, my growing business is also internet dependent which is why I have had to fight hard to not talk or communicate anything about Covid-19.

      Now that you are using Stripe, you should be fine.

      To be clear, Paypal getting political does not surprise me. It’s not about politics here, they are just a company that has never had any integrity to begin with. They played me as well when I had my eBay business, taking money from my personal account when I had enough money in my PayPal account to cover the eBay sellers fees. That experience for me was enough to close my eBay account and not have anything to do with Paypal.

      Stay away from politics when using Stripe, you should be good. Again, Paypal is not doing this because of your politics, they always lacked integrity, they just love to take and withhold and getting involved with the ADL to do so is just an excuse for a criminal entity to do what they love to do anyway.

      I would like to make a general statement now. This is not directed at you personally Joshua, just in general.

      The masks are coming off from a lot of these corporations and many of us are still not seeing it. We have ourselves to blame as Americans. When you hold an entity next to the United States Constitution and they don’t hold up, that says a lot about them, you did not need to wait for them to “get political”.

      I will give you another example. Everyone is shocked that Virginia has become such an anti-gun blue state when it was traditionally red. Again, that’s because Americans don’t take things back to basics, to the fundamentals, the foundation of this nation. Or simply pretended not to see the friendly fascism that was already there.

      Here is an example of how I knew Virginia was a draconian state since 2005 at least. Number one, you buy a handgun and then you cannot buy a handgun again for three months. Where is that written in the United States Constitution as a thing? It isnt! In other states in the Union such as the one I live in, you can buy a gun everyday of the week if you so choose to, thats your business.

      A second example, when I lived in Virginia that year of 2005, all of a sudden I get bills in the mail saying I have to pay excise tax on my car. WTF?! I did not buy this car in Virginia, I moved to Virginia with my car, who is Virginia to tell me I have to pay a tax to use my car on their roads? Where is that written in the United States Constitution.

      But now the masks are off of all the places I always knew were tyrannical, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia and so on.

      Why North Carolina you say? Again, look at their laws, to homeschool in North Carolina, your child has to be vaccinated. Why?! You are going to homeschool, that is your business whether children in your home are vaccinated or not and if your child never went to government schools to begin with, why should you have to inform a bureaucrat of: A. your childrens’ existence, B. of your intent to homeschool, its not like you are pulling them out of government school, in such a case, then I understand, but if they were never part of the government school system, they have no business needing to know what you do in your home, you will not be using the monies of the school committee budget to homeschool I imagine, hence its none of their business.

      Then there’s Michigan, when I was researching that place a decade ago, it said, you can own all the guns you want as long as you register them with your local police. Again, where is that written in the United States Constitution? It isnt!

      So its not that hard to suss out who the tyrants were going to be in a SHTF situation that we currently find ourselves in, they were always there, being tyrannical 1.0, but you chose to ignore it, now its tyrannical 2.0 and its the same bad actors I always knew were tyrannical, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania.

      Wait, why are you now mentioning Pennsylvania and Georgia? Again, look at their homeschool laws. Any state that does not completely honor your rights as a parent is telling you how far they are prepared to go to show you who is the boss.

      You either have full freedoms as written in the U.S. Constitution and your states constitution which should reflect that or you don’t. The states that do that are few and far between unfortunately and I am just blessed I had enough intuition and did enough research to move to one of them years ago. In fact, what motivated me to make the move was that for years, I was feeling like something bad was coming to me and my family if I stayed in part of the United States I had been living in all my life. Intuition, something else we do not honor enough in this culture.

      1. Agreed wholeheartedly with your sentiment, Luis. Your commentary about PayPal having been unscrupulous for many years now is spot-on. They’ve been inherently political since at least 2016 with some of their more high-profile deplatformings. As a user for over 10 years, this is not my first time to their arbitration rodeo – just the most vicious.

        I hesitate to agree that this is simply par for the course, however – the volume of account limitation complaints on official and unofficial support channels has skyrocketed in the “Great Reset” era, even prompting a California law firm to assemble a class action lawsuit for this specific form of account hold:

        https://i.imgur.com/V9qClWE.png

        Unfortunately, our unique business of privacy-centric smartphones is deemed by TPTB as inherently “political” despite being 100% legal, and our blog and email marketing reflects that. Some of our articles on the surveillance oligarchy/Transhuman dragnet have been picked up by household names in the “off-mainstream” blogosphere, so there’s no putting the genie back in that bottle.

        As you note, we are still hoping that this is an oversight and simply part of routine KyC/AML procedures these companies must perform from time to time. But if that’s not the case and more aggressive tactics like seizure of funds are becoming normalized, I hope we can serve as an early warning to others as it is technologically very simple to replicate the censorship already present on social media platforms onto digital payment platforms.

        Your suggestions are good ones – a P.O. Box or other private mailbox to accept alternate means of payment is clearly needed. But this would represent a massive customer loss to any online business forced to conduct themselves entirely by mail, and it remains to be seen how long the Post Office can remain trusted and viable for this use-case.

        To your more general commentary, it’s clear that Transhuman Technopoly has infested all States, either through the pseudolegal system or privatized invasion.

        The asymmetric warfare tactics being used are impressively terrifying – if State governments refuse to pressure you, companies will. And if companies refuse, the States encroach upon them. It’s the public-private partnership model of Agenda 21 in full swing, and while unsurprising to Solari subscribers, the speed of the rollout is breathtaking.

        Take, for example, some of the States you’ve mentioned – Michigan is horribly corrupt on many issues, but has strong legal protections for homeschooling and forced jab mandates. California is for all intents and purposes a fallen State, but still has some of the best raw food laws in the Nation. Texas has refused to mandate jabs for healthcare workers, but hospitals and insurers in Texas are doing it for them. Even Florida is using taxpayer money to finance third-parties conducting smartphone-based contact tracing.

        We will all have to face aspects of the emergent Prison Planet regardless of physical jurisdiction, as power can now be projected through borders and beyond legislation.

  3. https://multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/how-the-lockdown-came-to-germany

    “For a long time it was unclear how the previously unprecedented idea of a lockdown found its way into German government circles. Who recommended to the government the radical measures that are not found in any official pandemic preparedness paper? Where did the plans come from, including curfews and the shutdown of large parts of society? In the spring of this year, the former Spiegel editor-in-chief Georg Mascolo shed some light on this darkness.

    … In February 2019, a senior employee of Germany’s Health Minister, Jens Spahn, took part in an international pandemic tabletop exercise organised by privately funded US institutions. A year later, the same official recommended to several state secretaries of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to prepare lockdown measures – which were not included in any official pandemic plan. He has refused to comment on this matter. Research shows that an international biosecurity network was very active shortly before the crisis broke out.”

  5. Interesting Quote: “Never pray for an easier life – pray to be a stronger person. Never pray for tasks equal to your power – pray for power equal to your tasks. Then doing your work will be no miracle – you will be the miracle.” Phillips Brooks

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