1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,151 2 00:00:01,151 --> 00:00:06,923 Only cash is king! We are all familiar with this popular saying. 3 00:00:06,923 --> 00:00:13,588 This is based on the conviction that only cash has true value and can be relied on, in contrast 4 00:00:13,588 --> 00:00:17,587 to "digital money" or "payments" in an account. 5 00:00:17,587 --> 00:00:22,823 In a street survey conducted by Easy German, people in Berlin were asked why a comparatively 6 00:00:22,823 --> 00:00:26,276 large number of Germans still like to pay with cash. 7 00:00:26,276 --> 00:00:29,575 Here is a brief summary of some of the answers: 8 00:00:29,575 --> 00:00:35,628 Um, I think the Germans don't want the state to know what they spend their money on. 9 00:00:35,628 --> 00:00:42,857 Probably because they are somehow suspicious and think: "Only cash is king". 10 00:00:42,857 --> 00:00:47,118 Maybe it's a feeling of security. I don't know! 11 00:00:47,118 --> 00:00:51,431 Yes, can I pay now ... I also like to pay in cash. 12 00:00:51,431 --> 00:00:56,432 I also like to have small change, because I still give a lot of people who ... 13 00:00:56,432 --> 00:01:01,157 Earlier there were three more who wanted money and then I gave them some. 14 00:01:01,157 --> 00:01:05,269 If I didn't have any more cash, I wouldn't be able to do that. I think cards are stupid! 15 00:01:05,269 --> 00:01:09,147 Yes, because somehow that's something you can still feel. 16 00:01:09,147 --> 00:01:16,506 I think ... many Germans are a bit suspicious of all this e-banking and paying for everything by card. 17 00:01:16,506 --> 00:01:19,630 Probably because the Germans are so traditional. 18 00:01:19,630 --> 00:01:23,098 They know what they have. Card is just plastic. 19 00:01:23,098 --> 00:01:26,469 I think some people have the feeling that they have a better overview. 20 00:01:26,469 --> 00:01:31,121 If they say they know they have 50 euros and then I spend them, then 50 euros are gone. 21 00:01:31,121 --> 00:01:36,410 For example, I feel like I'm being monitored non-stop by cashless payments. 22 00:01:36,410 --> 00:01:43,280 Yes, right? Because then you can, if the police or someone wants to track them, then it's very clear 23 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,369 where and when they were and what they were doing. 24 00:01:47,369 --> 00:01:53,877 Everyone is talking about the new General Data Protection Regulation, but where is it? 25 00:01:53,877 --> 00:02:02,270 Where does this apply if my personal rights, which are enshrined in the German Basic Law, are ultimately being 26 00:02:02,270 --> 00:02:07,215 abrogated again via this cashless cash flow? Ad absurdum! 27 00:02:07,215 --> 00:02:13,896 Before Corona, I mainly paid in cash, now mainly by card due to Corona. 28 00:02:13,896 --> 00:02:18,816 I actually think cash is better because it cannot be controlled. 29 00:02:18,816 --> 00:02:24,807 And I would continue to oppose the idea of putting everything on a card, so to speak. 30 00:02:24,807 --> 00:02:31,450 Because this makes the flow of money transparent, and I don't want it to be transparent because then it can be controlled. 31 00:02:31,450 --> 00:02:36,430 Then I would lose part of my understanding of democracy. 32 00:02:36,430 --> 00:02:41,685 These answers clearly show that using cash has many advantages. 33 00:02:41,685 --> 00:02:48,278 Keywords such as freedom, security, elimination of control and surveillance by third parties were mentioned. 34 00:02:48,278 --> 00:02:55,447 However, more and more efforts are being made to ensure that every citizen can shape many aspects of their lives digitally. 35 00:02:55,447 --> 00:02:58,640 The issue of cash is just one of many. 36 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:07,242 In more and more areas, in public as well as private and professional life, there are no longer any analog options. 37 00:03:07,242 --> 00:03:13,314 Here are just a few examples: Ticket subscriptions that can only be booked and checked via app 38 00:03:13,314 --> 00:03:17,045 No ticket purchase with cash on many buses 39 00:03:17,045 --> 00:03:21,651 Postal stations that can only be operated via an app 40 00:03:21,651 --> 00:03:26,459 Account management - only possible in online banking at some banks 41 00:03:26,459 --> 00:03:30,978 Making doctor's appointments - only possible online at many practices 42 00:03:30,978 --> 00:03:36,768 Applications to many companies and universities can only be made online 43 00:03:36,768 --> 00:03:42,945 In some grocery stores, swimming pools, leisure centers, concerts, doctors' surgeries 44 00:03:42,945 --> 00:03:48,389 and restaurants, only card payment is possible 45 00:03:48,389 --> 00:03:54,720 Some public parking spaces, parking garages and toilets can only be used with a card 46 00:03:54,720 --> 00:04:00,008 Hotel and event bookings largely only possible online 47 00:04:00,008 --> 00:04:06,505 Children can no longer run errands independently with cash, learn no tangible, real handling 48 00:04:06,505 --> 00:04:10,062 of money and no control over their own spending. 49 00:04:10,062 --> 00:04:16,931 They need digital access from an early age. What does this mean in practical terms? 50 00:04:16,931 --> 00:04:21,834 With regard to the topic of cash, an evaluation by the consumer advice center on the 51 00:04:21,834 --> 00:04:25,204 rejection of cash payments sums this up very aptly: 52 00:04:25,204 --> 00:04:33,280 "While non-cash payment methods can facilitate processes and increase profits for companies (nudging, profiling, 53 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:42,235 higher revenues, new technologies), consumers not only lose the option of freely choosing their means of payment. 54 00:04:42,235 --> 00:04:50,276 They sometimes also bear additional burdens (additional effort, additional costs, complications, risks), lose the 55 00:04:50,276 --> 00:04:58,889 qualities of cash payments (simplicity, spending control, anonymity) and are sometimes excluded from benefits. 56 00:04:58,889 --> 00:05:05,219 The participation of all social groups is then no longer guaranteed. 57 00:05:05,219 --> 00:05:11,047 This also applies to the use or non-use of digital devices. 58 00:05:11,047 --> 00:05:17,472 People who do not own a smartphone or do not want to use online banking, for example, 59 00:05:17,472 --> 00:05:20,559 are denied public participation in all areas. 60 00:05:20,559 --> 00:05:27,134 The reasons for this can be complex. For example, there are people who simply cannot afford such devices or 61 00:05:27,134 --> 00:05:30,932 who are cognitively incapable of using them properly. 62 00:05:30,932 --> 00:05:37,665 In addition, there are people who consciously decide not to use them, for example because of the mobile phone radiation from 63 00:05:37,665 --> 00:05:41,593 digital devices, which has been proven to be harmful to health. 64 00:05:41,593 --> 00:05:46,866 The taz writes about this in an article from December 2024: 65 00:05:46,866 --> 00:05:54,362 "According to figures from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), a good 5 percent of people in Germany between 66 00:05:54,362 --> 00:05:59,144 the ages of 16 and 74 were so-called offline users last year. 67 00:05:59,144 --> 00:06:02,394 This means that they have never used the Internet. 68 00:06:02,394 --> 00:06:06,865 That corresponds to 3.1 million people in Germany." 69 00:06:06,865 --> 00:06:14,693 The journalist Franz-Josef Hanke, who himself has multiple disabilities, including blindness, comments on this: 70 00:06:14,693 --> 00:06:22,840 "An obligation to use cell phones or even smartphones denies the reality of a wide range of skills and lifestyles. 71 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:29,936 A downright obligation to be digitally flexible, as has unfortunately long existed in practice, is an exclusion of 72 00:06:29,936 --> 00:06:33,755 all those who cannot or do not want to use this technology. 73 00:06:33,755 --> 00:06:39,178 Digital exclusion" is not only hostile to people with disabilities, but also disrespectful of the 74 00:06:39,178 --> 00:06:43,097 fundamental right to free personal development. 75 00:06:43,097 --> 00:06:52,054 To prevent digital exclusion, the state must also guarantee access to all services and information via other channels. 76 00:06:52,054 --> 00:06:58,426 The principle of equal treatment therefore also requires a commitment to freedom of choice for all services 77 00:06:58,426 --> 00:07:06,683 and administrative processes, whether the citizen wants to handle them digitally or in analog form." 78 00:07:06,683 --> 00:07:13,713 Apart from the issue of digital exclusion, there are other important reasons for the right to an analog life. 79 00:07:13,713 --> 00:07:17,226 This can be seen very clearly in the example of cash usage. 80 00:07:17,226 --> 00:07:27,203 Richard Koller explains this in the Kla.TV program: Yes - to the popular initiative "Cash is freedom" : 81 00:07:27,203 --> 00:07:32,559 No anonymity and no resilience in crises without cash! 82 00:07:32,559 --> 00:07:35,411 "So: cash is something very essential. 83 00:07:35,411 --> 00:07:43,113 It gives people the opportunity to be free, to pay anonymously, to be untraceable. 84 00:07:43,113 --> 00:07:52,538 But it is also very important because of the crises - in the name of crisis resilience, as the Swiss National Bank calls it. 85 00:07:52,538 --> 00:07:57,560 The crisis is a moment when the technology may not be available. 86 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:05,404 We have no electricity, we have no internet and in situations like this, the population and the economy must be able 87 00:08:05,404 --> 00:08:11,667 to continue to exist and that can only happen with cash." 88 00:08:11,667 --> 00:08:15,741 Devastating consequences if cash disappears! 89 00:08:15,741 --> 00:08:23,451 "If a situation were to arise in Switzerland like in Sweden or Norway, where we no longer have cash, then we can actually see 90 00:08:23,451 --> 00:08:27,639 from these countries what kind of situations that would cause. 91 00:08:27,639 --> 00:08:38,630 In Sweden and Norway, an aggressor could paralyze the electricity infrastructure or the Internet infrastructure today 92 00:08:38,630 --> 00:08:44,562 and the country would be in chaos within four to six weeks. 93 00:08:44,562 --> 00:08:55,670 The two countries have now realized this and are therefore trying to rebuild cash." 94 00:08:55,670 --> 00:08:58,782 No possession without cash! 95 00:08:58,782 --> 00:09:08,635 "So, one difference that few people realize is that cash is property, and it is also my property. 96 00:09:08,635 --> 00:09:12,787 If I have cash in my hand, then that is my property. 97 00:09:12,787 --> 00:09:19,739 If I can only access cash via my cell phone or money via my cell phone, then that is only 98 00:09:19,739 --> 00:09:23,509 access to my property. It is not possession. 99 00:09:23,509 --> 00:09:30,833 It can be interrupted at any time due to a lack of electricity or internet. 100 00:09:30,833 --> 00:09:38,832 I'm no longer free and can't buy anything, I can no longer move around, I no longer have access to my money." 101 00:09:38,832 --> 00:09:44,292 It became clear that citizens have many advantages from using cash. 102 00:09:44,292 --> 00:09:50,357 So why is everyone working flat out to abolish cash completely? 103 00:09:50,357 --> 00:09:54,332 The majority of citizens would like to be able to continue paying with cash. 104 00:09:54,332 --> 00:09:59,684 So who has an interest in abolishing cash? Who benefits from it? 105 00:09:59,684 --> 00:10:06,585 Numerous educationalists, financial experts and investigative journalists, including Ernst Wolff , David Icke and 106 00:10:06,585 --> 00:10:13,639 James Corbett , have been warning against the introduction of a digital central bank currency for years. 107 00:10:13,639 --> 00:10:17,025 The dangers of such a currency are immense. 108 00:10:17,025 --> 00:10:22,015 What would the handling of this digital currency look like in practice? 109 00:10:22,015 --> 00:10:26,294 Everyone would be forced to have an account with the central bank. 110 00:10:26,294 --> 00:10:32,523 The bank is thus in a position to check and control every transaction made. 111 00:10:32,523 --> 00:10:37,744 In addition, the bank could program what can and cannot happen with this money. 112 00:10:37,744 --> 00:10:44,771 It could also be controlled by politicians and stipulate that you can only buy a certain amount of meat per month. 113 00:10:44,771 --> 00:10:48,079 This, of course, under the pretext of climate protection. 114 00:10:48,079 --> 00:10:57,546 We can all imagine numerous other horror scenarios of how much power and control can be exercised over this digital currency. 115 00:10:57,546 --> 00:11:04,626 Any opinion or undesirable action that does not conform to the government, such as "false statements" in 116 00:11:04,626 --> 00:11:12,172 public or on social media, could be punished immediately, so to speak, through financial sanctions. 117 00:11:12,172 --> 00:11:18,971 For more information on this topic, watch David Icke's lecture: "Exposing world tyranny and 118 00:11:18,971 --> 00:11:23,315 its war strategy", which he gave at the 20th AZK. 119 00:11:23,315 --> 00:11:29,723 Don't miss the program by Ivo Sasek on the topic: "Cashless - door handle to hell (by Ivo Sasek)" . 120 00:11:29,723 --> 00:11:32,893 This will then be broadcast again. 121 00:11:32,893 --> 00:11:40,572 Dear viewers, control, total surveillance, restriction of freedom of expression - none of us want that. 122 00:11:40,572 --> 00:11:46,313 But you still have the choice today to make a very clear statement against this. 123 00:11:46,313 --> 00:11:50,782 Make the saying "Only cash is king" your own motto. 124 00:11:50,782 --> 00:11:56,952 Pay in cash wherever possible and support stores that still give you this option. 125 00:11:56,952 --> 00:12:03,087 Consciously avoid self-service checkouts and checkouts where you can only pay by app. 126 00:12:03,087 --> 00:12:11,553 Ask critically at stores that only accept card payments and make it clear that you would like to pay in cash! 127 00:12:11,553 --> 00:12:19,077 Consciously choose the analog option and be prepared to take detours! It's worth it. 128 00:12:19,077 --> 00:12:24,497 In short: Be the change you want to see in this world!