WEBVTT 00:01.151 --> 00:06.923 Only cash is king! We are all familiar with this popular saying. 00:06.923 --> 00:13.588 This is based on the conviction that only cash has true value and can be relied on, in contrast 00:13.588 --> 00:17.587 to "digital money" or "payments" in an account. 00:17.587 --> 00:22.823 In a street survey conducted by Easy German, people in Berlin were asked why a comparatively 00:22.823 --> 00:26.276 large number of Germans still like to pay with cash. 00:26.276 --> 00:29.575 Here is a brief summary of some of the answers: 00:29.575 --> 00:35.628 Um, I think the Germans don't want the state to know what they spend their money on. 00:35.628 --> 00:42.857 Probably because they are somehow suspicious and think: "Only cash is king". 00:42.857 --> 00:47.118 Maybe it's a feeling of security. I don't know! 00:47.118 --> 00:51.431 Yes, can I pay now ... I also like to pay in cash. 00:51.431 --> 00:56.432 I also like to have small change, because I still give a lot of people who ... 00:56.432 --> 01:01.157 Earlier there were three more who wanted money and then I gave them some. 01:01.157 --> 01:05.269 If I didn't have any more cash, I wouldn't be able to do that. I think cards are stupid! 01:05.269 --> 01:09.147 Yes, because somehow that's something you can still feel. 01:09.147 --> 01:16.506 I think ... many Germans are a bit suspicious of all this e-banking and paying for everything by card. 01:16.506 --> 01:19.630 Probably because the Germans are so traditional. 01:19.630 --> 01:23.098 They know what they have. Card is just plastic. 01:23.098 --> 01:26.469 I think some people have the feeling that they have a better overview. 01:26.469 --> 01:31.121 If they say they know they have 50 euros and then I spend them, then 50 euros are gone. 01:31.121 --> 01:36.410 For example, I feel like I'm being monitored non-stop by cashless payments. 01:36.410 --> 01:43.280 Yes, right? Because then you can, if the police or someone wants to track them, then it's very clear 01:43.280 --> 01:47.369 where and when they were and what they were doing. 01:47.369 --> 01:53.877 Everyone is talking about the new General Data Protection Regulation, but where is it? 01:53.877 --> 02:02.270 Where does this apply if my personal rights, which are enshrined in the German Basic Law, are ultimately being 02:02.270 --> 02:07.215 abrogated again via this cashless cash flow? Ad absurdum! 02:07.215 --> 02:13.896 Before Corona, I mainly paid in cash, now mainly by card due to Corona. 02:13.896 --> 02:18.816 I actually think cash is better because it cannot be controlled. 02:18.816 --> 02:24.807 And I would continue to oppose the idea of putting everything on a card, so to speak. 02:24.807 --> 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. 02:31.450 --> 02:36.430 Then I would lose part of my understanding of democracy. 02:36.430 --> 02:41.685 These answers clearly show that using cash has many advantages. 02:41.685 --> 02:48.278 Keywords such as freedom, security, elimination of control and surveillance by third parties were mentioned. 02:48.278 --> 02:55.447 However, more and more efforts are being made to ensure that every citizen can shape many aspects of their lives digitally. 02:55.447 --> 02:58.640 The issue of cash is just one of many. 02:58.640 --> 03:07.242 In more and more areas, in public as well as private and professional life, there are no longer any analog options. 03:07.242 --> 03:13.314 Here are just a few examples: Ticket subscriptions that can only be booked and checked via app 03:13.314 --> 03:17.045 No ticket purchase with cash on many buses 03:17.045 --> 03:21.651 Postal stations that can only be operated via an app 03:21.651 --> 03:26.459 Account management - only possible in online banking at some banks 03:26.459 --> 03:30.978 Making doctor's appointments - only possible online at many practices 03:30.978 --> 03:36.768 Applications to many companies and universities can only be made online 03:36.768 --> 03:42.945 In some grocery stores, swimming pools, leisure centers, concerts, doctors' surgeries 03:42.945 --> 03:48.389 and restaurants, only card payment is possible 03:48.389 --> 03:54.720 Some public parking spaces, parking garages and toilets can only be used with a card 03:54.720 --> 04:00.008 Hotel and event bookings largely only possible online 04:00.008 --> 04:06.505 Children can no longer run errands independently with cash, learn no tangible, real handling 04:06.505 --> 04:10.062 of money and no control over their own spending. 04:10.062 --> 04:16.931 They need digital access from an early age. What does this mean in practical terms? 04:16.931 --> 04:21.834 With regard to the topic of cash, an evaluation by the consumer advice center on the 04:21.834 --> 04:25.204 rejection of cash payments sums this up very aptly: 04:25.204 --> 04:33.280 "While non-cash payment methods can facilitate processes and increase profits for companies (nudging, profiling, 04:33.280 --> 04:42.235 higher revenues, new technologies), consumers not only lose the option of freely choosing their means of payment. 04:42.235 --> 04:50.276 They sometimes also bear additional burdens (additional effort, additional costs, complications, risks), lose the 04:50.276 --> 04:58.889 qualities of cash payments (simplicity, spending control, anonymity) and are sometimes excluded from benefits. 04:58.889 --> 05:05.219 The participation of all social groups is then no longer guaranteed. 05:05.219 --> 05:11.047 This also applies to the use or non-use of digital devices. 05:11.047 --> 05:17.472 People who do not own a smartphone or do not want to use online banking, for example, 05:17.472 --> 05:20.559 are denied public participation in all areas. 05:20.559 --> 05:27.134 The reasons for this can be complex. For example, there are people who simply cannot afford such devices or 05:27.134 --> 05:30.932 who are cognitively incapable of using them properly. 05:30.932 --> 05:37.665 In addition, there are people who consciously decide not to use them, for example because of the mobile phone radiation from 05:37.665 --> 05:41.593 digital devices, which has been proven to be harmful to health. 05:41.593 --> 05:46.866 The taz writes about this in an article from December 2024: 05:46.866 --> 05:54.362 "According to figures from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), a good 5 percent of people in Germany between 05:54.362 --> 05:59.144 the ages of 16 and 74 were so-called offline users last year. 05:59.144 --> 06:02.394 This means that they have never used the Internet. 06:02.394 --> 06:06.865 That corresponds to 3.1 million people in Germany." 06:06.865 --> 06:14.693 The journalist Franz-Josef Hanke, who himself has multiple disabilities, including blindness, comments on this: 06:14.693 --> 06:22.840 "An obligation to use cell phones or even smartphones denies the reality of a wide range of skills and lifestyles. 06:22.840 --> 06:29.936 A downright obligation to be digitally flexible, as has unfortunately long existed in practice, is an exclusion of 06:29.936 --> 06:33.755 all those who cannot or do not want to use this technology. 06:33.755 --> 06:39.178 Digital exclusion" is not only hostile to people with disabilities, but also disrespectful of the 06:39.178 --> 06:43.097 fundamental right to free personal development. 06:43.097 --> 06:52.054 To prevent digital exclusion, the state must also guarantee access to all services and information via other channels. 06:52.054 --> 06:58.426 The principle of equal treatment therefore also requires a commitment to freedom of choice for all services 06:58.426 --> 07:06.683 and administrative processes, whether the citizen wants to handle them digitally or in analog form." 07:06.683 --> 07:13.713 Apart from the issue of digital exclusion, there are other important reasons for the right to an analog life. 07:13.713 --> 07:17.226 This can be seen very clearly in the example of cash usage. 07:17.226 --> 07:27.203 Richard Koller explains this in the Kla.TV program: Yes - to the popular initiative "Cash is freedom" : 07:27.203 --> 07:32.559 No anonymity and no resilience in crises without cash! 07:32.559 --> 07:35.411 "So: cash is something very essential. 07:35.411 --> 07:43.113 It gives people the opportunity to be free, to pay anonymously, to be untraceable. 07:43.113 --> 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. 07:52.538 --> 07:57.560 The crisis is a moment when the technology may not be available. 07:57.560 --> 08:05.404 We have no electricity, we have no internet and in situations like this, the population and the economy must be able 08:05.404 --> 08:11.667 to continue to exist and that can only happen with cash." 08:11.667 --> 08:15.741 Devastating consequences if cash disappears! 08:15.741 --> 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 08:23.451 --> 08:27.639 from these countries what kind of situations that would cause. 08:27.639 --> 08:38.630 In Sweden and Norway, an aggressor could paralyze the electricity infrastructure or the Internet infrastructure today 08:38.630 --> 08:44.562 and the country would be in chaos within four to six weeks. 08:44.562 --> 08:55.670 The two countries have now realized this and are therefore trying to rebuild cash." 08:55.670 --> 08:58.782 No possession without cash! 08:58.782 --> 09:08.635 "So, one difference that few people realize is that cash is property, and it is also my property. 09:08.635 --> 09:12.787 If I have cash in my hand, then that is my property. 09:12.787 --> 09:19.739 If I can only access cash via my cell phone or money via my cell phone, then that is only 09:19.739 --> 09:23.509 access to my property. It is not possession. 09:23.509 --> 09:30.833 It can be interrupted at any time due to a lack of electricity or internet. 09:30.833 --> 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." 09:38.832 --> 09:44.292 It became clear that citizens have many advantages from using cash. 09:44.292 --> 09:50.357 So why is everyone working flat out to abolish cash completely? 09:50.357 --> 09:54.332 The majority of citizens would like to be able to continue paying with cash. 09:54.332 --> 09:59.684 So who has an interest in abolishing cash? Who benefits from it? 09:59.684 --> 10:06.585 Numerous educationalists, financial experts and investigative journalists, including Ernst Wolff , David Icke and 10:06.585 --> 10:13.639 James Corbett , have been warning against the introduction of a digital central bank currency for years. 10:13.639 --> 10:17.025 The dangers of such a currency are immense. 10:17.025 --> 10:22.015 What would the handling of this digital currency look like in practice? 10:22.015 --> 10:26.294 Everyone would be forced to have an account with the central bank. 10:26.294 --> 10:32.523 The bank is thus in a position to check and control every transaction made. 10:32.523 --> 10:37.744 In addition, the bank could program what can and cannot happen with this money. 10:37.744 --> 10:44.771 It could also be controlled by politicians and stipulate that you can only buy a certain amount of meat per month. 10:44.771 --> 10:48.079 This, of course, under the pretext of climate protection. 10:48.079 --> 10:57.546 We can all imagine numerous other horror scenarios of how much power and control can be exercised over this digital currency. 10:57.546 --> 11:04.626 Any opinion or undesirable action that does not conform to the government, such as "false statements" in 11:04.626 --> 11:12.172 public or on social media, could be punished immediately, so to speak, through financial sanctions. 11:12.172 --> 11:18.971 For more information on this topic, watch David Icke's lecture: "Exposing world tyranny and 11:18.971 --> 11:23.315 its war strategy", which he gave at the 20th AZK. 11:23.315 --> 11:29.723 Don't miss the program by Ivo Sasek on the topic: "Cashless - door handle to hell (by Ivo Sasek)" . 11:29.723 --> 11:32.893 This will then be broadcast again. 11:32.893 --> 11:40.572 Dear viewers, control, total surveillance, restriction of freedom of expression - none of us want that. 11:40.572 --> 11:46.313 But you still have the choice today to make a very clear statement against this. 11:46.313 --> 11:50.782 Make the saying "Only cash is king" your own motto. 11:50.782 --> 11:56.952 Pay in cash wherever possible and support stores that still give you this option. 11:56.952 --> 12:03.087 Consciously avoid self-service checkouts and checkouts where you can only pay by app. 12:03.087 --> 12:11.553 Ask critically at stores that only accept card payments and make it clear that you would like to pay in cash! 12:11.553 --> 12:19.077 Consciously choose the analog option and be prepared to take detours! It's worth it. 12:19.077 --> 12:24.497 In short: Be the change you want to see in this world!