Blocking payments to individuals or groups by financial service firms impedes freedom of speech in a free society, journalist Ben Swann has told RT, following reports that MasterCard is allegedly on course to censor the far-right.
The New York-based firm is reportedly being forced by left-leaning liberal activists to set up an internal “human rights committee” that would monitor payments to “white supremacist groups and anti-Islam activists.”
“The problem is that everyone has their own views and, in a free society, the idea of a free society is that you are free to have your belief systems, as long as you’re not harming anyone else physically,” Swann told RT America.
“But your belief system belongs to you and you have the right be wrong. White supremacists have the right to be wrong.”
MasterCard is not the only holder of purse-strings that is mulling the selective banning of individuals from their services and funds. Patreon and PayPal have previously barred individuals from receiving payments using their platforms, due to their extreme views.
But unlike crowdfunding platforms, being cut off from one of the leading American multinational financial services corporations will, most likely, have a much greater impact on the financial stability of an individual or a group, especially after the US Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly blessed MasterCard’s undertaking.
By doing this, Swann believes the government granted “big corporations the ability to control what voices are heard.”
The issue with such an approach, the investigative journalist argues, would lead to a wider crackdown on financial payments to anyone who the government would see as unfavorable.
“The fact that the SEC has given a green light to this essentially says the SEC supports the idea of censoring these groups in order to freeze out essentially anyone you don’t agree with,” the journalist said.
“It is such a dystopian 1984 world view and yet we’re living through it right now,” the journalist observed.
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Now you know why people are willing to go with crypto.
Combined with the ‘cashless society,’ this should work great for normal people: they’ll get to starve.
We need our own Credit Unions and our own credit card and our own payment processor.
At a certain point, it’s just going to be easier to kill these people than try to deal with their endless conniving and backstabbing.
Covington’s NAR is looking more viable with every day that passes.
The list of companies to boycott grows longer by the day.
Yep— and when that list gets REALLY big we won’t be able to buy or sell unless joining their club……….
(especially if we become cashless, can’t use debit/credit cards or on-line e-pay forms)
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There will not be a Cashless Society.
25% of Americans don’t have bank accounts. You already can’t get a CC without one.
The reason people don’t have bank accounts is mostly because they’re blacklisted after proving unable to stop overdrawing and such. Someone with an IQ south of 90 is unlikely to be able to handle a checking account…or a credit card. (CC firms have products for people who can’t control themselves…they’re largely prepaid cards.)
There is essentially zero chance of a cashless society in any relevant time frame.
Man just when I think I have enough ammo……………..
You can NEVER have enough ammo.
The Bill of Rights (supposedly) prevents government from destroying basic human rights that are supposedly “unalienable.” But when government helps create virtual monopolies throughout the economy in all of the critical areas required for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it creates a mechanism through which it can violate ALL of these rights in one way or the other, simply by leaning on the monopolies it has created/protected. The most critical is the banking cartel/monopoly.
“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”
John Dalberg (Lord)-Acton
What’s with the “You have a right to be wrong” bullshit. Who’s to say what’s right or wrong when it comes to political or ideological views? You are either free to believe what you want or you are not. And companies are either free to offer their service to whomever they like for what ever reason and IT GOES BOTH WAYS.
Vote with your dollars. Nobody and I mean nobody needs spergbook/twatter/goolag/etc. read a book, write one, but stop worrying about what a bunch of people who are always going to hate you no matter what you do are up to. They don’t want your type around, good riddance, who wants to spend two minutes in an environment that’s hostile, it’s ridiculous.
Spot on HSF !
Now is the time for new banks, websites, etc to form and grow.
They will all do themselves in if people stop supporting them.
You miss the connection to the Bigger trend that if you aren’t with Them then your Against Them….
There are countless examples where people who own their own sustainable properties are being forced to connect to the city sewer system, Real I.D. biometric i.d., social credit systems, and on and on and on.
Yes, putting our money where our mouths are works, but only up to a certain point. After that, everything you have built and earned will be threatened to be taken from you if you do not comply with whatbi to come.
You’re talking about something else altogether. When that time comes then there are other tactics. I’m also focusing on strategy. The constant adjustment to whatever new roadblock they pt up is predicated upon us remaining in denial of what we ought to be doing and instead to keep pretending that as long as it doesn’t directly affect us it’s best to keep everything on the down low.
And FWIW I see actions like this as a sign of weakness, not strength. I think they know which way the wind is blowing or they wouldn’t be pulling out all the stops. After all the truth is a very compelling force to have to fight against all the time, it must very incredibly difficult when you have so many people coming around all at once.
“When you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.” – Mark Twain.
It is very difficult to continually battle reality itself. I don’t care how powerful you are, it is a losing game in the long term. The problem I see is that the people with this kind of power A) don’t like to lose and B) Have no issue overturning the whole board if it looks like they’re going to.
What they are doing is not a sign of weakness, it is part of the program. Study history, what are the common actions taken by all fledgling tyrannies? Ban, burn, confiscate, punish, shun and manipulate public opinion to agree with such actions.
I have studied history, most of my life, that was why I made the observation.
Tell us the eventual outcome of all those tyrannies once they begin down this road.
People can be held together as a common culture through three means- conquest (resource expansion), commerce (resource surplus), and fear (resource failure). If there are any others you can think of point them out, but most fall into one of those three categories. The most successful societies begin with expansion, rest when the have availability and begin to fail when they try to control during failure. Our system is larger and far more complex than any other in human history, but it’s age of expansion is long over and it is on the road to resource depletion. The factors that further weaken it is it’s complete abandonment of it’s foundational genetic stock as well as its embrace of outside invaders as a replacement. Those replacements are in their expansion phase and will- within a generation- wrest control from the political elites of today, hence an end to their control. That’s why they are doubling down daily on their surveillance/censorship path of control to maintain power. This state always signifies the collapse phase of a culture.
It’s not the eventual outcome that matters here. The tactics for creating a totalitarian state are consistently the same. Those individuals pushing for the creation of said state aren’t looking at the end result, they are looking for personal gain and control acquired as quickly as possible.
Thank you HSF – I have been making this point for the last several days regarding Facebook banning some users. They are a business – like MC. They clearly spell out in their terms that they will use your data for profit and that any user can be kicked off at any time. Most don’t take the time to read (and their TOS is just a few pages of plain language, not legal language) and are now crying foul after the fact. There are alternatives and, even better, a life without that brain-dead, damaging and manipulative environment.
I disagree with the policies and would not suggest businesses place those types of demands/restraints on customers. I think it is self-defeating to intentionally alienate customers. They will dig their own graves and in a country like the U.S., it will not be long before an entrepreneur recognizes the stupidity and creates an alternative or adapts a current alternative – or people forget about it and use something else.
It’s a betamax move – “use our stuff, our way or go away”. OK, there is this thing called VHS…see ya!
Why do so many people forget about what happens when those kind of demands and limitations are placed?
There have been tons of betamax moves in history. They always fail rather quickly.
Cash is king
Until it isn’t.
For now. They can change or alter the appearance of the cash at will, making what you hold valueless. Precious metals in small units are a better store of value until those too are banned or confiscated. Beans, bullets,etc., barter may become the medium of exchange.
Everybody says buy gold and silver
But I keep buying lead and brass
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Buy all four…and stash some cash and every other form of basic necessity and after you and yours are set for as long as you can afford…buy some barter (some of it will have a potential 1,000% upside one day) while also becoming self-sufficient in baby steps…then in small leaps…then (it’s addictive) in off grid independent bounds.
Talk about feeling free…with a ‘Kiss My Hard Asset’ attitude.
Who knows you may have a few years…or a few days.
The stampede is coming build your high ground away from the herd and the cliff they will be charging towards and over.
MrLiberty is right: “You can NEVER have enough ammo.” (Necessity & potentially 1,000% barter profit depending how close to the herd and the cliff you are).
B.S in V.C..
Sorry, you may already know all this…couldn’t resist shouting FIRE! in a building that is burning down.
What is the numerator for stock purchases?
Dollars/share.
As share prices skyrocketed, what did the dollar do in response. FELL.
Dollars are already depreciated after nearly 40 years of a credit bubble inflation.
When debt prices start down, my guess is that cash will be the ultimate asset to own for a period of time. It will be the only physical way to express ownership of money. Bank accounts may get “bailed in,” and bonds and stocks may drop in value, and commodities and gold and gasoline may fall in price…all to the benefit of holding a fist-full of cash.
EBT and Medicaid cards, don’t leave from your Section 8 residences without them.
JIMSKI, the ultimate store of value is lead but you know that.
There are federal standards for banking and credit card companies. They should lose their charter not be endorsed by the sec for discrimination of someones free speech. Our govt is fully corrupt if this continues. I feel trump was placed there to keep us looking at distractions while they put final touches on the big collapse by 2030. Funny how a few startups filed for fed charters to not keep i fo or data on customers and allow anyone to use. They would safeguard anonymity and data so feds couldnt get and all were turned down. Thats why you see none out there today. There is huge demand for true private email (anonymously) but the feds wont allow it….same for credit cards (they track every purchase) etc etc
The banks own the government. Nothing will ever happen until they are gone.
The most valuable barter items (by storage space) and hardest to get when needed:
Antibiotics, a cross-section of aerobic and anaerobic, gram positive/negative . Diagnostic literature with progressive symptom photos and dosages.
I get mine in Mexico. A few years ago they were ALL “over the counter”, even the big hitters. Still available with prescription, es no nada nunca una problema. Just get to know a per$uadable Medico.
I’ve got these and a half-dozen more in multiple doses:
Vancomycin for MRSA (I.V. set-up too)
Levoflaxin for Anthrax
Celalexin/Cefuroxime G+/G- for gastro-intestinal
Gentamicin for Tuberculosis
Clindamycin for sepsis (gut wounds); pneumococcal/streptococcal
Azithromycin for Lyme, syphilis, respiratory- upper and lower
Erythromycin for pneumonia
Plus the usual assortment of tranquillizers, pain pills, injectable lidocaine, syringes and boxes and boxes of gauze, tape and quick-curing casting tape.
and a speculum for mygirl
That is the most impressive list I have seen (on an econ/events blog, for sure) – all of those drugs/anti-bacterials, as you mention, would be more valuable pound-for-pound than ammo, pm’s, or food in any scenario involving massive loss of resource access. And with good reason based upon pure scarcity.
That is a great list.
I have three foot lockers full of every over the counter medical A to Z medicine, ointment, brace, banadge, etc. etc. I could find. You name the medical item on the top ten Preppers lists I have it.
Twice I have been prescribed an antibiotic and an anti-fungal, I saved both and used Colloidal Silver insted. It was also a successful experiment on myself that buoyed my confidence in Colloidal Silver.
Stashed every fish antibiotic you can buy with a printout on what they are for.
Keep well stocked trama kits in all three cars and one by the chain saws.
Keep lots of Manuka Honey and Apple Cider Vinegar around.
Have one tool box with every type and size of bandaid you can buy and every type of infection fighter. That will be huge after TSHTF.
Have a large tool box full of 3 bottles of every major essential oil and a book on them, their individual uses and how to combine them.
Half a dozen medical books on what to take, do, and how to do it. “Where There Is No Doctor”, etc.
Have a seperate well stocked Burn Kit.
Last but not least I keep at least three to four bottles of Colloidal Silver on hand (I put a few drops under my tongue twice a week – haven’t had a cold, flu, or upper respiratory infection since, many years, use to be plagued with two of the three) and have a Colloidal Silver machine and 10 gallons of distilled water.
No speculum…I’m not as curious as I use to be.
Glad to have another homesteader contributing information. I forget how much information there is to consider. Just started making essential oils recently and have learned a hell of a lot over the past year about homeopathic cures and treatments after my accident and treatment. Big herb gardens are a huge benefit when you need something and it is no longer available, even if it isn’t as efficacious as pharmaceuticals.
Know you are somewhere up North, trying anything under low tunnels?
Plenty. Obtained a massive greenhouse last Fall but haven’t set it up yet. We’re going to excavate down to 10 foot in depth and install geothermal before we build it. Should give us a steady 50 degree interior temp year round to start with, looking forward to growing a few things that won’t grow in our zone.
HF,
I’m further south then you but my plan is to use 5 Cold Frames (have two built and a small green house) this winter. Have a friend who gave me an old wooden playground so the wood was free and I used plexiglas from Lowes Home Improvement.
Please keep us posted on your progress on your post above…extremely interested.
I put in an underground fiberglass tornado shelter in 2015 (have used it once when a Mom, Dad, and little girls were killed right up the road in their Doublewide) its temperature stays about 50 degrees. Put shelves in it under the stairs and a twin bed with a headboard bookcase, use it as a combo root cellar, bunker, and storm shelter. I built a deck over it with a three sided railing and eventually will also build a stout small one room building over it. To visitors I pass off the deck with railing as a dance floor.
I have found this book one of the best winter food growing manuals on the market, extremely well done…it has really helped me.
HSF
Russ Finch grows oranges in Nebraska using geothermal heat. You may have heard of him.
Russ also assists others with building their own geothermal greenhouses. Like you and many others, Russ deserves a lot of worthy praise.
This was the video that prompted me. Really amazing results you wouldn’t have expected no matter what temperature. We raised tilapia for years when we first started because no one thought to tell us we couldn’t. I think that’s how a lot of ideas come around.
Check out the woven mats the Chinese are using to pull over the top like a blanket. They do have plenty of labor sitting around ready to use.
Essential oils are an overlooked item. Bottles of cumin seed oil are in my “medical” locker.
Colloidal Silver is a must-have, but requires contact to be effective. Ionic Silver is only requires proximity and destroys all positive charged agents of infection.
After blowing a takeoff and getting pitched face-first onto a reef, I broke the impact with my hands and came up with a barnacle buried in my palm. Guaranteed infection. Squirted Ionic silver into its bloody pit and it never got red, or even sore.
The problem with antibiotics is choosing the right one. Diagnostic tools are essential.
Here is a product I stumbled onto from the My Pillow guy.
Haven’t had to use it but I put it in all four of my Trauma Kits and in my medical kits.
Could be invaluable with QuikClot Advanced Clotting Gauze and Trauma Wound Dressings.
Last but not least a roll of duct tape in each kit.
some sort of clotting bandage/sponge is a must have with serious trauma or when an artery starts squirting. I recall a post here long ago where somebody used one to stop his wife’s serious arterial bleeding from a deep cut on her leg.
When he got to the hospital an irritated doctor questioned how he had access to it… didn’t seem to think it belonged in the public’s possession.
I always carry clotting agents and tactical bandages in the tool buckets no matter what kind of work we’re doing. I like the duct tape idea though, never occurred to me.
HF,
I was just a pressure guy until the Corpsman showed up…unless it was the Corpsman who needed the pressure.
Using a chain saw alone (clearing land for a house) as much as I do, my trama kit with duct tape (and a cell phone all close at hand) made sense…then there is this, most of I didn’t realize until I read it…but I was right about the pressure aspect.
8 GENIUS FIRST AID USES FOR DUCT TAPE
James Hubbard, MD
They say you can fix anything with duct tape. How about bad wounds?
Why duct tape is a first aid staple
https://www.rd.com/health/conditions/duct-tape-first-aid/
You are a hopeless brat….
I am well behaved until your lovely pins are elevated in stirrups.
Then I see you are still eating too much sugar, and continue to nurture a happy yeast culture.
DD: Now I understand why women shun you, and why you fear them, it ain’t about your wallet, it’s about your sick and sad little brain. Infantile and puerile and pathetic little boy masquerading as an adult, grow up, your’e not funny, clever or amusing.
said the “full moon” bitch who everybody knows.. no maybe about it.
You know it’s time to revisit your advice to wadstreet:
“insulting people by name calling is the mark of a remarkably stupid and immature person”
I know your description of me and your proclamation about what inspired it are both true.
We both know nobody gives a fuck and somebody laughed at you in the stirrups.
Grow your own self up.
Touched a nerve there, didn’t I? And WTF about speculums and stirrups on this thread? If you were hoping to insult me, you did, doubling down on the insult makes you a total jerk and remarkably immature. Adult men don’t carry on like that, only adolescents afraid of women do.
mybitch…forsure
Yanking your tampon string won’t help you feel better. Give it a few days, you’ll be sociable again. And less of a hypocrite, if I allowed myself to hope.
You prompt this response not by touching a nerve. It’s your bravery, poking your stick in empty cages.
We both do it, but only you criticize it as infantile.
see, you can’t help yourself, you have to resort to attacking me via biology. You are indeed afraid of women and have to reduce them to bodily functions because you can’t address them as equally and/or more intelligent.
Smacking you upside the head would make me feel better. I can’t because internet. Don’t insult me and I’m the postcard for sociable. Insult me and watch out….
O.K. That does it. All three condoms are coming off this time. You’re getting it raw and I’m revving the rpms until your cheesy cunt is on fire.
You are making my bottle of whiskey jealous, listening to me laugh this loud, sober. You’re getting a whole lot better at cunt writing, but your beard still shows. And you beard everybody here.
You attack and insult everyone, including your aliases, downvote yourself, arguing opposite sides, always bitching and looking for a fight. Sheeesh, Fatal Attraction was never the cunt you are. Good job, but over the top.
The internet makes your boast easy. Before your bitch-smack ever reached my ear I’d have one of your eyeballs in my hand. Pussy
Hoo haw, now I’m a guy, make up your mind…BTW: you started it, speculum and all. Wasn’t even paying you much attention until you drug that out…maybe we should get a room. Show each other our asses in private.
Deal. Your pimp have a double-ended speculum?
Now I’m a woman? Thought I was a beard. Come on, name the place, Braveheart
Up my ass, if you can chose one among many.
This is the Arab map to your meeting with me, an oracle which has always fascinated them too. You’ll meet pantyshield there. He’ll elbow you out of the way for a better look.
Nah, no room, your ass is full of your head.
This be like Tyson-Holyfield, ‘cept you chew below the belt.
Chew?
Tyson: ear; Mygirl; nutsack
By the way, you remind me of my best friend in high school.
He was way smarter than me, could twist me around my own words effortlessly.
He got me with this one twice:
Judas “That’s what you THINK!”
Lido “I don’t think, I KNOW!”
Judas “I don’t think you know either.”
I would never chew on ….never mind. So what happened with your friend?
Some of your antibiotic choices are reasonable, others poor. I say that with the authority of twelve years of postsecondary education and an MD. I plan to barter my expertise, not just my stash of medicines, when the time comes. Best make friends now. Study microbiology and medicine while you can.
Absolutely – and thank you. I was wrong.
Your knowledge and expertise “will be the most valuable barter item (by storage space) and hardest to get when needed.
But you better get out while the getting is good. The Hippocratic oath gets you conscripted,interred and harnessed first.
I took an extensive list of antibiotics/antimicrobials and their uses/adverse effects to Mexico and bought a broad spectrum from those available at the time. I really had no idea what I was about and my intent wasn’t to become the local doc – it was to provide the tools/medicines to start a small clinic (to persuade a Doc to join the community)
What do you prescribe for a bite-infected scrotum? And possibly rabies?
Boiling oil and then castration.
Rabies is caused by a virus, which means antibiotics will not help. Post-exposure treatment commonly includes immune globulin and four doses of a Rabies vaccine (e.g. Imovax) at a price of several thousand dollars.
I have trouble understanding why it matters if Farcebook /Twitter/Whatever bans users….so what. Those commies are doing some free thinkers a favor. You don’t have to be on social media, humans functioned far better without this retarded shit for tens of thousands of years.
Same goes for Mastercard, there will be another lender who will give the right-wing people a freakin’ credit card. Less credit dependence would be good for our society, the joo bankers have no benefit in running off their customers/barrowers.
It looks like Communism is a harder sell than the lefties planned, they are getting more desperate by the day.
“I have trouble understanding why it matters…”
Please see above.
Dung- You get my point, I fail to see yours. What is your point Dung?