We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
Requiring a digital identity as a condition for participating in economic life effectively eliminates economic freedom.
By definition, a central currency intrudes upon a nation’s sovereignty. In Croatia, we experienced this, at least those less cautious of us who advocated for and implemented the euro, when the Croatian kuna was replaced by the EU’s supranational currency. This placed the European Central Bank at the helm of the overarching monetary authority.
Introducing a central digital euro would further limit our country’s ability to independently manage its fiscal and monetary policies, rendering the Croatian National Bank effectively redundant. Currently, the bank serves as a kind of intermediary between European structures and Croatia, but its role has largely been symbolic. With the digital euro, even this symbolic role disappears.
Croatian citizens would then be directly dependent on decisions made by the European Union, receiving money directly from it. How much money there will be, how it will be managed, who will limit eurocratic power in the context of programmable money, and what monetary decisions will be made during future crises—all of these would fall under the jurisdiction of Ursula von der Leyen and Christine Lagarde.
Full digitalization of money, particularly through centralized digital currencies or private payment systems, shifts real power from democratically accountable institutions to technocratic, supranational, and corporate structures of questionable legitimacy.
Human dignity in a hyper-technologized world requires that individuals not be reduced to mere data points or manageable system resources. Subordinating humans to technology is a process of technocratic dehumanization. https://notesfromtechnopoly.substack.com/p/a-case-against-the-digital-euro
Police in Winona Minnesota are stunned after every single one of their Flock cameras were suddenly removed in a single night.
According to the police department, all 8 of the town's cameras were cut down and hauled away.
Police are asking for the public's help to identify the individual, but the public has been responding with comments such as:
"The Flock cameras tore themselves down"
"Whoever did it, was fishing with me"
"Whoever it was, was at Bible study with me"
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Nearly 20,000 people are publicly vouching for a man accused of cutting down Flock cameras in a small West Virginia town.
People commented:
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"He was saving my neighbor's dog from a fire all day, couldn't be him."
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"This man is innocent. I saw him serving at a soup kitchen."
-"Couldn't be him. He was helping me replace the roof on a homeless shelter."
The man, Wesley Jackson, has pleaded Not Guilty.
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US diesel crack surpasses $100 a barrel for the first time on supply disruptions
... and the supply of refined fuels is already nearly exhausted. A hard landing is visible ahead, for farmers, for trucking, and ... well, for everything that requires food (people) and energy (the entire economy).
These are very likely the final days of relative normalcy during which to prepare. Get ready.
🌾 🌍 🚜 JPMorgan warns a massive global food supply crisis could begin next year as fertilizer shortages tighten agricultural supply.
JPMorgan is the latest institutional research desk to warn that the next global food crisis may already be taking shape, driven by what its analysts describe as the "Five Ws": War, Weather, Warehousing, Water, and Waste.
In a new report titled Food Security Is National Security: A Compounding Storm, a team led by London-based senior global economist Nora Szentivanyi warned that disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz and the emergence of a potentially historic El Niño could weaken crop yields, constrain agricultural production, and keep food inflation elevated through the first half of 2027.
"Successive shocks since COVID have compounded, eroding food production capacity and keeping food price pressures elevated into 2027," Szentivanyi said, warning that "this is not a short-lived shock; it has reduced the likelihood of near-term disinflation, and the food ...
