MEXICO CITY, Mexico (PNN) - May 23, 2025 - The war on cash isn’t about convenience. It is about control. The people leading the charge aren’t freedom-loving innovators; they are smug, bloated globalists like Agustin Carstens. These unelected elites want to replace physical currency with programmable, traceable, fully centralized digital money. Why? Because cash keeps you free, and freedom is the one thing they can’t afford for you to have.
Just like that, another mask slips. A United Nations official casually admitted how they bribe big Industry to ditch cash and push digital control.
Another case in point: Mr. Agustin Carstens. Who is he? He is a Mexican economist who has been the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) since 2017. Before that, he served as governor of the Bank of Mexico. In short, he is a deeply embedded globalist insider, and he really doesn’t want to live in a cash society.
Why? Well, because, as Mr. Carstens puts it, he wants to know what you are spending and purchasing, and he can’t do that if you are using cash.
Pretty chilling stuff, right? One person who has been loudly and unapologetically warning about the dangers of digital currency is Joe Rogan. He sees exactly where this is headed, and he is not staying quiet about it.
Rogan on CBDCs: “They want centralized digital currency that they control. They want to get everybody on a social credit score system. All they would need is another pandemic to try to push through that sh*t.”
“That is what they have in China. If you f**k up in China and you get a bad social credit score because you tweeted something they didn’t like, now you can’t buy a plane ticket, now you can’t buy a car, now you can’t get a loan,” said Rogan.
This is a topic Joe Rogan speaks on often because he understands just how serious this is and the types of ramifications it will have on political dissent.
This is literally our future if Democrats ever win another election.
Joe Rogan said, “That is the problem with centralized control. It is real obvious that if you step out of line, they are going to come get you and they are going to arrest you, just like they are doing in the (Fascist) United Kingdom. They are arresting people that are making Facebook posts. You bet your f*cking ass. There are a lot of people that want to post things on Facebook and they don’t, because they don’t want to go to jail; and that is not good. That is not good. That is the problem with centralized control.”
Rogan has a right to be worried. The globalist elite is working at breakneck speed to make Digital Currency the new norm. Here is what Carstens said in an official BIS interview, where he made it clear that global trade, centralized power and digital oversight matter more to him than national sovereignty or personal freedom.
I am worried about the increasing protectionism in global trade. The entire dialogue on this issue is not constructive. One shouldn’t forget that global trade is essential for global growth; the benefits it brings for the economy as a whole are undisputed. I fear that we could very soon end up in a lose-lose situation, as the protectionist measures on the table will be damaging first and foremost to export-oriented countries - above all, those that themselves impose no or only minimum tariffs. In a global economy based on the division of labor, however, they also affect suppliers or domestic producers that depend on the import of semi-finished products. In the end, it is always the consumer who has to pick up the tab, in the form of higher prices and less job security.
If you think he is just talking in random theory, think again. He is positively obsessed with digital currency. Here is more from his glowing tribute to centralized digital power.
“A technological revolution is changing our economy and even money itself,” said Rogan. “In addition to improvements to existing payment systems, new digital currencies have been unleashed. Yet societies face two forks in the road in designing digital money. First, should digital currencies rely on a central authority or a decentralized governance system? Second, should access be based on verification of identity or purely on cryptography? The answer is that if digital currencies are needed, central banks should be the issuers, and they should grant access based on identification. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can combine novel digital technologies with the tried and trusted foundation of central banks. Developing CBDCs comes with a host of technological, legal and economic issues that warrant careful examination before issuance. Central banks - the guardians of stability - will proceed carefully, methodically, and in line with their mandates. The BIS is supporting this international discussion, ensuring that central banks can continue learning from one another and can cooperate on key design issues.”
Let us not pretend this is some far-fetched, loony hypothetical. We have already seen what happens when the powerful decide certain voices don’t deserve a bank account. People like Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, Andrew Torba and Mike Lindell have all been “de-banked” in real time, cut off from their own money for nothing more than their political beliefs.
Now imagine how much easier that gets when the government has complete and total control over your funds. When every dollar you earn, spend or save is tied to some shadowy central system monitored by globalist elites like Mr. Carstens. You won’t need to be “de-banked” the old-fashioned way. With digital currency, they will just click a button and freeze you out instantly. No appeal, no warning, no recourse.
They might not even need to go that far, because the threat alone will be enough to silence people. Just the idea that they can cut you off will be enough to keep millions of people quiet. That is the real goal here. It is not about being “modern” and moving into the future. It is about power. Total control over your livelihood, your choices, your words and your freedom.
Once they kill cash, they own you.