Apple Pay Introduction Linked to Secret London Meet to “End Cash”?
Those who have been reading my personal blog — RazorianFly for years, will already know my views on the fast-incoming cashless society.
In an attempt to sum up these beliefs, earlier this year I wrote an opinion piece entitled: Apple Watch = “Mark of the Beast”?
The piece aimed to highlight a seemingly minority consensus that (at the time) surrounded the possibility of Apple Inc, who world-famously uses the bitten apple as its corporate logo, introducing a contactless payment solution that would theoretically comprise of the mergence of both the Apple ID system, with digital credit — and could one day be tied to a wearable device.
In it, I concretely put forward the arguments for and against Apple Pay signalling a potential pre-cursor to the “Mark of the Beast,” or a similar system thereof — as talked about in the scriptures, and I provided a wholly-theoretical scenario which could arise by this kind of technology becoming completely ubiquitous — over the next 10 years.
Was the introduction of Apple Pay simply a last-minute thought by Apple to earn itself a little extra cash on the side … or, at its core, did Apple Pay represent more than that?
A strategic financial move that had been planned for years prior to its announcement, developed in cohesion with the world governments and central banks, to finally usher in a truly cashless society — Perhaps?
The initial uptake of Apple Pay was reportedly off the charts — (admittedly) it has slowed over the last several months.
I’ve talked before about Apple being one of the only companies on the planet that would be capable of making contactless wireless payments through mobile devices truly mainstream, with the help of payment providers such as Visa and MasterCard — and its ‘money-can’t-buy’ loyalty from customers who adorn its brand.
And get this:
According to economist Martin Armstrong, Apple Pay (in its current form) was only publicly introduced after decisions were made at a “secret” meeting reportedly held in London - earlier this year, had been finalised.
In a post entitled The New Age of Economic Totalitarianism & the London Meeting to End Currency, Armstrong put forward the claim that the meeting’s attendees were to include top financial officials from the U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and Swiss and Danish central banks, with executives from Harvard and Citigroup reportedly expected to front the occult presentation.
According to the report they all had one goal in mind … to “end cash.”
“Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University, and Willem Buiter, the Chief Economist at Citigroup, will address the central banks to advocate the elimination of all cash to bring to fruition the day when you cannot buy or sell anything without government approval,” the economist claimed prior to the meeting which is said to have took place sometime in May 2015.
(Image Credit: Martin Armstrong)
Under the reign of the now late Steve Jobs, Apple had a noticable afinity with the U.S government. In February 2011, for example, you may or may not know that the Apple co-founder had dinner with President Obama — a meet which Business Insider later cited may have “changed the course of U.S history.”
Are we really to believe that Jobs kept the company’s plans to introduce its own contactless NFC payment method a mere three years later, completely under wraps? — Apple Pay’s almost seemless rollout across the majority of the U.S in late October 2014, suggests not.
Armstrong is perhaps most known for correctly predicting the “Black Monday” crash of 1987, alongside the Russian financial collapse that took place in 1998.
“We better keep one eye open at night for this birth of a cashless society that is coming in much faster than expected,” Armstrong concluded the report by saying, as he asked: “Why the secret meeting? … Something does not smell right here” …
Of course, this isn’t the first time that we’ve heard the world economy could be on the brink of a reset.
If you cast your mind back, it was at last year’s banking consortium held in Davos, Switzerland that World Economic Forum (WEF) founder, Klaus Schwab, was quoted as saying it was time to “push the reset button on the world.”
At the same gathering Christine Lagarde, current Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, gave a speech in which she appeared to hint that the world’s economic policies would eventually see a “reset.”
This eventual reset, the central banking executive suggested, would see relating monetary policies “reformulated” and “move back into their old territories” or become more “traditional” in their coverage.
Exactly what Lagarde was referring to when she said this, is unclear. What is progressively clear, though, is that the central bankers are pushing for some kind of monetary “reset” — a washing away of the old way of doing things, as it were, in favour for the ushering in of the new.
Whilst it’s all but impossible to predict the exact consequences and reach that a global currency reset could potnetially have on today’s society, it’s not entirely unreasonable to consider that -if it one day did happen- it might just spell the demise of physical cash as we know it today, and see contactless payment solutions, (like Apple Pay), become the new default method of making transactions — everywhere.
Originally published at RazorianFly.com on August 3, 2015.
