Greece Starts to Outlaw Cash

From 1. Jan. 2011, every transaction above 1,500 euros between natural persons and businesses, or between businesses, will not be considered legal if it is done in cash. Transactions will have to be done through debit or credit cards.'

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National Irish Bank to Stop Handling Cash

One of the country's larger banks has told to its customers that it is to stop handling cash in its branches.

National Irish Bank says it is moving to a Scandinavian model of "cashless banking" - with an increased reliance on ATMs and debit cards.

NIB has told customers that its branches will no longer handle cash withdrawals or lodgements, nightsafe lodgements or foreign exchange cash.

They are instead urging customers to use ATMs or get cash back on their laser cards if they need notes. Branches will continue to accept cheques and postal orders.'

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Easy, Just close your account and move elsewhere where they do handle cash, if all customers closed their accounts then they would soon go back to taking cash

The Very Fabric of Society is Breaking Down Around Us. What the Hell is There Left to Believe In?

It's all gone wrong. Our belief in everything has been shattered by a series of shock revelations that have shaken our core to its core. You can't move for toppling institutions. Television, the economy, the police, the House of Commons, and, most recently, the press ... all revealed to be jam-packed with liars and bastards and graspers and bullies and turds.

And we knew. We knew. But we were deep in denial, like a cuckolded partner who knows the sorry truth but tries their best to ignore it. Over the last 18 months the spotlight of truth has swung this way and that, and one institution after another was suddenly exposed as being precisely as rotten as we always thought it was. What's that? Phone-in TV quizzes might a bit of con? The economic boom is an unsustainable fantasy? Riot police can be a little "handy"? MPs are greedy? The News of the World might have used underhand tactics to get a story? What next? Oxygen is flavourless? Cows stink at water polo? Children are overrated? We knew all this stuff. We just didn't have the details.

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Cashless Control Grid Inches Closer to Reality

Central bankers in Japan are mulling the abolition of cash. Richard Jerram, a senior economist with Macquarie bank, told investors that “the proposal has become practical with the broad penetration of electronic money and credit cards in Japan,” reports the Times Online. Bankers claim the scheme will rescue the economy from another deflationary spiral.

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Dutch Supermarkets Set to Refuse Cash

Dutch supermarkets are hoping to phase out the use of cash by 2014, the Financieele Dagblad reports on Thursday, quoting the retail board CBL.

The aim of the ban on cash is to make supermarkets less vulnerable to armed robberies, the paper says.

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Cash to Become Extinct as Microchips Take Off

Cash is accelerating down the path to extinction as new technologies threaten to mark the end of loose change within a decade. Bank and credit union bosses say cash won't be alone, with wallets and credit cards also likely to disappear too. They told The Advertiser's round table forum that cash and cards will be replaced by computer chips embedded in mobile phones, watches or other portable devices.

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No Future For a Cashless Society

BRITAIN will never evolve into a completely cashless society, according to a report today.
The long-term psychological impact of the recent financial crisis will mean people will continue to rely on tangible notes and coins, according to the study which was carried out for ATM operator Bank Machine.

At the same time the resistance to change from an ageing population, concerns about a surveillance society, retailer resistance and Britons' attachment to Sterling will all ensure cash continues to be widely used.

The report, carried out with James Woudhuysen, professor of forecasting and innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, said a cashless society in which contactless payments were made by touching a card against a reader would also reduce the level of people's daily human interaction.

It added that the removal of notes and coins from our lives would have a knock-on effect on many activities, ranging from buying things at car boot sales to community fundraising efforts such as local fêtes, as it would not be commercially viable to install contactless payment systems for these events.

A lack of cash would also hit church and charity collections, office whip-rounds for birthdays and leaving presents, and even children's pocket money.

The Scotsman

The BBC Pumping The Cashless Society

Every Petrol Pump 'Will be Prepay by 2011'

Every petrol pump in Britain will be prepay by 2011 because of the rise in fuel theft, say industry bosses.
The soaring cost of unleaded and diesel has seen an increase in instances of people driving off from forecourts without paying.
Petrol retailers say their fuel theft bill has risen by several million pounds.

The prepay system, where drivers have to swipe a debit or credit card at the pump before they can get any petrol, is already used widely in the U.S.

The amount the driver has spent is automatically deducted from the swiped card, making it impossible not to pay for filling up.
Some UK forecourts already have the prepay system, particularly those at supermarkets.
Petrol stations will still be manned by staff selling items from the shop, such as sweets, sandwiches and road maps.
Britain has not rushed to introduce the system because around one in three drivers still pay in cash.

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Now listen up folks and take in what i am saying.

This means you won't be able to use cash for filling up with petrol.

Credit and debit card only.

This is part of the Totalitarian tiptoe to a cashless society and ultimately the microchipping of the population.

You can have a million in cash stuffed under your mattress and it wont do you no good.

Everytime you use your debit or credit card they know where you are and what you are doing.

If they don't like what you are doing for whatever reason they just turn off your ability to pay!