Professional writer, researcher and investigative journalist. Founder and contributing editor of Unlimited Hangout since 2020. Author of the bestselling book One Nation Under Blackmail. Co-hosts the Unlimited Hangout podcast with Mark Goodwin.
Trump’s pick for Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, is poised to further facilitate the now long-standing, commandeered use of the Department of Commerce to engineer the rise of a global financial control system in private hands that runs on dollar-denominated debt.
Despite Republican rhetoric and Trump’s past policy on the Paris agreement, the incoming Trump administration is being heavily influenced by figures tied to carbon markets and efforts to implement dubious climate finance schemes.
While Facebook’s Libra seemed to fail, it set the stage for stablecoin regulation. The finale of The Chain traces how Libra, the 2023 bank failures and the Gillibrand-Lummis bill realized PayPal’s founding goal of a “new world currency.”
The architect of BlackRock’s ETFs has teamed up with a group of companies tied to US intelligence and US government debt trading to tokenize the Amazon rainforest and borgify it with a large-scale sensor network in order to create a new form of “digital gold.”
The patent hoarding developers and investors associated with PayPal and Google who built the first iteration of e-commerce and digital advertising have turned to the blockchain to fulfill their vision of total financial surveillance and the circumnavigation of government-issued money.
Trump’s recent speech on bitcoin and crypto embraced policies that will seek to mold bitcoin into an enabler of irresponsible fiscal policy and will employ programmable, surveillable stablecoins to expand and entrench dollar dominance.
While J.D. Vance has his own controversies, his close connection to billionaire Peter Thiel, who is poised to have unprecedented influence in a new Trump administration, should deeply unsettle every American who cares about freedom, privacy and reining in the surveillance state.
Endeavor, a self-described “mafia” multiplier backed by Bronfman, Omidyar and Hoffman, groomed the founders who dominate Latin American fintech, including Xapo’s Wences Casares, who helped build the Bitcoin-Dollar system with advisers like Larry Summers.
Latin America is quietly being forced into a carbon market scheme via regional contractual obligations which seeks to create an inter-continental “smart grid,” erode sovereignty, and link carbon-based life to the blockchain.