When it was reported that Wegmans grocery stores were utilizing facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect data on their customers, the company declined to disclose the software-end of its surveillance machine.
Ohio has become the new destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. The state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called "Silicon Heartland" to the now vast array of public-private partnerships pioneered by the state's richest man.
Robert Kadlec, a veteran of biowarfare with longstanding connections to the National Security State and corrupt government contractors as well as controversial Covid-19 policies, has now become the head of counterproliferation policy at the Department of War.
The ambitions of the Koch-backed network behind Project 2025 and the the PayPal Mafia behind President Trump are set to converge in a public-private fin-tech industry that distributes school choice subsidies using digital wallets and stablecoins based on AI social credit analytics.
The UK establishment blamed “far-right influencers” and social media for 2024 riots. Iain Davis shows the unrest was exaggerated and asks who is really shaking the jar.
Ripple, Stellar and Ethereum market themselves as tools of “financial inclusion,” yet all are racing to power CBDC pilots worldwide. Stavroula Pabst shows how their elite backers plan to control the “global payment standard” for programmable money.
Israeli leaders now call for a “technocratic government” in a rebuilt Gaza. Building on Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan, Israeli tech firms, crypto ventures and Silicon Valley billionaires see Palestine as a lab for surveillance, tokenization and impact finance.
Palantir, Anduril and Clearview AI, all backed by Peter Thiel, are using the Ukraine war as a proving ground for AI targeting, autonomous drones and facial recognition, technologies that are poised to be used domestically as tools of surveillance.
The UN calls SDG16.9, “legal identity for all,” its most crucial goal. In Part 2, Iain Davis and Whitney Webb show how ID2020 and the World Bank are building an interoperable global digital ID tied to CBDCs.
