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.
Whitney joined What Bitcoin Did to discuss the importance of independent journalism, the challenges of media manipulation and the rise of tyranny. They also talked about the risks of AI, the influence of powerful figures like Elon Musk and the need for public scrutiny, and the potential co-opting of
Whitney joined The Jimmy Dore Show to discuss recent news about CTIL, Jeffrey Epstein, and her latest article "Unmasking Farmington: FTX, Fluent Finance and the Coming Digital Dollar."
Fluent Finance, the stablecoin firm that partnered with FTX-linked Farmington Bank, is now building CBDC rails in the UAE. A closer examination of Fluent suggests that FTX's collapse was part of a "war" for control over the coming digital dollar.
Whitney joined Redacted to discuss the recent news relating to cyberattacks. U.S. intel agencies have been running table top excercises on this exact scenario. And now Departemnt of Homeland Security head Myorikas says the greatest cyber threat to america is something call Kill Ware.
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.
