Stavroula Pabst explores the race to apply emerging neurotechnologies, such as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), in times of both war and peace, expanding conflicts into a new domain — the brain — while perhaps forever changing humans’ relationship with machines.
Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare.
The political response to the crisis at the southern border continues to advance the bipartisan “smart wall,” having been backed by Trump and Biden alike. This bipartisan consensus reaches far beyond the US, as much of the world is similarly speeding along in implementing “digital borders.”
Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the “Smart Wall”.
In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock's Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be "ETF'd" and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger.
Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock’s Plan To Own The Fractionalized World.
As Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilots proliferate, a myriad of elite-gilded and blockchain-powered digital payment networks are vying for their technologies and payment systems to be incorporated in the developing digital currency infrastructures of tomorrow. Their end game? A digital financial grid prime for abuse.
A former partner of Farmington State Bank, the tiny rural bank embroiled in the FTX scandal, is now building the rails for CBDCs in the Middle East and beyond. Their recent activities may finally reveal the true motives behind Sam Bankman-Fried's and his allies' use of Farmington, with major implications for the coming Digital Dollar.
Unmasking Farmington: FTX, Fluent Finance and the Coming Digital Dollar.
Expanding on plans first laid during the Trump administration, Israel's government and military - aided by Silicon Valley billionaires - seek to "build back better" in Gaza after the current conflict, installing a technocracy that is likely already being augmented globally through the weaponization of buzzwords like “decentralization” or “financial freedom."
Palestine: “Peace to Prosperity” Through Technocracy.
After Binance’s settlement with the DOJ and the removal of its longtime leader Changpeng Zhao, one of the most important figures at Binance – Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman – is poised to have an outsized role over the activities of and data held by the world’s largest crypto exchange. Despite this, Perlman’s past ties from scandals ranging from FTX to Jeffrey Epstein have been entirely ignored by the mainstream media.
With legislation around the world seeking to gut encryption and online anonymity, Ramiro Romani offers an overview of what's coming and several solutions for divesting from Big Tech products and protecting your online privacy.
5 Ways To Prepare for the Online Privacy Crackdown.
As war in Ukraine continues, controversial defense contractors and adjacent companies like Palantir, Anduril, and Clearview AI are taking advantage to develop and level-up controversial AI-driven weapons systems and surveillance technologies. These organizations’ common link? The support of the controversial, yet ever-more powerful Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel.
How Peter Thiel-Linked Tech is Fueling the Ukraine War.
The United Nations claims that the purpose of Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG16) is to promote peaceful and inclusive societies and to provide access to justice for all. Hiding behind the rhetoric is the real objective: to strengthen and consolidate the power and authority of the "global governance regime" and to exploit threats—both real and imagined—in order to advance regime hegemony. In Part 2, Iain and Whitney examine the centrality of Digital ID (SDG 16.9) in this endeavour.
