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  As CBDCs Roll-Out, Elite-Backed Digital Payment Systems Vie to Build the “Global Payment Standard” 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. BY STAVROULA PABST Idris Elba stars in a promotional video for Stellar’s “ Real World ” campaign, where he touts Stellar’s more “equitable” vision of finance, a future where opportunities are “borderless.” “If ideas are borderless, opportunities should be too,” A-list actor Idris Elba recently exclaimed in a video for cryptocurrency player Stellar’s “ Real World ” campaign. In the elaborate promotional video featuring Elba, traditional currencies are portrayed as unreliable and especially detrimental to marginalized people. An immigrant, working class-coded woman in

  Meet the Russians THE CORBETT REPORT by James Corbett corbettreport.com Here's a simple observation: when knowledgeable Americans discuss American politics, they can talk in detail about the various fault lines in the American government. They can expound at great length on the Squad's role in influencing the policies of the Democratic Party, for example. And they can assess the policy proposals of various third-party candidates. And they can detail the history of the turf battles between the FBI and the CIA or tell you how the FBI under Hoover differed from the FBI under Mueller. And, if they're really informed, they can even discuss the role of  Citibank  or  Goldman Sachs  or  BlackRock  in picking the Cabinet of this or that administration and identify the various vested interests that are served by placing, say,  Tom Vilsack  in the role of Secretary of Agriculture. Likewise, Canadians will be able to opine on the deeper political significance of Pierre Poilievre  mu