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As CBDCs Roll-Out, Elite-Backed Digital Payment Systems Vie to Build the “Global Payment Standard”

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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

The Bigger Picture - Exercising the Attempt at Cybernetic Modeling

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I've been following Mathew Crawford down these various rabbit holes since he began this investigation.  Be sure to check out all the links in this article for background information and to more fully comprehend where the predator class may be trying to take us and how they have managed to take us this far. The Bigger Picture - Exercising the Attempt at Cybernetic Modeling According to Rounding the Earth MATHEW CRAWFORD Do not take the title as a declaration that the truths of the universe are all laid out here. Like anyone else, all I can do is gather information and judge how well that information fits various models. I'm doing my best as a systems modeler, and I feel that I've made a few important breakthroughs. A Global Machine?  https://embed.kumu.io/caa2351b9d1634ca03beb58d4fa1109a Please pass this Big Picture article around, and in particular, study the many resources embedded in the graph above (click on nodes and edges for citations). I will be adding thousands of l