"Shortly after the Israel-Hamas war broke out, Jared Kushner, went on the All-In Podcast to discuss Trump, Israel, Hamas, and a gathering he organized in Bahrain back in 2019 (where he presented the so-called “Peace to Prosperity” plan). T"..
"The event was the perfect pretext for Kushner to promote and sell the Abraham Accords to Arab leaders and it was praised by publications like Fortune magazine."..
"During the interview, Kushner talked about how Stephen Schwarzman (from Blackstone Group) and Randall Stephenson (CEO of AT&T) attended the gathering in Bahrain and implied that they seemed eager to invest in the Palestinian economy because of its proximity to Israel.."..
"Other Trump officials, like former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, gleefully claimed that venture capitalists were excited to invest money in projects in the West Bank and Gaza like they were “hot new IPOs”"..
"Likewise, Netta Korin (of Orbs) noted that there was a paradigm shift in U.S. foreign policy toward Palestine because it was transitioning from a “donations-based” relationship to an “investments-centered” partnership."..
"Mnuchin’s circle also expanded to the crypto sphere because in 2019, one of his top aides, Craig Phillips, stepped down from his position at the White House and joined Ripple’s board of directors to advise the company on strategic regulatory opportunities"..
"Ripple is a currency exchange founded by the creator of Mt. Gox, Jed McCaleb, with early funding from big-name investors like Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz."..
> SoftBank
> SoftBank
"Another character from the Trump syndicate—also linked to Israel, UAE, and Abraham Accords—is Erik Prince, who, in 2017, spoke at the Oxford Union and argued that Trump needed to create an institution like the UK’s Commonwealth Development Corporation"
"In addition to the CIA, the UAE, and China, Prince also has connections to Israeli intelligence. For example, in 2022, Prince launched a new smartphone called Unplugged (to “liberate” patriots from Big Tech censorship) and as MIT Technology Review noted,"..
"the Unplugged tech operations are run by Eran Karpen, a veteran of Unit 8200 and a former employee of CommuniTake, the Israeli company that started NSO Group"..
"Last week, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared on the Ben Shapiro program to do some “public diplomacy” & claimed that Palestinian civilians, rather than Hamas or the IDF, were the ones who committed “the most heinous atrocities” on Oct 7."..
"He also laid out a plan to “denazify” Gaza, the first stage of which would be to install a “technocratic government” . Bennett repeated the same rhetoric on Jake Tapper’s program when he said he would create “an interim technocratic self-government.."
"Earlier this year, Bennett joined the Quantum Source board of directors. Quantum Source develops technology in photonic quantum computing (with funding from Dell Technologies Capital)."..
"Quantum computing will be integral to the transition to a decentralized world of Web3. The image below illustrates the role played by blockchain, which is the next iteration of the “cloud” (as it relates to storing data). Web3 uses artificial intelligence as its logic base"
"The day after Naftali Bennet’s interview on the Ben Shapiro program aired, Elon Musk, .. announced that he would like to help Benjamin Netanyahu demilitarize and rebuild a “deradicalized” Gaza (after the destruction of Hamas). "..
"Elon’s statements were made during his visit to Israel [Kibbutz Kfar Aza] where he got a tour of the areas where the violence occurred on October 7th."..
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"Elon concluded his apology tour, kissed the ring (as he always does) and agreed “that Starlink would only operate in Israel and Gaza with the Israeli government’s approval.”"..
"It’s also worth noting that Twitter (or X) partnered with an Israeli firm, AU10TIX, to handle the identity verification process for Twitter Blue users."..
"Polish entrepreneur and former Google employee, Iliana Montauk, is the director of Gaza’s first start-up incubator called Gaza Sky Geeks, backed by Google’s philanthropic arm and funded by figures like Jack Dorsey and Marc Bennioff"
"A 2019 Coindesk article highlighted the deepening ties between the Israeli crypto industry and the Israeli government, specifically, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal connections to Guy and Galia Ben-Artzi, co-founders of Bancor, a blockchain startup."
"In 2017, Tim Draper (venture capital guru invested in bitcoin and companies including SpaceX, Tesla, Skype, and Coinbase) partnered with Bancor and joined their advisory team. A year later, in 2018, Bancor launched a new blockchain service in Kenya"..
"Bancor hired Will Ruddick (of Grassroots Economics) to oversee the “community inclusion currencies” project in Kenya (the tech hub in Kenya is called Silicon Savannah)."..
"In 2013, Will Ruddick was arrested by the Kenyan government for suspicion of forgery and links to the Mombasa Republican Council, a separatist organization that advocates for the secession of Mombasa .."
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"In addition to Kenya’s Silicon Savannah, the Silicon Valley technocrats are well entrenched in Rwanda’s Innovation City in Kigali and Sheba Valley in Ethiopia."..
"Similar to how Israel and the U.S. share raw intelligence with one another, facilitated by the NSA, Ethiopia has also played a vital role in U.S. signals surveillance."..
"In fact, in 2002, the Ethiopian government collaborated with the NSA to launch the Deployed Signals Intelligence Operations Center known as Lion’s Pride. Furthermore, Ethiopia has used Cyberbit, Israeli spyware, to monitor citizens and journalists."
theintercept.com
theintercept.com
"It’s worth noting that in 2014, an AI company based out of Hong Kong, OpenCog Foundation (with funding from the Jeffrey Epstein IV Foundation) launched an AI and Robotics lab in Sheba Valley called iCog Labs (with Ben Goertzel as an advisor)."..
"Another tech guru actively exploiting Africans is the current darling of the AI world, Sam Altman. In 2019, Altman launched the Worldcoin Initiative, an id authentication project that collects sensitive biometric data in exchange for digital tokens"..
"African countries are regularly used as testbeds for new financial instruments and monitoring techniques. This is not unlike how the Israeli military and tech companies use Gaza and the West Bank as labs"..
"Kohelet is funded by a network of billionaires, like Jeff Yass, who helped create the options-trading powerhouse, Susquehanna International Group and sits on the advisory board of the Cato Institute"..
"Yass adheres to a concept called “poker philosophy” .. It’s similar to futarchy, an idea that originated from the economist Robin Hanson who envisioned a futuristic form of government where prediction markets can be used to determine public policies."..
"Vitalik Buterin, computer programer and co-founder of Ethereum, also champions the principles of futarchy and liquid democracy–as illustrated by his 2014 post titled, An Introduction to Futarchy."..
"According to a Haaretz exposé, Kohelet operates under the radar to shape critical centers of power in the Knesset government and the judicial branch (with a focus on promoting settlements and advocating for the privatization of the public sector)."
haaretz.com
haaretz.com
"The Tikvah Fund, another U.S.-based organization, finances and works closely with Kohelet (the two entities even share board members)."..
ynetnews.com
ynetnews.com
"It’s worth noting that in the summer of 2022, Susquehanna International Group was due to follow the footsteps of Sam Bankman-Fried (of FTX) & open an office in the Bahamas (because of the island’s relatively friendly crypto regulations)."🍿
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#wirecard
"In 2022, Bank Leumi was the first Israeli bank to enable crypto trading. They partnered with the U.S.-based company, Paxos"..
"because “the company holds several licenses to operate with Bitcoin, altcoins, and blockchain technology…[and] has managed to consolidate important partnerships with PayPal, Revolut, and the Bank of America.”"..
To be continued...
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