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"It is literally a prison planet." Former Blackrock portfolio manager, Ed Dowd (Edward Dowd), explains why every last remnant of your freedom depends on widespread rejection of CBDC. "Once the central bank digital currency is linked to all your credit cards and bank accounts, then social controls can be... show more
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@DowdEdward DeSantis has banned CBDC in FL and has promised he will not allow a digital currency in the US, as President.
@DowdEdward Digital ID and Money will be the cell door of your prison slamming shut - track and trace every movement and penny you spend, where it came from and what you spend it on - if they allow you! They can cancel your life at a stroke of a key if they don't like what you say or think!
@VigilantFox @DowdEdward This should be unconstitutional. Congress needs to ban it once and for all.
@DowdEdward They are collapsing the banks by over regulation and centralizing power to central banks in anticipation of cashless society
@DowdEdward CBDC is the path. implementing china social score in the U.S is the destination.
@DowdEdward The best (and only) way to reject CBDC is for a large % of people to cancel their smartphones. YOu can keep the device but without the DATA PLAN.
@DowdEdward Say no to CBDC and yes to Freedom!
@DowdEdward People injected 2 unproven shots into their body for a virus of 0,03% TFR and opportunity to travel - Digital ID and CBDCs will be a breeze for them. 😔😔
@DowdEdward Behold a pale horse
![Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd: "Think about what the stock market is telling you: The most highly valued companies are AI companies... [and they're] building... the digital prison... The [only] growth [in the U.S. is coming from] building our future enslavement." This clip of Dowd (Edward Dowd), a former BlackRock fund manager and founder of Phinance Technologies, is taken from an interview with Robert Breedlove (Robert ₿reedlove) posted to YouTube on December 26, 2025.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2007307696735957447/amplify_video_thumb/2007305917662920704/img/hF73eyWM4aseNen1.jpg)
![Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd: "If this [Iran war] does go on for three to five months, there's going to be supply chain issues..." "It wouldn't be imprudent to maybe stock up and go to Costco now before everybody else figures it out and the panic comes." This clip of Dowd (Edward Dowd) is taken from an interview with Greg Hunter (Greg Hunter) posted to Rumble on April 2, 2026.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2040917070779654327/amplify_video_thumb/2040915574830899200/img/F7qF-_ZeLaiD6fW7.jpg)
!["They'll be able to just take the money out of your account." Ex-investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts: Programmable central bank digital currency (CBDC) "is a way of implementing taxation without representation". "The president of the Minneapolis [Federal Reserve], in 2023, said we should never do this because... they'll be able to just take the money out of your account." Neel Kashkari: "I keep asking anybody... to explain to me what problem this is solving." "I can see why China would do it. If they want to monitor every one of your transactions, and if you want to directly tax customer accounts, you could do that with a central bank digital currency." "So I get why China would be interested. Why would the American people be for that?" Credit: Andrew Bridgen The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts Liz Gunn](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1986345528083271922/amplify_video_thumb/1986345427898191872/img/mZJmpH_UAF1sY_nv.jpg)
![The Trump admin is GASLIGHTING us re: no CBDCs They know they can't do CBDCs because of the Constitution, so they're backdooring them with stablecoins Iain Davis explains— "the idea of a [CBDC] is that it will give these private institutions total control of a new digital international monetary and financial system" "CBDC is programmable money that slots into that system. That's why they want it" "That's not going to work in the US because... it's a constitutional right in the United States that the people, and only the people, oversee what they call the power, quote–unquote... to coin money" "So what are you going to do about it? You need some sort of work-round" "So stablecoins and things like deposit tokens or tokenized deposits are variations of programmable digital currency. But rather than being issued by a central bank, they're issued by a commercial bank" "stablecoins... slot into the system of programmability just as easily, if not more so than a central bank digital currency. So you can attach smart contracts to any kind of digital transaction using digital currency" "Programmable digital currency and stablecoins do exactly the same thing, serve the same purpose, as central bank digital currency" This clip of Iain Davis (InThisTogether), author of The Technocratic Dark State, is taken from a Flashlights podcast (Flashlights Podcast) episode posted to Rumble on May 17, 2026. ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "It's a constitutional right in the United States that the people, and only the people, oversee what they call the power, quote–unquote, it says this in the Constitution, to coin money. So the power to coin money is overseen by the people. "Now the idea of a central bank digital currency is that it will give these private institutions total control of a new digital international monetary and financial system. That's CBDC is programmable money that slots into that system. That's why they want it. "That's not going to work in the US because even though Congress, you know, Congress is the, is the dog which is wagged by the tail in this of the Fed, the Fed, you know, the Fed tells Congress what to do, not the other way round. But theoretically it could be the other way round. And theoretically the people could assert their control over the Fed if they only knew about it, which, not many people do, but they could do it, right? It's in the US Constitution. "Now that's a problem if you're going to embark on a global transformation of the entire international monetary and financial system when your leading reserve currency is the US dollar. So that's, you know, that could all go wrong very badly. "So what are you going to do about it? You need some sort of work round. How are you, how are you going to do which for the, you know, I, for many years, well, since central bank digital currency has been something that I've been looking at, I couldn't figure out why the US wasn't more enthusiastic about central bank digital currency. "Because it's the type of thing that the US administrations are usually right up— You know, they're really gung ho about that kind of centralized control of everything. That's right up their alley. So why, why don't they like it? And then it was the work of John Titus who pointed out this problem that they've got in the US with the Constitution that made me look at that and think, right. And then I started investigating that further. And he's right about that. That is a problem. "But then they obviously need some sort of workaround. How are they going to have. Because the main point of central bank digital currency from the surveillance and control aspect is that we will all need digital identity in order to access our digital wallets, which will contain the currency and the currency and the wallets and our, digital identities will all be programmable so conditions can be set on everything that we do. "Every transaction we make will be subject to condition through some sort of smart contract probably, which will control it. Right. So you know, if you say the wrong thing or you know, you, you just write the wrong thing online, you could be punished by algorithm by controlling your access to money... "And so the key to that is central bank— the programmability of central bank digital currency. But obviously that's not going to, may not work. There's a good chance that won't work in the United States which has got the US dollar reserve is an important currency. "So what are you going to do? So stablecoins and things like deposit tokens or tokenized deposits are variations of programmable digital currency. But rather than being issued by a central bank, they're issued by a commercial bank. So or in the case of stablecoins, a non-bank, a non-bank institution like Tether. So it's not a bank. "But you can use stablecoins for exactly the same. They slot into the system of programmability just as easily, if not more so than a central bank digital currency. So you can attach smart contracts to any kind of digital transaction using digital currency. Programmable digital currency and stablecoins do exactly the same thing, serve the same purpose as central bank digital currency or the other version, the commercial bank version is deposit tokens. Any of those will do. "Now in the US they've gone down the stablecoin route so they can issue the stablecoins which will be backed by US Treasuries, just like the dollar or just like any kind of dollar instrument will be one to one convertible for the US dollar. So the stablecoins are effectively the US dollar in, in digital form. "But instead of calling it a central bank digital currency, they call it issued by, it wouldn't have to be issued by the Fed. They call it a stablecoin, which is issued by a company like Tether or you know, someone like that. So it's the same system but using a workaround. And that workaround came with the Genius Act which, which came from an executive order that Trump made when he first came to office. "Because the Americans, quite rightly when they were electing their president, were concerned about central bank digital currency. I mean anyone that understands what it is should be terrified of it. So they didn't want it, and Trump promised that they wouldn't have it. Probably. I don't know whether he knew, but certainly the gaggle of technocrats that were around him knew that they weren't going down that path. Anyway, no chance of the US introducing it because of these problems we've just outlined."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2060155537791303822/amplify_video_thumb/2060149164164669440/img/gbwudVOTDKQpFTbG.jpg)
![Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd on the SpaceX IPO "It's overvalued and there's no growth there" "They've changed the rules to get it listed. A lot of people are saying it's unethical" "If you look at the numbers, it's a 15% growth company pricing at 100 times revenues" "It's going to come out at [a] $2 trillion [market cap]... [but it could] easily... [be] a 50% loss [inside of 12 months]" This clip of Dowd (Edward Dowd), a former BlackRock fund manager and co-founder of Phinance Technologies, is taken from an interview with Daniela Cambone-Taub (Daniela Cambone-Taub) posted to the ITM TRADING, INC. YouTube channel on June 5, 2026.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2062995855976906916/amplify_video_thumb/2062993193160040448/img/yXoMR8vkrYy5kk24.jpg)
![The agenda for a cashless society marches forward in Australia, paving the way for the introduction of CBDC. "The number of [ATM] machines has more than halved, from almost 14,000 Back in 2017 to around 6000 in the middle of [2022]." CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies)—which are programmable, and require digital ID to function—will enable faceless, unelected technocrats to not only track every single transaction you make, but also to control every aspect of your life, including where you can travel, how you can travel, what you can buy and whether or not you can even buy anything at all. Source: Subscribe to us on Telegram: For more content like this, visit:](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1728742088336900332/ext_tw_video_thumb/1728741860468736000/pu/img/AXtPRgZyh2V4xibO.jpg)
