Whitney Webb: DIGITAL ID How Does NOBODY Realize This?!

Whitney Webb: DIGITAL ID How Does NOBODY Realize This?! - In this in-depth discussion, investigative journalist Whitney Webb unpacks the growing entanglement between digital ID systems, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and the private sector’s push to remake the global financial order. Far from the promised utopia of “inclusion,” Webb argues that these technologies are being constructed as tools of exclusion and surveillance—systems in which participation is mandatory and refusal means economic invisibility.
She outlines how key players like BlackRock, the UN, and the BIS have long envisioned a seamless integration of digital identity with programmable money, enabling unprecedented behavioral micromanagement across financial, social, and even environmental domains. From “nature-backed” asset creation to blockchain-based carbon credit schemes, Webb reveals how natural ecosystems are being turned into collateral—fueling new markets in which financial elites seek to maintain their dominance through engineered crises and asset inflation.

What emerges is not simply a digital transformation but a restructuring of sovereignty and control—where private asset managers act as global governors, trusted third parties are hand-picked, and “risk-managed” AI like BlackRock’s Aladdin oversees the entire system. As Webb warns, this is not about saving the planet, but about preserving a collapsing debt-driven order through technocratic consolidation.