“Now we are aiming at Iran. The rumors in Washington (true or false we’ll soon know): around August we’ll be heading toward Iran from bases which are being established in eastern Afghanistan. That’ll be our next war. What nobody takes into account, since these people are as ignorant as any group that has ever governed the United States…they don’t know that Persia is one of the oldest and greatest cultures in the history of the Earth. They’re sitting on a sea of oil. They have worked out uranium deposits. They’ve worked out nuclear weapons. And if you get them grumpy, they’re going to drop them on us, and we the people are going to be killed, because they, the gas and oil lobby, will have their islands off Samoa. They’ll be taking trips when the bad days come, or maybe, dare I say it, they will be enjoying the rapture. But, then, I’m an optimist.” ~ Gore Vidal, 2005
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This coming week we begin our two-part publication of News Trends & Stories for the 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up. Dr. Joseph P. Farrell will join me for our analysis of what is happening in 2019—and where it is going. In Part I, we look at the 10 top stories in Economy & Financial Markets and Geopolitics:
Economy & Financial Markets:
- Story #1: Secret Books: Harvard, HUD, DOD, & U.S. Treasury Go Dark—The Pricing Mechanism Goes Dark, Too
- Story #2: U.S. Debt Spiral and Reserve Currency Pains
- Story #3: The Global Slowdown—Recession Looms
- Story #4: The Fed Backs Down
- Story #5: Monopolies Bite
Geopolitics:
- Story #6: Brexit: The Endless Agony
- Story #7: Technocracy and the Rise of Environmental Socialism
- Story #8: Censorship and Disinformation Explode
- Story #9: Oil Wars, Trade Wars, and the Rise of the Asian Consumer
- Story #10: Pushing for War—Secret Money for Secret Armies and War with Iran
As you listen, check out the News Trends & Stories section of the 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up web presentation, including our complete trends list, our choices for top news videos of the year, the Trump Report Card, and our headlines for the top stories.
In the week following, in News Trends & Stories, Part II, we will cover the 10 top stories in Culture, Science, Space & Technology, and Food & Health and will discuss Unanswered Questions, Inspiration, and Take Action.
In May, we will publish our 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up theme: Will ESG Turn the Red Button Green? ESG (environmental, social, and governance) refers to three factors used to measure the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a business or enterprise. The question is whether ESG will bring real change or just more whitewashing and technocracy—made possible by the secrecy delivered with the help of national security law FASAB 56, combined with trillions delivered to the military-industrial complex by taxes, the sovereign bond market, and privatization.
For those of you who don’t know the Red Button story, here it is:
Understanding the red button problem that our leadership is managing will help you follow the push to start a war with Iran, despite the opposition of most Americans.
In Let’s Go to the Movies, check out Defamation, a fascinating documentary by a charming young Israeli documentary filmmaker who decided to go on a global hunt for anti-Semitism. With the U.S. State Department now appointing a special envoy to eradicate anti-Semitism, Texas speech therapists losing their job because they decline to sign a pledge to never boycott Israel, and New York Orthodox Jewish communities opposed to Israeli government policies targeted by vaccine witch hunts, Defamation provides fascinating background on the logic behind the new State Department policy that anti-Zionism is now—abracadabra!—anti-Semitism.
This is the last week of the month—so no Money & Markets. Post your questions and story suggestions for the Money & Markets for the first week in May here.
Talk to you Thursday!
Catherine,
You testimony on the early stages of FASB56 is incredible and incredibly vital that is on record.
Thank you
Excited to finally get it out in hard copy!
Catherine,
On the topic of ending the dollar:
Could the factions that are fighting each other want to deliberately destroy the dollar for different reasons?
Yes – many points of view in this thing.
Could the Shanghai Co-Operation Organization be doing to The United States Corporation what Reagan did to the USSR? Outspending their way to dominance with the Belt & Road Initiative?
Yes. Part is building liquidity globally for the yuan by lending it. Two problems for US – it cancels out the false prosperity of the 90’s where by the Chinese finance through Treasury what the Americans buy at WalMart which WalMart makes in China. Walmart still makes things in China but the Chinese have stopped financing them – all at the same time the Social Security Trust fund turns negative cash flow and is no longer net-net financing Treasuries either. Another is that the organized crime interests that exploded on to the scene after the Wall came down (with the help of US intelligence I might add) and networked deep into Israel and NY are now globally linked transnationally and wish to control the equity and cash flows on the rising land empire. Ukraine is in the middle of this. Question is where do the breakaways fit in and who has what invisible weaponry?
Yes, The Ukraine and The Levant are in the middle. One one side, we have The Eurasian Union offering trade and co-operation. On the other, we have The United States Corporation and its surrogate institutions the EU and NATO offering war and sanctions. Nobody, including ordinary citizens of the EU, Syria, Iran and Venezuela (to name but four), likes a bully. With a little luck, the rest of the world can just stand back and watch The United States Corporation spend itself into a hyperinflationary debt spiral and bankruptcy without having to fire a shot. It’s a terrible predicament.
Ah, reminds me of Confucious. “The way out is through the door. Why will no one avail themselves of this method?” Turtling forth….
Morris Berman look at his trilogy. I am reading Dark Ages. It shames to fit.
Catherine, can you help me understand?
So their are Philosopher Kings(Mr. Global) are central bankers in BIS?
Are these the same as the NeoLiberal Oligarchs of the west?
If theirs war on bringing IRAN/ N Korea into the fold. Why is their Russian/Chinese Conflict with the US, if they are in the system.
Are their multiple levels at war
Think of this like a corporation with a board of directors and a CEO. The corporations have competitors and the VPs and various offices compete and jockey for position. Meantime, selected investors try to take advantage.
I work in the dental care field. One of the offices I work in just received a federal grant to put a survey in front of every patient (The patient can decline) about depression. We are also required to take a suicide prevention course as part of our CE for licensing. The goal is for us to send more people to mental health assessments so they can “treat” them with medications. The harvesting continues…
This information is also very useful in smearing, attacking, incarcerating and otherwise controlling people – including creating control files.
Reading Gore Vidal’s quote from above, are there islands off of Samoa with significance, or is his mention of this figurative?
Thank you, as always, for the tremendous work that you and the Solari Team do!!
I assume this was figurative but have not checked
I am deeply disturbed by the new 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. I wouldn’t have noticed except I was in Indiana recently and the Dems I met there are all agog. I started to look into his campaign and noticed with 24 hours of his meetings with the DNC and their big donors, Google had been scrubbed and the algorithms change to shut out other candidates. I have some training in hypnosis and have noticed a very skillful use of hypnotic patterns in his interviews. He is not the Manchurian candidate. He is more dangerous. He has the ability to program us. He has been chosen. Please have someone on to talk about this use of Conversational hypnosis and Neurolinguistic Programming. I think it’s timely as we watch the circus unfold. The Solari report continues to help me keep my sanity. Thankyou Catherine for continuing to be the luminous being you are.
I will check him out.
Some die hard Sanders fans are in my social circle… to a person they pointed out he was ex Naval Intel with the Naval reserves (…and they comment on how many Dem candidates are ex-CIA or other Intel)
Attended Harvard, Pembroke College and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Sure looks like a globalist cut out character.
Also sounds like a smart guy. Too bad he let Clinton lose the election for the Democrats. Sanders vs. Trump would have been a real campaign. We will publish my interview with Patrick Woods in 2 weeks on Technocracy. Unfortunately, Sanders is helping to create a technocracy.
I am not sure if David Yates is talking about Bernie…
If you are saying that Bernie Sanders was a navy intel, Rhodes scholar, And attended Harvard – I find no evidence of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders
from snopes, 2016, the only source I found covering Bernie’s possible military service by quoting articles from ABC
An ABC News article about Sanders and the draft reported that Sanders’ campaign confirmed his application for status as a conscientious objector, noting that his anti-war stance in the 1960s was a well-known matter of record.
So while it was true that Sanders sought conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War draft, that cannot in any way be conflated with the specific meaning of the term “draft-dodging.” Further, Sanders was eligible for student deferments until at least 1964, when he graduated from the University of Chicago. By the time his number came up, Sanders was too old to be drafted.
Army Times archive (cited by snopes) On paper, Sanders doesn’t have a lot in common with veterans.
He never served in the military because he was too old to be drafted when his draft number came up. He protested the Vietnam War as a University of Chicago student in the 1960s and stressed his opposition to the war during his failed Senate bid in 1971.
When Bernie began to run for president, some political sites accused him of draft dodging.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2015/10/14/bernie-sanders-draft-dodger/
Best,
Addi J