“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,
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….
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,
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
Around the 2hr 36 min mark Joseph and you were discussing the lack of credibility of the Justice System. A few years ago people put on youtube the radio shows of Mae Brussell who was an OUTSTANDING researcher of American politics and the ins and out of the FBI & CIA from the late 40’s until the mid 80’s. This is before the internet and she kept all her data on index cards and connected the dots using timelines, events, and relationships to people to dig for the truth.
I don’t know if you know her background, but her daddy, Edgar Magnin, was the rabbi for the Jewish Temple in Beverly Hills and was personal friends with many great entertainers, movie moguls and Presidents. I use to see him often at the Hillcrest County Club where many of the entertainers use to gather in the afternoon. His ancestor started the I. Magnin’s department store.
Mae Brussell grew up in a very comfortable environment in Beverly Hills where her father entertained many of the rich & powerful people of the day. She got married, had a few kids and then the JFK event happened that changed her life from a housewife to moving to Carmel and becoming an avid researcher and exposer of truth that she shared on her radio show.
The best I can describe Mae’s research is she gives the R rated version of history. Take a listen to a few of her radio shows that have been placed on youtube, she is truly remarkable as it is not about her, it is the information she shares.
Could not agree more. Mae Brussell was an outstanding researcher and truthteller. Would love to have a biographer come on the Solari Report and tell us all about her. Will put it on the list .
If you are serious then you better hurry as the best Mae Brussell source is Paul Krassner (Chicago 7) and he is 87 years old.
I see he does have a twitter account under @ZenBastard (LOL)
But I see he can be reached at paulkrassner@roadrunner.com
Paul did the introduction on Mae’s Book “Investigations of Fascism in America”. Book covers items like Defense Industry & the Nazi link, how Nixon rose to power, many watergate witnesses met violent deaths, Patty Hearst kidnapping, John Belushi murder, John Lennon’s death.
She has a great quote ” You can only solve a murder by knowing who is destroying the evidence”
Catherine
Around the 2hr 36 min mark Joseph and you were discussing the lack of credibility of the Justice System. A few years ago people put on youtube the radio shows of Mae Brussell who was an OUTSTANDING researcher of American politics and the ins and out of the FBI & CIA from the late 40’s until the mid 80’s. This is before the internet and she kept all her data on index cards and connected the dots using timelines, events, and relationships to people to dig for the truth.
I don’t know if you know her background, but her daddy, Edgar Magnin, was the rabbi for the Jewish Temple in Beverly Hills and was personal friends with many great entertainers, movie moguls and Presidents. I use to see him often at the Hillcrest County Club where many of the entertainers use to gather in the afternoon. His ancestor started the I. Magnin’s department store.
Mae Brussell grew up in a very comfortable environment in Beverly Hills where her father entertained many of the rich & powerful people of the day. She got married, had a few kids and then the JFK event happened that changed her life from a housewife to moving to Carmel and becoming an avid researcher and exposer of truth that she shared on her radio show.
The best I can describe Mae’s research is she gives the R rated version of history. Take a listen to a few of her radio shows that have been placed on youtube, she is truly remarkable as it is not about her, it is the information she shares.
Could not agree more. Mae Brussell was an outstanding researcher and truthteller. Would love to have a biographer come on the Solari Report and tell us all about her. Will put it on the list .
If you are serious then you better hurry as the best Mae Brussell source is Paul Krassner (Chicago 7) and he is 87 years old.
I see he does have a twitter account under @ZenBastard (LOL)
But I see he can be reached at paulkrassner@roadrunner.com
Paul did the introduction on Mae’s Book “Investigations of Fascism in America”. Book covers items like Defense Industry & the Nazi link, how Nixon rose to power, many watergate witnesses met violent deaths, Patty Hearst kidnapping, John Belushi murder, John Lennon’s death.
She has a great quote ” You can only solve a murder by knowing who is destroying the evidence”
In response to Farrell’s comment ‘when has socialism ever worked?’ Didn’t it work pretty well under Qadaffi? Weren’t they all pretty well off / happy? I know he was largely a benevolent dictator, but wasn’t Libya at least called the ‘Socialist Something-or-Other”?
Julian:
I know little about Libya under Qadaffi. My impression was that it was an oil wealth country that shared the largesse with the people – like Norway – and wanted to help others in Africa be independent of the central banking warfare model. My impression was that it was a benevolent dictatorship that worked well – including for the people – but it was not run on a socialist model. I will ask Joseph on our next discussion.
Catherine
In response to Farrell’s comment ‘when has socialism ever worked?’ Didn’t it work pretty well under Qadaffi? Weren’t they all pretty well off / happy? I know he was largely a benevolent dictator, but wasn’t Libya at least called the ‘Socialist Something-or-Other”?
Julian:
I know little about Libya under Qadaffi. My impression was that it was an oil wealth country that shared the largesse with the people – like Norway – and wanted to help others in Africa be independent of the central banking warfare model. My impression was that it was a benevolent dictatorship that worked well – including for the people – but it was not run on a socialist model. I will ask Joseph on our next discussion.
Catherine