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“Come, Watson, come!…The game is afoot.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This coming week – the first week of a new year – we will begin our publication of the 2017 Annual Wrap Up.
For the first two weeks, Dr. Joseph P. Farrell will join me to discuss News Trends & Stories. In Part I, we look at the 10 top stories of 2017 in Economy & Financial Markets and Geopolitics:
1. 2017: The Year of Punching Back
2. Global 2.0 to 3.0: The Shift Starts Up the S Curve
3. Tsunami Of Ops
4. BRICS Build Independent Systems
5. The Trump Shock (including our 2017 Trump Administration report card)
6. US Budget: The US Doubles Down on Missing Money, War & Arms Sales
7. Planet Equity, Crash Up & the Bull Market in Centralization
8. The European Union After Brexit
9. Pension Fund Crisis
10. Dawning Realization: Time to Enforce
As you listen, check out our web presentation for News Trends & Stories including our complete trends list, our choices for top news videos of the year, and our description of each of the 10 top stories.
In the week following we will cover the 10 top stories in Culture and Science, Space & Technology and discuss UnAnswered Questions, Inspiration and Go Local.
Because our “in person, in depth” discussions in the 2017 3rd Quarter Wrap Up were popular, Dr. Farrell and I used the same format again for our discussion of News Trends & Stories for the 2017 Annual Wrap Up. Inasmuch as our discussion is lengthy, we will publish both full-length and chapter-length versions so you can listen selectively if you prefer. These discussions explore 2017 to find the most important developments that will inform the year ahead. This in-depth discussion has been immensely productive for both Dr. Farrell and myself.
In our third week I will cover equity markets and publish the first Blockbuster Chartology from Rambus for the new year, 2018.
In the final week we will address our 2017 Annual Wrap Up theme: Does Your Pension Fund Have a Deep State Drain? Money is going missing in many directions. It’s time to ask some serious questions about whether and how this is impacting our pension funds. In the United States and many countries, taxpayers are on the hook for corporate and government pension funds. Whether you have a pension fund or not, this will impact your finances and the finances of your neighbors and community too.
In Money & Markets this week I will discuss the latest in financial and geopolitical news.
In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will review Wormwood, Chapters 1-6 and what its publication by Netflix says about the Washington press corp, including the Washington Post.
Please post or e-mail your questions for Ask Catherine.
Talk to you Thursday!
Oh my gosh! What a treat… Just downloaded this and loaded it up to my iPhone and now on my way to Tulsa… And this conversation will carry me all the way there!
Happy new year Catherine, to both you and Joseph!
Oh my gosh! What a treat… Just downloaded this and loaded it up to my iPhone and now on my way to Tulsa… And this conversation will carry me all the way there!
Happy new year Catherine, to both you and Joseph!
I recall one of Dr. Steven Greer’s speeches where he relates presenting to a Secretary of Defense regarding the byzantine secret within secrets “write in” UFO programs. The Secretary is outraged he doesn’t know anything about those matters, picks up the phone and calls one of the secret project’s pointman. The dialog is roughly: “this is the Secretary of Defense”, “yes we know who you are”, “I need to be written in to this program”, “you don’t need to know sir, don’t call again”, click.
I have known a few higher ups in the military who would have been very troubled/offended should they have been aware of the vast extent of the ‘missing money’ pillaging of the Services. Many career commanders are alarmed at the state of military readiness. They are not one and the same as the monolithic war profiteers/kickbacks to politicians industrial complex or the Breakaway Civilization built with ill gotten money and technology. That point is important. Sure there is corruption almost everywhere yet it might just be possible to stop missing money flows out of the Pentagon; especially as it has become a matter of self preservation for the U.S. Military.
Could not agree more. I believe that part of the Trump election was the line military deeply concerned about the line military beings stripped. From what I can tell money has been going everywhere but core operations. Much of where it is going is controlled by corporations and private investors. This was the danger of making it feasible for private corporations to do highly classified work. You privatized the knowledge and technology but not the funding. You gave a private infrastructure and annual “Put” on the cash flows. In one sense it was a way for the private pools of capital that control the fed to control the warfare side of the house, cutting out the line military. I am hopeful that the line military can assert control, insource more. Part of this is so that the money is managed to achieve performance – whether overt or covert – as possible to pump the stock market and private fortunes. The waste has been enormous, IMO too often without regard for sufficient oversight related to productivity and performance. Part f the challenge of operating in the dark.
Before an awareness of the missing money, secret space projects, or any of it, when defense “outsourcing” was the euphemism for $500 hammers, endless cost-plus-contracts, and no consequences corporate fraud, I happened across an announcement that –in the pursuit of efficiency– of course now the management of military outside contractors was also to be outsourced! I thought they had just rung the bell for the pinnacle of corruption. Little did I know. Thanks Catherine.
Quite amazing how far they have pushed the incompentance narrative. In fact, the US civil service is the most competent group I have dealt with. And they have managed significant competence while being described as incompetent to justify all manner of parallel universes and corruption.
To be clear, commanders bear the brunt of military readiness, I don’t know their state of alarm regarding fighting ability, but weapons that don’t work and insufficient training means more casualties on their consciences.
The group most harmed in a global implosion would be the marines. They are on the forward line. So not surprising we see former marines as Chief of Staff, DOD Secretary and Secretary of the Navy. Looks to me they are trying to return the DOD operations and finances to some kind of coherent state
Their problem are the Ziocons – who appear happy to destroy America if it increases their power and money. They could not care less whether the whole is coherent or not. The more incoherence, the more they make. They free ride others need for coherence.
I recall one of Dr. Steven Greer’s speeches where he relates presenting to a Secretary of Defense regarding the byzantine secret within secrets “write in” UFO programs. The Secretary is outraged he doesn’t know anything about those matters, picks up the phone and calls one of the secret project’s pointman. The dialog is roughly: “this is the Secretary of Defense”, “yes we know who you are”, “I need to be written in to this program”, “you don’t need to know sir, don’t call again”, click.
I have known a few higher ups in the military who would have been very troubled/offended should they have been aware of the vast extent of the ‘missing money’ pillaging of the Services. Many career commanders are alarmed at the state of military readiness. They are not one and the same as the monolithic war profiteers/kickbacks to politicians industrial complex or the Breakaway Civilization built with ill gotten money and technology. That point is important. Sure there is corruption almost everywhere yet it might just be possible to stop missing money flows out of the Pentagon; especially as it has become a matter of self preservation for the U.S. Military.
Could not agree more. I believe that part of the Trump election was the line military deeply concerned about the line military beings stripped. From what I can tell money has been going everywhere but core operations. Much of where it is going is controlled by corporations and private investors. This was the danger of making it feasible for private corporations to do highly classified work. You privatized the knowledge and technology but not the funding. You gave a private infrastructure and annual “Put” on the cash flows. In one sense it was a way for the private pools of capital that control the fed to control the warfare side of the house, cutting out the line military. I am hopeful that the line military can assert control, insource more. Part of this is so that the money is managed to achieve performance – whether overt or covert – as possible to pump the stock market and private fortunes. The waste has been enormous, IMO too often without regard for sufficient oversight related to productivity and performance. Part f the challenge of operating in the dark.
Before an awareness of the missing money, secret space projects, or any of it, when defense “outsourcing” was the euphemism for $500 hammers, endless cost-plus-contracts, and no consequences corporate fraud, I happened across an announcement that –in the pursuit of efficiency– of course now the management of military outside contractors was also to be outsourced! I thought they had just rung the bell for the pinnacle of corruption. Little did I know. Thanks Catherine.
Quite amazing how far they have pushed the incompentance narrative. In fact, the US civil service is the most competent group I have dealt with. And they have managed significant competence while being described as incompetent to justify all manner of parallel universes and corruption.
To be clear, commanders bear the brunt of military readiness, I don’t know their state of alarm regarding fighting ability, but weapons that don’t work and insufficient training means more casualties on their consciences.
The group most harmed in a global implosion would be the marines. They are on the forward line. So not surprising we see former marines as Chief of Staff, DOD Secretary and Secretary of the Navy. Looks to me they are trying to return the DOD operations and finances to some kind of coherent state
Their problem are the Ziocons – who appear happy to destroy America if it increases their power and money. They could not care less whether the whole is coherent or not. The more incoherence, the more they make. They free ride others need for coherence.
Absolute Mind-Blow of an episode Catherine.. Thank Yoo!!..
At some point you mentioned “Subpoena Power”.. It cut to the heart of my problem with American Divorces.. I believe every fair-minded, divorced parent accepts the tenets of child support.. But they are crushed when constant subpoenas arrive to nitpick a small increase in monthly remittances.. Of course this is a boon for lawyers and court funding..
For the family, the result is that the paying parent often chooses to economically plateau until their kids are grown.. A complete waste of what could have blossomed out of those formative years.. Just imagine millions more creative, divorced parents helping the economy grow, without the fear of fiscal rape thru audit after audit..
Perhaps, Subpoena Power should be a last resort, not the immediate right of any parent with $1,000.00 to retain an attorney.. It’s a triple whammy to the previously productive parent.. They lose their kids, their forward momentum, and their faith in justice..
Maybe, we would even learn to act as adults and be open with each other about the challenges we face in rearing our kids.. As it once was..
Totally agree. The family court racket is one of the very worst.
Absolute Mind-Blow of an episode Catherine.. Thank Yoo!!..
At some point you mentioned “Subpoena Power”.. It cut to the heart of my problem with American Divorces.. I believe every fair-minded, divorced parent accepts the tenets of child support.. But they are crushed when constant subpoenas arrive to nitpick a small increase in monthly remittances.. Of course this is a boon for lawyers and court funding..
For the family, the result is that the paying parent often chooses to economically plateau until their kids are grown.. A complete waste of what could have blossomed out of those formative years.. Just imagine millions more creative, divorced parents helping the economy grow, without the fear of fiscal rape thru audit after audit..
Perhaps, Subpoena Power should be a last resort, not the immediate right of any parent with $1,000.00 to retain an attorney.. It’s a triple whammy to the previously productive parent.. They lose their kids, their forward momentum, and their faith in justice..
Maybe, we would even learn to act as adults and be open with each other about the challenges we face in rearing our kids.. As it once was..
Totally agree. The family court racket is one of the very worst.
Hi Catherine,
Are the Kennedy family “public deaths” just one more OP playing us all?
Did JFK and RFK simply join their fellow rulers in the breakaway underground?
As you regularly mention JFK, please take a moment to examine this information.
I feel it syncs well with your work on the secret economy and power structure.
Sincerely, Evan
Looks Like JFK was Gay and other interesting news
http://mileswmathis.com/jfkgay.pdf
The Hidden King(s) Camelot ruled from the cave of Merlin
http://mileswmathis.com/barindex2.pdf
Nope. JFK was killed. I have never looked into RFK in that respect, but I doubt it.
Don’t have time to look, but I am wondering if the CIA has started a new round of disinfo in response to being pushed to publish documentation that would implicate them.