By Catherine Austin Fitts

Theme:

US Plays Chicken with Reserve Currency: With FASAB 56 and without Mattis and Kelly, Trump threatens to declare national emergency.

Stories:

  • The Wall and the Shutdown: The Risks of Earning Money from a Negative Return on Investment Process
  • Harry Reid’s Parting Shot
  • Caveat Emptor – FASAB 56: Stories Growing
  • Small Business Confidence Declines
  • China declares intention to takeover Taiwan
  • The EU Defense Fund & the Push for a European Military
  • European Elections in March
  • Brexit: Hard Brexit or Referendum?
  • Yellow Vests Call for Bank Boycott
  • What’s Up with Kim’s Sudden Resignation at World Bank?
  • China Lowers Treasury Positions
  • China Lands on the Far Side of the Moon
  • Japanese court rejects bid by former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn
  • Technocracy and the New Democrats: Climate Change gets ready to push for radically greater central control
  • The Disinformation Epidemic: Tracking actual resource allocation vs. covert gossip/ Positive return on investment vs entertainment

Hero:

Christian Bale

Runner Up: Tucker Carleson’s Brilliant Rant about Families and the Economy

Coming Up: Hero of 2019 – Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Anniversary

Let’s Go to the Movies

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62 Comments

  1. We are very much looking forward to listening to Money & Markets later today!

    In the meantime, we came across an article about a Seattle TV station that did some live “Deep Fake” video editing on President Trump’s recent National Address – see the article and videos below. Solari has reported on this sort of thing in the past, however, we need to all be continually aware that this practice is potentially being done more than one would hope…

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-10/seattle-tv-station-caught-doctoring-trumps-face-during-national-address

    Thank you again for all the marvelous reports you do!

    1. Yes, I posted the Last Refuge version yesterday This kind of thing is going to be happening more and more. This was not serious. But the technique is. The professionalism and covert investment in slick disinformation is rising. Time consuming. Frustrating.

  2. Catherine,

    Actionable advice for safety once federal cash flows stop including foodstamps?

    Deadbolts and guns?

    1. Networking with neighbors and local sheriff (if clean)
      Support to local foodbanks to help support and help out
      Planning with local schools, rotary, chamber and local businesses, churches and temples
      Neighborhood watch organizing
      Have 1-2 month food supply and cash
      Be on look out for false flag and covert operations – ideally joint with network
      Arrange for local municipality to provide supplemental appropriations for extra enforcement personnel
      Crash effort to create local employment – crowdfund local opportunities
      yes, having guns can help. But helping people who are starving is more helpful.
      Read Dimitry Orlov about what happened in Russia when they went through the process of shut down of government cash flows
      Efforts to increase local food growing, production and markets

      1. Good quick list right there… perfect for those who may have limited resources as well.

        Stealing, paraphrasing, and adjusting Mr. Orlov’s little quip:

        “Live simply like a collapse already happened… avoid the rush.”

        There is a lot we can learn from functioning societies of 4th world peoples… everything can go to hell, and they won’t really notice… because their societies are functional, and their greatest asset is a shared currency of close relationships

  3. Catherine,

    Actionable advice for safety once federal cash flows stop including foodstamps?

    Deadbolts and guns?

    1. Networking with neighbors and local sheriff (if clean)
      Support to local foodbanks to help support and help out
      Planning with local schools, rotary, chamber and local businesses, churches and temples
      Neighborhood watch organizing
      Have 1-2 month food supply and cash
      Be on look out for false flag and covert operations – ideally joint with network
      Arrange for local municipality to provide supplemental appropriations for extra enforcement personnel
      Crash effort to create local employment – crowdfund local opportunities
      yes, having guns can help. But helping people who are starving is more helpful.
      Read Dimitry Orlov about what happened in Russia when they went through the process of shut down of government cash flows
      Efforts to increase local food growing, production and markets

      1. Good quick list right there… perfect for those who may have limited resources as well.

        Stealing, paraphrasing, and adjusting Mr. Orlov’s little quip:

        “Live simply like a collapse already happened… avoid the rush.”

        There is a lot we can learn from functioning societies of 4th world peoples… everything can go to hell, and they won’t really notice… because their societies are functional, and their greatest asset is a shared currency of close relationships

  4. Wow Catherine, your interview with Greg Hunter has created a lively discussion, to put it mildly.

    1. Good. Time to start discussing the heart of the matter. We are all financing this. So time to deal with it.

  5. Wow Catherine, your interview with Greg Hunter has created a lively discussion, to put it mildly.

    1. Good. Time to start discussing the heart of the matter. We are all financing this. So time to deal with it.

  6. This site is saying that wonderful quote from Chief Seattle is not attributed to him! 🙁 But then again it’s snopes?
    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle
    Misattributed
    The following quotes, purportedly taken from a letter in which Seattle pleaded that his name should die with the ceding of the Washington State territories, was shown in 1992 to have been a fiction, devised by television scriptwriter Ted Perry for a historical epic in 1971. See “Chief Seattle”, Snopes (Sept. 26, 2007).

  7. This site is saying that wonderful quote from Chief Seattle is not attributed to him! 🙁 But then again it’s snopes?
    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle
    Misattributed
    The following quotes, purportedly taken from a letter in which Seattle pleaded that his name should die with the ceding of the Washington State territories, was shown in 1992 to have been a fiction, devised by television scriptwriter Ted Perry for a historical epic in 1971. See “Chief Seattle”, Snopes (Sept. 26, 2007).

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