Deep State Tactics 101 Series:

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There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured strychnine in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
–I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.
~ A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The U.S. government’s response to Dr. Skidmore’s report on $21 trillion of undocumentable adjustments at DOD and HUD was significant. FASAB 56 was designed and implemented in October 2018 to ensure that the federal government is now free to use secret books and fund secret armies. As described in Caveat Emptor: Why Investors Need to Do Due Diligence on U.S. Treasury and Related Securities, a major portion of the U.S. securities market has now gone dark.

In the meantime, monies missing to date have been protected by a major media effort designed to persuade citizens and global investors that DOD’s inability to produce audited financial statements or to comply with financial management laws and regulations are mere accounting snafus. Based on the personal assurances of insiders, there being no need for facts or evidence, we have been assured that these accounting glitches are non-cash items—that is, there are no missing monies to be looked for as government liabilities become due and payable.

Equity investors can rest assured that the source of infinite amounts of corporate subsidy and gifts financed by the U.S. Treasury and mortgage fixed-income markets is protected so long as the central banks can print money.

In 1989, as Assistant Secretary at HUD, I assumed responsibility for the primary mortgage insurance funds of the U.S. government. I heard a series of reasons why we could not produce reliable financial statements. They sounded logical to me. Consequently, I instituted a significant package of legislative, regulatory, and administrative reforms to address all of them. In 1990, I was fired to stop their implementation. My company, Hamilton Securities, was hired in 1993 by a new administration to help clean up the resulting mess. We were quite good at our job. Consequently, Hamilton was fired and targeted by the HUD Inspector General and DOJ, once again to prevent successful implementation of the reforms.

Every year since then, I have heard the same explanations for the financial failures at HUD. I recently picked up a HUD financial statement and laughed so hard I started to cry. Sure enough, it presented the same excuses and used the same playbook. Thirty years of the same story, again and again and again. Every year, a new reporter asks me to refute the same phony cover stories—the process depending on high turnover of reporters. It’s a constant media memory wipe. As official reality moves ever further from reality, protected by a wall of secrecy and propaganda, I find myself living in the financial and accounting fraud version of Groundhog Day.

I decided to publish all of the material on the “missing money” story in a hard copy form in the 2018 Annual Wrap Up. Given the speed at which essential information is disappearing from the Internet, I want to make sure this information is alive and well—particularly as we enter a period in which pension fund and other obligations to the general public are likely to be renegotiated or abrogated. (For essential background on pension funds, see our 2017 Annual Wrap Up, “The State of Our Pension Funds.”)

FASAB 56 and the modified limited hangouts being promoted are designed to protect the trillions in monies and assets that disappeared through the government accounts and the bailouts from the legal rights of the remaining liabilities of the U.S. government.

To help our subscribers understand why I am so confident that the excuses used to justify and cover up the missing money are bogus, I included a personal history of dealing with missing money and financial fraud in the U.S. federal government:

C. Austin Fitts, Assistant Housing Secretary, conferring with assistants during a break in her testimony before a Senate subcommittee, 1989. (The New York Times/Andrea Mohin) Missing Money: A Personal History: 1989-2019

In my outline, the last section was going to be a description of the tactics used to slow me down or kill me—both literally and figuratively—in the process. As I finished the 2018 Annual Wrap Up, I concluded that it would be much better to record and publish this material as a separate audio.

This series is my download about the tactics I have encountered personally or have observed at close hand. I have experienced a wide spectrum of covert operations, information and economic warfare, and dirty tricks with and from both governmental and private parties. Telling stories is a great way to communicate this experience; however, because stories expand the time necessary to convey the information, I will publish this material in several parts.

Here is my outline for the full series:

I.   Introduction
II.  Solari Report Resources
III. Control System Goals
IV. Tactics by Areas
     A. Faith, Hope, & Love
     B. Health
     C. Communication/Surveillance
     D. Mind Control
     E. Brand/Prestige
     F. Media (including Disinformation)
     G. Control Files
     H. Personnel Benefits
     I. Financial
     J. Legal
     K. Politics
     L. Culture & Consumerism
     M. Cybersecurity
     N. Covert Operations & Crime
     O. Targeting of Children
     P. The Beatdowns: Company, Neighborhood, Cohort 
     V. Hard Times
        - My list of the personal worst
VI. Helpful Strategies
VII. Closing Thoughts

Movies are helpful in teaching control and covert tactics. This week on Let’s Go to the Movies, I revisit one of my favorites reviewed several times before on The Solari Report, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.

Sir Ridley Scott and his brother Tony are two of the finest movie directors of their generation. Their movies often do a masterful job of teaching us how the deep state works and demonstrating an endless series of deep state tactics. Tony Scott was the director of Enemy of the State—one of the greats in this genre.

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112 Comments

  1. Dear Catherine

    Will you be providing a link to the article you mention at time 42:00 on Dr Farrell’s piece on weather and disaster capitalism?

    Yesterday I was having dinner with one of my colleagues and I gave your analogy of Disneyland for the world of the overt living alongside the world of the covert. His eyes brightened up and it was as if I could see a light flash on in his head. He got it.

    When you talked about elective surgery I thought about Joan Rivers.

    2. Another good one from Joseph – looks to me like a major effort underway to pick up the farm land cheap before any more pressure is put on food to support North America and export much, much more. Good farm land is one of the best investment going.

      1. Yes, also to control what is being planted. Some farmers are finding out they can plant Heirloom corn and beat the GMOs even on yield.

    3. When I saw the announcement of Rivers death my first thought was – OMG, why in the world would they ever assassinate Joan Rivers. I was stunned. It did not occur to me that it could have been malpractice. Then a few months later someone sent me the video of her getting of the red eye from the East Coast and saying Michele Obama was “a trannie.” Her death is one of the compelling arguments that it might be true. Here are the Farrell links – they are on his home page

      https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/05/patterns-of-disaster-capitalism-the-midwest-and-oroville-dam/
      https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/05/patterns-of-disaster-capitalism-the-midwest-and-oroville-dam-part-two/

  2. Dear Catherine

    Will you be providing a link to the article you mention at time 42:00 on Dr Farrell’s piece on weather and disaster capitalism?

    Yesterday I was having dinner with one of my colleagues and I gave your analogy of Disneyland for the world of the overt living alongside the world of the covert. His eyes brightened up and it was as if I could see a light flash on in his head. He got it.

    When you talked about elective surgery I thought about Joan Rivers.

    2. Another good one from Joseph – looks to me like a major effort underway to pick up the farm land cheap before any more pressure is put on food to support North America and export much, much more. Good farm land is one of the best investment going.

      1. Yes, also to control what is being planted. Some farmers are finding out they can plant Heirloom corn and beat the GMOs even on yield.

    3. When I saw the announcement of Rivers death my first thought was – OMG, why in the world would they ever assassinate Joan Rivers. I was stunned. It did not occur to me that it could have been malpractice. Then a few months later someone sent me the video of her getting of the red eye from the East Coast and saying Michele Obama was “a trannie.” Her death is one of the compelling arguments that it might be true. Here are the Farrell links – they are on his home page

      https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/05/patterns-of-disaster-capitalism-the-midwest-and-oroville-dam/
      https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/05/patterns-of-disaster-capitalism-the-midwest-and-oroville-dam-part-two/

    1. All of them were those used at the time by my nutritionist. I will look them up – but I think you have to go in through a referring practioner.

      1. Miss Catherine and others, any of us can order labs, search for walk in lab work. Then pick which ones you want, pay then pick the lab where you want to have the blood draw etc, they email the results. No dr needed.

    1. All of them were those used at the time by my nutritionist. I will look them up – but I think you have to go in through a referring practioner.

      1. Miss Catherine and others, any of us can order labs, search for walk in lab work. Then pick which ones you want, pay then pick the lab where you want to have the blood draw etc, they email the results. No dr needed.

  5. Just finished part I. You had described so many Art of War tactics. One of the 36 Stratagems that I remember that you had described is 借刀殺人，“kill with a borrowed knife,” both literally and figuratively.

    Regarding health, as I’ve posted before in the Korean hand therapy article, I have had an informal background in Chinese medicine for more than 25 years now (but far from a practitioner). You had mentioned how some physical poisoning had caused you to experience a great amount of grief. In Chinese medicine, emotions are directly related to specific organs within the body; grief is generally correlated to one’s lungs:

    http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/principles/sevenemotions.html
    (I’ve referred people to the English version of this Hong Kong-based site in the past.)

    And when you mentioned again how people unfamiliar with covert actions simply can’t believe what you’re saying since it’s not visible, I think of a Chinese idiom from Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi: 夏蟲疑冰 （”The summer insect denies the existence of ice.”） It’s tough living outside of the Matrix… or Disneyland…

    Looking forward to Part II!

    1. Appreciate your insight.How do people study and learn invisible warfare? Certainly Art of War is a great start. I will have to add to my Best Books list.

      1. Happy to share. I remember a long time ago, I had read from someone at Harvard a review of the various English translations of the Art of War, and I’ve looked over the few versions I have. I think this version, translated by Roger Ames, may be the best translation overall, though it may be a little on the academic side:

        https://www.worldcat.org/title/sun-tzu-the-art-of-warfare-the-first-english-translation-incorporating-the-recently-discovered-yin-chueh-shan-texts/oclc/26929968

        For the uninitiated, this may be more accessible, translated by Thomas Cleary: https://www.worldcat.org/title/art-of-war-complete-texts-and-commentaries/oclc/670437379

        or

        https://www.worldcat.org/title/art-of-war/oclc/857083902

        There may be better translations out there done more recently, but I’m not aware of them since I haven’t kept up to date with them… for what it’s worth…

        1. Here is our interview on the Art of War – some very important insights on the relationship of Western and Eastern military strategy as it relates to bond and equity markets https://library.solari.com/the-art-of-war/ Bottom line – if the bond market is tapped out, the West will tend to switch to Sun Tzu strategies. In part that helps explain the rise of covert operations and intelligence agencies that faithfully read the Art of War.

          1. Figured it out: I didn’t realize that I needed to sign-in again to access the interview. Thanks.

          2. For security, we currently require separate logins (with your same password) at home, library and the wrap up presentations. We keep looking for options to make things more seemless without compromising security.

          3. Thanks, but the interview is linked to the broken link I mentioned before.

            I click on this: https://library.solari.com/the-art-of-war/

            and toward the bottom of the page, it states this:

            Listen live on Thursday evening by phone or online through your browser, or listen at your convenience by downloading the MP3 after it is posted on Friday.

            If you would like to learn more about The Solari Report and subscribe, click here.

            Subscribers enjoy access to our complete MP3 archive. You can also enjoy the Solari Report Digest podcasts for free.

            (There’s a link to “Solari Report Digest podcasts,” but there is a strikeout over those words, and the link goes here: https://library.solari.com/podcasts/

            And that link is a broken link.

            Thanks again.

  6. Just finished part I. You had described so many Art of War tactics. One of the 36 Stratagems that I remember that you had described is 借刀殺人，“kill with a borrowed knife,” both literally and figuratively.

    Regarding health, as I’ve posted before in the Korean hand therapy article, I have had an informal background in Chinese medicine for more than 25 years now (but far from a practitioner). You had mentioned how some physical poisoning had caused you to experience a great amount of grief. In Chinese medicine, emotions are directly related to specific organs within the body; grief is generally correlated to one’s lungs:

    http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/principles/sevenemotions.html
    (I’ve referred people to the English version of this Hong Kong-based site in the past.)

    And when you mentioned again how people unfamiliar with covert actions simply can’t believe what you’re saying since it’s not visible, I think of a Chinese idiom from Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi: 夏蟲疑冰 （”The summer insect denies the existence of ice.”） It’s tough living outside of the Matrix… or Disneyland…

    Looking forward to Part II!

    1. Appreciate your insight.How do people study and learn invisible warfare? Certainly Art of War is a great start. I will have to add to my Best Books list.

      1. Happy to share. I remember a long time ago, I had read from someone at Harvard a review of the various English translations of the Art of War, and I’ve looked over the few versions I have. I think this version, translated by Roger Ames, may be the best translation overall, though it may be a little on the academic side:

        https://www.worldcat.org/title/sun-tzu-the-art-of-warfare-the-first-english-translation-incorporating-the-recently-discovered-yin-chueh-shan-texts/oclc/26929968

        For the uninitiated, this may be more accessible, translated by Thomas Cleary: https://www.worldcat.org/title/art-of-war-complete-texts-and-commentaries/oclc/670437379

        or

        https://www.worldcat.org/title/art-of-war/oclc/857083902

        There may be better translations out there done more recently, but I’m not aware of them since I haven’t kept up to date with them… for what it’s worth…

        1. Here is our interview on the Art of War – some very important insights on the relationship of Western and Eastern military strategy as it relates to bond and equity markets https://library.solari.com/the-art-of-war/ Bottom line – if the bond market is tapped out, the West will tend to switch to Sun Tzu strategies. In part that helps explain the rise of covert operations and intelligence agencies that faithfully read the Art of War.

          1. Figured it out: I didn’t realize that I needed to sign-in again to access the interview. Thanks.

          2. For security, we currently require separate logins (with your same password) at home, library and the wrap up presentations. We keep looking for options to make things more seemless without compromising security.

          3. Thanks, but the interview is linked to the broken link I mentioned before.

            I click on this: https://library.solari.com/the-art-of-war/

            and toward the bottom of the page, it states this:

            Listen live on Thursday evening by phone or online through your browser, or listen at your convenience by downloading the MP3 after it is posted on Friday.

            If you would like to learn more about The Solari Report and subscribe, click here.

            Subscribers enjoy access to our complete MP3 archive. You can also enjoy the Solari Report Digest podcasts for free.

            (There’s a link to “Solari Report Digest podcasts,” but there is a strikeout over those words, and the link goes here: https://library.solari.com/podcasts/

            And that link is a broken link.

            Thanks again.

  7. The Yijing is an extrodinary tool in the Chinese Daoist tradition.
    The Plum Flower Method is accomplished by observing unusual events in Nature then relating the events to the hours clock of the organ systems. Fascinatinly brilliant, it’s like God send a message through the slightly unusual synchronicity.

    1. Gina, do you have a recommended link to the Plum Flower Method? I know a few people who consult the Yijing/I Ching and use coins instead of yarrow sticks for divination. I’ve never tried it, but I have a background in Taoist philosophy, both theoretical and “practical.” And I plan on taking a deep look at the Yijing and its specific relationship to ba gua zhang, hopefully sooner rather than later. Thanks in advance!

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