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  3. Happy Birthday to Catherine (Christmas)! “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.” Numbers 6:24-27*

    *”Daily prayers for a Divinely Inspired Life” by Catherine Austin-Fitts

    Infinite gratitude for inspiring and guiding my life and family for over 15 years, wishing you love, prosperity, health and peace.

    1. Pulitzer prize winning and former war correspondent for the NY Times and Harvard graduate with a degree in divinity, Chris Hedges, just gave a speech at the Media Sanctuary co hosted by Jewish Voices for Peace which explains the global and historical picture. He also does a Q and A which I personally found most helpful. He covered the Balkans war, Mideast including years in Gaza with the bombs coming down. It’s on YouTube.

    2. Challenge is that essentially most of the sources of information from the Middle East and Langley and the media are liars. Puzzle Palace. Whatever the facts, bombing 1 MM children and destroying their homes and and hospitals and cutting off their food, water and electricity says about anything we need to know.

      1. Who in their right mind bombs or shells an ambulance, or a fleet of ambulances, carrying the sick from a hospital under threat?

    1. https://x.com/PeterSchiff/status/1732515628467056765

      If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the government, and allows it to redefine income to include any unrealized appreciation in any asset, then it will grant the Federal Government a new power to nationalize the entire asset stock of the nation. In hyperinflation, the only refuge people have is the ability to hold real assets and never sell them. But if the Federal Government can claim unrealized inflationary gains as being taxable income, then almost all Americans will be forced to sell their assets just to pay their tax liabilities. But with all assets up for sale at once, the most likely buyer will be the Federal Government itself, which will pay in near worthless paper. In one decision, the Supreme Court would have rendered the Constitution meaningless, effectively illuminated private property rights, and provided the Federal Government with the legal mechanism to pull off a communist revolution without having to fire a single shot.

    2. Here is what I wrote on my commentary that publishes with the interview we publish later this month

      ~ Publishes on December 26, 2023 at 6:00 PM CST ~

      By Catherine Austin Fitts

      Upon surviving a mass atrocity, you come to understand the criminal nature of the financial syndicates roaming the planet. Human rights are everywhere threatened. So are property rights.

      Private property is important. It is family wealth that creates community wealth and stands between us and the abyss in emergencies or challenging times. Remove our assets and our access to wealth-building, and we lose our independence and the reserves that make the difference. We lose the entrepreneurial seed corn that creates an enlightened and productive society. If we own nothing in a world with central transaction control, we are no more than slaves.

      For several decades, we have watched growing bubbles in the fixed-income markets. It became more than clear during the financial crisis of 2008–2012 that our collateral system was marked by high levels of fraud. Ultimately, the bailouts—supposedly necessitated by a collapse in the mortgage and housing markets—were more than 300% of the amount needed to retire all the single-family mortgages in the United States. In the process, we have experienced events that create serious questions about the ability of banking creditors and investors to compromise investor and depositor assets and the willingness of regulators and courts to allow them to do so. Such events include:

      The collapse of the Madoff fraud controlled by JPMorgan Chase
      The resolutions of Lehman, Bear Stearns, and MF Global
      The HSBC settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice
      The U.S. Treasury and New York Fed role in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
      The acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS

      The result has been increased concerns about the dangers of bail-ins of our bank deposits in an engineered consolidation of the banking system. This is compounded by increased concerns regarding the potential destruction or confiscation of our real estate through regulation and taxation inspired by “climate change.” It also includes questions regarding the ownership and custody of securities described in a new book titled The Great Taking by retired hedge fund manager David Webb.

      Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, David has studied the financial and human harm caused to several generations of his family by engineered pumps and dumps of the U.S. economy. Committed to protecting himself and his family, David had a successful career in the hedge fund business. Concerned by the corruption in the U.S. financial system (made clear during the financial crisis), David moved to Sweden, convinced that his assets would be safer in the Swedish securities, banking, and custodian systems. Then, as the Swedish and European systems aligned with US practices, he continued to research the byzantine developments taking place in the legal and financial nuts and bolts being engineered in the backrooms of the global financial systems.

      Persuaded that Mr. Global has now created a global mechanism to assert creditor rights over all securities, David lays out his case in The Great Taking. David bases his analysis on statements made by regulators as to what they can do. Carolyn and I still can not document the legal pathway behind these statements. I believe that much of what David describes were mechanisms created to keep the collateral bubble going. We also do not agree with David’s analysis of money velocity. Centralization and criminality removes trust from the system, bringing on a drop in money velocity. Growth without inflation is more than possible but it will require a change in the governance and central banking systems. Were we do agree is that the central bankers intend to strip us of our assets and property rights. If the central bankers achieve financial transaction control, they will be able indeed to engineer a “great taking.” The pandemic destruction of small business and family income was simply a small taste of what will then be possible.

      This coming week, David joins Carolyn Betts and me to describe his journey from money manager to author, help us understand the documents and evidence supporting his conclusions (yes, this gets into lots of technical issues regarding securities) and the general assault on our property rights, and share his thoughts on what we do about it all.

      1. A couple of comments:
        In that condition where you own and can own nothing, you are a slave. The fruits of your labour are not yours to sell and hence these are someone else’s property, and theirs to sell, or to buy.
        I suspect Lehman Bros were solvent when they were seized and put through bankruptcy. They had over $600Bn in assets, and of these over $70Bn were bets on the future that could be mispriced. J P Morgan was their banker. During that bankruptcy perhaps $200Bn of assets “evaporated” by way of derivatives that somehow took precedence in the settlement waterfall.
        This is referenced briefly in The Great Taking.

        1. `Not sure about that. They were flowing massive amounts of fraudulently priced and packaged securities. On a M2M they may not have looked as strong.

          1. J P Morgan was their Banker. Once they pulled the rug, ie by demanding more collateral, it was over.

          2. re M2M – I do not have a copy of this reported text message, but traders at JPM and Lehman were discussing collateral and some, presumably MBS, were described as “monkey dung”.
            What the Ratings Agency said and what was accepted by the Fed is separate story.

      2. I know nothing/everything?
        This country has founding documents still in place. Like the “Declaration of Independence”.
        And the 14th amendment, where the govt created a category called U.S. Citizens.
        Slavery is illegal in the United States, but voluntary slavery is not illegal.
        We all/some volunteer to be U.S. Citizens which puts us outside of the several (50) states and under the congress that created the Federal govt.
        When our birthright status is to be a state national, as in, our states are our nations. We are Tennesseans, Texans, Iowans, etc.We have sovereign rights.
        As U.S. Citizens we have civil rights and volunteer to be taxpayers.
        https://states.americanstatenationals.org

        1. Actually, we claim to be 14th amendment citizens when we answer to a ‘birthday’. By doing so we forget the 9 months in the womb and how we got here which is through fertilization (aka creation, genesis), an act of God. The birthday is an arbitrary event and marks (‘X’) a decedent estate which is put into trust. The trust is not the baby, but the afterbirth or ‘human creature’ referred to in Unam Sanctum of 1302 – birthdays are for infants.

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