“We are all visitors to this time, this place.” ~ Australian Aboriginal saying
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week we continue to focus our attention on secrecy, following our discussion with Amy Benjamin on her landmark analysis, The Many Faces of Secrecy.
This Thursday the Solari Report will publish the excellent video and powerpoint of Richard Dolan’s presentation The Cost of Secrecy prepared for and filmed at the Solari gathering in Uluru in the Australian Outback in May.
I had asked Richard to review our 3rd Quarter Wrap Up Control 101 and prepare a presentation on the secrecy of the national security state and how it is used to manufacture false realities. Richard delivered an outstanding overview. When you understand the heavy price that secrecy exacts, you see the opportunity and possibilities of transparency.
In Money & Markets I will talk about our time in Uluru, our gathering with subscribers in the San Francisco Bay area this weekend and the power of transparency to inspire positive change — in addition to the latest developments in geopolitics and financial markets.
In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will review Goodbye Christopher Robin, a movie that tells the story of A.A. Milne’s writing of Winnie-the-Pooh. It’s a story about using our imagination and heart to rebuild family and happiness in a dark time.
Talk to you Thursday!
6:13) Where were the scholars? Why were they asleep at the switch? Look at what happened with John Mack of Harvard University funded by Rockefeller. Check out his research…
Dear Catherine
What a wonderful idea to recommend re-reading “The Death of Ivan Ilych”. The last time I read it was when I was in my 20s.
At time 1:12:00 Richard mentions an article on the US relationship to partnership nations and the different levels of these partnerships. Do you know what the title is of this article?
Richard also mentions your “Gideon Story” at time 1:50:00. Where can I find that story of yours?
I agree wholeheartedly with Richard on the bureaucratisation of everything. But it is not only when it comes to trying to be independent and having your own business; it is also about simply wanting to have your own life.
This is discussed in John Whitehead’s article “The Age of Petty Tyrannies”: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_age_of_petty_tyrannies
Whitehead wrote, “In Missouri, anyone wanting to braid African-style hair and charge for it must first acquire a government license, which at a minimum requires the applicant to undertake at least 1500 hours of cosmetology classes costing tens of thousands of dollars. Tennessee has fined residents nearly $100,000 just for violating its laws against braiding hair without a government license.
Almost every aspect of American life today—especially if it is work-related—is subject to this kind of heightened scrutiny and ham-fisted control, whether you’re talking about aspiring ‘bakers, braiders, casket makers, florists, veterinary masseuses, tour guides, taxi drivers, eyebrow threaders, teeth whiteners, and more.’
For instance, whereas 70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license, today, almost 1 in 3 American occupations requires a license.
The problem of overregulation has become so bad that, as one analyst notes, ‘getting a license to style hair in Washington takes more instructional time than becoming an emergency medical technician or a firefighter.’
This is what happens when bureaucrats run the show, and the rule of law becomes little more than a cattle prod for forcing the citizenry to march in lockstep with the government.
Overregulation is just the other side of the coin to overcriminalization, that phenomenon in which everything is rendered illegal and everyone becomes a lawbreaker.
This is the mindset that tried to penalize a fisherman with 20 years’ jail time for throwing fish that were too small back into the water.”
As to survival, in Germany, for example it is illegal to beg on the street. If you want/have to beg without being arrested you must go to the Ordnungsamt (Department of Order) and fill up some forms to apply for a begging permit.
On the job front, sending a CV is not enough. Job applicants are now required to fill up pages of on-line forms, providing personal details which can take over an hour to compete. They are then vetted by some algorithm. Some companies will only accept applications via FaceBook or Linked-In, and I suspect that they as well as the headhunters and recruitment agencies often do not have a real job behind their ads. They simply collect as much personal data as possible and then sell it on.
It is now quite standard procedure that applicants are expected submit ID, undergo an enhanced DBS disclosure or NSA vetting and have their credit rating investigated.
There is no room for anyone who does not fit the mold. If you get to the interview stage you are asked banal standard questions like “What are your strengths and weaknesses?” and “Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?” and if your answers don’t conform to the acceptable standard answers on the check-list you’re out.
It’s an infuriating and dehumanising experience.
At first I didn’t understand it all. I though that IT was supposed to make things quicker and easier. But after Richard’s presentation it now all makes sense. He has shown me how it all fits together as part of the control mechanism.
Thanks for another eye-opener.
The story of Gideon is in the Old Testament – Judges 6-9 – a summary is up on wikipedia. More later.
The economic model brings us inevitably to this place – it is what I describe in the Dillon Read book. If we pay taxes to an entity that uses those taxes to implement spending, credit and regulations that engineer all the capital to insiders and shift revenues from small business and local organizations to large corporations that is subsidizes to assume these functions and shift more expenses back on the taxpayers, then this can only go to one place – especially if the large corporations are free to automate everything that can be automated. Indeed now that this juggernaught has broken through most of the internal controls save the US Constitution, it has built up tremendous power and it has a great deal more that can be vaccuumed clean. This is why running the federal money according to the law is so very important.
From Richard for you:
Hi Catherine,
Yes indeed, I originally thought the author was the excellent Andrew Korybko, and therefore had a hard time finding the piece. But it’s the equally excellent James Petras. It’s from a 2016 article entitled “America’s Imperial Empire: The Sun Never Sets but the Mote remains in the Emperor’s Eye.”
link is at http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-imperial-empire-the-sun-never-sets-but-the-mote-remains-in-the-emperors-eye
Well worth a careful read!!
all the best and talk soon!
Richard