Commentary
“Trump’s election, Conte in Italy, Kurz in Austria, Wilders in the Netherlands, Le Pen in France…These are not populist revolts, these are cultural revolts.” ~ Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
“Up, down, round and round are the motions of the elements, but the movement of active virtue follows none of these: it is something more divine, and it journeys on to success along a path hard to understand.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This coming week we continue our publication of the 2nd Quarter 2018 Wrap Up. Dr. Joseph P. Farrell will join me to discuss News Trends & Stories, Part II. We review the top stories in Culture, Science & Technology, Space, and Food & Health. Here are our picks:
- Culture
- Science & Technology
- Space
- Food & Health
Story #12: Can Chinese “Rule of Law” Attract Financial Liquidity?
Story #13: Family Wealth: Asia For; the West Against
Story #14: Promoting Women: The Rise of the Asian Consumer
Story #15: Inhumanism: Censorship & the AI Invasion
Story #16: 5G, Cybersecurity & the AI Invasion
Story #17: The Ionized Sky & the AI Invasion
Story #18: The Falling Cost of Renewable Energy
Story #19: The Space Race
Story #20: Food & Health: Disappearing Disclosure & the AI Invasion< /ul>
Before closing, we also cover UnAnswered Questions, Inspiration, & Go Local.
Make sure to check out our 2nd Quarter 2018 Wrap Up web presentation. The News Trends & Stories section includes our complete trends list, our choices for top news videos of the quarter, our updated report card for the Trump administration, and our listing of the headlines during the 2nd Quarter that inspired our picks for the top 20 stories. This link to the web presentation is posted in your subscriber links above. If you have not listened to Part I, make sure you do so, particularly story #1: The AI Invasion.
As our discussion is lengthy, we will publish both full-length and chapter-length versions so you can listen selectively if you prefer.
We will publish our 2nd Quarter Equity Overview on July 12, covering equity markets and the Blockbuster Chartology from Rambus for the 2nd Quarter 2018. Our theme: The Rise of the Asian Consumer will appear in the last week of July. The growth of the Asian middle class is a major investment and cultural trend that is impacting us now and will continue to do so for decades to come.
There will be no Money & Markets this week as this is the last week of the month. I am headed for Europe this coming week, eager to report on events from “on the ground.” I will be in Vienna, Sofia, Bucharest and Freisland through the end of July, then on to Zurich, Lake Constance (Bregenz, here I come!) and a journey through France during August.
In Let’s Go to the Movies, I recommend one of my favorite Australian documentaries, Red Obsession, which was Solari Documentary of the Year in 2014. Narrated by Russell Crowe, there is no better film to help you appreciate the rising impact of the Asian consumer on markets and culture around the world.
Talk to you Thursday!
Hi Catherine,
Continued thanks for the great quarterly wrap-up, as usual!
We met at the East Palo Alto tea last month, while I serendipitously was in town there. I wanted to give a little bit of perspective on Chinese culture and families in this post, being a second-generation Chinese-American who grew up in the upper-middle class Jewish suburbs in the Midwest, prior to moving to the SF Bay Area for university, ending up with a degree in linguistics. Having lived in the Bay for over 20 years, during that time, I had examined with great interest modern Chinese and Chinese-American culture and beliefs (and also ancient Chinese philosophy and Chinese medicine). One word to sum up the culture is “pragmatism.”
First, I need to parse the word “Chinese.” In English, there are two distinct meanings to this word: Chinese national (citizen from China) and ethnic Chinese, who exist all over Asia and the world (predominantly Han Chinese, as was mentioned in the wrap up).
e.g. The population of Singapore is 70%+ ethnic Chinese. And regarding Indonesia, as a local friend from Java has told me, the minority ethnic Chinese there had amassed a great amount of wealth and power there due to a level of ruthlessness and shrewdness that is well-known within the country. (Apparently things are finally changing there.) Joseph had mentioned in the wrap-up that the Indonesians would trust the Russians over the Chinese; I believe it is for the aforementioned reason. I would imagine the Indonesians have minimal experience with the Russians.
And thank you for mentioning the Abacus short documentary; I had been meaning to watch that for some time now. After watching it, with my understanding of Chinese culture, I would guess in reality that there was much more going on with the family than the documentary revealed…but only a guess. There are some details that do not make sense to me. As former CA Speaker of the House and Mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown once said, he keeps all his secrets in his head, not ever leaving a paper trail. Plausible deniability.
Regarding Chinese families, while in university, I had taken a class on Chinese and Chinese-American psychology. There is a wide gap in first-generation Chinese-American (immigrant) and second-generation Chinese-American (born) mindsets. The professor specialized in this area, mostly seeing Chinese families in his private practice. He revealed that Chinese families can be some of the most dysfunctional families around, and I can personally attest to that with my own while growing up, though mine was not as extreme as the case studies of families I read and heard about in California.
Though there are some families that “function as a (business) unit,” it is usually done more out of necessity than choice. From my observations in California, depending on the socio-economic class of the family, it was economic inter-reliance that kept families together. Families of both lower and higher socio-economic classes often stayed together due to financial interdependence. As for the rest, the family unit was not as strong. Kids grew up and did not necessarily care for or pay attention to the older generations.
The Chinese in the US generally don’t pay much attention to the larger scheme of things and politics (which is one of their main weaknesses, honestly) and have (almost) *always* focused on making money. As some Jewish friends have agreed, “The Chinese are the Jews of Asia.” And as one former (New York) Jewish co-worker half-kidded, “How do you not know the Jews are not the Chinese of Europe?” Deep cultural paranoia can also be prevalent in both cultures.
Then there’s the situation in China. Most of the above observations can generally be applied to the Chinese in China as well, I believe. What is seen on the surface is not what is usually really going on. For example, the one-child policy was apparently routinely ignored by families, opting for finding loopholes. While in Shanghai last year, I met a number of locals in their late 20s-early 30s with siblings; the one-child policy was officially implemented in 1979. The idea that the lawlessness of China is a part of CCP ideology is not as accurate as the CCP is merely a part of greater modern (ethnic) Chinese culture. The CCP is a just a blip in Chinese history.
As mentioned initially, one principle that stands out in Chinese culture throughout history has been a deep sense of pragmatism when making decisions, often under the radar when compared to (North) American cultures (to the point of selfish, calculated pragmatism at times). The simplified explanation of the origin of this principle: high population, limited resources… to the point of utilizing the Art of War.
I could go on and on about this, but I think I’ve already made this too long. I hope this is somehow helpful in further understanding the how the Chinese mindset and family unit can work.
Thank you for taking the time to post this. This fits with many other observations that I have heard. One of the themes I am hearing again and again is HYPERMATERISM – especially in the younger generations.
Yes, the extreme hypermaterialism in China seems to be in part to “catch up” to the West, especially the US. Of course, it also gives the younger generation “short-term goals” to fill the emptiness and void from dysfunctional families and society in China and dysfunctional families (and societies?) outside of China. Like most of the world, those material goods increase their own statuses in their eyes, superficially placating any personal insecurities and/or emotional imbalances.
Is there a hidden hand also pushing the younger generations to increase consumption (for the sake of profits)?
I think there is a hidden hand promoting hyper materialism. makes people much easier to control
Catherine, got to listen to the complete interview, well done as usual.
As a suggestion I think your members would benefit hearing Joseph & you expand on the potential role of the Vatican Church in a NWO system, that would include the many decrees that define the Catholic doctrine.
You know I attempt to look for numbers and symbols being used in plain sight as a possible confirmation on what is going on. So let me share just couple items with you on Pope Francis 1 visit to Washington DC when he spoke to Congress.
Pope Francis 1 was driven in a small white Fiat vehicle, which visually is a sorta humble looking vehicle. According to a dictionary the definition of the word “Fiat” is a formal authorization or proposition; a decree. Synonyms: edict, order, command, commandment, injunction, proclamation, mandate, dictum.
He spoke to both house of Congress on September 24, 2015 which is 14 years & 13 days after the 9-11 event.
OK, will think about it with Joseph…
If you do I’ll walk you thru using the numbers of the 9-11 planes, the date of the event, the number 93 & 14 and Daniel 7 that points to a merging of state & religion into one power.
Do you know what a woman over 60 who tells her true age is called? Fearless.
I have never been able to related to numerology. Must be a limitation.
I consider it a language by people to communicate with one another to transfer their karma debt of their mischievous deeds to the populace who watch and don’t see with their conscious mind. Clues, it may be symbols, numbers or objects are always left in plain sight in order to transfer the karma. As an example Ole Dammegard has found a connection between shoes and terrorist events. Sounds strange but he gives so much evidence it is difficult to ignore.
It could be just numbers and not numerology. How did area 51 get it’s name? Could it be based on May 1? May being the 5th month? May 1 is the illuminati second most sacred holiday, Beltaine Festival.
Now do numbers, symbols, days of the year control events?
Nope, God’s in control. Your best advice you have given to their members is to get clean.
I went by the gentleman who deals in gold & silver in S.F. on a Thursday and guess what? The shop was closed. No plans to buy at this time, just wanted to introduce myself and to see how he conducts business. Didn’t stay in Berkley as I wanted time to check out Santa Rosa.
Safe travels
Will check in with him.
Can you send me the source for Ole. Would love to hear. As a child. when bouncing around between different cultures, including secret societies and intelligence agencies and military, my system for understanding what culture I was about to deal with was by looking at shoes – so I find your comment fascinating. Would love to learn more.
In Story 16, Dr Farrell mentions a fake professor who appeared on the Johnny Carson Show and would talk a stream of academic nonsense. Does anyone know the name of the “professor” or have a link to his appearance?
From Farrell
This is one of his classics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsdRGbQPr0
Irwin Corey on Late Night, December 6, 1983
http://www.youtube.com
Corey’s only appearance on the show.
I sent this link to many friends based on you and Joseph mentioning it;
“In her most report, Catherine Austin Fitts recommended this holographic whale diving on a gym floor (VR laser from 2016) … now watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szwdO3So5_I ”
A friend says it is hoaxedmedia hype using computer graphics animation as an overlay of the video and not hologram tech based on this link:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/09/magic_leap_neither_magic_nor_leaping/
I was ready to believe because in 1986, Expo86 was in Vancouver and General Motors had a pavilion where “holo-vision” was demonstrated. The presentation was an animatronic First Nations person with a spirit cloud above which was the demo of “holo-vision”. It was THE hit of Expo86 with everyone wanting to see it. I saw it several times from different angles, and it was definitely a 3D animation. It was subsequently moved to California venues.
http://bobbea.com/expo-86/gm.html
It is interesting that the GM demo was encased in a plexiglass container. Interesting because I have just finished reading Elana Freeland’s book, Under an Ionized Sky where “holograms” can be created in the sky as long as an aerosol substance has been dispersed (just think chemtrails?). So was there a needed substance inside the plexiglass container? Furthermore, on Gaia TV-Cosmic Disclosure (with David Wilcock), insider Emery Smith has disclosed several times that the underground labs have the ability to create hoaxed images on a massive scale … as long as a dispersant has been distributed in the air.
So the whale on a gym floor? I was ready to believe that it had been improved over the last 30 years. I suspect that it has but we will see it first in some kind of false flag event … in the sky.
i believe they have this capacity – and we will begin to see it more often with 5G implemented.
I think that is right, as well. Whatever technology we see “in the wild”, the cutting edge of development is going to be a couple iterations beyond what is being shown, or MORE.
We saw this in spades in A.I. You would see a piece on A.I. tech in the news wires, and a discussion about another “amazing capability… probably 5 to 10 years off.”
ONE YEAR later… we were seeing what was allegedly 5 to 10 years away in those news wires. It has been 2 years since I started noticing this pattern of “in the wild… XX is 5 to 10 years off…” and then examples… scary examples… showing up in meat space.
Things are evolving at a stunning velocity… and there’s so much stuff in labs that folks would be surprised to learn is operational.
If “men were angels” this would merely be exciting and a bit scary. Too many are certainly not angels. Even advanced knowledge is being weaponized these days.
After a lifetime of watching and accepting the archetypal drama of “good vs evil”, light vs dark… etc… it almost seems comic book like to see that very “good guys and bad guys” playing out in such an obvious way. It is “apocalyptic”… i.e. “the veils are being removed”.
Anyone that is bored, most be unconscious. (or doped up)
For Fortress America to happen Trump Admin needs to do a lot of work. Cut the trade deficit, build infrastructure to formemt new business development and balance the budget In the long term. I am trying to figure out who the white hats are in his administration that are helping him. In addition, bring back jobs and building businesses in the US requires a tranined and ready and willing work force. Even though we have 100 million who are considered out of the work force, how many of these could actually hold down job? How many are on government assistance or opioid addicted? Even the head of the Marines says he can only consider 30% of age eligible candidates to by physically and mentally fit. I work for an engineering consulting firm and there is absolutely no infrastructure development going on in the private sector. Our firm is 100% dependent upon federal and state construction contracts. Point being we are all dependent upon the government.
Thanks much for the great interviews and keep up the great work.
Yes. Agreed.IMO, 50% or more in every county in America are directly or indirectly dependent on federal government $. Add in state and local government, and it is a very high %.
Catherine,
You and Joseph speak of Mr. Global as a group of highly secretive, ultra-powerful people with evil intentions who control the agenda of the United States and other powerful nations. Mr. Global is never named but I think it’s important that you and your subscribers consider who is at the top of this enterprise to take complete control of the world.
During the reformation all the reformers were in agreement that the beast of revelation was the Vatican and the antichrist, the papacy. This included Luther, Flacius, Nigrinus, Calvin, Knox, Cranmer, and later Wesley and Spurgeon. The Society of Jesus, The Jesuits were formed to launch a counter reformation and, today the very denominations that were launched during the reformation have signed joint declarations on the doctrine of justification with the Vatican as they have lost the war waged by the Jesuit generals over the centuries. No longer do they regard the Vatican the beast or the pope the antichrist as they have “evolved” to believe in a future antichrist to be revealed later, another product of Jesuit ingenuity.
It’s significant that today we have on the world scene a pope who is also a Jesuit. The Vatican has long called for a world government with Pope as the temporal and spiritual head. Show me a world leader who has not bowed before a sitting pope. You have already taken note of the Vatican presence at the most recent Bilderberg meeting. I submit to you that the papacy and the Vatican is a most important component of Mr. Global.
There are multiple power centers. The Vatican is one of them. From what I see, their power has been eclipsed since WWII. It is still significant, but it is only one of several. The big question is whether the most powerful is on or off planet.
Or interdimensional, and or in planet or both.
Well, if the reformers were right then the Vatican is powered by the dragon, or Satan, the highest of the forces of evil and is both capable of being on of off planet, and, most certainly, interdimensional. You may recall, Catherine, that they obtained diplomatic recognition from none other than Ronald Reagan.
2000 years of tax exemption and diplomatic immunity and compound interest = powerful formula. I have only been to the Vatican once and was astonished by the energy. Yes, demonic felling. I then went to Assisi – wow filled with the holy spirit. Night and day.
Great Update… it was a treat to get it a couple weeks early. Thanks Catherine.
RE: Vatican – pretty hard to explain THIS as mere “coincidence”. When I was first shown this… I thought my friend was pulling my leg. A few moments on a search engine, blew my mind.
The Vatican Auditorium
http://www.redpilldispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Pope-Hall-2.jpg
From the outside, with a “visual assist”.
http://www.redpilldispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/outside-1.png
“See, my lord, from this room- from this room I govern not only Paris, but China, not only China, but the whole world, without anyone knowing how it is managed”. Michael Angelo Tamburini, Superior General of the Jesuits, said to the Duke of Brancas 1720.
For some reason the number 13 surrounds Francis 1. https://deusnexus.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/pope-francis-and-the-number-13/
This well documented history has been forgotten by most. Vatican II was masterfully deceptive. Nothing has changed in their doctrine while the doctrine of the majority of protestant denominations has been shattered. They will settle for nothing less than world denomination but their methods are hidden just as this quote by the Jesuit general implied. Nothing has changed!!
That’s world domination. Sure wish there was an edit feature here…
Your comment on health and I totally agree about alternatives. Two years ago I had acute anemia. Not knowing that it caused insomnia I began taking cannibus edibles. My health and energy began deteriorating but instead of a doctor I went to a nattuopatth and twice a week Vitamin C IVS for fatigue. I was fainting and I thought it was the intense heat of our summer. Eventually I finally had a blood test and only three points hemoglobin and an emergency hospitalization and blood tranfiusion. The culprit a three centimeter polyp non cancerous. Then I had been suffering from a chest cold and they thought it might be lung cancer. That came out as pneumonia. It was my stubbornness and alternative medicine I feel saved me. Vitamin C kills cancer cells and cannibus but it was also meditation. My hematologist uses me as a test case because many don’t survive and I could of had a stroke. Fortunately I had good medical’ care. I’m turning 70 and many of my associates and friends are gone or have complicated health issues. I’m still here and I don’t look my age either and I abhor being a victim. It’s taken diligence everyday. I’m sad for my friends who are suffering health wise but I’m gratful everyday. Yes I’m healthy to make the right decisions and able to avoid the mind field. When I was in a room of people receiving IV therapy they were there as a last resort. The corrupt medical and food system had robbed them of their life force and consciousness. All around me the health issues of people is overwhelming and nothing to do with age. I pray for us all. The life boat already has too many.
This is the challenge. How can we be discerning users of both natural and established medical systems and get the best of both on an integrated basis. We each have to maintain control and be our own doctor – which means the health care proxy planning and management is so important.
Thanks for posting, Sue!
In regards to the commentary: Trump is not able to fire Sessions or Rosenstein or whoever without “permission” from the “powers that be”,… as there is a good reason (that we do not know) as to why these people remain entrenched in their job. The most we can hope for is that these people, including the Clintons, will be held up for ridicule and exposed for what they are…liars and deceivers, paid for by special interests. Those entrenched in the deep state, will never serve time and will die before they are prosecuted. America was asleep at the wheel for far too long. As evidenced by the far left; the rancor and sheer hatred towards Trump gets worse every day. I am amazed at his fortitude, as he awakes day after day to a Congress that does not support him; and a country that has failed to understand what caused all of this. Look at what he has accomplished since he has been in.
A Long Hot Summer ahead?
With a few short months before the November elections, it looks like Mr. Global’s puppets have their marching orders to encourage violence against Trump supporters. This follows 500+ days of denigrating President Trump in every way possible, misrepresenting his achievements & dehumanizing anyone who agrees with the new direction our country is heading. ‘First you destroy the name … then the man.’
I am truly amazed at how many people seem to be afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome. There are people in my personal life who are completely intolerant and won’t engage in a civil political discussion saying that their position is ‘morally superior’. Wow! Facts don’t matter and the mind control of the fake media propaganda machine has 40% of Americans locked and loaded … with the elections a little more than four months away.
Praying for a soft landing for all of us!
Yes, I’ve noticed that even normally very thoughtful individuals who can god discourse absolutely seem to neurologically and violently “short out” with any mention of even the slightest questioning, even a question, that challenges the media portrayal of Trump. It is actually quite scary and I have no idea how that’s been accomplished, because again, it seems almost physical.
Entrainment technology combined with hope porn. Listen to the Solari Report on entrainment technology…more than once.
As you can tell the Kingsman technology can take this much further.
If all those alleged sealed indictments are not soon revealed and a lot of people “perp-walked” to prison Trump will lose all credibility for me !!!!!
Hard to put people in jail who did an excellent job and were following orders
Gee. AT&T buildings gathering data (spying) for the NSA. Who woulda thought?!
Rebel commander knew!
As did The A Team!! 🙂
🙂
“We are all systems administrators…”, I wonder if there is a great Home Systems best practices or checklist aligned with Solari?
We should design a curriculum and check list.
Would LOVE that. To me all the “best” forensic tools (Anti-virus, adware, etc…) are suspect.
I use keybase for comms with some folks, just on principal… if No Such Agency bothers with it, they’d be really disappointed.
Even for PERSONAL work product and writing, as well as business trade secrets and client data (as you mentioned, C), running a system completely in an offline sandbox seems to be a starting point.
Additionally, with the massive amount of radio/EM pollution we are swimming in… something like the Farraday Cage ala Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State, is not at all unreasonable.
Clearly there is a growing market for solving both the security and the health side of those problems.