By Catherine Austin Fitts

Theme:

The Age of Unreason

Stories:

  • New Zealand uses fines to suppress forensic evidence
  • Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank begin formal merger talks
  • More on Brexit
  • Missing money: Taibbi gets stuck in the mud
  • FIS-Worldpay deal
  • Netherlands election and shooting
  • The U.S. immigrant fake out

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26 Comments

  2. Amsterdam, like Venice, is a good place to contemplate the ghosts of bankers and slavers of centuries past. But at least they, unlike today’s slavers, had a fine sense of art and architecture!

    1. The exhibit at the Fries Museum on Rembrandt’s wife Saskia gave a lot of the statistics of what life was like in the Dutch Golden Age in terms of life expectancy. 1 in 4 children did not make it past the age of 5. People often remarried as spouses died, many in childbirth. It was a very hard life – a reminder of the many blessings that technology has brought.

  3. If I am hearing right, there’s a Tina Turner reference creeping in lately when you say ‘nice, and rough.’ But the thing is: The Deep State ‘neva, eva, eva does nothin nice and easy.’ They always do it nasty. And rough. Like how they did Mary Pinchot Meyer.

  4. Hi Catherine,

    Per your suggestion, I have downloaded PDF’s of my State, County and City Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. I will wait until I am braced by some good coffee tomorrow morning, before I take a look at them. Hopefully, I will be able to comprehend what I read. I do understand the importance of this.

    Thanks for this practical, actionable advice.

    1. The trick is to just keep turtling through it. Ignore any feelings of overwhelm and just keep doing it week after week after week after week. After a while, you will start making connections. Gets fun if 1 or 2 trustworthy people join in.

    1. Central banks have a lot to figure out here – that is why all the prototyping.

  6. Dear Catherine

    Have you covered Basel III anywhere?

    Central banks seem to be buying gold in huge quantities at breakneck speed. Where do they get it from? China has state owned goldmines which supply them with newly mined gold, but where is the rest of the gold coming from? Who is selling physical in such large amounts?

    In your “Money & Markets Commentaries” reports you often mention the price of gold and silver. For the past 100 years or so platinum has always been more expensive than gold but it seems that now for the past year or so the price for platinum has been trading at an historic low in relation to gold. I have been trying to find an explanation for this. What’s going on? Is this due to manipulation, or is it a re-balancing, or does it have something to do with the German car industry, or is there another story at play here? Do you have any ideas?

    I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you a book called “The Ponzi Factor”by Tan Liu. The author explains how our stock market is the dictionary definition of a Ponzi scheme. This is probably not news to you, but it is significant because it is a mainstream book and it shows that, just like your relentless pursuit in making the story of the missing $21 trillion known, this knowledge is gaining traction and awareness is growing.

    It means there is cause for hope as we all are getting that much closer to being able to live free and inspired lives.

    1. Only briefly. I am not convinced it will go into effect this month. Let’s see.

  7. Brexit is an utter disaster and I have no sympathy for the British. They’ve allowed their government and monarchy to colonize and entrap nations for centuries!

    When Scotland wanted to exit the Uk, didn’t they sing better together?

    The chickens have come home to roost…

    1. And the US will get the cleanup job–you watch. The British are like that loud, drunken friend always spoiling for a fight. “You wanna fight me, buddy?” Then thumbs to you and says “Here’s me buddy!”

      1. British culture is cool but the thing that I can stand about the British is this attitude of being above everyone because of the posh accents and faux aristocracy.

        Meanwhile, they are ruled by a monarchy. That monarchy is active. People are bowing to an old lady and paying billions for it.

        The biggest fools on this planet.

          1. It’s not a hate speech entrapment Catherine.

            There’s an obtuseness to the British public. A couple years ago Scotland set out a vote to leave the UK. The British pubic were sining Better Together. It’s a complete mirror to what’s happening with the EU and Britain. I think both of us could bet that election could have been rigged and now Scotland has to stay in the UK permanently. They could never have another vote to leave. How authoritarian.

            They go on about the fascists in Brussels but what about what’s going on in their own government and monarchy??? C’mon. The Queen’s mace lays in the center of the House of Commons and she signs off on all laws and they actually believe they have a democracy….

            Call it mind control or entrainment, something is not computing. Then to hear stories of former colonies having to pay debts for independence to Britain and France to this day is astonishing. It’s so corrupt.

            So when I say the chickens come home to roost, its all slamming onto their feet and it needs to happen. As long as the British public continues to support their current political structure, the rest of the world suffers.

            Sinn Fein, I call for the unification of Ireland.

          2. Chickens coming home to roost is going on in many ways all around the planet. Given the gap between reality and official reality, some days I am astonished that things work as well as they do. But then, I am in the Netherlands tonight – and just about everything works here. My friends here think the Netherlands have deteriorated badly – but they have not been to the States.

    2. I would love to have the time to do a major study on what has happened on Brexit and whether there were strategies that could have made it go in a more effective way. If anyone sees any serious studies on this, let me know.

  8. Catherine,

    Trumps 2020 budget proposal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/trump-budget-2020/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.94de62d316be

    It looks as if they are going to pull the safety net from the poor/elderly/students.

    I fear lawlessness is going to get BAD. Seems like they have given up on about 50% of the pop.

    New Locks-Bolts
    Alarms( Atleast signs)
    Barred Windows
    Shotguns
    Seem like relatively cheap and easy way to keep those you care about safe.

    8 Shootings at a popular strip of bars in my hometown at an event this weekend. People literally pull out guns and start firing.

    Commentary?

    1. If you have not, recommend you watch the first Kingsman movie and listen to our Solari Report on entrainment technology.

    1. Barbara:

      Excellent question. I will answer on Ask Catherine this coming Thursday. In the meantime, I recommend this https://home.solari.com/turtle-forth/ – one important step includes staying away from illegal and legal drugs to the extent possible. Addictions start the spiral down and are marketed with entrainment. If you have not listened to the Solari Report on entrainment, I strongly recommend it.

      Catherine

      1. Thanks Cathrine, One more interesting tidbit. I have written, called the city council, officials in charge and there seems to be push back against citizens who report illegal tent camps and the party line seems to be “we need more money” for homelessness rather than the real issue drug addiction and abuse. I wonder if the existing funds are going in a black hole?

        1. I covered a recent story from Santa Cruz. The mayor said that as a result of a recent federal law, that the city officials were not allowed to move the homeless off of public land – they could do nothing about the homeless. I wonder if it is because they are in a squeeze between feds and citizens. Someone recently reported that in LA as much as 90% of the calls to the fire service were from homeless with Obamaphones – they were running them to the hospital and back for typhus shots. This means citizens are paying enormous amounts.

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