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“I had a son in 1976. When I went to Europe, I met an Italian and we became friends. We would talk about what we would tell our families to do if the balloon went up. The conversation — strange and perhaps pathological as it was — bound us together. It was not war, it was not peace, but it was a place in the mind where the preparation for war and the anxiety that it generated created strange forms, such as plans for the movement of children in order to avoid a nuclear holocaust.” ~ George Friedman
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I like to read George Friedman’s books. I always find new and useful insights reading them. This often comes as a result of Friedman’s level-headed approach to war and the application of military force and its relationship to geography and politics. Friedman’s forthrightness is rarely found in the American media and think tank bubble.
That said, I rarely recommend Friedman’s books. Grossly oversimplified, in his view, the U.S. empire is always doing well, and the black budget is conveniently invisible. Who exactly Mr. Global is should not be of concern as Mr. Global clearly has the situation in hand. That makes it difficult to ensure the book is useful to our subscribers—they may not be able to separate useful information from the official story.
This time, I decided to make an exception and to comment. In Friedman’s latest, he implies that the technocrats are going to remain ascendent and drive us all crazy until we kick them out, which we will by the end of the decade. In the long run, he suggests, the American Constitution and the Republic are strong and flexible.
I have a slightly different take on what he is saying based on what we are watching. My read (not what he says in this book—I am injecting between the lines) is that Friedman expects the technocrats to provide a regulatory wave that continues to drive Main Street and the independent producers into bankruptcy. As the vulture capitalists and private equity firms aligned with the New York Fed fan out across the country buying up assets with $21 trillion stolen from U.S. government accounts and Fed-printed and Treasury stimulus money, new domestic terrorism laws will be used to cleanse anyone who objects to Antifa et al. burning down their businesses or financial insiders picking up local real estate for pennies on the dollar. (The defense of human and property rights is now being relabeled “white supremacism” and “domestic terrorism,” aka an “insurrection,” which is terminology constructed to ensure the best possible prices and the least risk to the private equity establishment and their bankers and the build-out of the “smart cities.”)
In my read, once the vulture capitalists own everything and the smart grid is installed, the vulture capitalists will kick out the technocrats and declare morning in America. Wave after wave of new immigrants will be given “free market opportunities,” which will allow the freshly minted assets of the vulture capitalists and private equity firms to rise in value quickly, including with a sea of government spending and subsidy. Yes, markets work!
The question, then, is how to navigate through the vulture capitalists and technocrats, as the leveraged buyout of the USA, financed with our money, will be at best frustrating and at worst life-threatening—a lawless, venal business. If you watch Putin’s speech at last week’s Davos meeting, you can tell he is as frustrated as the rest of us. However, he has a nuclear arsenal.
Which is to say that we run the risk that the backlash to the central bankers’ reset may include the risk of a nuclear reset. It is a reminder of the old adage, “Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get you killed.”
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Catharine, they don’t care about the planet and they don’t care about us, so what difference does it make if we die in a nuclear holocaust, or from the poisons they subject us to? And I think the Constitution and republic are dead and buried at this point in time: the human spirit, however, is not, so I draw hope from that, and from the unknown, which vastly outweighs the infinitesimal knowledge we possess.
I also question why vulture capitalists would turn against technocracy, because if I understand correctly, the “technocrats” will be AI, and once that’s up and running, what the pigs like or don’t like may not matter very much. Will they merge themselves with this AI to forestall that possibility? Given their pathology, I won’t be surprised if they do something along those lines, but I sure as hell wouldn’t!
Over the past 150 years, the world population has grown from 1.4 billion to 7.8 billion, 550%. As the population has increased, national institutions have strengthened and combined into national collectives. Over the past 75 years, the national collectives have merged into the worldwide, capital-C Collective known as the New World Order (NOW). This Collective of collectives intends to take over and govern the world. It now exercises immense power and is, by any historical standard, utterly and completely corrupt.
All institutions, from your local Boy Scout troop to the Collective, share one thing in common: they organize themselves around leadership hierarchies. And all leadership hierarchies share one thing in common: eventually, they become corrupt.
It’s axiomatic: Hierarchical systems become corrupt because those at the top see the conflict between their interests and those of the led, and immediately set out to advantage themselves at the expense of their followers. It’s also axiomatic that the minute the leaders begin advancing their interests at the expense of those they profess to serve, they also begin to conspire. They lie and they become more secretive and less accountable. As Lord Acton reminded us in 1889, at the beginning of the 150-year maturation of the Collective, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men…”
As the leadership of institutions becomes more corrupt, the led begin to catch on, with the result that the leaders become more controlling, oppressive, and exploitive of the led. We are seeing this throughout the world, today. It has gotten to a point where the people will either disperse the Collective and the collectives and institutions which empower it, or become enslaved by it.
If you visit Russia, you’ll be unpleasantly surprised how far they are in the Sustainability agenda. They have been moving people into highscrapers for 10 years. “Lichnyi Cabinet” is online personal account for all Moscovites, where their personal data/passports/doctors appointments/birthday certificate/banks/schools/relatives/ kids data/ car… – all that is in one online place watched by the gov. Privacy is a foreign concept there. Their church, their conservatives are suspicious toward the WEF. So, Putin negotiated when he addressed Schwab. He said, “I know how dear to you this deal, and I’ll help you. Give me back my pipeline deal to EU and I’ll do your bidding.” I was thinking what is that they negotiated about. Well, for example, Russian airlines can start requiring global passports and the proof of vaccination on boarding. Currently, you can board their plane without covid test, and get tested on arrival in Moscow. Schwab might wants to close this loophole. The Putin’ weak point is that Russian social programs are funded by exports, currently vaccine exports, compensating the lost oil sales. I don’t know how far he could go helping NWO, but his last words were:” Don’t try to screw me up, the deal is off if you try, we’re watching you.” And a smile left his face. But still, it’s worrisome.