By Catherine Austin Fitts

Once upon a times we used to drop armies on each others lands to kill each other. We still do so – although as Afghanistan and Iraq have proved – that can be terribly expensive in terms of lives and resources. So increasingly, warfare have migrated to financial markets, where manipulation of currency, prices and resources and battles for control of companies has become increasingly fierce. Now, while financial warfare grows ever more intense, the war is migrating to the control of digital communication and payment systems. As you look at the stories on the blog, you can see this migration everywhere. The Guardian warns of the balkanization of the Internet as companies around the world beware getting on an NSA accessed cloud service. As the hit on the tax havens goes into high gear, we see the HSBC shedding selective embassies and consulates (a list of potential short candidates?) and the ultimate in financial cleaners appointed to take over the IRS.

Citizens are pushing back in many ways – trying to make sure that life on the ground remains humane. Protecting you from parking tickets, however, turns out to be risky to do.
Citizens of Keenes, New Hampshire who added coins to parking meters to ensure that their fellow citizens did not get parking tickers are being threatened with lawsuits by the town for being rude to parking meter police.

Whether parking fines or taxes, governments everywhere have become heat seeking financial missiles – looking for ways to cover their overhead and not yet realizing that the only way to build a successful tax flow is to help people be healthy, educated and financially successful so they can afford to pay taxes.

As one of our subscriber said the other day. How are we going to build wealth if everyone is just trying to steal each other’s pile? Until we do, I predict more invasive force….

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