
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
June 15, 2025
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Mercola Website
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Story at-a-glance
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Catherine Austin Fitts warns that central banks are
creating digital currencies to transform money into a
control system, enabling personalized surveillance and
punishments
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Approximately $21 trillion was stolen between 1998 to
2015, with funds being directed toward a network of 170
secret underground government bases
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The
Bank for International Settlements operates with
sovereign immunity and zero transparency, allowing it to
move trillions between accounts without legal oversight
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Is
Chronic Disease being Engineered for Profit?
Skyrocketing illness rates aren't just a coincidence -
some believe we're being systematically poisoned to feed
a trillion-dollar machine of debt, dependency, and
control.
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To
build personal resilience, Fitts recommends developing a
personal mission, distinguishing between official
reality and actual reality, prioritizing risk
management, and building community connections
As the technocratic cabal continue to tighten their grip on the
world population, there are those who continue to fight back and
spread the word of what's really happening right now.
One brave person leading the charge is
Catherine Austin Fitts, founder and president of the Solari
Report.
Fitts also worked as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) during the Reagan administration. This
gives her incredible insight on the inner workings of the financial
system on both sides - the banking industry and the government.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, (video at bottom page)
she shares where your taxes are going, and what you can do to
protect yourself and your family from what's to come.
I encourage you to watch the entire interview, as
it contains profound revelations about the state of the world today.
Money as a Means of
Control
If you've been regularly reading my articles,
you'll know that Fitts
has been fighting to get the word out on
central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for many years now.
Ultimately, the goal of this platform is to put
an end to currency as we know it, forcing people to conform to
whatever the central banks want to push:
• The
plan was set in motion long ago
According to Fitts, the central
banks have been slowly pushing to digitize currency:
"It's
absolutely happening. And what's important to
understand, it's been happening for a long time. In
other words, this is like an invisible corral that
they've been building around you for a long, long time.
Because how do a few sneak up on the many?
Well, you
have to do it very quietly, invisibly, before you throw
the trap. So essentially, what they're building, because
it's converting a currency system into a control system.
So,
it's really the end of currency. And what they're doing
is they've been building the different digital pieces,
and when it integrates and comes together, then you
literally have a digital concentration camp.
It's
complete and utter control."
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Control is now personalized to fit the person
With the technological advances today,
Fitts noted that control can now be tailored to a person,
allowing central banks greater influence on an individual's
life:
"What
we're talking about is a system where you can surveil
control and influence one person at a time.
And with AI
and software, each person can have their custom
surveillance, each influence nudging and control system
and punishment, yes, enforcement."
• The
model of control put into action
One prominent example of CBDCs put into
place is the Canadian
trucker strikes during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns:
"So,
look at what they did to the Canadian truckers. We don't
like what you're doing.
'We cut off your money and we
cut off your friends' money. And if people help you, we
cut off their money too.'
So, I've known so many
different people around the country who've been debanked."
The World Ruled by
Central Bankers
Another important topic that Fitts touched on is
the influence of central banks on the global economy through CBDCs.
In a previous article, she explained that these
institutions are out to eliminate small businesses,
especially food producers, so they can take control of the
global population.
• The
puppet master finally shows itself
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS),
based in Basel, Switzerland, calls itself the "central bank
of central banks."
It sets global payment codes, drafts
capital rules, and "innovation hubs" pushing this system to
governments around the world.
As noted by Fitts:
"It's
in Basel, Switzerland. And it has 63 of the most
powerful central banks as its members. And the New York
Fed and the Fed are both shareholders.
They became
shareholders in 1994."
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Sovereign immunity, zero transparency
Thanks to legal immunity, the BIS walk
above the law. They can shift trillions between accounts
that no court may audit.
When money moves off the books, it's the
people who will lose:
"The
general manager of the Bank of International Settlements
was on an
IMF (International Monetary Fund) panel. And
in one minute, first time in my life I ever saw a
central banker tell the truth, I fell off my chair.
And
he said,
'you know, the beauty of this is we can set the
rules on how your money works and we have the technology
to enforce them'."
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Operate with impunity
Fitts expands the stranglehold of the BIS
further, highlighting that it even has its own enforcement
arm:
"It's
its own country. It has its own police force.
And
essentially, other than one of its staff being in a car
accident or, you know, minor things, no one has the
legal authority to move against it. Okay. And a
sovereign immunity. That's number one.
Number
two, it can move money and hold it on its bank on its
balance sheet and manage money secretly.
So, if I want
to, and I'm grossly oversimplifying, if I want to steal
21 trillion from the US government and park it on the
balance sheet of the BIS, it can move it anywhere in the
world and it can keep it on its balance sheet secretly."
Money Is Being Used to
Build Underground Bases
One of the biggest reasons why central banks were
put up is to steal and move money around without the public knowing.
According to Fitts, around $21 trillion was stolen between 1998 and
2015...
Now, where is all the money going?
• The
government is creating underground bases
One aspect of the ongoing wealth transfer
that the public isn't aware of is the creation of
underground bases spanning the country.
Fitts estimates that
there are 170, all with their own transportation network.
"[W]here's
all this money going?
And one of the things I've looked
at in the process of looking at where all this money is
going is, is the underground base and city
infrastructure and transportation system that's been
built.
And I'm sorry, yes, so.
So, we have built an
extraordinary number of underground bases and supposedly
transportation systems."
• The
bases hide top-secret programs
One reason for the creation of the bases
is for government experiments.
Fitts says:
"You
have so many activities going on that you need
to keep secret,
that you're basically building the capacity to.
For example, if you're doing a secret space program, you
need to platform it from, you know, things that can't be
seen."
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Preparation for catastrophe
Fitts mentioned that another purpose of
the underground base network is preparing for 'possible
extinction events'...
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It's happening right under our noses
One of the most striking surprises about
the creation of underground bases is that
nobody knows about
it...
Carlson shares his own experience, saying:
"I
knew a contractor who worked on one in Washington in the
city of Washington D.C. and I remember him telling me
about a power box, like a transformer box on
Constitution Avenue that he told me, because he worked
on it personally, was actually the exit, the egress from
the White House that was kind of by vehicle.
...And
I thought, well, that's kind of crazy that in the middle
of this big city where I live, I lived in I was on
Constitution Avenue every day that you could build
something like that without me knowing it."
Health as Another Aspect
of Control
Despite breakthroughs in medicine, rates of
chronic disease continue to increase, putting millions of Americans
under heavy financial stress.
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Exploding budgets in health care
According to Fitts' research, economist
Mark Skidmore, Ph.D. found that restoring disability numbers
to 2010 levels by helping citizens become healthier would
save the economy $500 billion (half a trillion) each year
from the annual $1.8 trillion budget of the U.S. HHS (Health
and Human Services).
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Poisoned population equals medical debt
Synthetic ingredients flood restaurants
and grocery aisles, electromagnetic fields (EMFs) bathe
bedrooms, and refined carbs crowd lunch boxes.
The result?
Skyrocketing rates of chronic disease...:
"I
call it the great Poisoning.
We've poisoned ourselves,
and it's blowing the budget. And it's not just blowing
the budget of the federal government. If you look at
family budgets, it's blowing their budgets.
You know,
poisoned people are not productive, and their health
care costs can be very expensive."
• The
model needs to be changed before it's too late
The ongoing centralization of currency
and debt is straining the lives of people who can barely
afford basic necessities.
Therefore, Fitts espouses that the
system needs to undergo an overhaul:
"[Y]ou
know, if you look at the budget right now, expenses are
skyrocketing, and it's skyrocketing because the
fundamental model of what we do and how we do helps to
centralize, but it's not economic.
And so, you gotta
change that."
Building Personal
Resilience - 6 Pillars of Wealth
Despite all the wealth transfer and money being
laundered, Fitts believes that there is hope, but not without
effort.
For society to thrive, its people need to be good
at building wealth - both health and financial.
She espouses six
pillars of building wealth to her subscribers in
The Solari Report,
four of which she discussed in the interview:
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Free and inspired life
Craft a personal mission that no
dashboard can override.
Keep that mission posted on the
fridge. Algorithms can't rewrite it.
"Everybody's unique and
in a decentralized world, everybody is unique. There's no
formula, so to speak," Fitts says.
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Navigation tools
Map the flow of food supply in your
community.
Who grows lettuce?
Who sells raw honey?
Note
prices, hours, and cash policies. Use the same habit for
money - withdraw small bills each payday, store some at
home.
When news anchors hype the benefits of
cash going digital, don't fall for their propaganda:
"So,
we say in navigation tools there's an 'official reality'
and then there's reality and you need to know both.
And
reality is for the management of your time and money,
and the 'official reality' is for the cocktail party, and
you need to not get those confused.
Don't
use the 'official reality' to manage your time and money
because then you're going to get hurt. I mean, I clean
so many people up from financial fraud and health care
fraud because they believe the 'official reality'....
So, you
can't do that."
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Risk management
Figure out the risks in your life, such
as ongoing debts, and work towards getting rid of them as
quickly as possible.
This slowly detaches you from the
financial system:
"[I]n
this kind of dangerous environment, everything's about
keeping your risk down. And that's more important than
making money. It's more important to lower risk than
make money.
So, in a well-governed world, we'd all be
focused on outside growth, but now we've got to be
focused on preventing loss."
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Living equity
It's important to build your connections
to real people who share the same goal as you.
Once your
living is set in place, it morphs into the Turtle Fourth:
"That's people, that's family, that's culture, that's
education, you know, all the things that go into that.
And then financial equity, all the things, you know, and
then the last one is, to me the most important.
It's called Turtle Fourth...
Turtle Fourth
is about never quitting.
You must never ever quit. And the whole goal of the
people who are trying to centralize is to get you to
think it's hopeless.
And John Rapoport used to always say 'hopelessness is an op
and it's planet-wide.'"
Other Strategies to Help
You Take Control of Your Financial Freedom
In a previous interview with Fitts, we discussed ways you can
build your financial and health resilience.
I'm resharing her key suggestions below, as I
believe these are still relevant to the challenges we're facing
today:
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Watch "How to Develop a Successful
Relationship with a Great Bank" and start building a
relationship with your chosen banker.
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Start building networks of trust with
like-minded people.
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Connect with your state legislators
and urge them to implement a state bank or other
independent state payment mechanisms to protect the
financial sovereignty of your state.
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If possible, get out of the inner
cities and large urban areas where survival during an
extended crisis will be slim. Relocate to an area where
there's off-grid access to food and water, and where
people are savvy about physical security and protecting
each other against crime.
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If you're a Solari Report subscriber,
you can join Solari Connect to find like-minded
individuals in your local area. Other ways to find your
tribe could be to join other freedom-oriented
organizations such as the Children's Health Defense (CHD)
and
The Weston A. Price Foundation.
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Build household resiliency by growing
a portion of your own food and/or investing in things
that will permanently lower your expenses and protect
you against inflation.
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Build new practical skillsets.
Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQs) About the Central Banking System and Financial
Freedom
Q:
What are central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and
why should I pay attention to them?
A:
CBDCs are digital
forms of currency issued by central banks.
Catherine
Austin Fitts argues they're harmful to freedom because
they convert traditional currencies into powerful tools
of control.
This allows central banks to surveil,
influence, and enforce rules on individuals, creating a
system where personal freedoms can be restricted.
Q:
What role does the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
play in global finance?
A:
The BIS,
headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, acts as a "central
bank of central banks."
It has enormous influence over
global financial policies and operates with sovereign
immunity, zero transparency, and the ability to move
vast sums secretly.
According to Fitts, the BIS sets the
rules of global finance without accountability or
oversight, making it immensely powerful.
Q:
Where did trillions of missing U.S. dollars go?
A: Fitts discovered
that approximately $21 trillion was secretly diverted
from the U.S. government between 1998 and 2015.
She
believes much of this money funded
secret underground
bases and transportation networks designed for
undisclosed government projects, including preparations
for catastrophic events.
Q:
How is public health used as a means of control?
A: Americans are
constantly burdened by health issues, making them take
on debt.
She describes this as "the Great Poisoning,"
indicating that,
poor health makes populations easier to
control economically and socially due to increased
dependence on systems that keep you down.
Q:
What practical steps can you take to protect your
financial freedom?
A: Fitts recommends
building resilience through her "Six Pillars of Wealth
and Well-Being," all of which is outlined in The Solari
Report.
She gives a brief summary of her
suggestions here:
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Craft a personal mission
statement that guides personal life independently of
digital influence.
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Develop navigation tools like
knowing local sources of food and using cash.
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Slowly work towards minimizing
any financial risks you have.
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Build living equity by
cultivating strong personal networks and a strong
sense of community.
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