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			by Dr. Joseph MercolaJune 15, 2025
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						Story at-a-glance 
						
						
						
						Catherine Austin Fitts warns that central banks are 
						creating digital currencies to transform money into a 
						control system, enabling personalized surveillance and 
						punishments
						
						
						Approximately $21 trillion was stolen between 1998 to 
						2015, with funds being directed toward a network of 170 
						secret underground government bases
						
						The 
						Bank for International Settlements operates with 
						sovereign immunity and zero transparency, allowing it to 
						move trillions between accounts without legal oversight
						
						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.
						
						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."   
					• 
					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."   
					• 
					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'."   
					• 
					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."   
					• 
					Preparation for catastrophe   
					Fitts mentioned that another purpose of 
					the underground base network is preparing for 'possible 
					
					extinction events'...     
					• 
					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. 
			    
				
					
					• 
					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).     
					• 
					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: 
			    
				
					
					• 
					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.   
					• 
					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."   
					• 
					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."   
					• 
					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: 
				
					
						
						
						Watch "How to Develop a Successful 
						Relationship with a Great Bank" and start building a 
						relationship with your chosen banker.  
						
						Start building networks of trust with 
						like-minded people.  
						
						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.  
						
						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.  
						
						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.  
						
						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.  
						
						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: 
							
							
							Craft a personal mission 
							statement that guides personal life independently of 
							digital influence.
							
							Develop navigation tools like 
							knowing local sources of food and using cash.
							
							Slowly work towards minimizing 
							any financial risks you have.
							
							Build living equity by 
							cultivating strong personal networks and a strong 
							sense of community. 
			  
			  
			  
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