Ep 263: How Your Own Money Is Funding the System That Controls You with Catherine Austin Fitts

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The economic system is about to change forever, and it’s due to AI.

My guest is Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing under President George H.W. Bush and former managing director at Dillon, Read & Co., who has spent decades mapping how money moves and who controls it.

The conversation gets into the three pillars of what she calls the digital control grid, and why the difference between a manual and an automatic third lock on your bank account changes everything.

Catherine explains the Genius Act, the plan to persuade four billion people to leave their local currency for stablecoins tied to US Treasury bills, and the $114 trillion in stocks and bonds now being prepared to move onto crypto rails. She names the specific mechanism that could turn your money off if you leave your house, skip a mandate, or say the wrong thing.

Then comes the harder part: Most of the people protesting data centers are financing them through their own retirement accounts.

If you've ever told yourself you're only one person, this episode is the correction.

You'll Learn:  [0:00] Introduction [3:50] How the automatic third lock seizes financial control [7:27] Embracing your inner analog starts with cash [17:41] What stablecoins actually are and why they matter [26:14] The AI twin vision behind a social credit system [29:31] The Iran war as a play to control energy and trade worldwide [39:06] One person is never just one person [43:21] What the Madoff bank account really reveals [49:21] Health freedom leaders profiting on Pfizer stock [57:13] The five-minute presentation that persuades every legislator [1:03:50] Building the wall while fighting off the attackers [1:10:37] Turning South Dakota into a cash state

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