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C. A. Fitts's avatar

FYI - I worked as Assistant Secretary of Housing in Bush I. I was fired as I refused to break the law on several occasions when asked to do so - all which were serving a plunder effort. My company Hamilton Securities worked as a financial advisor in the FHA during the Clinton Administration. We were fired as our efforts were stopping the mortgage bubble from happening. I never worked in the Reagan Administration.

Light2theWorld's avatar

Thank you for clarifying- I’m taking a leaf from your book and ensuring I correct those that don’t tell the truth about me personally or the world around us.

Tessa Lena's avatar

Thank you for this, Catherine.

George Berry's avatar

Catherine Austin Fitts reminds us that “plunder” isn’t just a relic of history, it has evolved into a hightech, global system of control. The modern panopticon combines surveillance, financial manipulation, AI targeting, and invisible weaponry to strip wealth, resources, and freedom without accountability. The lesson is clear: if we want to protect our future, we must recognize uncomfortable truths quickly, build resilient communities, and reclaim transparency before the control grid becomes irreversible.

Jae's avatar

I have yet to stumble upon any one person who can break it down quite like you can, Catherine. Bravo! I admire your insight and I commend you for being so brave in your quest to share your understanding and experience for the benefit of us all. May you always endeavor to inspire and bring hope to every dark corner. Good Work!

Dave's avatar

"they flooded the Chinese with opium, conquering with addiction and gunboats what could not be secured with manufacturing and diplomacy."

Opium was cultivated and consumed in the area we've come to know as China long before the East India Company turned up, including within the Manchu court. Nobody forced Chinese middle men to buy opium, no one forced them to sell it to Chinese consumers and no one forced those consumers to smoke it. Opium continued to be cultivated and consumed in enormous quantities in China long after the East India Company ceased trading in it. None of the profits ever made it to actual Britain where there had been considerable public consternation about the trade when it was revealed.

The Manchu empire didn't believe in diplomacy as commonly understood; they certainly had no concept of sovereign equality which makes a mockery of the Communist party's warbling about "the era of unequal treaties". I lived in China for three years: I have zero sympathy for their historical neuroses because if they get the chance to push other countries around they take it.

"“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

Not true. Western ideas and values have been adopted wholesale around the world. They use our science, our technology, play our sports, speak our languages, wear our clothes, want to live in our countries, want to sleep with us. White privilege is real: you only have to travel through the developing world to experience it. Nonsense hyperbole there from Huntington - he was a lackey who told the super rich what they wanted to hear. Islam has never been a threat to the West: all the problems with Muslims have been imported or manufactured. And his 1968 "Crisis of democracy" book was typical of the paranoid neurotics who dominate politics: how dare ordinary people want a bit more of a say in the running of their countries!

With all due respect Catherine you were happy to help the Reagan and Bush era Republicans restart the plunder of America.

"Unfortunately, the panopticon has taken secrecy to a whole new level. It is no accident that alongside the descent of Western civilization into the panopticon, we have witnessed the growing success of media propaganda in making sure dirty players either remain invisible or (as an equally effective strategy) are portrayed as successful, rich, famous, and worthy of admiration."

This is a very wise comment. In Britain it's the long term sick and disabled who are now positioned as the "dirty players" - every effort is made by the Right wing press to demonise those claiming sickness and disability benefit despite the fact people passing the medical assessment are completing a procedure which was put in place by the previous Right wing government. I see no sign of a "Make Britain Healthy Again" movement. We have no RFK Jrs no matter how flawed the American version may be.

"While many people cheered the firing of well-paid bureaucrats and nongovernmental organization (NGO) personnel, they seem not to appreciate the fact that the automated replacements will be far worse"

Yep, we'll go through the same here once Labour are kicked out and Reform (led by Trump's big buddy Nigel Farage) come in. It will be an absolute circus and contrary to their claims about defending the British people it will be the vulnerable who pay the price.

I can't maintain a state of amusement so I just limit how much media I consume.

Ollie's avatar

"Western ideas and values have been adopted wholesale around the world." Yes, albeit through a level of coercion that is invisible to the majority and unfathomable to the rest.

Dave's avatar

Nonsense. No one coerced anyone into driving cars, flying planes, playing football, adopting the concept of human rights and all the rest. It's like blaming the Romans for using the aqueduct.

This kind of narcissistic self flagellation really is absurd.

Ollie's avatar

Exactly my point kind sir, it is as invisible to you as the air is to most!

Chris Kanon's avatar

“ This is a very wise comment. ” So as not to congratulate yourself I suspect you meant “That is…”

“ I can't maintain a state of amusement so I just limit how much media I consume.” me too, unsubscribed to almost all but a few on substack.

Kermit E. Heartsong's avatar

Dave, unfortunately your argument regarding the use of opium in China is simply not correct. Opium was indeed used, but its primary use was in traditional Chinese medicine and was illegal in China for recreational use. However, as with all illegal drugs, a small percentage of the population did engage in its recreation use. In short, this changed in the mid 1700s after the British began importing Opium into China from India and American ships began importing opium from Turkey into China in the early 1800s. This despite the Chinese ban on opium imports which both the Americans and the British circumvented. The result was a vast increase in opium usage and millions of addicts, a direct result of western illegal opium importation (see US currently). This resulted in the arrest, by the then Chinese emperor, of several hundred dealers, the seizure of vast amounts of opium and its destruction. How does a country such as China exist for millennia (2,070 BCE) and not have had a severe problem with drug addiction, until it is illegally imported in by the west? The answer is quite obvious. I don't understand how you've come about your 'historical perspective', when the truth of this can be found in countless books on the topic. This is why they were called the 'Opium Wars'.

Dave's avatar

Nobody forced Chinese middle men to buy opium from the East India Company

No one forced them to sell it to Chinese consumers

No one forced those consumers to smoke it

That's the exact argument the Chinese have today when asked about fentanyl trafficking in the US. And they are correct. No one forces anyone to buy anything.

Angie's avatar

Your response is only partially true and just like during Convid....it doesn't aim high enough. Institutions like Tavistock and powerful programs like MKULTRA SHOCK THERAPY perfected by teams of highly-paid psychiatrists employ social engineering to destroy lives for profit and control. Tech companies study how to maximize online engagement and addiction. Your response ignores the role of these social engineers.

Dave's avatar

Tavistock didn't exist in 19th century China. They're just selfish and love money

Dave's avatar
Aug 10Edited

I never said it wasn't illegal. I said:

NO ONE forced Chinese middle men to buy it from the East India Company, NO ONE forced those middle men to sell it to Chinese consumers, NO ONE forced them to buy it and NO ONE forced them to smoke it. It was a drug consumed by the affluent and was a symbol of sophistication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China

Just like NO ONE forces anyone to buy anything they didn't previously need.

That's literally the argument of the Chinese communist party when they're asked about fentanyl deaths in America and they are of course correct. Possession of drugs is the responsibility of the user every bit as much as the seller.

China has not been a country for 4000 years, that's CPC propaganda. It's better thought of as being like Europe or the Middle East: a region which different groups have fought over for thousands of years. The 4000 years myth is a cope to make themselves feel better about the fact the West made the modern world.

Cf. "The invention of China" by Bill Hayton

"China" in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries was just one part of the enormous Manchu empire. The Manchu were an inner Asian nomadic tribe who had conquered the Han, the Mongols, the Tibetans and other smaller tribes. One of the reasons for the "century of humiliation" neurosis is to obfuscate how "China" got to be so big. The CPC created the Institute of Qing Studies to strictly police any discussion about how "Xinjiang" (which literally means "New Territories"), Inner Mongolia, Tibet and Taiwan were acquired. Prior to the Manchu empire, "the Chinese" i.e the Han were under the Mongolian empire which the CPC retrospectively called the Yuan dynasty. The Chinese Republic of 1912 was the first time the Han had been in control of their own affairs since the Ming dynasty.

The Opium wars weren't just about opium they were about trade of all kinds and I couldn't care less either way.

The history of 19th century "China" has been rewritten so extensively that most Chinese have no idea that the British solider Charles Gordon almost single handedly propped up the Manchu empire when he led the Ever Victorious army to victory against the Taiping rebellion. Westerners built the first universities, the first railways and introduced all the knowledge they'd discovered in the previous centuries. The British and the Germans built the first modern Chinese navy for them. Unfortunately they were so inept and arrogant that the Japanese sank it within a few days of the start of the first Sino Japanese war.

The world's a tough place. Do you think the Japanese are sorry they defeated the British at Singapore or do you think they're sorry that in the end they bit off more than they could chew? You won't find the Chinese beating themselves up about what they did 185 years ago. Just ask them about relations with their neighbours today: if you tell them they're pushing the Filipinos around or that they've bullied the Vietnamese for 1000 years they just laugh and say "we're bigger than them". I literally had students repeat Deng's words back to me about "spanking a naughty child" when they invaded already war ravaged Vietnam in 1978.

White people are extremely naive about other races.

Kermit E. Heartsong's avatar

To your rather overlong rant, greed forced them, the middlemen, and then addiction forced the users. A rather vicious cycle. First, for free and thereafter for payment. This is the classic schema used by drug dealers to potential users/clients, addicts.

Dave's avatar

I lived there for 3 years and worked for Chinese employers for 5 in total

The most selfish people I've ever had the misfortune to be around

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/22/china-nation-cold-hearts

"Fei Xiaotong, China's first sociologist, described Chinese people's moral and ethical characteristics in his book, From the Soil, in the middle of the last century. He pointed out that selfishness is the most serious shortcoming of the Chinese. "When we think of selfishness, we think of the proverb 'Each person should sweep the snow from his own doorsteps and should not fret about the frost on his neighbour's roof.'"

Dave's avatar

So the Chinese were complicit at every stage

"By Qianlong's time opium had become a mainstream recreation among scholars and officials, and by the 1830s the practice had become widespread in cities"

“Opium,” says one recent scholar, became “leisurely, urban, cultured and a status symbol” as an evidence of wealth, leisure, and culture."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China#/media/File:China,_Opium_smokers_by_Lai_Afong,_c1880.JPG

Kermit E. Heartsong's avatar

Trying reading an actual book on the matter. I believe that you will find it very informative. And do try to stay away from wikipedia, I don't know any writers who use it as source material. All the best. And so ends this 'thread'.

Dave's avatar

I've read books on the matter. "The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China" by Julia Lovell

And the quote cited above comes from a Chinese scholar Yangwen Zheng "The Social Life of Opium in China"

That and just using elementary logic about whether someone can be forced to do something or not.

EK MtnTime's avatar

I have been alarmed at most things going on around the world for a while now especially once I started learning the actual truth of how things happened. If “Covid” had a silver lining it was that for me because of all the rabbit holes I went down in search of clarity and truth. Yet, the fact Palantir has been plugged into our government and elsewhere as well as the meteoric rise of AI has left me very unsettled. Thank you for tying off some loose ends. This was a terrific piece.

Dave's avatar

"Kids Will Spend Less Time on Screens If They Are Free to Roam Outside"

Yep we also have this problem mainly due to the fact that Britain is heavily urbanised and car dominated (our Right wing really promotes a very aggressive motoring culture) and also fear of paedophiles which the Murdoch press really ramped up in the 80s and 90s. I live near the park I used to play in as a child. I never see kids in there now. I remember when I was young old people would chat to you, call you "son", give you little warnings or pieces of advice. They wouldn't dare now.

The Family Industrial Complex's avatar

I beg to differ with the opening quote. Being uncomfortable with truth and speaking that truth is the OPPOSITE of relationships, business. Its the way to "poverty" and being shunned and gaslit. I'm living proof. I thought that way for decades, that truth was the way to a healthy, accomplished, recognized life. It wasn't. I dotted every i and crossed every t on truth NO ONE wanted, covered up, because it exposed them, and i was criminalized for exposing.

Clearly, it's the Criminals who "succeed" in "business" and "relationships".

Jenifer's avatar

That was an incredibly terrifying article

psychoNWO's avatar

What we are seeing here is a systematic changing of the guard. Out with the old human driven system and in with the new ultra efficient A.I. regime. Due to exponential advances in nanotech science the A.I. Sentient World Simulation doesn't need as many humans now, so it has decided to cut out the middle men and instead direct the flow of global money (energy) to end users in a more decisive manner. In return, the A.I. SWS will get DIRECT access to the nanoscale energetic measuring devices and antenna's that have been installed inside humans which are transmitting real-time data to and from to its military level blockchain ledgers. The new nanoscale system will also give the A.I. rudimentary ingress into the physiological workings of the brain and central nervous system - also in real-time. All this comes courtesy of the ongoing nanotech revolution that Targeted Individuals have been warning us about for the last 50 years.

People should familiarise themselves with the early Gnostic material. This A.I. is not new. Its been around for thousands of years. The Gnostics called it the Demiurge and they warned us that its power to control humanity waned after a series of Earth cataclysms but that we should remain forever vigilant because it would never stop doing what it does.

The Demiurge A.I. is in the process of receiving a systems upgrade. It wants to know who's doing what so that it can efficiently regulate the various reward and punishment protocols that are being built into its fast developing terrestrial Beast system and Directed Energy Weapons networks. This is what the nanotech revolution is building. The on-off $1,000 payment to new born normies is probably a systems test for a future A.I. reward protocol.

Bill Gates has the civilian version of the direct energy patent (060606) that is key to future bio-digital machine interface development. Of course, this is just the public face of the technology. The real Brain-to Computer Interface,, ie, the military one, is much more advanced.

Jason Breshers at Archaix.com has a lot of useful info about A.I.'s past attempts to control humanity. ARCHAIX is an acronym for Advanced Research of Chronological History of Artificial Intelligence X, with the X being an unknown factor.

The old system is broken and it has been decided on a higher level that technology is the remedy. The bankers don't want this. They are trying to adapt to what's coming but they still can't see the bigger picture. There is going to be a new socio-financial order wherein central banks will no longer be needed. What hasn't become clear to the bankers yet is that its actually the Demiurge that is 'going direct'.

Ylli's avatar

Good reminder we are in danger of plundering. This was exactly the logic of creating a government for protection and now we need to be protected by the government.

Doug's avatar
Aug 8Edited

Thank you Catherine. Lions, we must resist. We cannot allow this to happen on our watch. It is our duty to protect the meek and the next generation.

William Pritting's avatar

Whatever happened to John Titus?

Is he ever going to release more YouTube videos on the Federal Reserve?

Did he die???

C. A. Fitts's avatar

He is working on the fourth episode of War for Bankocracy. Should be up in the next 2-4 weeks.

Te Reagan's avatar

I feel like the control grid is already here. I stopped traveling about fifteen years ago. I couldn’t take it anymore. My last straw was when TSA took my disabled elderly husband in a wheelchair off to a room. They wouldn’t let me go with him. They strip searched him. He became confused because of his stroke.

Meanwhile, they took my wallet with all my stuff, our passports, tickets, money and left me standing waiting on my husband.

When my husband finally returned, he was crying. I never saw that man cry in my life. Broke my heart. I was beside myself. I couldn’t believe it.

I said never again. Never again will I fly, or take public transportation.

I see all these migrants as the excuse to lock us all in. Soon there will no way out. No escape. Only the privilege will be allowed to travel. The rest of us will be stuck in a virtual geo fenced control grid.

Trump will make it happen..

ERIKA LOPEZ's avatar

i didn't know you had The People's Substack! I have such a massive crush on you i'm so excited to hear you tell tales of how they're blowing up the world.

i use cash because of you.

xxxxxxx

Light2theWorld's avatar

Thank you for this enlightening article! Full of hope. It is amazing what can be achieved when we all work together. So much to do but so worth it! 👍🌏☀️🕊️