Catherine Austin Fitts: The control grid enforces surveillance and fiscal control, AI is central to managing financial data, and the push towards a cashless economy raises privacy concerns

Key takeaways

• The control grid is a digital infrastructure designed to enforce surveillance and control over individuals.
• Programmable money is shifting power from legislative bodies to bankers, allowing them to control fiscal policy.
• Surveillance infrastructure is rapidly expanding in US communities, funded by taxpayer dollars.
• Surveillance systems are increasingly integrated with weaponry, including autonomous systems.
• AI is being developed to manage financial and spatial data within a digital control grid.
• The integration of programmable money, digital ID systems, and local hardware forms a comprehensive control system.
• Central bankers are moving towards real-time control of financial transactions, similar to a social credit system.
• Biometrics are crucial in digital ID systems, facilitating surveillance and control.
• Central bankers are nudging society towards a cashless economy through regulations.
• The financial system is transitioning to greater central control by bankers over fiscal policy.
• Digital surveillance and programmable money are central to discussions on privacy and monetary policy.
• The implications of centralized control over money are critical for understanding current economic trends.
• Surveillance technology’s integration into local governance raises privacy and civil liberties concerns.
• AI’s role in societal control mechanisms is a strategic focus in its development.
• The interconnectedness of technologies facilitates control over individuals.

Guest intro

Catherine Austin Fitts is president of Solari, Inc. and publisher of The Solari Report. She previously served as managing director at Dillon Read & Co. and as Assistant Secretary of Housing under President George H. W. Bush. Drawing on her Wall Street and Washington experience, she warned about mortgage fraud and prevailed in an eleven-year lawsuit against the Department of Justice.

The implications of the control grid

Expansion of surveillance infrastructure

AI and the digital control grid

Central bankers and financial control

Transition to a cashless economy

Shifts in financial system control