Catherine Fitts: Epstein, CIA Black Budget, the Control Grid, and the Banks’ Role in War
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Takeaways
- ❖The 'control grid' is an infrastructure for digital surveillance and control, with programmable money at its core.
- ❖Programmable money allows bankers to control fiscal policy, replacing legislatures by enforcing rules through currency.
- ❖Components of the control grid include digital IDs, local hardware (Flock cameras, cell towers, satellites), and AI data centers for spatial control.
- ❖Biometrics enable surveillance even when using cash, as demonstrated by tracking purchases at stores like Walmart.
- ❖Banks 'nudge' people away from cash through policies, sometimes citing cybercrime, to accelerate the shift to an all-digital financial system.
- ❖FASB 56 (2018) is an administrative policy that allows secret removal of financial data from government statements, making federal budgets meaningless.
- ❖The CIA Act of 1949 and subsequent executive orders created a 'black budget' system, allowing secret funding of corporate contractors to develop classified technology, driving stock values.
- ❖Jeffrey Epstein is linked to the development of crypto and programmable money through his 'Royal Shield network' for allocating funds.
- ❖Stablecoins and digital asset tokens, enabled by acts like the 'Genius Act' and 'Clarity Act,' are private forms of programmable money that can implement social credit systems through the Treasury.
- ❖The ultimate goal of programmable money is complete control over individuals' food, healthcare, spatial travel, and education, leading to a 'slavery system'.
- ❖The ruling class's motivation for this control is to manage societal chaos during radical technological change and maintain power, driven by 'hypermaterialism' and a disregard for the general population.
- ❖Individual resistance through 'coming clean' involves using cash, banking locally, investing ethically, prioritizing health, and seeking independent intelligence.
Insights
1The 'Control Grid' and Programmable Money
The 'control grid' is a digital infrastructure designed for pervasive surveillance and control. At its core is 'programmable money,' which is currency embedded with rules enforced by AI and software. This allows central bankers to dictate not just monetary policy but also fiscal policy, effectively bypassing elected legislatures by controlling how money can be spent, where, and by whom.
Fitts states: 'The control grid is a process or an infrastructure that allows digital technology to be used to assert phenomenal surveillance and control of people. And at the very heart of it is what I call programmable money.' She adds that it 'allows the bankers who've been running monetary policy to now control fiscal policy and essentially replace legislatures and executive branch by making and enforcing the rules through the money.'
2Pillars of Surveillance and Spatial Control
The control grid relies on three pillars: programmable money, digital IDs, and extensive local hardware. This hardware includes ubiquitous surveillance cameras (like Flock cameras), dense networks of cell towers, and satellites capable of beaming Wi-Fi to track individuals. AI is crucial for 'spatial control,' enabling systems to track movement, enforce geographical restrictions (e.g., '15-minute cities'), and even disable vehicles.
Fitts describes: 'You've got three parts to the control grid. Um, one is the local hardware and infrastructure... The second is the digital ID... and then the programmable money.' She cites 'flock cameras... cell towers every 400 to 700 ft... satellites now that can literally beam in Wi-Fi.' She explains AI's role: 'spatial control means I can turn off your car or I can set it so your money won't work more than a mile from your home or a 15inute city.'
3FASB 56 and Secret Government Accounting
In October 2018, an administrative policy called FASB 56 was enacted, which Fitts argues violates the U.S. Constitution and financial management laws. This policy permits a secret group of people, through a secret process, to remove financial data from government statements, including those of 24 covered agencies and over 150 related entities. This renders public financial disclosures meaningless and allows large-cap stock and bond markets to operate with undisclosed financial activities.
Fitts details: 'October 2018, published an administrative policy called Fazby 56 that basically said in violation of the Constitution, the financial management laws and the financial management regulations that they could set up a secret group of people by a secret process and pull things out of the government's financial statements and keep them secret.' She concludes, 'the entire large cap stock and bond market in the United States is secret.'
4Evolution of the Black Budget and Corporate Enrichment
The 'black budget' system evolved from seized assets during WWII, managed by the Exchange Stabilization Fund. The CIA Act of 1949 allowed for secret appropriation and clawback of funds with minimal oversight. A crucial development in 1981, under George H.W. Bush, enabled the use of this secret money to hire corporate contractors for highly classified projects. This mechanism allows corporations to acquire powerful, secret technology, driving their stock values to extreme levels by directly piping U.S. Treasury funds into private entities.
Fitts explains the evolution: 'The first one started with all the seizures during the wars... we passed the CIA act... which authorized was the ability to appropriate money to different agencies and then claw it back secretly to a black budget.' She adds: 'He got an executive order done that said essentially you can use this secret money, the black budget money, and you can use it to hire corporate contractors who can now do highly classified projects.'
5Epstein's Role in Programmable Money Development
Fitts suggests that Jeffrey Epstein was a key figure, or 'father,' in the development of programmable money. She refers to a Substack series that details how Epstein, allegedly laundering money, allocated funds to various projects that advanced crypto and programmable money. This activity is framed within the broader context of 'Royal Shield networks' – investment networks operating above national governments, coordinating through 'switchboard' agents and receiving protection from intelligence agencies.
Fitts states: 'we have a commentary up called was Jeffrey Epstein the father of programmable money which I believe you know the answer is yes or certainly one of them.' She refers to a Substack series 'describing how Epstein who I believe was laundering money was allocating that money to all these different projects that help develop crypto and programmable money.'
6Programmable Money as a 'Slavery System'
The full implementation of a 100% digital, cashless, programmable money system would grant authorities complete control over individuals' lives. This includes dictating where people can travel, what foods they can buy (e.g., forcing insect consumption over meat), mandating vaccines, and controlling children's education. Fitts warns this would transform democratic republics into a 'slavery system,' eliminating individual freedom and sovereignty.
Fitts warns: 'If I want you to not be able to leave your home, your money won't work if you leave your home.' She continues: 'If I want you to only be able to eat certain foods... your money won't work to buy real meat. If I want you to take a vaccine a month... I'll turn off your money.' She concludes: 'You were no longer in a democracy or a democratic republic. You were in a slavery system.'
Bottom Line
Global conflicts, such as those involving Iran and BRICS nations, are not primarily about traditional geopolitical concerns but rather about forcing central banks into a globally interoperable programmable money system, eliminating 'leakage' that could undermine centralized control.
This reframes international relations, suggesting that economic and financial control, specifically the adoption of programmable money, is a core driver of military and political interventions, rather than stated reasons like nuclear proliferation or human rights.
Understanding this underlying motive could lead to alternative diplomatic or economic strategies that address financial sovereignty rather than escalating traditional conflicts, potentially fostering decentralized financial systems that resist global control.
The 'tapeworm' analogy describes the centralizing financial system that extracts wealth and power from local communities and individuals. Disengaging from this system ('detoxing') not only strengthens the individual but also weakens the 'tapeworm' by denying it energy.
This provides a powerful framework for individual action, emphasizing that personal choices in how one uses time, attention, and money have a collective impact on resisting systemic control. It shifts the focus from grand political gestures to everyday decisions.
This insight creates an opportunity for community-level initiatives focused on local economies, alternative banking, ethical investing, and self-sufficiency, fostering resilience against centralized systems and building new, decentralized models of wealth and power.
Key Concepts
Nudging
A behavioral economics concept where subtle interventions or policies guide people towards specific choices without outright banning alternatives. In this context, it refers to strategies used by central bankers and financial institutions to discourage cash usage and encourage digital transactions, thereby advancing the 'control grid'.
Hypermaterialism
An excessive focus on the visible, tangible, and material aspects of reality, often to the exclusion or denial of invisible, spiritual, or energetic dimensions. This mindset, according to Fitts, leads the ruling class to misunderstand true power dynamics and pursue control through purely material means, such as programmable money, while being ignorant of deeper universal forces.
Lessons
- Prioritize using cash for transactions to resist the push towards a fully digital, programmable money system and maintain financial privacy.
- Shift banking relationships from large, centralizing banks to local community banks or credit unions that support Main Street economies.
- Consciously invest your money (e.g., 401ks) in companies not engaged in 'systemic organized crime' or building the 'control grid,' seeking out ethical and productive businesses.
- Prioritize personal health through good nutrition (e.g., organic, biodynamic food) and avoid over-reliance on the mainstream medical system, recognizing health as a critical financial and personal asset.
- Actively seek out and consume independent, high-quality intelligence to form an accurate 'map of the world,' rather than relying on mainstream narratives that may misinform.
The 'Coming Clean' Detox: Revolutionizing Personal Finance and Life
**Embrace Cash:** Make a conscious effort to use physical cash for daily transactions to resist the 'nudging' towards digital-only payments and maintain financial anonymity.
**Localize Banking:** Move your money from large, centralized banks to local community banks or credit unions that reinvest in your local economy and are less implicated in global financial control mechanisms.
**Ethical Investing:** Screen your investments (e.g., 401ks) to ensure your money is not supporting companies actively building the 'control grid' or engaged in 'systemic organized crime.' Invest in businesses that are productive and ethical.
**Prioritize Health and Nutrition:** Invest in high-quality, organic, or biodynamic food and proactive health practices to reduce dependence on a potentially compromised medical system and strengthen personal resilience.
**Cultivate Independent Intelligence:** Actively seek out diverse sources of information and critical analysis to develop an accurate understanding of global events and financial systems, avoiding mainstream narratives that may be misleading.
Notable Moments
Tucker Carlson's wife was denied a large cash withdrawal from Wells Fargo, with the bank claiming concern about a scam, which Fitts identifies as 'nudging' to eliminate cash.
This anecdote illustrates the practical difficulties and systemic pressure individuals face when trying to use cash, highlighting how banks are actively implementing policies that steer people towards digital transactions, even against their will.
Fitts recounts her experience building software tools like 'Community Wizard' to provide financial transparency for local jurisdictions, which the Department of Justice seized and sabotaged.
This personal account provides concrete evidence of active suppression of tools that would enable local accountability and decentralization, reinforcing the idea of an intentional 'secret governance system' working against transparency.
Fitts describes the 'magical moment' when Pam Bondi, during Epstein testimony, said 'We should be talking about the Dow being over $50,000,' which Fitts interprets as a statement that public compliance is secured by maintaining high stock markets.
This moment reveals a cynical underlying principle of governance: that the general population will tolerate corruption and abuse, even of children, as long as their financial investments (like 401ks) are performing well. It underscores the transactional nature of public trust in the eyes of some elites.
Fitts explains the assassination of James Forrestal, the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, as part of a deal to pass the CIA Act of 1949 and create the black budget, as well as the creation of Israel.
This claim highlights the extreme measures and alleged criminality involved in establishing the 'secret governance system' and black budget, suggesting foundational elements of modern power structures were built on violence and manipulation, rather than democratic processes.
Quotes
"The control grid is a process or an infrastructure that allows digital technology to be used to assert phenomenal surveillance and control of people. And at the very heart of it is what I call programmable money."
"Programmable money allows the bankers who've been running monetary policy to now control fiscal policy and essentially replace legislatures and executive branch by making and enforcing the rules through the money."
"If you could do more money going around, you could make the pie much bigger."
"If people will allow you to poison and abuse and rape their children in exchange for keeping their 401ks up, you have no reason to respect them."
"The greatest power we have is how we use our time, how we use our attention, and how we use our money in our daily lives."
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