"The day after 9–11, a person whom I respect and care about a great deal said to me, 'George Bush was anointed by God for a time such as this.' He then asked me what I thought. I said that I thought that the Bush family was anointed by financial fraud, narcotics trafficking, and paedophilia. Stunned, he said, 'If that is true, then it’s hopeless'. I replied that things were far from hopeless, but that for me solutions started with faith in a divine intelligence rather than affirming a dependent relationship with organized crime."
So wrote Catherine Austin Fitts when she reviewed Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth in 2008. In her review article (see The Social Crediter Spring 2008), she suggested that if we, as responsible citizens, seek to respond to global warming we must face the fact that we support criminal activity by our governments because we do not call them to account. Equally, "we as consumers, depositors and investors support the private banking, corporate and investment interests that run our government in this manner". When we recognise that in order to save and rebuild our world we have to withdraw from our dependence upon a rotten system, we are overwhelmed by the difficulty of understanding how to set about system-wide action for positive change. Over past decades people from all walks of life have insisted that solutions to social and ecological questions must be found within the present system, i.e., within the socially acceptable boundaries laid down by economic orthodoxy over the past century. We must follow the rules and play the game.
In order to do so, we must refrain from asking key questions. We must ignore the correlation between environmental deterioration and the growth of the global financial system that has resulted from the world-wide centralisation of economic and political power. The fundamental questions we all need to tackle include:
who is doing this?
who has been governing our planet this way and why?
cui bono? Who benefits?
who has suppressed alternative technologies, resulting in our dependency on fossil fuels? Why?
who has generated how much financial capital generated from this damage?
how did things get this bad without our changing?
how much was related to fear generated by those in charge?
how do we recapture resources that have been criminally drained and use them to invest in restoring environmental balance?
Fitts calls to account the people who are intentionally killing the planet.
"Their power is their ability to offer all of us ways of making money by helping them kill it. Hence, understanding how the mechanics of the financial system and the accumulation of financial capital relate to environmental destruction is essential. If we integrate these deeper systems into an historical timeline, authentic solutions will begin to emerge."
By "making money" Fitts means working for money in order to acquire the basic necessities of life for ourselves and our families (see What Everybody Really Wants to Know About Money"). The task ahead is to come to grips with the history of the global financial system that currently dictates policy across the world in all three spheres of the social order. And the first step is to recognise the difficulty we face when we acknowledge that working for money is the root of all current evils.
In 1883 John Swinton (1829-1901), for ten years editor of the New York Times, delivered at a press dinner the speech he is most famous for today:
"There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
The same can continue to be said for a host of waged and salaried workers across the board in politics, academia, medical and scientific research, health care and education. It is time to move beyond a willingness to work for a financial system that is based upon "organised crime", exploitation of labour, destruction of local communities and devastation of the natural world. What is called for is no less than a paradigm shift, a change in our understanding of the role of the individual within the social order.
Footnote:
Catherine Austin Fitts served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. She served as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush Administration and was the President and Founder of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. Catherine has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from The Wharton School, and studied Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She serves on the board of the Gold Anti– Trust Action Committee and publishes a column, Mapping the Real Deal, in Scoop Media in New Zealand. See Solari eg
https://home.solari.com/book-review-geoengineered-transhumanism-by-elana-freeland/
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