Control
grid is “a process
or infrastructure that allows digital technology to be used to assert phenomenal
control and surveillance of people.” At the heart of this control grid
is ‘programmable money.’
Programmable
money is not exactly
a currency but digital money that comes with a set of rules that can be
enforced by banks. Bankers, who traditionally run monetary policy, could run
fiscal policy as well via programmable money.
During Covid,
if you left your house when told not to, if you tried to spend your money via
digital currency, the banking system would invalidate its use because you left
your house. The money becomes programmed with AI to enforce a certain set of
rules that would go against your wishes.
Such programmable
money allows bankers to control not only monetary policy, i.e. interest
rates and the money stock, but also fiscal policy, currently performed by
Congress and the President, who levy taxes, authorize spending, and allocate
funds, by replacing Congress and the President with a set of rules for the digital
money that is only controlled and enforceable by the banks.
A large infrastructure
of surveillance is required to achieve control grid such as digital
I.D., hardware locally and globally, i.e. cameras in neighborhoods that track
cars coming and going in the 15-minute cities, cell towers everywhere, satellites
to beam in Wi-Fi, tracking everyone everywhere, control weaponry and autonomous
weaponry, and data centers to store all the information.
There are
three elements to the control grid:
1.
Local hardware
and infrastructure which includes the data centers (AI control centers that manage
all data); the social credit system becomes most important to enforce rules and
the data must be stored in data centers; examples include spatial control,
movement control of people via kill switch in cars, money won’t work more than
a mile from your home.
2.
Digital I.D.
3.
Programmable money.
Central
banks are setting up the world so that they can control our finances in real
time with the equivalent of a social credit system, Catherine Austin Fitts
added.
Biometrics
or facial recognition is part of the digital I.D. system and plays a key role
in tracking our movements and facilitating surveillance.
People are
promoting the use of cash instead of credit cards and trying to keep analog
alive. However, if you go to a large store and purchase something with cash, even
though your smart phone may be left in the car, as soon as you resume your use
of the phone, ads will pop up, trying to sell you the very product you purchased
with cash. How is that possible? Biometrics in the store have recognized your
face.
Our local
grocery store has cameras everywhere not just to prevent theft but to recognize
who you are and how often you shop in their store and what products you
purchase regularly.
Banks control
how much of your own money you can withdraw as cash under the excuse that you might
be the victim of fraud by a third party and they are trying to protect you.
This is called ‘nudging.’
In the financial
system, banks use ‘nudging’ under the guise of “subtle interventions to
help consumers make better informed decisions about their money without restricting
their freedom of choice.”
On the other
hand, cybercrime is real. Banks and customers tend to lose a lot of money to cybercrime.
But do we need banks to control our cash finances?
The reality is
that ‘nudging’ is used in the banks’ interest, and it is restricting one’s
freedom of choice when the ability to withdraw certain amounts of cash money is
declined by banks.
The Federal
Reserve, our central bank, has managed our monetary policy since 1913.
Politicians determine fiscal policy. With programmable money, the bankers can
assert control of fiscal policy, a form of financial coup d’etat. With the control
grid enabled by programmable money, the legislators eventually become more
or less ‘show and tell’ without any fiscal policy power. They just become
figureheads.
If central
banks are not on board with programmable money, those countries, like Iran and the
Brics nations create great “leakages” in the model of the banking system’s
programmable money with digital I.D. The only option to bring the ‘leakage’
countries into the fold of programmable money with digital I.D. is regime
change.
