Control Grid and Nudge

What is control grid? Catherine Austin Fitts talked about the concept of control grid snapping into place quickly and becoming fast reality.

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.