{"id":229746,"date":"2026-03-31T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=229746"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:00:52","slug":"catherine-austin-fitts-the-goal-is-to-reduce-the-population-and-control-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/catherine-austin-fitts-the-goal-is-to-reduce-the-population-and-control-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Austin Fitts: \u201cThe goal is to reduce the population and control the rest\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWars are fought over shipping routes and resources, not to liberate any oppressed population group<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just a few weeks ago, Catherine Austin Fitts gave a monumental interview to journalist Michael Yon, explaining what the Iran war is really about.<\/p>\n

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Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Housing and Urban Development during the first Bush administration, who now runs her own financial consulting firm, lives in Tennessee but spends more than half the year in the Netherlands. She is deeply sceptical of where the Trump administration is leading America \u2013 with its focus on wars abroad and the construction of a digital surveillance network at home.<\/p>\n

The interview with Michael Yon on February 17th took place two weeks before US and Israel launched the attack on Iran, but Fitts knew months earlier that an attack was coming and could no longer be stopped, even if Trump had wanted to. He is simply too much under the control of his financial backers, who now own the White House and Congress.<\/p>\n

For this reason, the negotiations with Iran were a complete farce. They never consisted of a serious attempt to resolve the differences between the two countries. Trump simply had his two New York real estate agents, posing as diplomats \u2013 Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner \u2013 hand the Iranians a list of demands and say: Take them or leave them, knowing full well that no sovereign state could accept such demands.<\/p>\n

The true reason for the attack on Iran and the attempt to overthrow its regime has nothing to do with liberating the Iranian people or freeing the world from a dictatorship. Nor does it have anything to do with fighting Islam, as many conservatives mistakenly believe. This war is being fought over who gains control of vital shipping lanes and resources (oil). Iran is located in a region of the world crucial for both, and the struggle for control of the emerging new digital economy precludes an Iranian regime operating outside the Western global financial system, selling oil to China and India, and supplying drones to Russia \u2013 three countries that the US views as rising competitors to its global hegemony.<\/p>\n

\u201cWars are always about routes and resources<\/em>,\u201d Fitts said. \u201cThe Netherlands occupies a strategic position on the North Sea at the mouth of the Rhine, with Germany right next door. They are trying to develop the Tri-State City on the German-Dutch border, a huge smart city (prison city)<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a short pause, she came up with a better word to describe what Trump is doing in America and what the Europeans are doing in the EU.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a digital concentration camp<\/em>,\u201d she said. \u201cPhysically and digitally designed for surveillance and control. What is going on in the Netherlands is very similar to what is going on in the US and North America. It is the implementation of a digital control grid<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said there are twelve steps to total control.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn enclosure is being built around us. They’ve already built three sides of this enclosure, so it still feels free. But when a number of things come together \u2013 digital money, programmable money, and AI \u2013 then the fourth gate snaps shut, and suddenly you wake up in a state of total control<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people don\u2019t see it coming because it consists of many different parts<\/em>,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

According to her, the decisive factor for this fourth component to click into place is a biometric digital identity that is \u201cvery precise and of high quality and therefore interoperable and globally recognized<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Two further components are a digital surveillance and tracking system, \u201cwhich basically aims to identify every person \u2013 what they do, where they go, their behaviour, including their spending habits<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across America, massive resistance is now beginning as the previously invisible parts of this control grid become increasingly visible. Trump’s AI data centres, currently being planned and built, are sparking protests in communities nationwide as people realize these centres will lead to sharply rising water and electricity prices while simultaneously strengthening the surveillance state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are building the infrastructure at a very rapid pace and it is becoming visible. Most of it was invisible, but now there are visible aspects that people can see<\/em>,\u201d Fitts explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want many more telecommunications masts for 6G. Then there are the AI data centres. These are very important because they provide the enormous amount of data needed for this control grid. And we are seeing increasing local resistance because the environmental impact from energy, water, and land consumption is enormous. And thirdly, there are cameras and drones to monitor movements from the air<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most people didn’t notice how this grid came into being, but now \u2013 with drones, towers, and data centres \u2013 they can see it with their own eyes. It has become physical and tangible, and that’s why the first signs of public resistance are emerging.<\/p>\n

Fitts described what she considers the \u201ccoup de gr\u00e2ce<\/em>\u201d, the next step of the digital control grid: tokenized \u201cmoney\u201d that is not only digitized but also programmable.<\/p>\n

In Europe, this will take the form of a central bank digital currency. In the US, it will be Trump’s privatized, government-approved cryptocurrency. Both are fundamentally the same, as they are programmable and based on blockchain accounting. \u201cThey are different, but serve the same purpose<\/em>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fourth gate of the enclosure closes when they can not only control your movements through tracking, but also turn your money on or off. And at a very granular level<\/em>,\u201d Fitts said. \u201cThat takes control of fiscal policy away from parliaments and hands it over to the bankers<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Augustine Carstens, the Director General of the Bank for International Settlements, explained in a speech at the International Monetary Fund on October 19, 2020, how and why central bank digital currencies are seen as key to their totalitarian agenda. Everything they say about greater inclusion, security, and convenience is merely a facade to get people to support their own captivity.<\/p>\n