Opting Out of the Grid: Parallel Systems, Hard Assets, and the Fight for Freedom
The global economy has entered the fiscal dominant stage of an engineered crisis, and the transition to a fully programmable control grid is already live.
In this 1-hour 45-minute deep dive recorded on 11 May 2022, I sat down with host Kyle Chassé, Catherine Austin Fitts, and Iain Davis to unpack the active restructuring of the global financial system.
We are witnessing massive structural instability: the West is aggressively expanding paper derivative contracts on gold, silver, and Bitcoin, while the East rapidly accumulates the underlying physical assets.
At the same time, the financial and military-industrial complexes are utilizing corporate public-private partnerships to build a centralized surveillance state.
Geopolitical power is actively shifting to strategic choke points like the UAE, which has become the new node for transnational capital, securing Federal Reserve FX swap lines to print Eurodollars while simultaneously integrating with new energy markets.
As Kyle and I discussed regarding the crypto markets, the recent push for stablecoin legislation—such as the Genius Act and Clarity Act—is a Trojan horse designed by the banking lobby. It acts as a covert precursor to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), threatening to trap consumers in a programmable monetary system tied to social credit scores.
For investors, savers, entrepreneurs, and Bitcoin holders, recognizing this trap is the only way to survive the coming programmable fiat regime.
Modern financial markets have abandoned reality; prices are dictated entirely by geopolitical manipulation, massive wealth concentration into the tech monopolies, and passive ETF flows managed by mega-asset managers like BlackRock. You cannot simply trade your way out of this crisis.
The definitive solution is to consistently dollar-cost average into unconfiscatable hard assets, such as self-custodied Bitcoin, to escape the fiat debt spiral. However, financial wealth alone will not save you.
We must aggressively invest in parallel local systems—specifically community agriculture, farmers, and independent supply chains—because BlackRock is either going to own them, or your community is going to own them.
About Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street investment banker, former Managing Director at Dillon, Read & Co., and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner under President George H.W. Bush. She is the founder and publisher of The Solari Report, where she writes and speaks on finance, economics, public policy, and government spending. Fitts has also served as president of Hamilton Securities Group and has worked extensively in investment strategy and housing finance.
About Iain Davis
Iain Davis is an independent journalist, author, and researcher whose work focuses on geopolitics, technology, economics, and government policy. After working for many years in health and social care, he retrained as a journalist and began publishing independent analysis through his website, iaindavis.com, and other media platforms. Davis has contributed articles to outlets including Unlimited Hangout, Geopolitics & Empire, and Bitcoin Magazine, and is the author of several books, including Pseudopandemic, The Manchester Attack, and The Technocratic Dark State.
About Simon Dixon
Simon Dixon is a Bitcoin OG, investor, and geopolitical and financial analyst. He is the co-founder of Bnk To The Future, an all-in-one Bitcoin investment platform that facilitated early investments into Bitcoin and fintech companies including Coinbase, Kraken, Blockchain.com, and Bitfinex. Dixon has been involved in the Bitcoin industry since 2011 and is the author of Bank To The Future. More information is available at simondixon.com/about.