WATCH: “Co-opting Freedom: The Bitcoin Sleight Of Hand & The New AI Control Structure”
The Independent Media Alliance brings you a panel focusing on the overlap of three main topics; the incoming Trump administration, Bitcoin as a potential strategic reserve, and artificial intelligence.
Catherine Austin Fitts, Jason Bermas, Steve Poikonen and Ryan Cristián discuss the intersection of these three topics and what they mean for the future of Bitcoin, as well as the future of the United States and your individual freedom.
You can watch previous IMA panels here and here, and look out for more in the future.
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Sam Bankman-Fried; surname pronounced “bank man freed”. What’s in a name?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried
Finance freed, mankind freed. Mankind freed from banks to Bitcoin, to Crypto, to FTX (FTT), and then … Sam was ‘fried’ (to rot in prison).
So, alt-media hero or villain?
Selfishness may not be the route to better altruism. And altruism always provokes a backlash from those fundamentally, intrinsically selfish.
Peter Singer’s “Effective Altruism” or the Philokalia’s “don’t be fooled by the allure of ‘earn money to give money”. Your choice
Whilst those who truly take Matthew 19:24 to heart remain very rare 🤔
https://biblehub.com/matthew/19-24.htm
Catherine, in the USA why don’t we have an Article V convention and dissolve the federal government and institute a new one according to the Constitution?
Bitcoin/crypto is a generational opportunity to make money. This website is all about the stuff getting done to you by the ruling class. One proven way to mitigate their hold on you is to MAKE MONEY. Money = power.
Anyone who has an investment portfolio and does not hold some crypto asset is missing out on the biggest potential investment return
The Tulip season in Holland is starting up in April. Its now or never! Kiss me tonight, tomorrow will be too late. https://youtu.be/Uwelrtb8Oho
No. CAF is shilling propaganda aimed at people who don’t understand that the person(s) who came up with Bitcoin were not idiots . It is not possible to “counterfiet” bitcoin or “hijack” it.
An artist comrade lost $15,000 of bitcoin when hacked. If it’s virtual, it’s infinitely vulnerable no matter what anyone tells us. Bitcoin is an NFT currency. There is nothing behind it, except burnt-up energy source material, and nothing in front of it, not even the B coin image above. It is worth less than the tulips of the Dutch Tulip Mania of the 1600’s. At least there you have a pretty flower to grow. The only product 21st C elites have to sell anymore is fraud. All the extreme technology is failing to sell anyone value. AI is gonna replace white collar jobs so the only desire for it is in the 1% selling it to themselves. Do you want your phone telling you drive off a cliff? Not me. 5G requires 5G routers placed in home windows everywhere to make the too-expensive-buggy-hackable-weak-broadcasting-system to work. It’s a dog. We have multiple fiber vendors in our area hardwiring neighborhoods, cheaper, faster, safer, better. Everything now is a hyper inflated bubble of fraud. The only thing holding the dam steady is the congregation of vested BELIEVERS. Until… pop goes the weasel…
Bitcoin has all the hallmarks of a ponzi scheme. There have been a lot of lucky Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency multi-millionaires created, assuming that they sell their coins before the bottom eventually drops out of the market.
It is perfectly plausible that Bitcoin runs up from its current US$ 97,000 (GBP 76,000) a coin to a million dollars a coin but for something intangible, that is built on the blockchain and only has value because in theory only a limited number of these coins can be mined, such that it has rarity value.
In my view, it is no coincidence that Bitcoin is called a ‘coin’, and is shown as a gold coloured coin in photos and its extraction is referred to as ‘mining’. It is to subliminally associate Bitcoin with value, rarity and something tangible (which it is not) ie gold. The speculative capital that would normally be invested in precious metals has been diverted since the invention of cryptocurrencies. A very convenient event for the controllers, helping to suppress the price of precious metals (PMs) at least temporarily, in order to disguise the structural problems within the financial system, which a parabolic rise in PMs would signal.
Precious metals have a 5000 year history and formed the backbone of the financial system for centuries even until the 1970s where fiat paper money was backed by gold, until Nixon took the US dollar off the gold peg and stopped its convertibility to gold.
Bitcoin as the leader in the crypto sphere and its proof of work structure is no replacement for tangible physical items of value. It serves as a tool to accustomise the public to accept digital currencies whether they be overtly central bank controlled or supposedly decentralised cryptocurrencies. A false binary.
Having said the above, there could be a bait and switch in the works, that may come if the controllers decide to first back fiat paper currency with precious metals and not use CBDCs or so-called decentralised cryptos such as Bitcoin to create the new financial system, either delaying their implementation or abandoning the CBDC/digital project entirely. This could be a role that the BRICS+ block will be tasked to fulfill and in doing so would cement their status as the leaders in the New World Order and ensure the collapse of the western led financial system. It would also explain why the central banks of BRICS+ nations have been buying gold and other precious metals over many years, adding to their holdings, meanwhile western central banks have mainly reduced theirs.
Who really is the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin? A mystery figure who could easily be a total invention by the alphabet lettered agencies, similar to their involvement in the history of Faecesbook and other tech giants.
Either way, Bitcoin could be a way to get rich as it has for worked so far for some, but it should not be viewed as anything more than a speculative vehicle for gains in fiat currency value. Anyone who got lucky should ensure that they sell at some point and turn those gains into fiat currency and use that fiat currency to buy tangible assets of value, be it land, property, precious metals or anything else.
One thing is for sure, as I have said several times before, is that those in the know are buying tangible assets with their fiat currency gains, be those gains through their businesses, the stock market, cryptos or other types of financial instruments.
A good summary. Lets go out in the real world and see if this hold water:
O boy O boy yeees it does. Bill Gates is now US biggest landowner. Elon Musk also big guy in real stuff. China and Russia big in physical gold and silver reserves.
So the big guys knows the whole shit hits the fan some day. What can you do as average Joe? Nothing.
Continue to put all your money in an e-wallet, trust AI your new Nanny, and vote for Pol Pot, Hitler or someone alike….who promised you. https://youtu.be/icR3KyOxgVA
Please see the first post on this thread where $63 Billion deposit of gold has been “dicovered”.
I have posted on here and other places about my concerns around the rarity value of any asset.
Just when you’ve smugly arranged your portfolio for the coming storm…….
That link again:
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/china-gold-discovery-world-largest-deposit-b2656340.html
First, is the story even true?
It says it could yield upto 1000 metric tonnes. If one wanted to suppress the price, then it would make sense to put these stories out there in the public domain.
Second, annual gold production for 2023 stood at 3644 metric tonnes. So this discovery, if true, is not even 1/3rd of the annual gold production, let alone the total tonnage in existence.
https://www.gold.org/goldhub/research/gold-demand-trends/gold-demand-trends-full-year-2023/supply
Gold is a very dense metal, so a thousand tonnes sounds a lot but in reality is not much volume wise.
Gold is 19,3 times as heavy as water. Lead is only 11,3 times as heavy as water.
The production costs of gold is said to be below global market price.
As I see the market for gold and silver it has been suppressed and manipulated down for many years.
Try to see NYC, London or other stock and property prices prices for the last 5-10-15 years, ridiculous high raised values where gold and silver are way behind.
We should see 3000 USD in short but also 5000 USD for 1 oz gold within a few years at least, just to get on pari with the market.
The total available produced gold globally is around 200 000 ton.
1 Metric ton here being 1000 kg. 19,3 ton = 1 m3 gold. 1000 Mton = around 50 m3.
A 20′ Container has room 30 m3. So the yield could be inside 2 x 20′ Containers.
But this “discovery” could easily be a price manipulation too, to avoid “heating”.
But the above are facts.
Correction: The production cost off course is pt ABOVE prevailing market and selling price, saying the price is suppressed.
Financial “instruments” as manipulative oil, derivatives, bitcoin, m.m. trying to kick gold out from its ancient holy place as the only value ordinary people since Pharaoh could count on.
I’m impressed with your figures.
Thank you.
“Just when you’ve smugly arranged your portfolio for the coming storm…”…………….LOL. I liked that one 😅 .
Came in doubt about my own postulate, so here is a more profound analysis: https://www.americanbullion.com/the-cost-of-producing-an-ounce-of-gold/
2025 is one month away and the date the Bank of England is due to reveal its review of a UK digital currency….
They’re going to call it Britcoin, aren’t they? If not officially, then in the media. They’ll want to imply it’s kinda the same thing – like the corporate outlet I saw yesterday with the slogan “zero waste” as if stopping pollution by plastics is the same as zero emissions because “hey, it’s all the environment”.
P.S. Why in the so-called independent media is there a ton of coverage of the U.S. Fed, its origins and nature, but virtually none on the Bank of England?
ANYTHING positive happening these days?
If so you won’t find it here.
Nope, it’s all chaos. There was one good news, but I completely forgot about what it was.
The sun’s shinin, the birds are singin and the Earth continues to glow in the Milky Way
The world, on the other hand, is rushing down the shit chute.
Sure Ant, here is a picture of some cute kittens.
Don’t try to pull that “cute kitten” stunt here, buddy!
It’s obvious to anyone who isn’t a blinkered fool that those creatures are either crisis actors, controlled opposition, or AI! 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🤨
Can anybody explain to me in an organized fashion, in everyday language, just what a bitcoin is?
The few exploiting the many?
Again.
Digital money, but money should be in fixed with the rate. So it is Dutch bonzi scam. It is not easy to sell as well. Millions lose their money. Maybe someone can explain it in better way.
Simple in everyday language = hot air.
Or if you want to make a philosophy out of it and write books, we call it an illusion.
Organised fashion, let the City of London take over:
There were no “infected blankets”. Viruses do not cause disease. The psychopathic invaders did not at the time beleive that smallpox is transmitted in this manner. It is all whitewash for genocide using fire, rifles and cannons.
Hey Biz, we are at bitcoin now.
Just comparing a sales technique where the seller gives something away for free to warm people during winter, but…………….
All right, but, so, at least this time they only use fire, riffles and cannons in Gaza and Ukraine.
I so wish I could. Please let me know when you get the answer.
This may be more or less how it is: It is a digital coin – each coin is a unique code which is generated with cryptography (blockchain) using maths, and the formulas make it so there is a finite number of coins that can be created. Its value is set abitrarily since it does not correspond to gold, but the cryptography ensures it cannot be controlled or blocked without shutting down the internet …. I am not an IT man so there may be some inaccuracy here but there is no valid base for the claims that it is a scam. if you have money but want out of the banking debt slavery system and looming massive devaluation of your savings, buying bitcoin is your best shot unless you already have land, a source of drinkable water and a dedicated team of people to work with you…
And so you are made to believe nothing, is something.
Sorry, sorry. I didn’t say that right: it’s a group of physicians, politicians & scientists within each of these countries. They’ve all joined together. Total media silence of course.
11 COUNTRIES NOW DEMANDING BAN OF THE VAXX
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/11-countries-demand-immediate-suspension
Etherium co-creator Gavin Wood speaking about Polkadot technical development this month:
https://youtu.be/YldX4hfcW04?list=PLtyd7v_I7PGlDJCCCLGLjJ0yv33JAEE_-&t=1547
Here’s the AI response to whether the Mafia can be reformed:
“While it’s technically possible for individuals within the mafia to leave the organization and reform their lives, the very nature of the mafia, with its ingrained code of silence (“omerta”) and violent practices, makes a large-scale “reform” of the mafia as a whole extremely difficult, if not impossible, as it would require a fundamental shift in its culture and structure, often requiring significant external pressure from law enforcement and societal change.” 😁
Governments worldwide are criminal cartels which occasionally partake in internecine battles, however, these scoundrels ultimately protect each other to maintain the status quo. Under these circumstances nothing can change, especially based on the dubious ballot box.
Unlike major organised crime, government – including their domestic/foreign violence – is often routine, acceptable internationally and even profitable. Recall almost a century of “Palestine peace process”.
The methods are similar extortion, followed by violence, and then death. However, governments are given cover by mainstream media news and other co-opted social media propaganda platforms, hence all horrific crimes are carried out with impunity.
True. And yet things change, sometimes for the better.
“Things change but one thing does not change,
The cosmic battle between Good and Evil does not Change” — Zoroaster, St.Paul and TS.Eliot.
Change is not always better, it’s just different. And it could very well be even worse. Everything is a chance…
I totally believe now that only a real and massive disaster will change things. Meteor strik, solar flare, polar shift, this kind of thing that wreaks massive destruction across the planet. The spirit of sovereign humanity has been killed off and replaced with vaccinated NPC zombies who will never lift a finger to remove the parasites.
That or a violent revolution where many millions die.
Call me stupid? how is this independent ?? and an alliance.?
Thank you for making me laugh.
yeah I don’t know why the fuck she’s been invited for the ride. I like TLAV Geopol & Empire, Iain Davis & OG, but CAF Is a shill.
nope. you’d be wrong.
She promoted “Use cash on Fridays”, so dont say she is just controlled opposition and not a revolutionary. 😅 .
Better, use CASH for every possible transaction, and then DO THE IMPOSSIBLE. It’s only un Point de Vue.
Catherine Austin Fitts worked for and with the fed. government under both George HW Bush and Bill Clinton. I’m happy to call you stupid. “Hamilton Securities won a contract with HUD to manage its $500 billion investment portfolio.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Austin_Fitts
Yes, and hamilton securities showed ways that the govt could SAVE money, lots of it. But that would mean that the DC cronies, and their friends in industry, would not get their cut.
So they fired her and dragged her through the mud.
That’s what they do.
Perhaps you should read her entire story.
She left HUD and began her own company. She saw the corruption in DC. She spoke up about it. Of course, people did not like that. Cuomo told her he’d put her in prison.
She was scapegoated, vilified, and spent over 6 years in court fighting a bunch of nasty bastards. She is the first one to say that she was very lucky – she had the resources to keep fighting. And she won.
I have been listening to Fitts since 2015, long before cvid.
I suggest people go to her Solari Report site and click on the DILLON REED story to get some background.
She is not someone who just popped up in 2020.
She is an intelligent woman no doubt about that, and we are grateful she at least found a solution out of the injustice for herself. Not many can brag about that.
But in the big picture, she is a sand corn on the beach.
But then we are all corn on the beach. Even the globalists.
I am happy I found her years ago, along with Corbett and one or two others.
They prepared me for 2020.
I watched the above interview today. I enjoyed it and learned a lot. They all have a pretty good sense of humor, too.
Also, I have learned a great deal from listening to Fitts and John Titus. Not sure if Offg has ever had Titus’ podcasts on the site. He’s good. Very down to earth. Finance and banking.
You are right. We must appreciate the people who do a job to get us wiser and present us their insider knowledge.
Without them and each other we would struggle even more.
Look into her past that she clearly discloses and now rejects. She and Michael Hudson are insiders who abandoned the wrecking crew and now offer valuable insights which you can independently research to see they are indeed valuable. My parents were Goldwater-Reaganites and had me programmed as a distributor of misinformation. But i found finding the truth and abandoned the old ways of a child-believer. Others can too.
A few more “discoveries” like this puts paid to the idea of safe haven of metals:
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/china-gold-discovery-world-largest-deposit-b2656340.html
As I say to people and friends: “No matter what they try to tell you, gold will be gold forever and silver will be silver”!
Muahh, muahh, e-money is better, fiat dollares are better, fiat money is better, paper money is better, stock yields is better, sales figures are better. Muahh, muahh, muahh.
Why not just buy real estate which you own outright and nobody can take away from you ?
Oh, wait…………
Faith in the dogma of precious metals is based on selective history. I remember an article in New Scientists c. 2000. It said that at the general rate of growth of the global economy, all the (estimated) gold in the universe would not be enough to back currencies in a few centuries.
This was just one more lie from the crowd. To back currencies you only needed to price align gold and silver.
But the point of gold and silver is not “backing”, but budgeting. To not spend more than you have in your household box = less wars, less conflicts, less fraud, less manipulation about money, more cooperation.