1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up – News Trends & Stories, Part I: April 25, 2019

“Now we are aiming at Iran. The rumors in Washington (true or false we’ll soon know): around August we’ll be heading toward Iran from bases which are being established in eastern Afghanistan. That’ll be our next war. What nobody takes into account, since these people are as ignorant as any group that has ever governed the United States…they don’t know that Persia is one of the oldest and greatest cultures in the history of the Earth. They’re sitting on a sea of oil. They have worked out uranium deposits. They’ve worked out nuclear weapons. And if you get them grumpy, they’re going to drop them on us, and we the people are going to be killed, because they, the gas and oil lobby, will have their islands off Samoa. They’ll be taking trips when the bad days come, or maybe, dare I say it, they will be enjoying the rapture. But, then, I’m an optimist.” ~ Gore Vidal, 2005


Web Presentation

Our 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up web presentation is a work in progress that grows as we publish our weekly segments—Solari Report subscribers can access it here. Use your Solari password to login!

By Catherine Austin Fitts

This coming week we begin our two-part publication of News Trends & Stories for the 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up. Dr. Joseph P. Farrell will join me for our analysis of what is happening in 2019—and where it is going. In Part I, we look at the 10 top stories in Economy & Financial Markets and Geopolitics:

Economy & Financial Markets:

• Story #1: Secret Books: Harvard, HUD, DOD, & U.S. Treasury Go Dark—The Pricing Mechanism Goes Dark, Too
• Story #2: U.S. Debt Spiral and Reserve Currency Pains
• Story #3: The Global Slowdown—Recession Looms
• Story #4: The Fed Backs Down
• Story #5: Monopolies Bite

Geopolitics:

• Story #6: Brexit: The Endless Agony
• Story #7: Technocracy and the Rise of Environmental Socialism
• Story #8: Censorship and Disinformation Explode
• Story #9: Oil Wars, Trade Wars, and the Rise of the Asian Consumer
• Story #10: Pushing for War—Secret Money for Secret Armies and War with Iran
  
  As you listen, check out the News Trends & Stories section of the 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up web presentation, including our complete trends list, our choices for top news videos of the year, the Trump Report Card, and our headlines for the top stories.
  
  In the week following, in News Trends & Stories, Part II, we will cover the 10 top stories in Culture, Science, Space & Technology, and Food & Health and will discuss Unanswered Questions, Inspiration, and Take Action.
  
  In May, we will publish our 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up theme: Will ESG Turn the Red Button Green? ESG (environmental, social, and governance) refers to three factors used to measure the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a business or enterprise. The question is whether ESG will bring real change or just more whitewashing and technocracy—made possible by the secrecy delivered with the help of national security law FASAB 56, combined with trillions delivered to the military-industrial complex by taxes, the sovereign bond market, and privatization.
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“Looking forward, IMF projections imply that the dollar zone will return to the sizeable deficits that were last seen in the mid-1980s. On this view, the dollar zone current account deficit would be larger than it has been since the euro came into existence 20 years ago. On current evidence, if the renminbi becomes a key currency, it would carry a substantial share of global GDP out of the dollar zone. This would leave the dollar zone deficit all the wider.” ~ Hiro Ito and Robert N. McCauley, Bank for International Settlements, December 2018

By Catherine Austin Fitts

This week I present the 1st Quarter 2019 Equity Overview with charting from Rambus Chartology. Check out the 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up web presentation here for the quarterly financial charts and Rambus Chartology when posted on Thursday. Just use your Solari Report password to login.

The Anglo-American alliance is in a period of significant stress. While the United Kingdom buys time with a Brexit extension until October 31, the dominance of the U.S. dollar erodes. All pretense of soft power has given way to hardball—from the arrest of Julian Assange in London last week to the Mayor of New York’s attempt to destroy the health and religious freedoms of the Williamsburg Orthodox Jewish community.

There are indications that the U.S. is preparing to follow Netanyahu, emboldened by election success, into a suicidal confrontation with Iran. In the mix, FASAB 56 can now finance secret armies without the interference of seasoned Marines such as Generals Mattis and Kelly. The global neocons do not appear deterred by the recent calculation that the United States has spent $5.9 trillion on the War on Terror, including war in the Middle East, since 9/11—a time when U.S. pension funds were still fully funded.

This signals weakness and insecurity for the U.S. dollar. Like sharks in the water, global institutions are tracking the inability of the American political and business establishment and their global allies to manage the transition without excessive violence and scapegoating. Here is the historical chart for the U.S. Dollar Index—still in an upward trend while the U.S. dollar remains “dangerous, but dominant.”

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