{"id":324143,"date":"2026-03-05T06:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324143"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:59:52","slug":"catherine-austin-fitts-the-goal-is-to-depopulate-and-control-the-remnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324143","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Austin Fitts: \u2018The goal is to depopulate and control the remnant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter March 4, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Catherine Austin Fitts did a monumental interview with journalist Michael Yon just a couple of weeks ago that explains what the Iran war is all about.<\/p>\n

Fitts, a former deputy assistant secretary for Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush administration and who now runs her own financial advisory firm, resides in Tennessee but lives more than half the year in the Netherlands. She is quite skeptical about where the Trump administration is taking America with its focus on wars overseas and erecting a digital surveillance grid here at home.<\/p>\n

The Feb. 17 interview with Michael Yon<\/a><\/strong> took place two weeks before Trump launched his attack on Iran, but Fitts, like myself, already knew months ago that an attack was coming and could not be stopped even if Trump wanted to stop it. He is simply too controlled by his donors, who now own the White House and the Congress.<\/p>\n

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

The real reason for attacking Iran and trying to overthrow its regime has nothing to do with liberating the Iranian people or ridding the world of a dictatorship. Nor does it have anything to do with fighting Islam as so many conservatives foolishly believe. This war is being fought over who gets to control key shipping routes and resources (oil). Iran is positioned in a part of the world critical to both, and the fight for control of the emerging new digital economy precludes an Iranian regime that operates outside the Western global financial system, selling oil to China and India and selling drones to Russia, three countries the U.S. sees as rising competitors to its global hegemony.<\/p>\n

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

After pausing for a moment, she thought of a better word to describe what Trump is creating in America and what the Europeans are creating in the E.U.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a digital concentration camp,\u201d she said. \u201cPhysically and digitally designed for surveillance and control. What\u2019s happening in Netherlands is very similar to what\u2019s happening in US and North America. It\u2019s the implementation of a digital control grid.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said there are 12 steps to total control.<\/p>\n

\u201cA corral is being built around us. They\u2019ve been building three sides to the corral so it still feels free. But when a series of things happen with digital money, programmable money and AI, that snaps the fourth step into place and so you wake up in a state of total control.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people don\u2019t see it coming because there are many disparate parts,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The key thing you need for that fourth component to snap into place is you need a biometric digital ID that is \u201cvery precise and high quality, and therefore interoperable\u201d and globally recognized, she said.<\/p>\n

Two other components are a digital surveillance and tracking system, \u201cbasically trying to identify every person, what they do, where they\u2019re going, their behaviors, including spending habits.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is enormous pushback starting to take place across America as the unseen portions of the control grid become more visible. Trump\u2019s AI data centers, now being sited and built, are spurring the uproar in communities all over the country, as people realize these data centers will result in skyrocketing water and electric rates, while powering up the surveillance state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re putting in infrastructure at a very fast rate and it\u2019s becoming visible. Most of it has been invisible but there are visible aspects now that people can see,\u201d Fitts explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want many more telecom towers for 6G, then you have the AI data centers going in. The data centers are very important because of the massive amount of data input needed for this control grid. And we\u2019re seeing increasing local opposition because of the environmental demands of energy, water and land are so enormous. And then, thirdly, you have the cameras and drones to control movements from the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most people didn\u2019t see the grid forming, but now suddenly with the drones and the towers and the data centers, people can see it with their own eyes. It\u2019s become physical, tangible, and so you have the first signs of public pushback.<\/p>\n

Fitts described what she sees as the \u201ccoup de gras,\u201d the holy grail of the digital control grid. That\u2019s tokenized \u201cmoney\u201d that is not only digitalized but also programmable.<\/p>\n

This will take the form of a Central Bank Digital Currency in Europe. It will be Trump\u2019s privatized, government-approved crypto in the US. Both are the same in that they are programmable and on a block-chain ledger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re different but serve the same end,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fourth gate on the corral locks in when not only can they control your movements with tracking but now they can turn your money on or off. And do it at a very granular level,\u201d Fitts said. \u201cIt takes the control of fiscal policy out of the hands of the legislature and gives it to the bankers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Augustine Carstens, the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, stated in an address to the IMF on October 19, 2020, how and why the central bankers see CBDCs as key to their totalitarian agenda, and everything they say about greater inclusiveness, security and convenience is mere window dressing meant to propagandize people into supporting their own imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Watch Carstens make his audacious statement to the IMF in the video below:<\/p>\n