Imagine a world where every dollar you spend is tracked, your bank account can be frozen for a single tweet, and your ability to buy food depends on obeying the government's latest edict. This isn't science fiction, it's the future Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) could bring, according to Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Wall Street banker and Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush. In her interview with Tucker Carlson, Fitts warned that CBDCs are not just digital money but a "digital concentration camp" designed to monitor, control, and punish individuals with unprecedented precision. As central banks like the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) push this system globally, the stakes for personal freedom couldn't be higher. This blog piece exposes the CBDC threat and offers practical survival strategies to protect your financial sovereignty and resist the coming control grid.
Fitts, founder of The Solari Report, has been sounding the alarm on CBDCs for years, arguing they're the endgame of a long plan to turn currency into a control system. Unlike cash, which offers anonymity and freedom, CBDCs are fully digital, centralised, and trackable. As Fitts told Carlson, "What they're doing is converting a currency system into a control system. So it's really the end of currency." With AI and software, central banks can monitor every transaction, tailor restrictions to individuals, and enforce compliance through financial punishment. Think of the Canadian trucker protests in 2022, where bank accounts were frozen without due process for supporting a cause the government disliked. Fitts noted, "We cut off your money and we cut off your friends' money too."
The BIS, the "central bank of central banks" in Basel, Switzerland, is the puppet master. With 63 member banks, including the Federal Reserve, it operates with sovereign immunity and zero transparency, moving trillions without oversight. Fitts revealed that the BIS can "shift trillions between accounts that no court may audit," citing $21 trillion in "undocumentable adjustments" from U.S. budgets between 1998 and 2015. This secrecy fuels a system where money isn't yours, it's theirs to control. The CBDC dangers: transaction monitoring, fund confiscation, expiry dates, blacklisting, and social credit scores. This isn't about convenience; it's about power.
Where's the money going? Fitts claims much of the $21 trillion siphoned from U.S. budgets has funded a network of 170 underground bases and transportation systems, built in secret for undisclosed purposes. These could house top-secret programs, like advanced energy technologies, or prepare for catastrophic "extinction events" tied to geophysical risks, such as a solar minimum that disrupts agriculture and economies. Fitts, though not a climate expert, referenced historical cycles every 10,000–12,000 years that cause massive disasters, a concern Carlson confirmed through a well-informed source. While speculative, these claims suggest elites are planning for a future where control over resources, and people, is absolute.
The BIS's role amplifies this. Fitts described its general manager admitting on an IMF panel that the BIS sets rules for money and enforces them with technology, untouchable by law. This aligns with a broader agenda: the BIS aims for "complete control over what you spend your (their) money on". Whether it's underground bases or digital IDs like the UK's proposed "BritCard," the goal is a system where your financial life is a leash, and central bankers hold the end.
CBDCs are part of a larger technocratic push. Fitts points to rising chronic disease rates, driven by what she calls the "great poisoning," synthetic foods, EMFs, and processed carbs, that drain family budgets and productivity. Restoring health to 2010 levels could save $500 billion annually, per her research with economist Mark Skidmore. This health crisis, paired with financial control, keeps people weak and dependent. The UK's own slide into unfreedom, with its censorship of speech and absurd regulations like the 2024 chicken database, shows how far the control grid extends. When Brits crashed the database with fake entries like rubber chickens, it was a rare win against bureaucracy, but a reminder of how deep the state's reach has grown.
The global push for CBDCs, led by the BIS and echoed in places like China and Europe, is no coincidence. Fitts argues it's a decades-long plan to centralise power, dismantle small businesses (especially food producers), and lower the economic footprint of ordinary people.CBDCs will know everything you buy, everything you own and punish dissenters. This is the world Fitts fears: a digital prison where your home, car, and community are under constant surveillance, and one wrong move means financial ruin.
Fitts believes resistance is possible but requires effort. Her "Six Pillars of Wealth and Well-Being" offer a roadmap for building resilience against the CBDC control grid. Here are four she discussed with Carlson, plus additional strategies to reclaim your freedom:
1.Live a Free and Inspired Life: Craft a personal mission statement that no algorithm can override. Post it where you'll see it daily, your fridge, your desk. Fitts emphasises, "Everybody's unique and in a decentralised world, everybody is unique. There's no formula." This anchors you against propaganda pushing digital control.
2.Use Navigation Tools: Know the difference between "official reality" (government narratives) and actual reality. Map local food sources, who grows vegetables, who sells raw milk? Note cash policies and prices. Apply this to money: withdraw small bills weekly, keep some at home, and use cash whenever possible to preserve transaction privacy. Fitts warns, "Don't use the official reality to manage your time and money because then you're going to get hurt". Use cash to resist CBDC surveillance.
3.Prioritise Risk Management: Reduce financial vulnerabilities like debt. Pay off credit cards, student loans, or mortgages as fast as you can. Fitts stresses, "In this kind of dangerous environment, everything's about keeping your risk down". This detaches you from a system that can freeze your accounts for non-compliance.
4.Build Living Equity: Cultivate real-world connections with like-minded people. Join freedom groups, like us, to find your tribe. Strong community networks are your safety net when digital systems fail. Fitts calls this "the Turtle Fourth, never quitting" and warns against falling for the "hopelessness" pushed by elites.
5.Invest in Real Assets: Move away from digital wealth. Fitts is bullish on tangible assets like beef over gold: "You put gold in a vault, it doesn't grow. You put cows in a field… and they multiply". Build relationships with local farmers or ranchers to secure food supply chains. Grow a garden to reduce reliance on corporate food systems. These steps protect against inflation and supply chain disruptions.
6.Engage Politically: Contact state legislators to push for independent payment systems, like state banks, to counter federal/Commonwealth CBDC plans. Grassroots pressure can slow the control grid's rollout.
7.Develop Practical Skills: Learn to repair, grow, or build something tangible. Skills like gardening, canning, or basic carpentry reduce dependence on centralised systems. Relocate to rural areas if possible, where off-grid food and water access is easier, and communities are tighter-knit.
If CBDCs take hold, the consequences are stark:
Total Surveillance: Every transaction will be tracked, with AI tailoring restrictions to your behaviour, as Fitts warned.
Financial Slavery: Governments could impose expiry dates on funds, confiscate money, or tie access to social credit scores.
Loss of Sovereignty: The BIS's unchecked power could override national laws, leaving citizens at the mercy of unelected bankers.
Economic Collapse: Small businesses and food producers, already targeted, could vanish, leaving monopolies in control.
But resistance is growing. The UK's chicken database revolt showed people can disrupt absurd systems with humour and defiance. Fitts' call to action, build wealth, health, and community, offers hope if we act now.
In conclusion, Central Bank Digital Currencies aren't just a new form of money, they're a weapon to control your life, from what you buy to what you say. Catherine Austin Fitts' warnings, backed by her decades in finance and government, reveal a chilling plan: $21 trillion siphoned to secret projects, untouchable banks like the BIS pulling the strings, and a digital grid that could enslave us all. But we're not powerless. By using cash, building local networks, reducing debt, investing in real assets, and pushing back politically, we can resist the control grid.