Catherine Austin Fitts

Something Big Is Moving in the Shadows

Written By: Bethann Chambers

The Control Grid is Real - What Will Our Future Look Like?

In a world where financial markets are increasingly opaque, where institutions grow more powerful but less accountable, Catherine Austin Fitts continues to speak the kind of truth that makes some people squirm. Her latest interview, this time with Danny Jones, is arguably one of her most compelling that I have seen. If her conversation with Tucker Carlson was a wake-up call, this one goes even deeper.

Fitts, a former investment banker and Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H. W. Bush, doesn’t just point fingers, she lays out, in calm and precise terms, how a global financial coup has been underway for decades. Her message is simple but unsettling: the global economy is being hollowed out by design. This isn’t about market cycles or geopolitical “bad luck.” It’s about systematic looting, aided and abetted by complicit institutions and protected by a fog of technocratic complexity that makes real accountability almost impossible.

What makes this interview so powerful is Fitts’ clarity. She’s relaxed, focused, and often softly-spoken, but her words are razor sharp. She explains how trillions of dollars have gone missing from government accounts, trillions. And that money, she argues, is not just vanishing into black holes. It’s being funneled into hidden infrastructures that are reshaping the world: underground bases, advanced technologies, and a digital surveillance grid that threatens to imprison humanity in an invisible cage.

Towards the end of the interview she mentions Dr. Joseph P. Farrell, a name you won’t hear on mainstream media. Farrell, a Rhodes scholar and prolific writer, is best known for his research into what he calls “breakaway civilizations”, elite groups operating with advanced knowledge and off-the-books budgets, who may have developed technologies far beyond what is publicly acknowledged. Fitts doesn’t just mention Farrell in passing, she says they are good friends. She praises him as a real scholar, not a fringe theorist, and says his work is essential to understanding the depth of the corruption we face.

Farrell’s work dovetails with hers in a chilling way. If there really are breakaway factions, groups that have siphoned off wealth, technology, and institutional control over generations—then what we are facing is not just corruption. It is a whole parallel civilization, evolving without consent, oversight, or transparency. In that context, the move toward Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), biometric surveillance, and behavioral control isn’t just policy, it’s the architecture of a prison. What Fitts affirms is chilling: this is not speculative fiction. It’s a shadow reality sustained by secrecy, black budgets, and the manipulation of belief itself. We are being herded into a control grid, and it is being sold to us as progress.

But this is where her message diverges from despair. Fitts is not an alarmist for alarm’s sake. She believes in solutions rooted in individual agency, community resilience, and local economics. She urges people to pull their money out of big banks, support local food systems, get to know their neighbors, and most importantly, pay attention. The control grid only works if we participate in it blindly.

What Fitts sees, and what she wants us to see, is that our predicament is not just economic, it is deeply spiritual. A battle is unfolding between those who would reduce humanity to data and property, and those who still remember we are made in the image of something higher.

Yet despite the heaviness of the message, Fitts offers a way forward. She speaks of spiritual sovereignty, of returning to what is local, personal, and rooted in love rather than fear. She invites us to reclaim our money, our health, our food, and our communities. To look up from the digital haze and ask: What am I serving? Who do I trust? What kind of world am I helping to build?

In a time of mounting distractions and disinformation, voices like Fitts’ are rare. She blends financial expertise with a moral clarity that is increasingly hard to find in public discourse. This interview is not just worth watching, it’s essential.

If you would like to know more about Catherine Fitts and her financial company, go to Solari.com

You can find books written by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell on Amazon. The San Diego County Library did not have any of Joseph P. Farrell’s 49 books. However, I was able to find a few of his books through the Link+ Collection - the interlibrary lending system, but it was very difficult to find them. At first none of them showed up when I searched, but later on several were listed but some were not available to borrow. I feel like there are control systems in place that do not want people to discover his writings.

The following interview with Danny Jones, and Catherine Austin Fitts has been taken apart and made into a countless number of short videos reposted on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. It’s a powerful interview!

If you didn’t see my previous article with Catherine Austin Fitts and Tucker Carlson, that interview was also very good.

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