Miles Franklin Media – YouTube, Released on 6/22/26

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief of Miles Franklin Media, speaks with Catherine Austin Fitts, Publisher of The Solari Report, about what Fitts warns could become a “digital slavery system” built around programmable money, digital ID, AI, surveillance, and financial control. Fitts argues that while much of the debate has focused on CBDCs, the bigger threat may come through stablecoins, tokenized bank deposits, and distributed ledger systems that could allow money to be tracked, blocked, frozen, or controlled. She explains why she believes the digital control grid could be just years away, why the anti-CBDC debate may offer false comfort, and why cash, analog systems, and physical gold remain critical tools for preserving freedom.

(Timestamps are below the video)

00:00 Coming Up
02:13 Introduction
04:06 What Is the Control Grid
08:55 Central Banker Admits It
11:19 Stablecoins Over CBDCs
14:57 Programmable Money Explained
19:49 CBDCs
27:13 What Stablecoins Are
32:10 Keeping Cash and Guardrails
42:31 Why Cash Still Matters
51:02 Is It All By Design
54:20 Oligarch Plan
56:32 Who Runs the System
57:16 Financing the Control Grid
58:43 WEF and the Great Reset
01:05:30 Stablecoins Drain Local Economies
01:06:52 UBI as the Carrot
01:16:08 Food Control and Community Money
01:17:51 Bitcoin as Prototype
01:23:02 Dollar Hegemony via Stablecoins
01:33:24 Five Year Outlook
01:38:23 Gold Cash and Asset Protection
01:44:43 Final Warning and Hope
01:46:20 Where to Learn More

Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street investment banker, macroeconomic expert and publisher of The Solari Report.

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