Catherine’s Money & Markets Report: May 9, 2019

~ Raw audios will post late on the evening of Thursday, May 9 – final audios and chapters will post on Friday, May 10 ~

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Theme:

Listening to the Drumbeats of War from the Other Side of the World
– Attacking on 3 or more fronts at once: Can this work?

China’s Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing end of April expands scope – from infrastructure to services, technology (Read 5G?) and international governance
Chinese railroads continue to build out connecting up the Europe-Asia-Africa land empire
WSJ – Debt renegotiations do not support theory that China playing a predatory lender game on One Belt
US Iranian oil sanctions bite China, India
Asian finance ministers increase swap capacity; lessen dollar dependence
US-China Trade Talks Continue, on sour note
US announce increase in tariffs; China refuses IP details and enforcement – suprises USTR and Mnuchin
Putin gives go ahead on Moscow St Pete high speed rail design

Iran gives Nuclear Deal Signatories 60 Days to Protect Against US Sanctions or it will resume high level uranium enrichment; EU rejects ultimatum but affirms creation of separate payment mechanism

More US capacity sails and flies to Persian Gulf

Societies who live in “objective based realities” rejecting Empire “make our own reality” – “Americans can not make and keep a deal”

Stories:

Europe:

EU Elections and Brexit Rangling
FT: Dutch finance minister Wopke Hoekstra – EU risks implosion – anti-technocracy backlash – Norway + Switzerland not joining EU and Sweden and Denmark not joining euro and Brits are leaving.
Suspicious Notre Dame 2016 Real Estate Proposal

US:

Democratic Terror & the Attack on Barr signal serious criminal liabilities may be uncovered by investigation of Russian dossier funded by FBI and Clinton campaign
WSJ Poll – 17% if Americans want Congress to begin impeachment; 48% move; 32% keep investigating.
The ninth circuit federal appeals court rules with US administration – can continue returning migrants to Mexico while requests for asylum are adjudicated.
Moore’s editorial – My Brush With Personal Destruction
Chevron bows out of Occidental Bidding War for Anadarko and its Permian Basin assets
Rise in mainstream coverage of UFOs – What is this about?

Hero:

Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson for exercising Truth in Labeling Laws regarding lab grown meat

Let’s Go to the Movies:

Gaslight

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