34 The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part Two 9/11 trillions: Follow the money https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-308-911-trillions-follow-the-money/ Working with a firm in London, I published a series of articles about the financial coup d’état underway. This was also part of presentations I made to members of the investment community and global citizens in Europe and Asia during this period. Many years later, in 2009, I told the story of my first presentation in London after 9/11. Financial Coup d’Etat By Catherine Austin Fitts In the fall of 2001 I attended a private investment conference in London to give a paper, “The Myth of the Rule of Law or How the Money Works: The Destruction of Hamilton Securities Group.” The presentation documented my experience with a Washington-Wall Street part- nership that had: · Engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble; · Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.; · Used “privatization” as a form of piracy—a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder. Other presenters at the conference included distinguished reporters covering privat- ization in Eastern Europe and Russia. As the portraits of British ancestors stared down upon us, we listened to story after story of global privatization throughout the 1990s in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Slowly, as the pieces fit together, we shared a horrifying epiphany: the banks, corpo- rations, and investors acting in each global region were the exact same players. They were a relatively small group that reappeared again and again in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Asia accompanied by the same well-known accounting firms and law firms. Clearly, there was a global financial coup d’état underway. The magnitude of what was happening was overwhelming. In the 1990s, millions of people in Russia had woken up to find their bank accounts and pension funds simply gone—eradicated by a falling currency or stolen by mobsters who laundered money back into big New York Fed member banks for reinvestment to fuel the debt bubble. Reports of politicians, government officials, academics, and intelligence agencies facilitating the racketeering and theft were compelling. One lawyer in Russia, living without electricity and growing food to prevent starvation, was quoted as saying, “We are being de-modernized.”