52 The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part Two First, even though the mortgage bubble had burst, mortgage servicing fraud kept going strong. At one point it was so bad that one popular financial blogger wrote a post, “If this is true, kaboom!” His post started with, “Catherine Austin Fitts has been saying this for a long time….” He then proceeded to describe the extraordinary levels of mortgage servicing fraud and the possibility that the collateral fraud was as significant as I had been saying. His post was quite insightful and fun- ny. I linked to it and sent him an invitation to join me on The Solari Report. He took the post down and never replied to my invitation. Shortly thereafter, I drove over to Franklin Sanders’ office at The Moneychanger to record the next precious metals market report for The Solari Report. I remarked to him how surprising it was that it had taken this blogger over ten years to figure out that the collateral fraud was as bad as I said. After all, when the bailouts of a mortgage bubble require an amount greater than 300% of the outstanding single-family residential mortgages in the United States, you know there is a collateral fraud problem. To my amazement, Franklin confessed that he had not believed me either. I was shocked that he had not asked me to unpack the issues with him as we worked together for many years. I would have thought the process of helping him understand why I knew what I knew would be helpful to both of our analyses. I started to talk it through with him and realized that Franklin could not fathom the extent of the financial coup—in part because he did not understand the impact of covert surveillance and operations in our day-to-day life and how the control systems work. He had not worked in Wash- ington or on Wall Street and did not have a background on how this much worthless mortgage and fixed income paper could be kept afloat. Good men struggled to see and understand what had become a parallel universe—some people were calling it a “breakaway civilization.” It reminded me of the time Franklin could not understand his neighbors’ reluctance to object to government policies at a local meeting. Franklin lives in a very rural part of Tennessee, so I got him online and showed him the agricultural subsidy database (see EWG Farm Subsidy Database at https://farm.ewg.org) and other online systems (the best of which have been taken private, except for the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compre- hensive_annual_financial_report). They documented the extent to which his neighbors and his county were all receiving significant subsidy from the U.S. government. He was stunned. I know I had explained this many times, but he needed to see the hard data on his county and specific neigh- bors active in farming. I am not picking on Franklin—to this day, it is at most one in a thousand who will take a few hours and dig into the publicly available information of how the money works around them in their town, county, and state, or spend time dealing with local budgets. It was one of those times when I was reminded that there would be very few people in the wil- derness who could or would help me. I would simply need to keep sticking to the truth as best I could see or estimate it and understand that good people could not fathom the invisible invasion that digital technology and AI made possible and that was underway. The hardest thing to do is look in the mirror and say, “I’m the patsy.” I had to do it to stay alive. I could see why others not under life-and-death pressure would avoid doing so. A second indication that the financial coup d’état had succeeded was that fear porn messaging escalated to distract people from paying attention and those who became hooked on it continu- ally were disappointed when the collapse never came. Fear porn is media that encourages people