91 Promoting Women Clearly, a decision has been made at the highest levels to promote women in the post-financial coup d’État world. The new Fed chairperson is a woman. The head of the IMF is a woman. The heads of General Motors and IBM are women. For heaven’s sake, the mayor of Paris is a woman. The airwaves are full of the lessons learned by a high-ranking female Facebook executive who, until Edward Snowden came along, may not have under- stood the business she was in. The latest Vanity Fair magazine has a photo shoot of women leaders – one of hundreds of “puff” pieces in major media over the last few months. • Commentary: Promoting Women • Promoting Women Part I • Promoting Women Part II • Promoting Women Part III • Promoting Women Part IV • Promoting Women Part V • Promoting Women Part VI • Promoting Women Part VII • Dressing Fascism in Skirts Re-Balancing the Global Economy The Uruguay Round of the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) spanned from 1986 to 1994 and led to the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, with GATT remaining as an integral part of the WTO agreements. This process re- sulted in a significant liberalization of the flow of capital globally at the same time that the fall of the Soviet Union inspired Russia, Eastern Europe, and China to create equity markets and more market-oriented economies. • Video: Sir James Goldsmith’s 1994 Globalization Warning • Solari Report: Annual Wrap Up 2014: Planet Equity In one sense, this re-balancing was facilitated by global satellite systems that lowered the cost of surveillance and enforcement of global investment protocols. The Red Button In the summer of 2000, I asked a group of 100 people at a conference of spiritually commit- ted people “Who among us would push a red button if it would immediately stop all narcot- ics trafficking in our neighborhood, city, state, and country?” Of the 100 people, 99 replied that they would not push such red button. When questioned, they explained that they did not want the value of their mutual funds to drop if the U.S. financial system suddenly stopped attracting an estimated $500 bil- lion-$1 trillion a year in global money laun- dering. They did not want their government checks jeopardized or their taxes raised because of problems resulting from the financing of the federal government deficit. • The Red Button Problem • The Red Button Story The Shift from Global 2.0 to Global 3.0 Integration of new digital communications and information technology – much of it transferred out of black budget research and operations – is moving us from an industrial economy (Global 2.0) to a networked economy (Global 3.0). As this integration occurs, we are seeing a significant gap in learning metabolism and economic growth between the old and the new economies. • Solari Report: Annual Wrap Up 2013: Breakaway 2014 • Solari Report: 1st Quarter Wrap Up 2014: Reorganizing the Global Consumer Reorga- nizing the Global Consumer • Solari Report: 3rd Quarter Wrap Up 2014: Global 3.0 The Shriek-O-Meter The Shriek-O-Meter has primarily been de- signed to prevent an intelligent discussion of the US Federal Budget. In 2014, the Republi- cans won the Senate using the Ebola Shriek-O- Meter. As a result, the Shriek-O-Meter was one of our top stories that year. In 2017, the Shriek- O-Meter has intensified as it shrieks about Solari Report the BY CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS / 2016 ANNUAL WRAP UP VOLUME 2017 / NUMBER ONE WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR US TO PUSH THE RED BUTTON? 1 BREAKAWAY 2014 The Solari Report