Health & Fitness

This article was previously published January 24, 2021, and has been updated with new information.

In this interview, Dr. Peter Martone, a Boston-based chiropractor and physiologist, shares some incredibly important techniques that can help you achieve proper cervical posture while sleeping, as well as other strategies to help prevent degenerative disc disease.

About 10 years ago, when we first met at an event, Martone pointed out I had problems in my cervical spine. I ended up going to see him for a proper diagnosis. Digital X-rays revealed degeneration in the fifth and sixth vertebrae. Martone prescribed a set of home treatments that I've been doing ever since. He describes what motivated him to, in part, reinvent how he looks at chiropractic:

"I was … invited to Harvard Medical School to give continuing education credits for their M.D.s. I was young in practice … I knew a lot about chiropractic at that time. I knew about the structure. I just didn't know how to communicate it well. So … I got tore apart. It was a great learning experience for me.

From that point on, I said, 'You know what? I need to dive in … I need to find anchors where you can't argue. It's almost like gravity. If you drop something, it's going to fall, that's a law. So, I started thinking about laws. How does the body work?

The righting reflex: Your body follows where your eyes go. Wolff's law: If you don't use it, you lose it. Davis's law: If you don't stress the tissue, you lose the tissue. Thinking in these ways, I started seeing contradiction in all my studies.

So, exercise physiology would contradict the law of saying that muscles are the problem. Then it would contradict a chiropractic [law] saying you just need to mobilize. I started to put this philosophy, this understanding, together … and I started seeing patterns.

The more I started opening up my eyes to new patterns, the more I started understanding them, and I've been in practice now for 20 years and done over 750,000 adjustments, and I really believe in the [strategies] I share."

What Causes Degeneration?

"Use it or lose it" is one of the adages that apply to your physical body, both muscles and bones. If you don't use a joint for a long time, degeneration sets in. As noted by Martone, "your body adapts to the consistent stresses placed on it over a long period of time."

How then do you regenerate that degeneration? It stands to reason that if lack of motion has caused degeneration of a joint, restoring motion causes regeneration. By looking at a person's X-rays, Martone is able to pinpoint how long the damage has been accruing, which will then give him an idea of how to "backtrack" and undo the damage based on the various laws governing physiology.

"The way I explain it is, the more scar tissue you have in your spine, your spine becomes like hardened clay. What chiropractic adjustment does, it basically takes your clay and it dumps it in water.

Now that clay can become more moldable, but if you expose your clay to the same molds or the same lifestyle patterns, you're just going to reinforce the same old patterns.

That is why you need to couple chiropractic care with some [other] therapy … and then you need to change the pattern that caused the problem to begin with. I believe most patterns can be changed at night while you sleep. You can actually improve your posture while you sleep," Martone says.

How Cervical Curvature Is Damaged

Martone has developed a hybrid approach involving exercise and chiropractic adjustments to regain ideal cervical curvature, improve disc height and help resolve degeneration over time. Martone struggled with chronic back pain for about 15 years, then herniated L5 about five years ago in a mountain biking injury. His own recovery led him to understand how your sleeping position can influence your recovery and regeneration.

After reviewing 2,000 X-rays, he discovered a pattern previously unmentioned in the literature. He concluded that his own longstanding back problems were not due to extreme sports; rather, the problem originated in his neck.

"My back problem didn't come from my lower back. My back problem came from my neck, and then because of forward head posture, I picked up a curve in my lower back due to … the psoas major muscle.

It basically happens like this: If you lose the curve in your cervical spine … [you get] scoliosis in the lower back. [It's] compensatory, with the psoas major muscle [going into] spasm … The only muscle in the human body that attaches directly to a disc is the psoas major muscle.

So, the body innervates that psoas major muscle, curving that spine to take pressure off the atlas because of forward head posture. The atlas is the first cervical vertebra.

I was sleeping on my back, but I wasn't using the pillow in the right way. I had forward head posture, and I had that lower back rotation due to that psoas compensation, that psoas major muscle spasm."

In summary, when your head comes forward, your body compensates. Your psoas major muscle goes into spasm, which rotates your pelvis. The psoas major is made up of a series of overlapping fascicles or bundles of fibers that connect bilaterally to your lumbar intervertebral discs.

The spasms weaken the particular disc the psoas major is attached to, thereby allowing it to herniate. Also, because your head is in a forward position, your body loses proprioception — balance and awareness in space — which causes your spine to curve.

Your head weighs about 15 pounds, and when your head is forward, with your chin jutting out, it places enormous stress on your neck, which then contributes to arthritic changes. It also decreases cerebrospinal fluid flow.

What's the Solution?

Part of Martone's solution was to figure out how to properly support his cervical spine while sleeping. Initially, he came up with a novel way to do that using a down pillow to support his neck, not his head. Chiropractic adjustments are also important, as this will encourage your body to replenish the water in the degenerated disc, thereby increasing the space between the vertebra. Martone explains:

"When you start adjusting, the body says, 'Holy mackerel. You're going to start using this joint again?' So, it pulls water back into the joint. What ends up happening is like taking a raisin and dropping it in water. The raisin is going to swell. It's not going to come back to a grape, but you still can get space back.

So, through regular chiropractic adjustments you … create an unstable environment and then the body responds by creating stability. It will rebuild the joint space over a period of time. In about six months you can see a visible change on the X-ray."

A third strategy that is really important is working on restoring your balance. As mentioned, when your head is in forward position, you lose proprioception, which in turn ends up atrophying a portion of your brain called the vermis.

"One of the functions of your vermis is to build the prefrontal cortex, which is all your thoughts, your focus, your executive functioning," Martone explains. "I've worked with many kids with ADD and ADHD. I have it myself. One of the things I worked on to be able to focus was to improve my balance.

By improving balance, you are actually able to focus, you will forget less, and your brain will have more acuity. You'll have a sharper brain. When your head starts to come forward and you restrict that proprioceptive sense into the brain, you start to degenerate your vermis and you start to lose focus.

So, we find with our patients, when we start to restore that curve and put them on what's called a wobble board, we can improve their balance. It's critically important to being able to restore cognitive functioning and restore functionality in the spine by improving your balance. One of the single most important exercises I believe somebody can do is work on their balance."

Weight Distribution

Your bilateral weight distribution also plays a role in your spinal curvature and health. Martone uses two scales during his initial evaluation to ascertain whether the patient is distributing their weight more onto the right or left foot.

Your body follows where your eyes go. So, if you lean your head to one side, you're going to put more weight on that side. If you have damage in your neck, cervical spine or any part of the atlas, scar tissue may be holding your head to one side or the other, causing you to lean and have uneven weight distribution. This too will cause your spine to curve in order to keep your head straight.

"Let's say you weigh 100 pounds. When you put one foot on one scale and one foot on the other, you should have 50 pounds of weight on one side, 50 pounds of weight on the other side.

I see people 20 pounds off, 30 pounds off, 40 pounds off to one side. It makes a huge difference in knee pain, in ankle pain, in plantar fasciitis. It's mind-blowing when I see that imbalance. I can just look at people now and see that imbalance."

The Rationale for Sleeping on Your Back

Martone believes it is critically important to sleep on your back in a neutral sleeping position. However, there are a large number of people whose airway will close during the night. This can easily be prevented by applying paper tape over your lips before you go to sleep. I have been doing this for a few years now and is part of my night time ritual. He explains:

"If you have pain, you're going to toss and turn all night long … because your body weight needs to be distributed over the greatest surface area. So, what I tell my patients is 'You have to fall asleep with the end in mind.' If you want better sleep, more restful sleep, wake up well rested and in no pain, you have to begin with the end in mind.

You give me a side sleep, I'm going to give you a shoulder problem … a hip problem, because you're starting twisted, and I don't care how much support you have, I don't care how much your hips fall into the bed. We are creating these beds to put us in these horrible positions and it's making our spines so much worse.

We want to be able to reverse the damaging effect of our modern-day lifestyle. If we're going to be on a computer all day with forward head posture, and then we're going to be texting all day, we have to do that at some point in time. So, to compensate for that, I suggest falling asleep … on your back.

When you fall asleep on your back, you're naturally going to have an arch in your lower back, so you do not have to support that. But your neck — you want to put a support under your neck so you can arch your neck back …

The only way to bring the head back is to stretch it back, and you do that at night using … a soft support … not hard, not firm, because you're only supporting 3 inches from your bed to the base of your neck. So, you put something under your neck, you arch your neck back, you keep your arms down by your side, and then you lie in that flat position."

The Neck Nest

You know you're in the correct position when your eyes are looking straight up toward the ceiling and your chin is pointed up to the ceiling as well. Martone eventually developed Neck Nest¹ — a special pillow designed to provide ideal support for the cervical spine. When used in conjunction with other treatment strategies, it's been shown to restore the natural 45-degree angle in the neck.

"The lifestyle habit is this: You put a pillow underneath your neck, and you fall asleep like that, whether it's 45 minutes, an hour, two hours, just start with whatever you can do.

Do that every single night because one night it might be an hour, the second night might be an hour and 10 minutes, but eventually you get to three hours, and that's three hours of your neck in traction. You're going to get a little stiff, but your neck is stretching back. You have to understand that when the structure of your spine is changing, it's not always comfortable.

So, when you start to adopt the back-sleeping position, don't get frustrated saying, 'I only did it for 15 minutes last night. I couldn't fall asleep like that.' We have so many different techniques to be able to help you fall asleep on your back and stay on your back for at least an hour or two a night at the beginning …

Many [support pillows] are hard substances and they support your head too much. Your head is 15 pounds. You want to use that as a weight and use the pillow as a fulcrum to be able to get that neck support and that actual change in the cervical curve … The spinal biomechanics in maintaining a healthy spine is critically important in maintaining overall health and well-being …

The Neck Nest has been out for over a year. I took a bunch of X-rays on patients when they first started [using the pillow] and then I have six-month follow-up X-rays, a year follow-up X-rays. We're getting so much improvement in the cervical spine by using a Neck Nest. They're sleeping better, they're sleeping deeper.

I have people that are monitoring their sleep. Their sleep scores are getting better, and their sleep scores are getting better because they're getting more restful sleep. The reason we toss and turn in the middle of the night is because our body typically is uncomfortable, or in a way shut down.

To get a more restful sleep, you start with the end in mind and you put your body in a neutral sleeping position. You support the cervical curve in the neck, you lie flat."

Cervical Traction Units and Weighted Headbands

Martone also likes to integrate the use of cervical traction units that you can put over your door. I've been using such a device for a few years now, and it seems to have a powerful synergy with the nighttime passive traction. Martone explains the purpose for active cervical traction:

"It's like a jelly doughnut analogy. If you take a doughnut and squeeze it, the jelly comes out. If you pull it apart, it will pull the jelly back inside by creating a negative pressure in the disc …

If you have degeneration and your major focus is to rehydrate the disc, your body will only rehydrate the disc based on a certain tension threshold, and when you pull the cervical spine apart … you can cross that barrier and get more hydration to the disc."

Another device that is widely recommended is the use of a weighted headband that you wear. As you lean your head to one side, you stimulate and strengthen the muscles on the opposite side. I've been doing this for a few years as well, and my X-rays show a fairly significant improvement.

It's important to note that I was never symptomatic. I had no neuropathies, no nerve tingling or pain, but it's key to address any abnormality as early as possible. The earlier you address it, ideally before you have symptoms, the more likely you are to resolve it at a deep fundamental level.

Again, ideally, you'd want to hit it from several angles, getting regular chiropractic adjustments, sleeping on your back with proper cervical support, and using a cervical traction device. As explained by Martone:

"All of it together is good. What the adjustment can do, and what's critical, is it can take your spine, your hardened clay, and it can dump it in water. Now it becomes more moldable. You're going to get the most amount of distraction and you're going to get the most amount of improvement when you get the adjustment.

You can do it without the adjustment. You just won't get as much improvement and you won't get improvement in the disc space. You'll get improvement in the curve, but you won't open up the space. You need to restore the motion intrasegmentally."

More Information

In our interview, we also review a number of ways you can improve your sleep more generally, aside from sleeping on your back, so for more details, be sure to listen to it in its entirety.

If you're committed to improving your sleep and cervical spine, consider getting Martone's Neck Nest pillow. On his site, you'll also find X-ray images of patients before and after using the Neck Nest pillow, showing visible improvement in their cervical spine curvature.

Again, early diagnosis is important, since it gives you much more time to counteract the damage taking place. Had Martone not diagnosed my problem, which I had no idea I had, it would have continued to degenerate, causing problems in my later years.

As noted by Martone, you cannot degenerate and regenerate at the same time. You're going one way or the other. Had I not taken action to regenerate my cervical spine, it eventually would have fused, Martone says. Fusion, in turn, results in lack of motion, nerve compression and atrophy of the central nervous system.

And, since each nerve goes somewhere, a range of effects can take place. Perhaps it affects your thyroid gland or throat. Tingling in the fingers can occur, or weakness in your arm. Once you have bone-on-bone fusion, there's very little you can do to restore your function. So, truly, prevention is the name of the game here. It's so key, which is why I'm excited to share Martone's knowledge with you.

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Typically, my conversations with experts about the COVID pandemic revolve around the infection and its treatment. Today’s interview with finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts will tackle the COVID topic from a different angle.

Austin Fitts has spent decades exposing corruption and fraud, both within the banking industry and government, and corruption and fraud are driving forces in the COVID pandemic as well.

“I had a very successful career on Wall Street, then went to Washington briefly and was appalled at the mortgage corruption and left,” she says. “I started my own firm, which was very successful, and I got caught up in litigation with the federal government.

Part of that was due to discovering what a criminal enterprise the major media was. I decided during that period that I would stop trying to discuss anything with people through the media. In fact, I would just answer people's questions directly. That process of just constantly answering people's questions … turned into two businesses, one of which was an investment advisory business, started in 2007.

I discovered that many of the financial problems and many of the financial challenges that my clients were facing really were generated by health, including many of them from vaccine injury and vaccine adverse events. I'm no longer an investment adviser … I don't do individual investment advice.

But what I discovered was that it was absolutely imperative, if you wanted to help clients be successful at building family wealth, to integrate the investment in health and wellness with the investment in financial things. I would have people tell me that they put millions of dollars in their brokerage account, but couldn't afford organic or biodynamic food.

I'm like, are you crazy? So, there was an integration that had to happen. Because of the extraordinary expense of vaccine injury and adverse events, it got me very interested in vaccines. I spent many years reading and studying what was going on and why the lies were so bad.”

According to Austin Fitts, your health and personal finances simply cannot be separated. The two are really like two sides of the same coin, and families who don’t learn to navigate through the lies of the medical and finance industries can end up in very bad shape, both health-wise and financially.

The Injection Fraud

One of the most egregious crimes of this pandemic is the mandating of these experimental COVID jabs while simultaneously giving the drug companies full immunity. They’re not liable for anything, no matter how many people are injured or die. A person can be forced into taking this injection and suffer permanent disability requiring millions of dollars of care, and the patient is responsible for all these costs, even though they were coerced into it.

“Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic I published an article called ‘The Injection Fraud,’¹” Austin Fitts says, “and I went through the different liability issues.

The goal of the COVID-19 forms that we've published on our website is to try and move the liability back to where it belongs, because you're watching a shift of billions of dollars of liability to families for health care, disability, workman's compensation, unemployment, death and on and on. The shift of financial liabilities to individuals is extraordinary.

What we try to do with the COVID-19 forms is give individuals forms that they could use in negotiation with their employers and schools to try and hold them responsible for informed consent … Then it walks through the health care issues, the disability issues, workman comp issues, life insurance issues …

That process started with something called the family financial disclosure form. We had many subscribers who had spouses who wanted to get the injection.

It was very important for me to give people a form they could walk through with their spouse and ensure that an adverse event impacting the spouse would not translate into bankruptcy for the family because there are steps that people can take to protect the family from financial destruction if they're foolish enough to go take one of these [shots].

So, it started with the family financial form, then it translated into an employer and university form, and I have been told by subscribers that they were able to talk their employers out of requiring [the shot] once they went through the form with them.

It's incredible, because employers and universities are just flat out lying to people, whether it's about the adverse events and the potential risks, or about what the law is.

I dare any employer who is trying to say that they're mandating this when they're still under emergency use authorization to produce a document from government, whether legislation, law or regulation, that says they have a basis in law to do this. As far as I know, OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] has not published anything yet.”

Is There Conspiracy Blackmail Going On?

While I believe many employers and school administrators are simply ignorant and have fallen victim to the most successful propaganda campaign in modern history, Austin Fitts suspects they know exactly what they’re doing.

“I don't think it's the propaganda,” she says. “I think they're under terrible pressure from both the government and banks ... I think there's RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] conspiracy blackmail going on behind the scenes.

I think they do understand it. And, I think they're being seriously threatened through the banking system. If you look at the strongest pressure we're seeing, it's coming from the central bankers and the financial side.

I've spent a lot of time with the Doctors for COVID Ethics over the last year, learning about what those doctors and scientists know, what's in this [COVID shot] and what it does. There’s a whole portion of the ingredients that we still don't know what they are.

And, I dare say, I believe it's connected to why the central bankers are pushing so hard. I think these guys are really depending on the smart grid and creepy technology to help them go to the last steps of financial control, which is what I think they're pushing for.”

Only One Choice Remains: Slavery or Freedom

To prevent the final implementation of this planned control system, we must be ready and willing to sacrifice in the short term. Everyone must be willing to say, "No, I will not comply, no matter what the consequence, whether if you take away my pension, if you fire me, if you discredit me and I can never work again in my profession." That’s what it's going to take to keep even our most basic freedoms.

As noted by Austin Fitts:

“It is slavery or freedom. If you look at what they're planning, what they're shooting for, it’s a complete financial and technological control grid. That is slavery. I mean, when the World Economic Forum says it's 2030 and you have no assets, what is it about that that's not clear? You have no assets means you're a slave.”

According to federal statistics in the U.S., the wealth of the bottom half of the population has increased during the pandemic due to housing inflation. “I assure you, that is a ruse,” Austin Fitts says. With respect to liquid assets, somewhere in the neighborhood of 70% to 80% of Americans have virtually no reserve stores of cash at all. 

“That's because what we've seen is a tremendous effort to … bankrupt the population and the governments so that it's much easier for the central bankers to take control. That's what I've been writing about since 1998, that this is a financial coup d'etat.

Now the financial coup d'etat is being consolidated, where the central bankers just serve jurisdiction over the treasury and the tax money. And if they can get the passports in with the CBDC [central bank digital currency], then it will be able to take taxes out of our accounts and take our assets.

So, this is a real coup d'etat, and that's why if you look broadly at the population, we are the guys who are building the prison. We have the power to stop.”

Why We Must Reject Vaccine Passports

I suspect CBDCs are the crux of this plot, and I'm a firm believer that decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are a powerful alternative and important to counter the central bank control of the financial system. Austin Fitts disagrees, pointing out that all cryptocurrencies operate on systems controlled by the existing system of governance.

“I believe that any blockchain technology under the current governance system is a danger,” she says. “Having litigated with the Department of Justice for 11 years over financial issues and money issues, I think they have the ability to exercise remarkable control over any of them … I mean, they control the hardware, the satellites, the cables … And many people believe the current cryptos are much more private than I believe they are.”

While government does not control private keys and decentralized elements, they still have plenty of ways to get to the private data of targeted individuals. “I've watched lots of people get subpoenas and have the FBI arrive at their door, and it's amazing what they will hand over and go along with,” Austin Fitts says. In short, government’s ability to deliver on a threat when they want something from you is profound, which makes it near-impossible to resist.

“Now, I still believe we have the power to completely turn this around,” she says. “I want to mention one thing though, because the important thing, our danger point, is not CBDCs. CBDCs will take them quite a while to figure out. Our danger point is the vaccine passports.

If they get the passports, then I would argue, as a practical matter, we lose our ability to stop the CBDCs. So, whatever we do, we need to stop the passports. The passports give them the kind of control they need of the digital and financial transactions that then leads into the CBDCs.”

Vaccine Passport Is a Ticket to Financial Enslavement

As explained by Austin Fitts, the vaccine passports create a platform for a digital transaction system that documents and tracks all transactions. Once combined with a central bank controlled digital currency, they will have the ability to block transactions.

If government doesn’t want you to purchase anything more than five miles from your home, they have the ability to prevent you from doing so. If they don't want you buying pizzas, they have the ability to prevent you from buying pizza.

“So, it's Step 1 to building that control grid. If you go to solari.com and click on Cash Friday — which is a campaign we're doing to get everybody to use cash on Fridays — you’ll see a 56-second video of the general manager of the Bank of International Settlements explaining how with CBDC, they'll have the ability to enforce all the rules they want to create about CBDCs and your money.

It's very chilling and it communicates the control they think they're going to have when this is over. But to get that control, first you need the entire passport system to come into being. That's basically the information grid that the CBDCs can then plug into …

If you get a passport system in place that can literally stop your financial transactions unless you get another booster, imagine, with CBDCs, it can stop all your transactions. It can change the amount of money. It can take money out of your bank account. In other words, it's no longer a currency. It's a credit that the company stores and the company controls everything …

The passports are now. We need to stop these now. I've seen passport apps that show people getting eight or more boosters. Who's going to worry about CBDCs if you've had two of these injections and eight boosters? I mean, the question is, are you going to be alive at that point? I don't know.”

What Can You Do Now?

So, how can the average person resist this diabolical plan? One strategy would be to move to a state or country that has made vaccine passport requirements illegal. Another strategy is to simply refuse the passport, no matter what the ramifications.

This goes for those who have gotten one or two COVID jabs as well. To maintain a valid passport, you’ll have to take boosters. How many are you willing to take? How many times are you willing to risk your health and life? At some point, you’ll have to make the same decision as everyone who is unvaccinated — freedom or slavery.

What this means is we’ll also need to create alternate and parallel systems for everything we’ll be denied access to if we don’t have a valid vaccine passport. This includes education, food production, services of various kinds, health care and economy.

These parallel systems will be crucial anyway, as the U.S. entitlement programs — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — look like they’ll be out of money by 2028. And, as these programs vanish, they’ll take the drug industry down with them, as they are drug companies’ primary revenue source.

“I discovered there was a whole community of people who did RV living because they just didn't trust any jurisdiction. They wanted the ability to get up and go, and that group has been growing steadily.

So, my feeling is we have to say no, and we have to do whatever we can do. I went through that decision process during the [government] litigation because I was absolutely convinced that if I kept saying no, chances were very high I could be killed. I was poisoned on many occasions, so I dealt with some pretty severe harassment.

All I can tell you is that saying no turned out to be the smartest thing I ever did. I'm not saying that isn't difficult. It's exceptionally inconvenient. I went from being a very wealthy person to having to live through periods of intense poverty. It was pretty gruesome.

But at the same time, you come out the other end and it's a great life. It's just a great life to be free … I don't think there's any way to get to a free and inspired life other than hurtling into it. You have to say no. And if we don't say no, we're going to be slaves. Frankly, I'd rather be dead than take these injections. God knows what's in them.”

There Is No Legal Vaccine Mandate in the US

Recently, President Biden issued an unconstitutional presidential directive that companies with 100 employees or more are required to mandate the COVID injection for all staff members. The penalty can go as high as $700,000 per incident.

Such stiff fines could quickly bankrupt all but the wealthiest companies if they don’t comply. However, even here, there is choice, because as it stands, there is no LEGAL rule or law dictating vaccination rules for private companies.

“This is genocide,” Austin Fitts says. “There is no OSHA temporary emergency rule. There is no document. If I'm a company and you have no law, no regulation, no emergency regulation — you can't legislate law by press conference, and you can't apply civil money penalties out of thin air.

I don't know on what basis in law you can apply a civil money penalty to a violation of a non-existent law and a non-existent rule. Now, I'm not saying you can't find a judge and threaten him and scare him into going along with that. But I have to tell you, if there's anything worth litigating, it's that.

But let's talk about whether a company can exist as a political matter. If every company in the world is basically a captive of blackmail of the SPECTRE organization — because this is getting very James Bond — [then] no one can represent the shareholder, because they can't say no to organized crime.

Then we no longer have an economy. We no longer have a stock market. We no longer have a country. We no longer have a civilization. We just have a mob, right? It's all gone.

So, to me, I can't think of anything better to litigate than whether or not we're going to have law. If everything is just the rule of the mafia, there will be no companies. There will be no stock market. There will be no financial system. And a lot of us are going to die.

So, I think we're going to have to decide whether we want to have the rule of law or not … I don't believe that organized crime with all its coercive force has the power to sabotage all whilst people stand up.”

Who’s Behind It All?

As for who's behind this gigantic scheme, it’s hard to say. I believe the closest we can get the identity of these criminals is the private shareholders of Vanguard, because Vanguard owns most of the companies of the world. Austin Fitts believes it’s the private owners of the central banks of the world. She explains:

“Vanguard is essentially owned by itself. So, the question is, who controls it behind the scenes? I have an online book called ‘Dillon Read and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits.’ I've tried to publish it in hard copy three times and each time I've been threatened. The last time, they threatened somebody in my family.

So, I've left it online. [In that book], I tell the story of how I was a partner and member of the board of Dillon Read. At one point, I was surprised at their choice of the next president of the firm. [There was] a wonderful partner there whose father had run the firm once upon a time, so I said to him, ‘I'm surprised at the choice. He's not a ‘Nick guy’ at all.’

Nick Brady, the chairman of the firm, had gone to the Senate for a while, which is why they were bringing another president. And my partner said, ‘Nick didn't choose him. The Rothschilds choose him.’ I said, ‘Wait a minute. We own the firm. What does the Rothschilds have to do with us?’ And he just looked at me and he rolled his eyes … and walked off like I was the dumbest person in America.”

Austin Fitts’ nickname for the committee that runs the world is “Mr. Global.” She admits she doesn’t fully understand how it works at the top, but she does know that the decision-making is highly centralized, it’s most likely run by committee, and the members are the prisoners of 50 years of secrecy.

“There is a tremendous amount of money since World War II that constantly disappears through the financial system,” she says. “It's almost as though the planet is a REIT [real estate investment trust]. I'll never forget watching the movie ‘Jupiter Ascending’ and the princess from a faraway galaxy looks at this woman from earth and she says, ‘Earth is just a very small part of a much bigger corporation.’

Actually, if you look at the financial system, that is how it works — as though everybody's being forced to produce this dividend and it's become very dysfunctional because of the secrecy.

Now, I have been told on several occasions — and I tend to believe it — that the people who literally run what most people call the Deep State have tried to figure out how they could [increase] the transparency and they run into so many liability issues, they just give up.

If there is one solution we all need, it’s to bring tremendous transparency and reduce the risk of the people at the top. Because I think one of the reasons they're [pushing for] complete control is … that [they can then] manage things centrally with artificial intelligence …

Complete control is: You're on a smart grid that's under 24/7 surveillance and subjects you to all sorts of propaganda and mind control, and they have the power to literally turn off your money if you don't behave. That can be managed with software, AI and a smart grid [through the vaccine passport and CBDC] ...

I would describe it as a slavery system … They can literally collateralize a human being and connect it to the banking system, and they can stop all violent revolution once they have everybody basically digitized and on a financial transaction control system …

I think it's a terrible mistake. But I think they … don't know what else to do. If we're going to get out of this, one, we need to just say no and refuse to go into the box. The other is we need to bring transparency where we can all change. Because we do need a reset. If we keep going the way we're going, it's not going to work.”

We Need a Reset, but Not ‘The Great Reset’

Many have pointed out that it’s a mathematical inevitability that the central bank financial system will collapse. You cannot rack up debt in perpetuity. It’s really just a matter of when. As noted by Austin Fitts, we currently have a negative return on investment.

But the financial system can certainly be re-engineered to a positive return on investment. However, to do that, we cannot allow corporations to function above the law. She explains:

“Right now, we have a legal doctrine that says as long as they can make money, they're free more or less to act above the law. The economy has to be subservient to the society. You cannot let your economic life determine the rule of law. And so, we've given basically legal immunity to the big international banks, and through them, the corporations.

The current corporate model, as it currently exists, does not work. What we're watching is the destruction of society to keep it going, and give them complete control to keep it going. Frankly, you cannot have a healthy economy or society when the financial sector is dominant as opposed to subservient. The financial system should serve society and civilization, not vice versa.”

Signs of Positive Change

There are signs of real change, however — positive change. Austin Fitts notes that, for the first time in her life, she’s seeing extraordinarily talented, well-educated people who have always been reluctant to rock the boat say they want out; they’d rather die than be enslaved by organized crime.

“I remember one really phenomenal scientist and doctor saying to me, ‘I'm ready to start a whole new civilization.’ There’s a wave of talent and gravitas I've never seen before saying, ‘I'd rather be part of the new. I've had it with this.’

So, I see a tremendous breakout — not just pushback — of people who want to be part of something that is civilized. They realize that corruption has reached a point where there's no point trying to get along or be in the middle of the road or go along …

The challenge for all of us is, how can we swing our savings and our retirement savings to finance the creation of that new capacity? On one hand, you have students leaving school and needing to homeschool. On the other hand, you have teachers leaving schools because they don't want to get the injection.

We've got to create businesses and networks and websites that help us find each other. If that process occurs in an entrepreneurial way, it could be very positive and very exciting.

That's what I see in the new media. But it also needs to happen in health care and in education, and it's going to require enough people realizing that the Titanic is sinking. There's no way back. They might as well grab some planks and start building arks.

Without integrity, there's no civilization. So, if you want to be part of something that has integrity, you can't stay [in the old system]. I say it again, there's no middle of the road … I say, say yes to science, say yes to integrity, say yes to law.

Every person's circumstance is different, but find a way to translate that yes into something productive. Be useful. That's what I tried to do. I had a wonderful life as an investment banker, but I woke up and I couldn't [continue] … I did billion-dollar deals. I didn't know how to do a financial plan for somebody who had $25,000.

So, I started by just answering people's questions and those questions evolved into two businesses, the Solari Report and Solari Investment Advisory Services. It took many years, but I just tried to be useful. So, we each have to start there.

We have to ask, what skills do I have? What skills can I learn? What skills can I evolve? And how can I serve the people around me? What can I do to be useful? And we go from there.

But you have to choose integrity and civilization or choose being a slave of organized crime. You have to make that choice. And you know something? It's a dangerous choice. I almost didn't make it. But as I told my old partner, I'd rather die in the wilderness than be in the underground places with you guys.”

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“Our goal is really to be an intelligence network and a learning network … If you look at the guys on the other side, they spend a fortune on intelligence. So, I think it's very important that we provide an alternative …

We publish a weekly roundup called Money & Markets, and then an interview every week. We're constantly posting the best links to other sites, the headlines, and in the news trends and stories section, we publish book reviews and other materials.

Then, we do these quarterly wrap-ups. Our theory is you're busy. You don't have time to watch all the news. Our goal is, if you just read those quarterly wrap-ups, over time, you will understand not only what's going on with current events, but the deeper themes.

I find if you understand things like The Great Reset or the injection fraud, if you understand 20 or 30 different primary trends deeply, you'll have a very good basis to navigate all the propaganda and disinformation.

One of the things we try very hard to do is filter out the disinformation because I find bad information, bad intelligence is one of the great destroyers of family wealth. So, we try very hard to filter out disinformation and propaganda. And that's why we're always looking for new media websites that are trustworthy. And again, thank you for what you're doing because you're one of them.”

A service like that of the Solari Report has never been more useful, as trying to find the truth through mainstream media or Google (or other Google-driven search engines) has become virtually impossible.

About 93% of all online searches are done through Google, which gives them near-total monopoly over the information people see, and legacy media have barely spoken a true word over the past two years. So, you need reliable sources that can keep you abreast of what’s really going on. Austin Fitts says:

“The other thing is what I'm hoping to be part of is creating the best and highest possible learning speeds, because this is a war … and nobody wins a war without great intelligence. So, we have to help each other really jump the curve on a high learning speed and high intelligence.”

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In this interview, filmmaker-turned-author Mikki Willis discusses his two-part film “Plandemic,” which went viral despite being universally censored last year. He’s now releasing a book, “Plandemic: Fear Is the Virus. Truth Is the Cure,” and is working on “Plandemic Part 3,” which is slated for release around the winter holidays. Willis summarizes the backstory of how “Plandemic” came to be:

“I had met Judy Mikovits, who is the featured virologist in ‘Plandemic 1.’ I'd met her about a year and a half before the pandemic was announced. At the time, when [the COVID pandemic] was announced, I was working on a film called ‘The Narrative,’ which was to really pull back the curtain on mainstream media, the way that it's been infiltrated and affected the global consciousness.

In the process of doing this, the whistleblowers that I was interviewing for the movie, several of them had warned me and said there's a false flag coming very soon. A false flag means an event that takes place that diverts the world's attention and/or subverts the consciousness such that we'll vote for war … or something like that.

It's some kind of an event that will cause some kind of a reaction. So, I was on the lookout for this … when the pandemic was announced, I reached out to Mikovits … and I asked her, ‘What do you think is going on here?’

She started to break it down for me, and it seemed so viable that I said, ‘Let's stop what we're doing and go to my studio, sit down and do this on camera, because I think that the world deserves to hear this information.’"

More Than a Billion People Have Seen ‘Plandemic’

“Plandemic Part 1” was released May 4, 2020, and has since been viewed over 1 billion times, a record, for sure, for any documentary. This, despite it being heavily censored. “Plandemic Part 2: Indoctornation” has also been viewed more than 200 million times.

One of the keys to the videos’ remarkable successes was Willis’ decision to allow (and encourage) people to download the movie files and upload them anywhere they pleased, without restrictions.

This virtually guaranteed he wouldn’t make any money from the films, but he viewed them as a gift to humanity. Putting the truth out there was more important than making a buck. Besides, hosting the films on any given platform would allow the opposition to simply nuke that one site, ensuring the films wouldn’t be seen by anyone.

‘Plandemic 3’ Will Expose Power Players and Their Intentions

“Plandemic: Indoctornation” features the brilliant David Martin, Ph.D., who has documented and tracked white collar crime for decades and invented technologies that help trace the flow of funding. Willis explains:

“We decided in ‘Plandemic 2’ to really follow the paper trail. And I'm very glad we made that decision because it has been bulletproof. Every single claim that David Martin made in the film has been 100% validated at this point.

He's the one that actually helped educate [Sens.] Rand Paul and Ron Johnson when they started to go after [Dr. Anthony] Fauci to finally hold him accountable for his decades of crimes.

[Martin] had the paper trail of how much money had been spent, that had been moved through a company called EcoHealth Alliance, and where it ended up in Wuhan at the lab.

But as important as it is to know where the virus originated, it goes so far beyond that in the next [film]. We are, I will announce right now, producing ‘Plandemic 3.’ And that one's going to go even further into who's behind this [virus] and why. Is this really about money? The answer is, for the most part, no. The people at the top of the pyramid, they can just print their own money.

It's really about ultimately creating a state of dependency, through which you can then control the human population. We're going to go deeper and really show the trail on how that works, the history of that, and how it's led us to this moment right now.

Psychological diversion has literally brainwashed a great deal of our population into fighting for these very wicked forces, unknowingly, unwittingly.”

After the release of “Plandemic 1,” Willis offered $10,000 to anyone who could debunk any claim made in the film.

“People tried,” he says, “but they would give us these phony fact-checker reports and we would debunk them. And so, they just went away after about six months of me offering that challenge. I really wanted to show people that there's a whole other world behind the smoke screen of propaganda that is used to get people to ignore important information.

So, with ‘Plandemic 3,’ we're going to go further. Once again, in real time, we're going to say, ‘Here's what we said, here's what they said about us, now here's what they're finally saying one year later.’”

It’s Not Incompetence, It’s a Plan

While many blame the encroaching tyranny on incompetence, the evidence suggests it’s not incompetence at all. It was planned this way. Willis says:

“I always want to believe the best in people. So, it took me a long time before I would be willing to say anything out loud about Bill Gates or Anthony Fauci, because I thought:

‘If I'm wrong, and these men are really trying to help the world, then even if they're doing it in a horrible way, I don't think I have the [right] to actually slander somebody in that way. If they're really trying their hardest, I hope somebody educates them so they can do a better job.’

But as I delved into this with a really incredible team of researchers, and started to learn the history of Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, and many others … I realized that there has to be, at this point, a real knowing of what they're doing and a plan behind what they're doing.

As soon as I started looking there, that's when I saw that every bit of evidence pointed in one direction, and that is, they're fully aware of what they're doing. And that's the sad part of this …

COVID's plan was to kill all the mom and pop shops, all the personal businesses, so that we're all dependent upon these multinational corporations that are under the control of the same people that are behind all of this.

They can then make sure that all of our supplies, everything we need to get by in our lives, are controlled by people that are controlled by them so that they can then control our lives. That's really what this game is about.”

Willis does believe, however, that a great awakening is underway, and that at least half the population, or maybe more, are starting to wake up to the fact that we’re being manipulated by forces that do not have our best interest at heart. As for how this drama will play out, Willis points to the history of human mythology.

We’re in a Mythological Battle

In virtually all myths, there’s a reluctant hero who, faced with a life or death challenge, goes in search of a savior, only to in the end realize that he is the one; that the force to overcome the challenge is within himself, and that he must rise up and face the challenge himself.

“We're at that point right now,” Willis says. “My prediction is that we haven't quite reached the fiery crescendo yet that all movies feature, to some degree, in their third act. So, my prediction is it will get worse before it gets better.

We're going to have a succession of attacks, from cyberattacks, to food chain attacks, to attacks on our power [grid] and perhaps even some form of war that we'll be engaged in. But the end of that story is that we win. I have no doubt about that.

And everyone I know that really studies this deeply has the same conclusion. In the end, this is the human story. We are the David against the Goliath. The Goliath is incredibly powerful, but will be defeated. But it requires us to do the one thing that we're all afraid to do right now, and that is to stand up and speak out …

We have to be willing to be uncomfortable, we have to be willing to let our friends go. If we lose friends over us simply speaking our truth, whether it's 100% accurate or not, then they're not our friends in the first place. So, we have to get over that, rise up, speak out and deal with the attacks that come.”

How Do We Rebuild?

“Plandemic 3” will also cover ideas for how to rebuild society. This is something Martin and Willis have started collaborating on.

“For me, that's the most important thing that we can get into right now,” Willis says. “We’re creating new curriculums for schools, where we want to make sure that parents understand what's being injected into the curriculums of schools around the world.

They're now attacking our youngest. For decades, they've gone after people at the collegiate level, but now they're going after K through 12.

And when you get into the heads of little people and you convince them that all of America is racist, that white people are bad, that everyone is oppressed just by their skin color, that police are bad … ultimately it leaves people in this place of being easily controlled and subverted to what ultimately will look a lot like communism.

If you understand the history of the way that other nations have been overcome and infiltrated by communist ideologies, and you then take a look at what's happening here in America, you realize that this is actually what's taking place here …

It's almost good that we're going to go through more suffering … because unfortunately, people need to see that. You can't just tell them, ‘It would be bad, let's divert from this.’ They actually have to experience it.

Like right now, people thought Biden was going to come in and save the day, and now they're going, ‘What is going on here? The border is worse, kids are being treated worse, there's sex trafficking with young people, the economy's collapsing. We’re on the verge of new wars.’

They needed to see it, to actually understand that Trump was used as a big boogeyman to get them to look away from what they're doing. That's the game of politics. ‘Look over here, look how bad this guy is. Let's keep him in the press all day long. Look what he said right now.’ All this trivial stuff.

And then over here, we're actually rearranging your lives, stripping away your civil liberties, changing the structures of your curriculums in your schools, and nobody sees it until it's too late …

So, for me, one of the first things that we have to do is come to grips with what's really happening. To say the word ‘communism.’ To understand that we actually have globalists that are working very hard to create a one-world government …

So, we need to identify the people that are behind this, and we need to peacefully use the power of our voice, the power of numbers, to make sure that these people know we're aware of them, and to find a way to get them out of their powers of position. Then we can start talking about new systems.”

An important part of any new and improved system would be decentralization of power and control. One way to do this could be to form councils where people are represented by an actual peer.

The Last Stand for Freedom

Willis, like many others, is convinced America is the last stand for freedom. He even moved to Texas recently in order to become “a functioning part of the incredible people who have been raised with the constitutional understandings that I knew nothing about, being a California boy.”

Interestingly, Willis was a supporter of the progressive left up until just a few years ago, when he started noticing the creeping in of communist ideologies that he knew can never work.

“I wanted something new, something progressive, not understanding that it's the history of the foundation of what built this country that makes it so amazing. So, I had to go back and reeducate myself on what the forefathers said.

And there's some incredible insights, incredibly profound, prophetic words within our constitution and beyond, that were set up to protect us against moments just like this. They knew this was coming. At a certain point, I was all for gun control. And now here I am in Texas, going to the gun range and appreciating the fact that it was set up to protect the people from a tyrannical government.”

On God and Faith

Willis also admits being raised without religion, and that he lived most of his life with a lot of judgment about people who are religious. That all changed over the past year and a half, when he suddenly started appreciating the importance of having faith in something greater than ourselves.

“I found a deeper understanding of my own fate and faith,” he says. “And I have learned that the people that impressed me the most, that are humble, that are not doing this for any kind of profit, but that are simply here to stand for the organism of life, all have some form of a foundation of faith in God in their lives …

We all need to realize that when we think we are the dominant force, then we do things like Bill Gates does and like Anthony Fauci does. And at this point, after knowing what I know now … I really deeply consider that there is some entity of darkness, of evil, that's behind this agenda.

It's the only thing that explains to me how people could knowingly allow children to be brutalized the way that they're, knowingly, just for political power. I mean, if that's not evil, I don't know what is.”

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The book “Plandemic: Fear Is the Virus, Truth Is the Cure,” is being released on Amazon October 19, 2021. Pick up your copy here. Interestingly, Willis had hired an investigative journalist to conduct interviews for the book. Three months into the project he found out she initially had not been on his side at all.

“My producer called me and said, ‘I have good news and bad news. Which do you want first?’ And I said, ‘Give me the bad.’ And he said our writer is not on our side. ‘She thinks we're crazy conspiracy theorists …

The good news is, she thought we were crazy, but she has now done the research, and she said her mind is blown because she cannot find any claim made that's inaccurate. She's even going deeper now and she's 100% on our side.’

She's going to take her name off the book because she's afraid. Her whole world is left-leaning journalism. She's afraid that she'll lose her job. So, it becomes this really interesting story of this woman who is waking up during the process of co-writing the book …

But most importantly, it leaves us very hopeful about what's happening, and points towards some pathways of how we can get out of this mess, and our necessity to take personal responsibility for how we got here. We slept through this. The alarms have been going off for decades and we kept hitting snooze and it's time for us to fully wake up and rise up.”

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