Catherine Austin Fitts on how psychopaths are able to run the world
"people who have no empathy are really good at... organizing for self-benefit"
"[So] you have... 3 to 5% sort of psychopath[s] [at the top], [and then] 20 to 25% who are making a lot of money helping them"
"then you have the other 60 to 70% [of the population] who can't fathom what's going on. And what the others are doing, what the smaller groups are doing, drives them crazy. And they become neurotic"
This clip of Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (@solari_the), is taken from a discussion with Alix Mayer (@alixm) posted to YouTube on June 3, 2026.
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"There's a wonderful book called Political Ponerology. Have you ever read it? Okay, so, the, the description of the book is as follows. It was a psychologist who had been a young man during Hitler in Poland. And after the war then Stalin came in and he was at university and he and a group of colleagues decided, you know, because they'd been so traumatized by all this tyranny, they said, we're going to study the intersection of psychopathy with politics.
"And that's ponerology, the study of psychopathy mixed— And here's what they— And they wrote the book, he said, three times, tried to get it out from behind the Iron Curtain and then, failed, had to destroy it. And then when he finally got out after '89, he wrote it from memory.
"And here's what it said. And what he said was that most people are born with empathy and they can't fathom not only that other people don't have empathy, but that the people who have no empathy are really good at getting together and organizing for self-benefit.
"So the people with no empathy are much more effective at conspiracies than the people with empathy. Okay?
"So anyway, what he said was about 20 to 25% of the population who are competent at running things are willing to work for the people who don't have empathy as long as they get paid well.
"And if you look at the history of America, the way we've gotten here is a lot of people got paid a lot of money, whether with their stocks and bonds or whether their job helping the people who have no empathy do all the evil doing.
"I mean, you know that because if you look at what's going on in medicine, you can see it clearly.
"So what happens is you have the 3 to 5% sort of psychopathic, then you have the 20 to 25% who are making a lot of money helping them. And then you have the other 60 to 70% who can't fathom what's going on. And what the others are doing, what the smaller groups are doing drives them crazy. And they become neurotic.
"They become neurotic about the food, they become neurotic about the healthcare, they become neurotic about programmable money. And until they finally come to understand, you're dealing with psychopathic and you're dealing with people who will help the psychopaths for money.
"And what he said was once people could fathom what was going on, suddenly they started being effective."
👀 Ukraine is a front for US corruption - MacGregor
💬 “You have BlackRock that is trying to buy up hundreds of thousands of acres of Ukrainian farmland, you have people that are talking about turning western Ukraine into a new Israeli destination by diluting it from Ukrainians and bringing in people from Israel,” retired US Colonel Douglas MacGregor said.
He added that US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are also part of the scheme, as they only visit Ukraine to promote Trump’s interests.
@FT Source: Latvian general.
Did he ask you to send more money to him for his army? 😆
Then this becomes self-fulfilling.
Next, NATO says "we must fight them there, so we don't have to fight them here"!
Brits are leading the charge. Orwell was right about the retard Brits.
@TheTennisLetter So the point is to ask only Russian tennis players about their country's politics?
I guess trying to squeeze a confession out of an American or a Brit would stain they're commercial viability.
🚨 7 people killed and 11 injured in Ukrainian drone strike on civilian bus in Donetsk, says DPR head Denis Pushilin
There are no depths of terrorism that Kiev will not sink.
@hannahgais I'm sure you don't know anything about the history of this Church, or about Russian Orthodoxy, or about Russia, or about Christianity in general.
Please go live in your own world and criticize only things you know about.
@BiggerTruth This cathedral was built from the steel of nazi tanks.
The Russian Orthodox are remembering the 27 million lives lost during WW2 -- this includes the soldiers of the red army.
Only retards would think they are honoring anything else.
https://t.co/lGcGaEWNO8
Head of Rosatom Likhachev says Kiev’s actions at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant constitute “the first targeted attack in human history” on a running nuclear reactor.
Yet another world first for Europe’s plucky little beacon of democracy.
🔸 June 1 - Saint Justin the Philosopher 🔸
Today, we also commemorate the holy martyr and early apologist Saint Justin the Philosopher. St Justin was born in 114 AD in Sychem, an ancient city of Samaria, to a pagan Greek father. From his childhood he displayed great intelligence and wisdom, and fervently devoted himself to seeking the knowledge of truth. A great admirer of Ancient Greek philosophy, his studies included Stoicism, Pythagoreanism, Aristotelianism and Platonism.
He also attended the Peripatetic School of Philosophy founded by Aristotle. But while he admired philosophy, Justin was ultimately left unsatisfied by their failure to address the primal cause. One day, while walking alone and contemplating the cause of creation, Justin came across an elderly Syrian Christian who engaged him in a dialogue about God, and spoke of the testimony of the Prophets as being more reliable than the subjective reasoning of philosophers.
Moved by this argument, Justin’s newfound convictions of God were only bolstered by his witness of the ascetic lives of the early Christians, and the heroic example of the martyrs, whose unwavering faith convinced him of the spiritual superiority of Christianity. In 135 AD, St Justin renounced his ancestral paganism and accepted Holy Baptism. He thereafter devoted his philosophical acumen to preaching and converting many pagans to Christ. He also opened a school of Christian philosophy in Rome.
In 161 AD, soon after Marcus Aurelius ascended the imperial throne, St Justin defended the morality of Christianity in a debate with the Cynic philosopher Crescens, who held that people are to live as reasoning animals, shamelessly free from social constraints. Infuriated by St Justin’s wise arguments, Crescens denounced him to the pagan authorities. Brought to trial along with six of his students, St Justin was beheaded in Rome in 165 AD. Of his few surviving works, the most well-known is his First Apology in which he passionately defends the morality of the Christian life, and provides ethical and philosophical arguments to convince the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD) to abandon his persecution of the Church.
Never forget that it was Kiev that dispatched its Neo Nazi militias into Donbass
They fired the first shots, fired the first shells, took the first lives.
@clashreport "Our relations with Russia are transformative" ...
"We join the EU market, we lose our special status with Russia on trade and cheap energy.
The 2 million Armenians in Russia with special visa-free status? Well maybe they lose that and come back".
Transformative indeed.
@PhillipsPOBrien You claim to be a "prominent commentator on modern warfare".
As far as I can tell, you've never been in the military and your education was in politics.
Your comments and position allow you to profit from war. This makes you full of sh*t.