You're Living Inside a War of Addictions (CLIP)- Catherine Austin Fitts and Michael Yon

Overview

Catherine Austin Fitts and Michael Yon discuss a view of modern conflicts in which struggle is not only fought with weapons, but also through coordinated attacks and market interventions—particularly targeting energy and food systems—along with psychological “war” tactics that push populations into addictive and high-friction environments.

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1) A global “energy war” involving sabotage, tariffs, sanctions, and trade control

• Fitts says her work at salary.com compiles a frequently updated pattern of energy infrastructure sabotage and trade bottlenecks around the world, extending beyond only the Middle East and Ukraine.
• She argues there is a global effort by the United States and Anglo-American allies to gain invasive control over energy resources and trade routes using a mix of:
  • direct sabotage of facilities,
  • tariffs and sanctions,
  • and market moves by U.S.-based energy companies (including selling LNG into Europe and Asia).
• The claimed strategic aim is to preserve U.S./dollar dominance, with energy-market control tied to wider geopolitical influence.

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2) “Friction everywhere”: governance and technology that increase control rather than productivity

• Fitts (and Yon, building on similar themes) points to the Netherlands as an example of how governments can pressure and damage small farmers, while still claiming systems will keep functioning.
• She argues that, globally, societies are being pushed into a higher-friction state—more delays, controls, and interference.
• She also contends that technology is increasingly deployed for surveillance and control, not productivity.
• Yon frames the broader effect as rising public frustration and disruption that appears consistent across multiple countries (“same story with a different accent”).

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3) A “war of addictions” as a weaponized environment

• The discussion expands from energy to psychology and social systems.
• Fitts and Yon describe a project mapping “infectors of addiction,” suggesting youth are flooded with incentives and products designed to drive addiction.
• Addiction is portrayed broadly—not only as illicit drugs, but as a wide array of marketed behaviors/products, including:
  • substances (e.g., alcohol, nicotine, sugar),
  • pornography,
  • and digital addictions such as video games and gambling.
• They emphasize the idea that in such an environment, people should recognize they are living in a targeted assault benefiting “financial interests” that profit from creating addiction.

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4) Gambling and prediction markets as accelerating corruption

• Yon highlights the growth of sports betting in the U.S., claiming it has ballooned dramatically (from billions to hundreds of billions annually).
• He argues this scale worsens corruption: if players, families, and stakeholders can bet, incentives to fix outcomes multiply.
• He also cites an example of finance firms integrating sports gambling/prediction markets into brokerage-style access, describing it as especially concerning.

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5) Mythology, cult dynamics, and the claim of depopulation

• A major analytical section focuses on how ideology, group narratives, and coercive structures (“cults”) can drive groups toward destructive ends.
• Fitts and Yon suggest cult dynamics help explain why groups behave in self-destructive ways, since insiders often do not recognize their captivity.
• They also suggest “cult mechanics” can be used intentionally like a “key for a lock.”
• Yon claims this perspective helps interpret large geopolitical actions, including the belief that some actors pursue depopulation outcomes.
• They describe “Ragnarok”-type patterns (apocalyptic, destructive endgames) as consistent with certain large political or militant movements.
• Fitts extends this with the argument that an emotionally/psychologically driven impulse can trap some people or networks in anxiety that they relieve through killing, stealing, or extraction—described as “demonic” in tone.

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6) “Vectors of grift”: turning corruption into a structured model

• Fitts announces a new project: “vectors of grift” (grift = fraud/con/illicit extraction models).
• The idea is to catalog recurring “grift models” with examples—analogous to how they previously mapped addictions—to help the public and researchers understand how cons operate.
• She says the project is inspired partly by a Council on Foreign Relations framing that argues Trump has a “grift policy” rather than traditional foreign policy—because decisions follow what benefits grifters and their networks.

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Presenters / contributors

• Catherine Austin Fitts
• Michael Yon
• Corey Lynn (mentioned as helping update Fitts’ energy/trade bottleneck material; via “Corey Digs”)
• G. Edward Griffin (referenced in connection with cult/ideology-related reading)
• Mike Robinson (mentioned as hosting/connected to a UK Column publication)