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The Economic Hitman
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt"
John Adams(1735-1826)
John Perkins
Former Chief Economist for Chas.T.Main Inc.
Author:Confessions of an Economic Hitman
We economic hitmen really have been the ones responsible for creating this first truly global empire.And we work many different ways.But, perhaps the most common is that we will identify a country that has resources, like oil.And then, arrange a huge loan to that country from the World Bank or one of it's sister organizations.
But the money never actually goes to that country. Instead it goes to our big corporations to build infrastructure projects in that country. Power plants, Industrial parks, Ports...
Things that benefit a few rich people in that country.In addition our Corporations.
But really don`t have the majority to people that all. How ever, those people the whole country is left holding the huge debt.
It's such a big debt they can't repay, and that's the part of the plan... They can't repay it!
And so, in some point, we economic hitman, go back to them and say "Listen"
"You lost a lot of Money. Can't pay your Debt. So..."
"Sell your oil real cheap to our oil companies"
"Allow us to build a Military Base in your Country..."
"Send troops and support one of our's, to some place in the world like..."
"Iraq or [vote for us in the next UN"
To have their electric utility company privatized and their water and sewing system privatized and sold to US corporations or other multinational corporations.
So there is a whole mushrooming thing, and it's so typical, the way the IMF and the World Bank work.They put a country in debt, and it's such a big debt they can't repay it!
And then they offer to refinance that debt, and pay them more interest
And you demand...this "quid pro quo" what you call a conditionality or good governance which means basically, that they got to sell off their resources, including many of their social services, their utility companies..their school systems sometimes, their penal systems,their insurance systems...to foreign corporations. So it's a double - triple - quadruple /planning/
The preceptive for a Economic Hitman really began back in the early 50's when democratically elected "Mossadegh" who was elected in Iran...
year. But...
one of the things that he brought on and end the implement was the idea that foreign oil companies needed to pay the Iranian people a lot more for the oil, that they were taking out of Iran and the Iranian people should benefit from their own oil. - Strange policy -
we didn't like that of course, but we were afraid to do what we normally were doing, which was to send in the military
instead we sent in one CIA agent, Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy Rooseveltґs relative
and /currently/ with a few million dollars, and was very very effective and
official and in a short of time, he managed to get Mossadeg overthrown and brought in the shar of Iran to replace them, who always was favorable to oil, and it was really effective.
so back here in the United States, in Washington, people looked around and said "wow, that was easy and cheap" .So this established the whole new way, of manipulating countries, of creating empire.
The only problem with Roosevelt was that he was a card carrying CIA agent and if he'd been caught, the ratifications could have been pretty serious, so very quickly at that point, the decision was made, to use private consultants to channel the money through the world bank or the IMF or one of the other such agencies.To bring in people like me, who work for private companies so that if we got caught, it would be no govermental ramifications.
when Erbenz become president of Guatemala, the country was very much under the thumbs of United Fruit company.
The big international cooperations.And Erbenz ran on this ticket that said: "We want to give the land back to the people".And once he took power he was implementing policies that would do exactly that give handrights back to the people.
"United Fruit" didn't like that very much, and so they hired a public relations firm
watch the huge campaign in the United States to convince the United States, the people...
The citizens of the United States, the press of the United States ,and the congress of the United States, that Бrbenz was a soviet puppet.And that if we allowed him to stay in power the Soviets would have a foot hole in this hemisphere.And at that point in time there was a huge fear on everybody's mind, of the red terror, the communist terror.And so, to make a long story short, out of this public relations campaign,came a commitment on the part of the CIA and the military to take this man out.And in fact, we did! We sent in planes, we sent in soldiers, we sent in jackals,we sent everything in to take him out. And did take him out
and as soon as he was removed from office,the new guy, that took over after him basically reinstated everything to the big international corporations,including United Fruit.
Ecuador, for many many years had been ruled by Pro-US-Dictators,they often relatively brutal. Then it was decided to have a truely democratic ellection.
Jaime Roldos ran for offense and his main goal, he said, as president woud be...to make sure that Ecuador's resources were used to help the people.
And he began to implement these policies.To make sure that the profits from Oil went to help the people.Well...
We didn't like that in the United States.
I was send down as one of several Economic Hitman to change Roldos.
To corrupt him. To bring 'em around...to let him know... you know.
"You can get very rich, if you and your family play our game."
"But if you continue to try to keep these policies
you promised you gonna go!"
He woudn't listen...
He was assassinated...
Panama,1981
Omar Torrijos,president of Panama,was one of my favourite people,I really,really liked him.
"Look,huanito,I don`t need the money,what I really need is for my country to be treated fairly.I need for the United States to repay the debts that you owe people for all the construction you`ve done here.I need to be in a position where I can help other Latin American countries win their independence and be free from this terrible presence from the north.You people are exploiting us so badly.I need to have the Panama Canal back in the hands of the Panamenian people.That`s what I want.And,so,leave me alone,don`t try to bribe me.
It was 1981,and in May,Jaime Roldos was assassinated,and Omar was very aware of this.He said:"I`m probably next!But it`s ok,because I`ve done what I came here to do and renegotiated the canal.The canal will now be in our hands."
He has just finished the negotiations with Jimmie Carter.
In June,that same year,he also went down in an airplane crash,which there was no doubt was sponsored and executed by CIA jackals.
Venezuela,2002
It is interesting to me how this system has continued for years and years,except the economic hitmen are getting better and better.Then we come up with,recently,what happened in Venezuela.
In 1998 Hugo Chavez gets elected president,following a long line of presidents who have been very corrupt and basicly destroyed the economy of the country.
Well,we didn`t like that in the United States.
So,in 2002,the cual,and there is no doubt CIA was behind of that cual,the way of how that cual(riot) was formed,was very reflective of what Rusevelt had done in Iran,of paid people who go on the streets to riot and to protest.Say,this Chavez is very unpopular.You know,if you can get a few thousand people to do that,and the television can make it look like if it`s the whole country.And thigs start to "mushroom".
Except in the case of Chavez,he was smart enough and the people were so strongly behind him,that they overcame it.Which was a phenomenal moment in the history of Latin America.
Iraq,2003
Iraq,actually,is a perfect example of how the whole system works.The economic hitmen are the first line of defense.We go there and try to corrupt governments and get him to accept these huge loans.If we fail,as I failed in Panama and Ecuador, and we send jackals.And the jackals either overthrow governments,or assassinate.And ones that happens,a new government comes in,and it`s going to hold the line,because if it doesn`t,it knows what`s going to happen.
So the jackals went to take him out,but couldn`t again,because his security was very good.After all he had one time worked for the CIA,and was hired to assassinate the former president of Iraq,and he failed,but,anyway,he knew the system.So,in 1991 we send in the troops,and we take out the Iraqi military.We thought he`d come around at that point.We could have finished him,but we didn`t want to, we liked him.He`s kind of strong man,he can control his people,we thought he can control the Kurds and keep the Iranians in their borders,and keep pumping oil for us.And once we took his military out,we thought he`d come around.
So,the economic hitman goes back in the nineties without success.If he had success,he would still be running his country.We`d be selling him all the fighter jets he wants and everything else he wants.Bu the hitmen didn`t have success.The jackals couldn`t take him out again.So we sent the military once again,and this time did a complete job.
Iraq shows the three stages-the economic hitman-failed there,the jackals-failed there,and the final stage-the military goes there.
And in that way we created an empire,but we`ve done it very,very subtly.
All the empires in the past were built on the military and everybody knew they were building them.The British knew they were building it,the French,the Germans,The Greeks,the Romans,they were proud of it and they always had some excuse like spreading civilization,spreading some religion,something like that,but they KNEW they were doing it.
We don`t.The majority of the people in the United States have no idea that we are living of the benefits of the Empire,that today there is more slavery in the world than ever before.
Obviously,our presidents in The United States are not emperors,an emperor is someone who`s not elected,doesn`t serve a limited term and doesn`t report to anyone,essentially.
I don`t know who the emperor is,but we do have what I consider to be the equivalent of the emperor.It`s what I call
CORPORATOCRACY
As corporations set policies for the government,they become government policies,so there is an incredibly cosy relationship on this level.
This isn`t a conspiracy theory type of thing,these people don`t have to gather to plot things,they all basicly work under one primary assumption and that is that they must maximize profits,regardless of the social and environmental cost.
John Adams(1735-1826)
John Perkins
Former Chief Economist for Chas.T.Main Inc.
Author:Confessions of an Economic Hitman
We economic hitmen really have been the ones responsible for creating this first truly global empire.And we work many different ways.But, perhaps the most common is that we will identify a country that has resources, like oil.And then, arrange a huge loan to that country from the World Bank or one of it's sister organizations.
But the money never actually goes to that country. Instead it goes to our big corporations to build infrastructure projects in that country. Power plants, Industrial parks, Ports...
Things that benefit a few rich people in that country.In addition our Corporations.
But really don`t have the majority to people that all. How ever, those people the whole country is left holding the huge debt.
It's such a big debt they can't repay, and that's the part of the plan... They can't repay it!
And so, in some point, we economic hitman, go back to them and say "Listen"
"You lost a lot of Money. Can't pay your Debt. So..."
"Sell your oil real cheap to our oil companies"
"Allow us to build a Military Base in your Country..."
"Send troops and support one of our's, to some place in the world like..."
"Iraq or [vote for us in the next UN"
To have their electric utility company privatized and their water and sewing system privatized and sold to US corporations or other multinational corporations.
So there is a whole mushrooming thing, and it's so typical, the way the IMF and the World Bank work.They put a country in debt, and it's such a big debt they can't repay it!
And then they offer to refinance that debt, and pay them more interest
And you demand...this "quid pro quo" what you call a conditionality or good governance which means basically, that they got to sell off their resources, including many of their social services, their utility companies..their school systems sometimes, their penal systems,their insurance systems...to foreign corporations. So it's a double - triple - quadruple /planning/
The preceptive for a Economic Hitman really began back in the early 50's when democratically elected "Mossadegh" who was elected in Iran...
year. But...
one of the things that he brought on and end the implement was the idea that foreign oil companies needed to pay the Iranian people a lot more for the oil, that they were taking out of Iran and the Iranian people should benefit from their own oil. - Strange policy -
we didn't like that of course, but we were afraid to do what we normally were doing, which was to send in the military
instead we sent in one CIA agent, Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy Rooseveltґs relative
and /currently/ with a few million dollars, and was very very effective and
official and in a short of time, he managed to get Mossadeg overthrown and brought in the shar of Iran to replace them, who always was favorable to oil, and it was really effective.
so back here in the United States, in Washington, people looked around and said "wow, that was easy and cheap" .So this established the whole new way, of manipulating countries, of creating empire.
The only problem with Roosevelt was that he was a card carrying CIA agent and if he'd been caught, the ratifications could have been pretty serious, so very quickly at that point, the decision was made, to use private consultants to channel the money through the world bank or the IMF or one of the other such agencies.To bring in people like me, who work for private companies so that if we got caught, it would be no govermental ramifications.
when Erbenz become president of Guatemala, the country was very much under the thumbs of United Fruit company.
The big international cooperations.And Erbenz ran on this ticket that said: "We want to give the land back to the people".And once he took power he was implementing policies that would do exactly that give handrights back to the people.
"United Fruit" didn't like that very much, and so they hired a public relations firm
watch the huge campaign in the United States to convince the United States, the people...
The citizens of the United States, the press of the United States ,and the congress of the United States, that Бrbenz was a soviet puppet.And that if we allowed him to stay in power the Soviets would have a foot hole in this hemisphere.And at that point in time there was a huge fear on everybody's mind, of the red terror, the communist terror.And so, to make a long story short, out of this public relations campaign,came a commitment on the part of the CIA and the military to take this man out.And in fact, we did! We sent in planes, we sent in soldiers, we sent in jackals,we sent everything in to take him out. And did take him out
and as soon as he was removed from office,the new guy, that took over after him basically reinstated everything to the big international corporations,including United Fruit.
Ecuador, for many many years had been ruled by Pro-US-Dictators,they often relatively brutal. Then it was decided to have a truely democratic ellection.
Jaime Roldos ran for offense and his main goal, he said, as president woud be...to make sure that Ecuador's resources were used to help the people.
And he began to implement these policies.To make sure that the profits from Oil went to help the people.Well...
We didn't like that in the United States.
I was send down as one of several Economic Hitman to change Roldos.
To corrupt him. To bring 'em around...to let him know... you know.
"You can get very rich, if you and your family play our game."
"But if you continue to try to keep these policies
you promised you gonna go!"
He woudn't listen...
He was assassinated...
Panama,1981
Omar Torrijos,president of Panama,was one of my favourite people,I really,really liked him.
"Look,huanito,I don`t need the money,what I really need is for my country to be treated fairly.I need for the United States to repay the debts that you owe people for all the construction you`ve done here.I need to be in a position where I can help other Latin American countries win their independence and be free from this terrible presence from the north.You people are exploiting us so badly.I need to have the Panama Canal back in the hands of the Panamenian people.That`s what I want.And,so,leave me alone,don`t try to bribe me.
It was 1981,and in May,Jaime Roldos was assassinated,and Omar was very aware of this.He said:"I`m probably next!But it`s ok,because I`ve done what I came here to do and renegotiated the canal.The canal will now be in our hands."
He has just finished the negotiations with Jimmie Carter.
In June,that same year,he also went down in an airplane crash,which there was no doubt was sponsored and executed by CIA jackals.
Venezuela,2002
It is interesting to me how this system has continued for years and years,except the economic hitmen are getting better and better.Then we come up with,recently,what happened in Venezuela.
In 1998 Hugo Chavez gets elected president,following a long line of presidents who have been very corrupt and basicly destroyed the economy of the country.
Well,we didn`t like that in the United States.
So,in 2002,the cual,and there is no doubt CIA was behind of that cual,the way of how that cual(riot) was formed,was very reflective of what Rusevelt had done in Iran,of paid people who go on the streets to riot and to protest.Say,this Chavez is very unpopular.You know,if you can get a few thousand people to do that,and the television can make it look like if it`s the whole country.And thigs start to "mushroom".
Except in the case of Chavez,he was smart enough and the people were so strongly behind him,that they overcame it.Which was a phenomenal moment in the history of Latin America.
Iraq,2003
Iraq,actually,is a perfect example of how the whole system works.The economic hitmen are the first line of defense.We go there and try to corrupt governments and get him to accept these huge loans.If we fail,as I failed in Panama and Ecuador, and we send jackals.And the jackals either overthrow governments,or assassinate.And ones that happens,a new government comes in,and it`s going to hold the line,because if it doesn`t,it knows what`s going to happen.
So the jackals went to take him out,but couldn`t again,because his security was very good.After all he had one time worked for the CIA,and was hired to assassinate the former president of Iraq,and he failed,but,anyway,he knew the system.So,in 1991 we send in the troops,and we take out the Iraqi military.We thought he`d come around at that point.We could have finished him,but we didn`t want to, we liked him.He`s kind of strong man,he can control his people,we thought he can control the Kurds and keep the Iranians in their borders,and keep pumping oil for us.And once we took his military out,we thought he`d come around.
So,the economic hitman goes back in the nineties without success.If he had success,he would still be running his country.We`d be selling him all the fighter jets he wants and everything else he wants.Bu the hitmen didn`t have success.The jackals couldn`t take him out again.So we sent the military once again,and this time did a complete job.
Iraq shows the three stages-the economic hitman-failed there,the jackals-failed there,and the final stage-the military goes there.
And in that way we created an empire,but we`ve done it very,very subtly.
All the empires in the past were built on the military and everybody knew they were building them.The British knew they were building it,the French,the Germans,The Greeks,the Romans,they were proud of it and they always had some excuse like spreading civilization,spreading some religion,something like that,but they KNEW they were doing it.
We don`t.The majority of the people in the United States have no idea that we are living of the benefits of the Empire,that today there is more slavery in the world than ever before.
Obviously,our presidents in The United States are not emperors,an emperor is someone who`s not elected,doesn`t serve a limited term and doesn`t report to anyone,essentially.
I don`t know who the emperor is,but we do have what I consider to be the equivalent of the emperor.It`s what I call
CORPORATOCRACY
As corporations set policies for the government,they become government policies,so there is an incredibly cosy relationship on this level.
This isn`t a conspiracy theory type of thing,these people don`t have to gather to plot things,they all basicly work under one primary assumption and that is that they must maximize profits,regardless of the social and environmental cost.
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