Global Economics Explained: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and Corruption (2012)
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According to Perkins, he began writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man in the 1980s, but "threats or bribes always convinced [him] to stop." His books: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=tra0c7-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=defa2f0bdfa42dfc9e2d3915895e5fcf&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=john%20perkins According to his book, Perkins' function was to convince the political and financial leadership of underdeveloped countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID. Saddled with debts they could not hope to pay, those countries were forced to acquiesce to political pressure from the United States on a variety of issues. Perkins argues in his book that developing nations were effectively neutralized politically, had their wealth gaps driven wider and economies crippled in the long run. In this capacity Perkins recounts his meetings with some prominent individuals, including Graham Greene and Omar Torrijos. Perkins describes the role of an EHM as follows: Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. The epilogue to the 2006 edition provides a rebuttal to the current move by the G8 nations to forgive Third World debt. Perkins charges that the proposed conditions for this debt forgiveness require countries to privatise their health, education, electric, water and other public services. Those countries would also have to discontinue subsidies and trade restrictions that support local business, but accept the continued subsidization of certain G8 businesses by the US and other G8 countries, and the erection of trade barriers on imports that threaten G8 industries. In the book, Perkins repeatedly denies the existence of a "conspiracy." Instead, Perkins carefully discusses the role of corporatocracy.[2] -- November 4, 2004 interview I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. The first real economic hit man was back in the early 1950s, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., the grandson of Teddy, who overthrew the government of Iran, a democratically elected government, Mossadegh's government who was Time's magazine person of the year; and he was so successful at doing this without any bloodshed—well, there was a little bloodshed, but no military intervention, just spending millions of dollars and replaced Mossadegh with the Shah of Iran. At that point, we understood that this idea of economic hit man was an extremely good one. We didn't have to worry about the threat of war with Russia when we did it this way. The problem with that was that Roosevelt was a C.I.A. agent. He was a government employee. Had he been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. So, at that point, the decision was made to use organizations like the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. to recruit potential economic hit men like me and then send us to work for private consulting companies, engineering firms, construction companies, so that if we were caught, there would be no connection with the government. Columnist Sebastian Mallaby of The Washington Post reacted sharply to Perkins' book:[3] "This man is a frothing conspiracy theorist, a vainglorious peddler of nonsense, and yet his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is a runaway bestseller." Mallaby, who spent 13 years writing for the London Economist and wrote a critically well-received biography of World Bank chief James Wolfensohn,[4] holds that Perkins' conception of international finance is "largely a dream" and that his "basic contentions are flat wrong".[3] For instance he points out that Indonesia reduced its infant mortality and illiteracy rates by two-thirds after economists persuaded its leaders to borrow money in 1970. He also disputes Perkins' claim that 51 of the top 100 world economies belong to companies. A value-added comparison done by the UN, he says, shows the number to be 29. (The 51 of 100 data comes from an Institute for Policy Studies Dec 2000 Report on the Top 200 corporations; using 2010 data from the CIA's World Factbook and Fortune Global 500[5][6] the current ratio is 114 corporations in the top 200 global economies.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_hit_men
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You are a horrible speaker!
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I AM A THOMAS PAINE & USA ADMIRER, I ALSO SUPPORT WOMEN AND MEN WHO LOVE THEM - TO USE THEIR TALENTS. GO TRUMP / PENCE 2016! NOW IS THE TIME. WOULD LOVE PERKINS TO SPEAK TO TRUMP ALSO.
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Corporations are not trying to create a better world. Their evil psychotic goals include reducing the worlds population for their sick satanic New World Order. The people who run this world are pure evil. This is every bit as much of a Spiritual warfare as anything else.
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Some people may think he is scum but he had to do a job just like everyone else that in one way or another is bribed into doing things to suit the bankers and the upper class. Voting for politicians is one big bribed system. He was paid well for what he did but he woke somewhere along the line and is telling the world about corpratocracy. and its evil intentions. Can we not learn from that?
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I really don't like this guy. He is scum. After getting his share of the pie, and making a killing being an "Economic Hit Man". He now says lets stop. That is after he got his score. What scum.
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Edward Albee: The Zoo Story & Theatre of the Absurd: Washington has already fall, as the brainwash is deep "who are the creditors, who owns the banks and where is technology. Washington is AIPAC: as the NATO problem of Europe is the AIPAC problem of America, which is Puerto Rico destruction of the island in other words. To liberate America can be done, by liberating Europe from America, only the American’s can end NATO, in consequence the market rigging ceases to be as the racial wars and financial lootings.
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he is talkin nonsense wen he says women build nest ,men destroy it!! seriously all the highways , science and technology everything is build by men . this guy is nut case
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Also the root problem is our monetary system and the fear, egoism and materialism it induces ... apparently he hasn't understood much yet ... he is just talking about symptoms.
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There is no good form of capitalism. Fear based economics always results in what we have got today over the course of a few decades.
Also 90% of our jobs are destructive and meaningless systemic #bullshitjobs which benefit nobody. Markets and systemic competition is obsolete ... wake up ... -
They are still doing this now...
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"threats or bribes always convinced [him] to stop."
so he compromised by agreeing to push the divide and conquer gender issues that will distract from the more critical issues. Now, instead of fearing for his life, he tours the lecture tracks. -
The speech itself proves that slavery has only taken a different form and expanded.
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Good speech... two points:
Lincoln cared nothing for slaves - they were a political pawn. He wrote words to the effect that if he could win without releasing a single slave he would.
Re. Woodrow Wilson: Is John saying in effect that the Women traded the vote for the lives of their husbands and sons because it sounded like it - such an argument strongly suggests women and the vote are a bad mix. -
i had never thought of the multinational corporations as a good thing.
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This guy is awesome
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Very true....amazing!
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