C-Span II/Confessions of an Economic Hit Man...Anyone Watching? 9:46a.m.

[KoKo]

Look for a replay...it's still on an fantastic! How we destabilze countries by using the World Bank to go into countries and use, GE, Bechtel, Halliburton and others to rebuild their infrastructure and stack their courts with people we can use.

Perkins said it's using our CIA and he used to be a Hit Man involved in this. Sounds like an excellent book to buy.

Tune in!
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Here's a link to an interview that Amy Goodman/Democracy now did with him if you can't watch the C-Span Booknotes feature:

Friday, December 31st, 2004
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions

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We spend the hour with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies. John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man - a highly paid professional who cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.

20 years ago Perkins began writing a book with the working title, "Conscience of an Economic Hit Men."

Perkins writes, "The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits - Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.

More of the interview here...and maybe you can get the audio archive.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/1546207

[EFerrari]

1. I'm watching, tuned in a few ago. This is amazing.

Perkins better have good security himself!

[KoKo]

2. Hope people will read transcript that I posted from Amy Goodman, here,

if they missed the C-Span Broadcast...

Here it is again:

Friday, December 31st, 2004
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions

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We spend the hour with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies. John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man - a highly paid professional who cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.

20 years ago Perkins began writing a book with the working title, "Conscience of an Economic Hit Men."

Perkins writes, "The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits - Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.

Much more at this link....
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/1546207

[EFerrari]

4. He just said, asked about our election, "long story. It may not

be over. . . "

Thanks for the link, I sure will use it.

[Just Me]

29. I strongly urge DUers to read the transcript!!!

Do Americans believe themselves STEALING FROM THE POOR IN ORDER TO CONCENTRATE WEALTH IN A FEW HANDS?

Americans haven't a clue.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Poppy Bush Is Right In The Middle Of It All

Within days of the Iraq invasion, Poppy & Baker and their Carlyle Group pals were running around Europe trying using the World Bank to "reschedule Iraq's debts" (translation: let them plunder whatever the oil and whatever else they can loot)...just the latest sorid chapter in this sorid family and bank's history.

One day I hope we really learn what happened in Latin America in the 80's...the place where the Carlyle Group and World Bank really did a lot of damage. Now they're doing it to the Middle East, and the bank continues to keep Africa in third world status for the cheap resources.

How ironic the Neo-Cons fret endlessly about "one world government" and demonize the U.N. as some global conspiracy, yet are the biggest supporters of enterprises that have done just that. I guess it's who your friends are.

[EFerrari]

5. It's just that they want to BE that government -- they are, essentially.

I love what they condemn, accuse others of and deny themselves, because those modes tell you what they're up do.

[KoKo]

6. Perkins did mention he had worked in Panama...and got into CIA

destabilizing the developing nations. His book sounds like an excellent read. I'm going to check it out today at the bookstore and see what he has about Poppy.

It sounds like he's blowing what we've been doing "behind the scenes" for decades....and he was excellent in expressing it...If is book is as good as this talk then we all need to buy it.

He says it's up to WE the People to change this.. Our politicians won't do it...(Well...we DU'ers know that for sure!)

[KharmaTrain]

7. I'm Definitely Watching This Later...

I wish I could remember the movie that portrayed the clandestine meetings of Ollie North & Noriega...I think it was an HBO movie...that allueded to the drugs for weapons schemes that were laundered in banks in Panama. Of course this brings up the crack cocaine flood that ensued. I know that goes far deeper than the scope of what Perkins is covering.

In the 70's, I had a copy of the "People's Almanac" by Irving Wallace & David Wallashinki...it was my prime desktop reference for the rest of the decade. In it there were profiles of each nation under "Who rules" and "Who Really Rules". Also in the nation listing were companies like General Electric, Citicorp, Exxon and so on...and how their economies dwarfed, and in many cases, dominated those of many other nations. It also had the World Bank listed (at that time under the rule of Robert McNamera) and how it was perpetuating the African and Latin American plantation systems through creating debtor societies.

I only hope one day we get a full picture of the connections of Carlyle, BCCI, Haliburton and everyone and everything inbetween. No doubt the ultimate criminal enterprise.

[EC]

22. I still have the People's Almanac somewhere around my house, bought the

second one too, but it wasn't as good, was a bit commercial. But the first one was one of the best resource materials I've owned. Even the chapter on Nostradamus made for really interesting reading...

[Al-CIAda]

8. Audio-

Audio-
Guest: John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
Fri., December 10, 2004
Deadline Live w/Jack Blood

mp3's-
pt1- Interview starts approx. half way through on this 1st clip...
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood1.mp3
pt2-CIA sequence of Empire (economics, assasinations, torture, vote rigging, etc.) Naming names...vote rigging!
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood2.mp3

Realplayer RAM-
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood.ram

[KoKo]

10. Excellent....My Real Player is streaming it now! Thanks for link....

it's from December when I guess the book came out...but many of us were so involved in the Election Aftermath and missed it.

I've never heard of Jack Blood....so thanks for the link. :-)'s

[mandyky]

9. I caught the tail end of his talk

He is excellent. Liz and Rachel had him on AAR a month orso ago. Let's all post to their blogs at AAR and have all the shows have him back on!

[hellbound-liberal]

11. His book is excellent! It needs to be shared with everyone

who wonders "why they hate us". We have been raping this planet for our own selfish desires for centuries and Perkins details the history of our foreign policy since the 1980s. I urge you all to get the book, read it and then donate it to your public library!

[mopinko]

16. yup, should be required reading

should be a du book club book.
just to clarify from a previous post, he did not have anything to do with the work of the 'jackals', as he calls them, cia and otherwise. he talks about them, and people who were their victims, and why.
but that is not what he did. he was an 'economist' aka whore.

[slor]

12. When is the rebroadcast?

[Just Me]

15. I'm reading the transcript. No wonder we are so hated!!!

Not "we" as in all Americans but rather the completely corrupt "corporatocracy"!!!

What they have done is so freakin' sickening!! :puke:

[KoKo]

13. Here's a link to Perkins Organization "Dream Change.org" working for

change around the world.

http://www.dreamchange.org/

Dream Change Home Page ~ WAKING OUR WORLD!

“When you look at the world we humans have created you may conclude that it was created by sleeping people, because awake, aware, conscious people would manifest a very different world.” – John Perkins, Dream Change founder and author

Dream Change was founded in the early 1990s to change consciousness. With the new millennium came the realization that a powerful grass-roots movement is necessary to channel the energy from our awakened individual consciousness into actions that create a more compassionate and just world. WOW! (WAKING OUR WORLD!) is that movement.

[hector459]

20. Going to join. thanks for the link. An excerpt of suggestions from JP

for preview of what this man is about. I feel like he is my soul mate.

"This book ends on a very positive note. John Perkins describes his reasons for optimism and invites us to create a better world. It is important to remember that every task begins with the desire and intention to make a difference. As facilitator, ask the group to consider adopting some of the actions below and open the floor to discussion:

-Replace the urge to go shopping with an activity such as reading or
exercising.
-Reduce your consumption of goods, including oil.
-Use the money saved from the above two items to become part of an
organization that supports your values (Rainforest Action Network,
Union of Concerned Scientists, Dream Change, etc.)
-Downsize your home, wardrobe, car, office, and other material
possessions.
-Protest against “free” trade agreements and against companies that
exploit desperate people in sweatshops or that pillage the
environment." http://www.dreamchange.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=9:9

[Just Me]

14. Thank you SO MUCH!!! I'm nominating for "greatest page"!!!

Every American should know about this horror 'cause it explains so much. :mad:

[lindsayg]

17. John Perkins will be on "coast to coast am" this tuesday

http://www.cjob.com has streaming audio

[hector459]

18. I've been pumping this book for weeks (check previous links)

It is an eye-opener and should make Americans wake up but it won't. They would rather watch Swift boat ads on TV and believe whatever Rush and Hannity and Coulter tell them to believe. Braindead and they must be proud of it!

But please read this book.

[Kimber Scott]

19. It's all so clear now. All the oil men in the White House, Halliburton in

Iraq, Hugo Chavez filling up sandbags, digging foxholes and chumming up to Fidel Castro. The Saudis, the Bushes. People setting themselves on fire at WTO meetings. And, I've finally figured out why we hate communism so much. It's bad for business.

What a lightbulb moment.

Thanks for the post. Now what? I feel like I did the first time I read Noam Chomsky.

Here's another light bulb moment: Take this whole premise of getting poor countries into so much debt they are "owned" by the corporatacracy and apply it to your average American schmoe. Now, you see why we have no time to pay attention to what these people are doing in our names. We're too busy paying the bills. And, even when we do pay attention, what difference does it make? Whoever THEY want to win, wins.

[KoKo]

21. I know...and now it's happening here with our "Vote." They've learned

how to "perfect it." WE are the tools just as the "emerging nations and
Third World countries have been in the past. It's quite fightening.

[AP]

25. Your last paragrpah is spot on. What is happening to middle class is...

...exactly the same thing that's happened to developing countries.

In the same way that a lot of private companies want a huge chunck of the wealth created by the development of overseas economies, even if that means that those countries might not see their economies develop fully, a lot of private banks are getting a big chunck of the wealth the middle class creates when they try to stay in the middle class, even though that means that they have to work more and get less from being middle class.

[leesa]

23. It's a great book and very easy to read. It is like a novel. I think it's

one that could be given to a conservative and they would understand it.

[MrScorpio]

24. To regular readers of Chomsky and Zinn his is nothing new

Foreign aid is a tool to exploit weak governments and economies in order to gain easy access to their natural resources and is used to further bolster our own currency.

[KoKo]

26. Let me put in a plug for our "DU Marketeers" too. "Ozy, 54, UIA's" who

post in the "Latest Breaking News Forum" here on DU EVERY DAY when the Market Bell Rings.

Those DU'ers and those who post in that DU FORUM have been posting about this for OVER A YEAR! So...I've got to give a PLUG and :toast: to our OWN DU'ers who have posted article after article on this from "Prudent Bear," "Jim Paplova" and "Mogambo," "CNN MONEY," "Bill Gross (MEGA BOND FUND GURU) and Steven Roach of Morgan Stanley Investments.

Also you could here little squeaks from Warren Buffet and others on this...they are out there...talking about this.

It's just NOW HITTING THE FAN! But Cheers and Kudo's to our DU Marketeers who've been at this "day after day, after day, after day, after day..... Yeah.. it's a little "Gold Buggy" but we NEED a GROUNDING....When are we gonna' get it?

[KoKo]

27. Kick for those who missed this. I linked the Amy Goodman transcript and

there's a link to Real Audio play of an interview with Perkins from the Jack Blood show. Just slide the button on "RA" to about 45 minutes into the show for the interview.

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. I'm buying his book. I caught the end of the program

and can't wait to read his book. I'm surprised he's still alive.

[flyarm]

30. read the book ..its incredible!! n/t

[flyarm]

31. my husband bought the book and he is not political..

at barnes and nobel the book was in the back room they had to go get it for him!! ..hubby is not a quick read..but he read it in 2 days..and then went back to book store and bought 25 of the books..and went driving around to all our repug friends even to where they worked and handed out the books and told them to read it and then pass it to another repug!!he got 12 calls in a matter of a couple days of the people he gave the book to and they were shocked by what the read..i guess they read the books because my hubby is so non political...if i gave it to them..they would have rolled their eyes when i walked out of the room!!..i can always feel those eye rolls when i walk away!! can't we all??

its a fantastic book every american should read..then all would know why we have enemies.

fly

[KingoftheJungle]

32. This ties directly into Madsen's article regarding "the family"

Check it at
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/1546207