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Wed, 3/4/09, farhan mir wrote:
Subject: Corporatocracy - The
Global Empire for Global Enslavement - Confessions of an
Economic Hitman - Part 1
FARHAN
MIR.
Hi
I have cached an interview/
conversation b/w the former Economic Hit Man Mr. John Perkins
and the representative of democracy now, an interview with eye
catching but painful facts.
For the results of following interview, I leave to you.
Make your own decision.
As an introduction, John Perkins
was a former Economic Hit Man , shortly called EHM, a never
mentioned JOB on company's payroll, as employed by the
"Chas. T. Main" located in Boston. The
company shortly called MAIN and he was the Chief Economist of
the same.
MAIN , aparantly was an engineering and
construction company, but interesting to note that, MAIN never
completed or engaged in any construction project or engineering
assignment.. .never ever in the world.
So what's MAIN
really business is..? good question...
MAIN real business
was consulting, feasability preparation, forecasting,
projections about mega construction and engineering project in
the world......projects for which Multinationals and World
Financial / Banking institutions were very much interested to
finance, on long term LOAN basis...needless to mention on
interest loan basis.
Initially John was trained and
employed by the NSA (National Security Agency) a spy
organization never heard or written about that, anywhere in the
world.
Instead of going further into details, let's go to
the interview text of John Perkins.
Here we go..........
......... ..
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins
joins us now in our firehouse studio. Welcome to Democracy
Now!
JOHN
PERKINS: Thank you, Amy.
It’s great to be here.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you
with us. Okay, explain this term, “economic hit man,” e.h.m., as
you call it.
JOHN
PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what
our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring --
to create situations where as many resources as possible flow
into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and
in fact we’ve been very successful. We’ve built the largest
empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last
50 years since World War II with very little military might,
actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the
military comes in as a last resort. This empire, unlike any
other in the history of the world, has been built primarily
through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud,
through seducing people into our way of life, through the
economic hit men. I was very much a part of
that.
AMY
GOODMAN: How did you become one? Who did you work
for?
JOHN
PERKINS: Well, 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 1950's,
Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of Teddy, who overthrew of
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.
AMY GOODMAN: Okay. Explain the company
you worked for.
JOHN
PERKINS: Well, the company I worked for was a company
named Chas. T. Main in Boston, Massachusetts. We were about
2,000 employees, and I became its chief economist. I ended up
having fifty people working for me. But my real job was
deal-making. It was giving loans to other countries, huge loans,
much bigger than they could possibly repay. One of the
conditions of the loan–let's say a $1 billion to a country like
Indonesia or Ecuador–and this country would then have to give
ninety percent of that loan back to a U.S. company, or U.S.
companies, to build the infrastructure–a Halliburton or a
Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in
and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these
would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families
in those countries. The poor people in those countries would be
stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn’t
possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty
percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it
really can’t do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel.
So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, “Look,
you're not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil
companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil.”
And today we're going in and destroying Amazonian rain forests,
forcing Ecuador to give them to us because they’ve accumulated
all this debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back
to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus
lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our
slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It’s a
huge empire. It's been extremely successful.
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to John
Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. You say
because of bribes and other reason you didn't write this book
for a long time. What do you mean? Who tried to bribe you, or
who -- what are the bribes you accepted?
JOHN
PERKINS: Well, I accepted a half a million dollar bribe
in the nineties not to write the book.
AMY GOODMAN: From?
JOHN
PERKINS: From a major construction engineering
company.
AMY
GOODMAN: Which one?
JOHN
PERKINS: Legally speaking, it wasn't -- Stoner-Webster.
Legally speaking it wasn't a bribe, it was -- I was being paid
as a consultant. This is all very legal. But I essentially did
nothing. It was a very understood, as I explained in Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man, that it was -- I was -- it was
understood when I accepted this money as a consultant to them I
wouldn't have to do much work, but I mustn't write any books
about the subject, which they were aware that I was in the
process of writing this book, which at the time I called
“Conscience of an Economic Hit Man.” And I have to tell you,
Amy, that, you know, it’s an extraordinary story from the
standpoint of -- It's almost James Bondish, truly, and I
mean--
AMY
GOODMAN: Well that's certainly how the book
reads.
JOHN
PERKINS: Yeah, and it was, you know? And when the
National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day
of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and
immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our
culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. I come from a
very old New England family, Calvinist, steeped in amazingly
strong moral values. I think I, you know, I’m a good person
overall, and I think my story really shows how this system and
these powerful drugs of sex, money and power can seduce people,
because I certainly was seduced. And if I hadn't lived this life
as an economic hit man, I think I’d have a hard time believing
that anybody does these things. And that's why I wrote the book,
because our country really needs to understand, if people in
this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about,
what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our
tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to John
Perkins. In your book, you talk about how you helped to
implement a secret scheme that funneled billions of dollars of
Saudi Arabian petrol dollars back into the U.S. economy, and
that further cemented the intimate relationship between the
House of Saud and successive U.S. administrations.
Explain.
JOHN
PERKINS: Yes, it was a fascinating time. I remember well,
you're probably too young to remember, but I remember well in
the early seventies how OPEC exercised this power it had, and
cut back on oil supplies. We had cars lined up at gas stations.
The country was afraid that it was facing another 1929-type of
crash–depression; and this was unacceptable. So, they -- the
Treasury Department hired me and a few other economic hit men.
We went to Saudi Arabia. We --
AMY GOODMAN: You're actually called
economic hit men --e.h.m.’s?
JOHN
PERKINS: Yeah, it was a tongue-in-cheek term that we
called ourselves. Officially, I was a chief economist. We called
ourselves e.h.m.'s. It was tongue-in-cheek. It was like, nobody
will believe us if we say this, you know? And, so, we went to
Saudi Arabia in the early seventies. We knew Saudi Arabia was
the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the
situation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House
of Saud agreed to send most of their petro-dollars back to the United
States and invest them in U.S. government securities. The
Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities
to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia–new cities, new
infrastructure–which we’ve done. And the House of Saud would agree to maintain
the price of oil within acceptable limits to us, which
they’ve done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the House
of Saud in power as long as they did this, which we’ve
done, which is one of the reasons we went to war with Iraq in
the first place. And in Iraq we tried to implement the same
policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When
the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the
jackals. Jackals are C.I.A.-sanctioned people that come in and
try to foment a coup or revolution. If that doesn't work,
they perform assassinations. or
try to. In the case of Iraq, they weren't able to get through to
Saddam Hussein. He had -- His bodyguards were too good. He had
doubles. They couldn’t get through to him. So the third line of
defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next
line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to
die and kill, which is what we’ve obviously done in
Iraq.
AMY
GOODMAN: Can you explain how Torrijos died?
JOHN
PERKINS: Omar Torrijos,
the President of Panama. Omar Torrijos had signed the Canal
Treaty with Carter much -- and, you know, it passed our congress
by only one vote. It was a highly contended issue. And
Torrijos then also went ahead and negotiated with the Japanese to build
a sea-level canal. The
Japanese wanted to finance and construct a sea-level canal in
Panama. Torrijos talked to them about this which very
much upset Bechtel Corporation, whose president was George Schultz and
senior council was Casper Weinberger. When Carter was thrown out (and that’s an
interesting story–how that actually happened), when he lost the
election, and Reagan came in and Schultz came in as Secretary of
State from Bechtel, and Weinberger came from Bechtel to be
Secretary of Defense, they were extremely angry at
Torrijos -- tried to get him to renegotiate the Canal
Treaty and not to talk to the Japanese. He adamantly refused. He was a very principled man. He had
his problem, but he was a very principled man. He was an amazing
man, Torrijos. And so, he
died in a fiery airplane crash, which was connected to a tape
recorder with explosives in it, which -- I was there. I
had been working with him. I
knew that we economic hit men had failed. I knew the jackals
were closing in on him, and the next thing, his plane exploded
with a tape recorder with a bomb in it. There's no question in
my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most -- many Latin
American investigators have come to the same conclusion.
Of course, we never heard about that in our
country.
AMY
GOODMAN: So, where -- when did your change your heart
happen?
JOHN
PERKINS: I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I
was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money,
was extremely strong for me. And, of course, I was doing things
I was being patted on the back for. I was chief economist. I was
doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so
on.
AMY
GOODMAN: How closely did you work with the World
Bank?
JOHN
PERKINS: Very, very
closely with the World Bank. The World Bank provides most of the
money that’s used by economic hit men, it and the I.M.F.
But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story
had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result
of what the economic hit men are doing. And the only way that
we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're
going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems
we’ve put into place to create positive change around the world.
I really believe we can do that. I believe the World Bank and
other institutions can be turned around and do what they were
originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated
parts of the world. Help -- genuinely help poor people. There
are twenty-four thousand people starving to death every day. We
can change that.
AMY
GOODMAN: John Perkins, I want to thank you very much for being
with us. John Perkins' book is called, Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man.
regards
Ahsan
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