Washington, D.C. - mob world headquarters
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From:
The Secret History of the American Empire:
Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption
by John Perkins 2007
http://johnperkins.org
page 141
...In December 2005 Evo Morales won a landslide victory to become Bolivia's first Indian president...announced that he would cut his salary in half...Bolivia's anticorporatocracy revolutionary movement...
The mainstream press in the United States openly deceived its U.S. audiences...conveyed the impression that Morales was a "Communist" and "agent of Castro."...
...,"The looting by the foreign companies has ended."...
page 146
Chapter 27 A History of Assassinations
"I walked into El Presidente's office two days after he was elected and congratulated him.
He sat behind that big desk grinning at me like a Cheshire Cat.
I stuck my left hand into my jacket pocket and said, 'Mr. President, in here I got a couple hundred million dollars for you and your family, if you play the game - you know, be kind to my friends who run the oil companies, treat your Uncle Sam good.' Then I stepped closer, reached my right hand into the other pocket, bent down next to his face, and whispered, 'In here I got a gun and a bullet with your name on it - in case you decide to keep your campaign promises.'
I stepped back, sat down, and recited a little list for him, of presidents who were assassinated or overthrown because they had defied Uncle Sam: from Diem to Torrijos - you know the routine.
He got the message."
...No sane person assassinates a head of state without first trying to bring him around. No politician or CIA agent would consider it. Not even the most hardened mafioso would do that. It is simply too risky. And too messy. There are so many possibilities for error. You always send emissaries first. They offer the carrot of corruption and then, if that does not work, they threaten the stick of coup or assassination.
When I was sent on similar assignments, I was more subtle...
page 148
...President Chavez spoke about his own contacts with EHMs [economic hit men] and jackals on Venezuelan radio
...said he was offered funds from the IMF if he agreed to surveillance flights and the presence of U.S. advisers...Even though he refused their offers...hit men did not give up..."We have defeated the economic hit men and the jackals, and if they even consider coming back, we will defeat them again,"...
...several members of the U.S. armed forces approached me with accounts of maneuvers on Colombian soil aimed at a military invasion of Venezuela...deeply concerned about the course their country was taking; they did not dare go public but they wanted the American people to hear about their experiences.
Colombia is the glaring exception to the hemispheric anti-corporatocracy movements...Washington's surrogate. Shored up by massive U.S. taxpayer assistance and armies of corporate-sponsored mercenaries, as well as formal U.S. military support, it has become the keystone in Washington's attempt to regain regional domination. Although official justification for U.S. involvement centers on drug wars, this is a subterfuge for protecting oil interests against grassroots opposition to foreign exploitation.
Raul Zibechi,...professor at the Franciscan Multiversity of Latin America, points out that Colombia is now the world's fourth-largest beneficiary of U.S. military aid, behind Israel, Egypt, and Iraq...states that he and other analysts have concluded that Washington is creating a South American unified armed force, commanded by the Pentagon, that is a military version of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas and is headquartered in Colombia.
...stationed in Colombia were to establish a U.S. presence and to train Latin soldiers as part of a United States commanded Southern Unified Army...
"Everything we do in Colombia just makes it more attractive for the drug business...Why do you think the situation keeps getting worse there? Because we want it to, we're behind the drug trafficking. The CIA is - just like it was in Asia's Golden Triangle. And in Central America and Iran during Iran-Contra. And the British with opium in China. Coke provides illicit money, in the billions - for clandestine activities - and an excuse to build up our armies. What more can you ask? We're there, men like me in the legit army, to protect oil and to invade Venezuela. The drug game is a smokescreen."
A former U.S. Green Beret officer told me that a mercenary army was being assembled in Guyana, along the Venezuelan border. He said that all the men were combat-hardened paratroopers, training for jungle warfare and learning Spanish.
"We got wars under way in Afghanistan and Iraq. No jungles there. No Spanish. So what's the point? But guess where there's lots of jungle? Venezuela. And they speak Spanish in Venezuela. In addition to guys like me - U.S., British, and South African mercenaries - there's a lot of guys in Guyana from Latin militaries, mostly WHINSEC graduates."
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) formerly the School of the Americas (SOA), trains Latin soldiers in combat, counterinsurgency, interrogation, torture, spying, communications, and assassination. Its graduates include some of the continent's most notorious generals and dictators. SOA was located in the Panama Canal Zone until Omar Torrijos insisted on its removal. The fact that Manuel Noriega would not allow it back after Torrijos's death is one of the reasons the United States placed him on its "Most Wanted" list. Both Torrijos and Noriega were SOA graduates and both understood the power it wielded as an antidemocratic institution. It was moved to Fort Benning, Georgia, and in 2001 its name was changed in an attempt to dampen growing criticism...
...Jaime Roldos...the Ecuadorian president who refused to be corrupted by me and other EHMs...died in a plane crash...1981...my belief that it was not an accident; that he had been assassinated by the CIA...Washington and the oil companies hated him...
page 277
...corporations...bribe politicians to write laws that cheat society on a mammoth scale, most significantly by allowing them to avoid paying many of the very real costs incurred in conducting their businesses. What economists refer to as "externalities" are left out of pricing calculations. These include the social and environmental costs of destruction of valuable resources, pollution, the burdens on society of workers who become injured or ill and receive little or no health care, the indirect funding received when companies are permitted to market hazardous products, dump wastes into oceans and rivers, pay employees less than a living wage, provide substandard working conditions, and extract natural resources from public lands at less than market prices. Furthermore, most corporations are dependent on public subsidies, exemptions, massive advertising and lobbying campaigns, and complex transportation and communications systems that are underwritten by taxpayers; their executives receive inflated salaries, perks, and "golden retirement parachutes," which are written off as tax deductions.
Under proper accounting all these "externalities" would be factored into the costs of products. Those goods and services that are inherently "clean" should also be the cheapest. Consumers would pay a premium for products that strain the environment and society; the price would include funds for correcting the damage. In a truly "free" market economy, these very real costs would be "internalized" - included. But they are not. Why? Because accounting firms are not obligated to enforce sound accounting principles; they only need to adhere to those required by the laws - which are written by politicians who are dependent on the corporatocracy.
Modern corporations have all the rights of individuals but none of the responsibilities. In fact, they are licensed to steal. From an economic standpoint, there is simply no other word for it. They plunder the poor and future generations in order to further enrich the wealthy...
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http://environmentalrepublican.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_archive.html
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Paul Wellstone
http://assassinationresearch.com
http://assassinationscience.com
http://www.catholicnewtimes.org/index.php?module=xarpages&func=display&pid=10
http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2006/07/kevin-barrett-james-fetzer-911.html
http://www.wellstone.org/archive/sites/index.aspx
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astronaut Edgar Mitchell
http://edmitchellapollo14.com/links.htm
http://thomaspecora.com/mainpage.html
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From:
The Secret History of the American Empire:
Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption
by John Perkins 2007
http://johnperkins.org
page 141
...In December 2005 Evo Morales won a landslide victory to become Bolivia's first Indian president...announced that he would cut his salary in half...Bolivia's anticorporatocracy revolutionary movement...
The mainstream press in the United States openly deceived its U.S. audiences...conveyed the impression that Morales was a "Communist" and "agent of Castro."...
...,"The looting by the foreign companies has ended."...
page 146
Chapter 27 A History of Assassinations
"I walked into El Presidente's office two days after he was elected and congratulated him.
He sat behind that big desk grinning at me like a Cheshire Cat.
I stuck my left hand into my jacket pocket and said, 'Mr. President, in here I got a couple hundred million dollars for you and your family, if you play the game - you know, be kind to my friends who run the oil companies, treat your Uncle Sam good.' Then I stepped closer, reached my right hand into the other pocket, bent down next to his face, and whispered, 'In here I got a gun and a bullet with your name on it - in case you decide to keep your campaign promises.'
I stepped back, sat down, and recited a little list for him, of presidents who were assassinated or overthrown because they had defied Uncle Sam: from Diem to Torrijos - you know the routine.
He got the message."
...No sane person assassinates a head of state without first trying to bring him around. No politician or CIA agent would consider it. Not even the most hardened mafioso would do that. It is simply too risky. And too messy. There are so many possibilities for error. You always send emissaries first. They offer the carrot of corruption and then, if that does not work, they threaten the stick of coup or assassination.
When I was sent on similar assignments, I was more subtle...
page 148
...President Chavez spoke about his own contacts with EHMs [economic hit men] and jackals on Venezuelan radio
...said he was offered funds from the IMF if he agreed to surveillance flights and the presence of U.S. advisers...Even though he refused their offers...hit men did not give up..."We have defeated the economic hit men and the jackals, and if they even consider coming back, we will defeat them again,"...
...several members of the U.S. armed forces approached me with accounts of maneuvers on Colombian soil aimed at a military invasion of Venezuela...deeply concerned about the course their country was taking; they did not dare go public but they wanted the American people to hear about their experiences.
Colombia is the glaring exception to the hemispheric anti-corporatocracy movements...Washington's surrogate. Shored up by massive U.S. taxpayer assistance and armies of corporate-sponsored mercenaries, as well as formal U.S. military support, it has become the keystone in Washington's attempt to regain regional domination. Although official justification for U.S. involvement centers on drug wars, this is a subterfuge for protecting oil interests against grassroots opposition to foreign exploitation.
Raul Zibechi,...professor at the Franciscan Multiversity of Latin America, points out that Colombia is now the world's fourth-largest beneficiary of U.S. military aid, behind Israel, Egypt, and Iraq...states that he and other analysts have concluded that Washington is creating a South American unified armed force, commanded by the Pentagon, that is a military version of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas and is headquartered in Colombia.
...stationed in Colombia were to establish a U.S. presence and to train Latin soldiers as part of a United States commanded Southern Unified Army...
"Everything we do in Colombia just makes it more attractive for the drug business...Why do you think the situation keeps getting worse there? Because we want it to, we're behind the drug trafficking. The CIA is - just like it was in Asia's Golden Triangle. And in Central America and Iran during Iran-Contra. And the British with opium in China. Coke provides illicit money, in the billions - for clandestine activities - and an excuse to build up our armies. What more can you ask? We're there, men like me in the legit army, to protect oil and to invade Venezuela. The drug game is a smokescreen."
A former U.S. Green Beret officer told me that a mercenary army was being assembled in Guyana, along the Venezuelan border. He said that all the men were combat-hardened paratroopers, training for jungle warfare and learning Spanish.
"We got wars under way in Afghanistan and Iraq. No jungles there. No Spanish. So what's the point? But guess where there's lots of jungle? Venezuela. And they speak Spanish in Venezuela. In addition to guys like me - U.S., British, and South African mercenaries - there's a lot of guys in Guyana from Latin militaries, mostly WHINSEC graduates."
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) formerly the School of the Americas (SOA), trains Latin soldiers in combat, counterinsurgency, interrogation, torture, spying, communications, and assassination. Its graduates include some of the continent's most notorious generals and dictators. SOA was located in the Panama Canal Zone until Omar Torrijos insisted on its removal. The fact that Manuel Noriega would not allow it back after Torrijos's death is one of the reasons the United States placed him on its "Most Wanted" list. Both Torrijos and Noriega were SOA graduates and both understood the power it wielded as an antidemocratic institution. It was moved to Fort Benning, Georgia, and in 2001 its name was changed in an attempt to dampen growing criticism...
...Jaime Roldos...the Ecuadorian president who refused to be corrupted by me and other EHMs...died in a plane crash...1981...my belief that it was not an accident; that he had been assassinated by the CIA...Washington and the oil companies hated him...
page 277
...corporations...bribe politicians to write laws that cheat society on a mammoth scale, most significantly by allowing them to avoid paying many of the very real costs incurred in conducting their businesses. What economists refer to as "externalities" are left out of pricing calculations. These include the social and environmental costs of destruction of valuable resources, pollution, the burdens on society of workers who become injured or ill and receive little or no health care, the indirect funding received when companies are permitted to market hazardous products, dump wastes into oceans and rivers, pay employees less than a living wage, provide substandard working conditions, and extract natural resources from public lands at less than market prices. Furthermore, most corporations are dependent on public subsidies, exemptions, massive advertising and lobbying campaigns, and complex transportation and communications systems that are underwritten by taxpayers; their executives receive inflated salaries, perks, and "golden retirement parachutes," which are written off as tax deductions.
Under proper accounting all these "externalities" would be factored into the costs of products. Those goods and services that are inherently "clean" should also be the cheapest. Consumers would pay a premium for products that strain the environment and society; the price would include funds for correcting the damage. In a truly "free" market economy, these very real costs would be "internalized" - included. But they are not. Why? Because accounting firms are not obligated to enforce sound accounting principles; they only need to adhere to those required by the laws - which are written by politicians who are dependent on the corporatocracy.
Modern corporations have all the rights of individuals but none of the responsibilities. In fact, they are licensed to steal. From an economic standpoint, there is simply no other word for it. They plunder the poor and future generations in order to further enrich the wealthy...
======
http://environmentalrepublican.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_archive.html
======
Paul Wellstone
http://assassinationresearch.com
http://assassinationscience.com
http://www.catholicnewtimes.org/index.php?module=xarpages&func=display&pid=10
http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2006/07/kevin-barrett-james-fetzer-911.html
http://www.wellstone.org/archive/sites/index.aspx
======
astronaut Edgar Mitchell
http://edmitchellapollo14.com/links.htm
http://thomaspecora.com/mainpage.html
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