Let's clean up THIS corner too:
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"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."
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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
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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.
page 150
Raul Zibechi, a member of the editorial council of the weekly Brecha de Montevideo and a 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 (the Associated Press ranks it as number 3) and that the U.S. Embassy in Bogota is the second largest in the world, after Iraq. He 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 (FTAA) and is headquartered in Colombia.
The men who contacted me - two army privtes and a second lieutenant - substantiated Professor Zibechi's allegations. They asserted tht the real reasons they had been 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 (a term two of the three used).
"Everything we do in Colombia just makes it more attractive for the drug business," the lieutenant told me. "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)[aka School of the Assassins], trains Latin soldiers in combat, counterinsurgency, interrogation, torture, spying, communications, and assassination. It's graduates include some of the continents most notorious generals and dictators...
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"...Economic Hit Men (E.H.M.s) 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, and other foreign so-called 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 include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that's taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization..."
Former "Economic Hit Man" John Perkins on "The First Truly Global Empire" and its Impact on Latin America
- John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/03/1435206
http://johnperkins.org/Prologue.htm
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http://www.dreamchange.org
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verifiedvotingfoundation.org
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theland.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/garnaut-backs-soil-carbon-sequestration/1263433.aspx?src=enews
...include soil carbon in the greenhouse accounting process...
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"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."
+
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.
page 150
Raul Zibechi, a member of the editorial council of the weekly Brecha de Montevideo and a 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 (the Associated Press ranks it as number 3) and that the U.S. Embassy in Bogota is the second largest in the world, after Iraq. He 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 (FTAA) and is headquartered in Colombia.
The men who contacted me - two army privtes and a second lieutenant - substantiated Professor Zibechi's allegations. They asserted tht the real reasons they had been 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 (a term two of the three used).
"Everything we do in Colombia just makes it more attractive for the drug business," the lieutenant told me. "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)[aka School of the Assassins], trains Latin soldiers in combat, counterinsurgency, interrogation, torture, spying, communications, and assassination. It's graduates include some of the continents most notorious generals and dictators...
======
"...Economic Hit Men (E.H.M.s) 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, and other foreign so-called 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 include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that's taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization..."
Former "Economic Hit Man" John Perkins on "The First Truly Global Empire" and its Impact on Latin America
- John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/03/1435206
http://johnperkins.org/Prologue.htm
======
http://www.dreamchange.org
======
verifiedvotingfoundation.org
======
theland.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/garnaut-backs-soil-carbon-sequestration/1263433.aspx?src=enews
...include soil carbon in the greenhouse accounting process...
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