Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition

Liz writes. I love your show canis. Please read confessions of an economic hitman

There was a good book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, where he talks about how we've done a lot of those things in Brazil, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia...

Neil pulled the confessions of a hitman.

yeah, it reminds me of that book, Something of an Economic Hitman. Do you know that book? They're very similar.

If you want a great book, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", read that.

And we've talked about that book was a confessions of an economic hitman Where he talks about on the larger scale basically go to country you say You are now part of our machine in our Empire And if they say no, then you offer a bunch of money and say hey We'll give you all these things They say no Then you stage a coup and remove them from power and install someone who will do what you want them to do.

It is the people don't get to choose their elected officials unless they're pre-approved by this one And this one doesn't pre-approve of me you need a strong party to I think you should go public with this and then say hey They don't want there I turn my key in my car Then I turn my key in my car and it goes Very powerful people Sent this man to bribe Carrie Lake into dropping out because they want their pre-approved candidates To be put in place and they were gonna pay her off so that she would stop trying and this man says if he goes Public they will kill him it with a car bomb now Maybe he doesn't literally mean car bomb But he no no no no no no I turn my key in my car and come on I think the implication is very very obvious

I read that book.

It's a great book.

Well, you know, it's this is one of these things I mean my responsibility was cyber, you know I I didn't I wasn't in control like a regional desk. I didn't do like, you know CEE or or mean or like or middle east north africa. I it was you know, I was focused on on on internet um, but you know The fact is is is what's reflected in there, you know There's actually almost no better example of the validity Of the john perkins sort of theory of the world Then then a little operation known as the integrity initiative, which was a busted british intelligence operation Starring folks like an apple bomb nina jankovitz bill browder ben nimo all these people who became the captains of censorship of the american internet Uh, who had these links to british intelligence and were also many of them were a board member There were several of them on the national endowment for democracy, which is one of the country's oldest cia cutouts They embarked in a basically internet censorship campaign in the name of stopping russian Russian propaganda after uh, after after the crimea annexation in 2014 and they One of the things so it was run by um, a guy christopher donnelly connelly Who was a former mi6 high ranking british military guy And one of the internal documents and videos that came out in the leaks Was countering the talking points related to the john perkins Uh, sort of acolytes that actually the british state was doing this according to a very predictable playbook But the fact is is you had this these weren't like random You know activists or college professors saying this this these were former Super heavyweight apex predators of the national security state Plotting operations to stop the populace from believing a theory in a book that makes them look bad I mean, this is this is organized political warfare turned domestically and anytime i see that Uh, I trust the target of that far more than the than the prosecutor yes

You're talking about Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

Economic hitmen are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.

They funnel money from the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development and other foreign aid organizations into the coffers of huge corporations in 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 that is old as empire, but one that has taken on a new and terrifying dimension during this time of globalization.

Economic hitmen are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.

They funnel money from the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development and other foreign aid organizations into the coffers of huge corporations in 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 that is old as empire, but one that has taken on a new and terrifying dimension during this time of globalization.

You can read Western economists arguing that war is a solution to domestic financial woes or economic woes and that of course reminded you and me of Smedley Butler and John Perkins the author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, which is a good read to check out.

And that of course reminded you and me of Smedley Butler and John Perkins the author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, which is a good read to check out.

Economic hitmen are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.

They funnel money from the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development and other foreign aid organizations into the coffers of huge corporations in 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 that is old as empire, but one that has taken on a new and terrifying dimension during this time of globalization.

You can read Western economists arguing that war is a solution to domestic financial woes or economic woes and that of course reminded you and me of Smedley Butler and John Perkins the author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, which is a good read to check out.

I think I always kind of believe that but I didn't want to believe it and there were all these things to tell me that wasn't true. But now I see that it is true.

I think that story is a very powerful one because it is true and what we did is economic hitmen.

And so the majority of the people suffered because money was diverted from health, education and other social services to pay the interest on the loans.

We weren't helping the poor get better lives. We were helping the rich get richer. We were helping the United States colonize a great deal of the world with US corporations primarily.

I get to say, those techniques are not winning us trends around the world.

I think I always kind of believe that but I didn't want to believe it and there were all these things to tell me that wasn't true. But now I see that it is true.

And so you know, I think that story is a very powerful one because it is true and what we did is economic hitmen.

I get to say, those techniques are not winning us trends around the world.

I think the Chinese have learned from the mistakes we Russians made and you Americans have made.

I think times have proven that I'm right and across my book and my stuff has been thoroughly vetted by many organizations including the New York Times and many others.

This reminds me of this book I read a while ago confessions of an economic hitman right I did read that that was great

I think I always kind of believe that but I didn't want to believe it and there were all these things to tell me that wasn't true. But now I see that it is true.

And so you know, I think that story is a very powerful one because it is true and what we did is economic hitmen.

And I think the reason I saw that was a lot of other people didn't was because I'd been in the Peace Corps I spent three years in Ecuador and the Amazon and the Andes working with very poor people who were on the other end of the deals they were the bad end of the deals and so I'd seen this I spoke Spanish fluently I was highly influenced by the head of state of Panama, Omiteri House who was very opposed to what the United States was doing and stood up against it and he was one of my clients I was sent down to bring him around and I not only could I not bring him around but in a way he brought me around he really helped me understand he and a lot of other things were going on helped me understand that what we were doing was not at all what we were trying to convey that we were doing it wasn't the impression that we were sending out to the world we weren't doing that we weren't helping the poor get better lies we were helping the rich get richer we're helping the United States colonize a great deal of the world with US corporations primarily.

I don't think even after a couple of beers a good spies every call himself a spy or a spook but they might do it you have with their buddies doesn't I don't know but yeah yeah I mean it is a term that we kind of use tongue in chief kind laughing about it sometimes but it certainly wasn't on our business cards

I'm being hit you know I do it exactly what I done to leave some other country here here's a handful of money yeah or right you know you know it comes next so how come what did you cash the check is that what we're having this conversation

This reminds me of this book I read a while ago, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.