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u/Gella321 · 46 pointsr/ToiletPaperUSA

Read “confessions of an economic hitman”
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man https://www.amazon.com/dp/1626566747/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_suAuDb31HGYN9

u/mossmoon · 21 pointsr/btc

Honestly, HK was the moment it became clear that Maxwell was the John Perkins of Bitcoin. "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" is a [must read] (https://www.amazon.com/New-Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man/dp/1626566747/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAjw-vjqBRA6EiwAe8TCk254CMFgWS5WkHrigKup-qO1WsyaHNBY5rkXqYfCmZIKRnH3os7KcRoCS1oQAvD_BwE&hvadid=241649512469&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9003807&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=7987636783898004792&hvtargid=kwd-45416145523&hydadcr=22595_10356262&keywords=confessions+of+the+economic+hitman&qid=1566534501&s=gateway&sr=8-1) to understand the hijacking of Bitcoin. It took only one guy on the inside of Chas T. Main engineering to put countries billions in debt. To put Bitcoin in the hands of the banks it took only one neckbeard rat willing to sell out.

Signing the HK agreement proves strongly suggests that u/adam3us and u/luke-jr were out of the loop.

u/formerprof · 8 pointsr/politics

We assassinated leaders. We supported the overthrow of a number of democratically elected leaders financially and militarily. We installed despots who sold their peoples' birthrights. Some of those despots received IMF loans which went straight into their Swiss bank accounts. Some of those countries continue to carry the burden of this debts to this day! We built alliances with drug lords and armed and trained their protectors. The CIA was caught flooding inner cities in Californa with drugs from our 'friends' in Latin America. This is all well known and here Obama acknowledges at least some of it and apologizes. He must if we hope to do business with the emerging nations. China is encumbered with no such legacy. Hillary says she will look to Kissinger for advice! This is why Hillarys glorification of Kissinger is so apalling to Bernie. He was objecting to these criminal policies vigorously back in the day. The books below are a must read. It will help you understand the Hillary Hate.
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458068896&sr=1-2&keywords=killing+hope+u.s.+military+and+cia+interventions+since+world+war+ii+by+william+blum
And Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire http://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Consequences-American-Empire-Project/dp/0805075593/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458841254&sr=1-1&keywords=Blow+back+Chalmers+Johnson
And The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman http://www.amazon.com/New-Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man/dp/1626566747/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458841994&sr=1-1&keywords=confessions+of+an+economic+hitman+by+john+perkins

u/subdep · 6 pointsr/conspiracy
u/man-up · 5 pointsr/InfrastructurePorn

Projects like this are straight out of Confessions of an Economic Hitman

u/fitzroy95 · 3 pointsr/worldpolitics

Yes I have, he released a newer revised version a couple of years ago with lots more details

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

u/repulsedmonkey · 2 pointsr/academiceconomics

Confessions of an Economic Hitman, a NYT best seller, contends that it's part of a devious scheme on the part of the developed world to impoverish the poor by giving them loans that they are forced to spend on developed-country goods, and which they can never pay off, which traps them into a perpetual cycle of dependency. Entertaining read if you like conspiracy theories and spy novels.

u/hopeLB · 2 pointsr/WayOfTheBern

Well, in the military's defense, highly decorated General, Smedley Butler, did say, after years of post-service reflection, that war is a racket and that he was nothing but a henchman for Bankers, corporations and resource extractors. At least we have finally moved beyond this hypocrisy, pretending war is a liberating force. Now we can openly protest the nefariousness of this Empire-scaled civil forfeiture for blood and money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler


And about our later tactics;

https://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man

https://www.amazon.com/New-Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man/dp/1626566747

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u/eleitl · 2 pointsr/pwned

I have no idea what's in that dump, but given that it hasn't made the news it hardly warrants the term big.

It seems you like donquixotic crusades. If you want to hack the bad guys, try smoking out the people behind http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Confessions-Economic-Hit/dp/1626566747

The Russians are pikers in comparison.

Should you do so and succeed, I suggest you cover your tracks really well.

u/satanic_hamster · 2 pointsr/CapitalismVSocialism

> Capitalism has been consistently proven to raise the standards of living wherever it has been tried.

Google the word neoliberalism sometime, and spend a day researching it.

> Meanwhile, every single attempt at socialism - the USSR, the PRC, the DPRK, Venezuela, Cuba - has resulted in disaster, and has lowered the standards of living wherever it has been tried.

In what sense are these socialist, apart from what they call themselves in name? An anarcho-capitalist can have some actual, justified criticisms against socialism in practice (I've seen many), but when people like you plow forward with such an elementary misunderstanding, believe me when I say you look bad, even to your own camp.

The Zapatistas? The Paris Commune? The Ukrainian Free Territories? Revolutionary Catalonia? The Israeli Kibbutzim? That is your actual target.

> There is a reason why every single country that was once considered communist has transitioned towards capitalism...

Because they were bombed to hell in the interest of the capitalist class?

> ... and it should be no surprise to anyone that the standard of living has raised in these areas.

Like the four asian tigers did through State intervention? (And like the US did, also). Nothing even close to a free market prescription, albeit a quasi-capitalist one nevertheless.

u/iseethoughtcops · 2 pointsr/collapse

These guys: http://www.amazon.com/New-Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man/dp/1626566747

Look what just spring up: "you are doing that too much. try again in 7 minutes." Seven minutes! Who in hell is controlling this? I've been told to wait 1 minute in my many years on reddit...under different names.

u/BasedKeyboardWarrior · 2 pointsr/BlackPeopleTwitter

Well, I stand corrected.

This and this are what im reading at the moment. Just finished this. Also recommend this.

u/Serious_Feedback · 1 pointr/worldnews

> Sure, but they make those investments knowing full well that the country will never be able to repay them. It's literally imperialism with extra steps.

Good thing the western world never does anything like that.

u/Factsherrt · 1 pointr/worldnews

There's a book that details this sort of strategy that's been done by deep state crooks in the US forever, it's called "confessions of a economic hitman" by John Perkins

https://www.amazon.com/New-Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man/dp/1626566747

Short cartoon that summarizes it
https://youtu.be/37Dvt2EqXF4

Good book

u/qwertyaccess · 1 pointr/CatastrophicFailure
u/miazzelt40 · 1 pointr/geopolitics

Congrats! You found the one overseas Chinese military base. One. Russia has about a dozen overseas bases. Most are in the former USSR, but of course 2 are in Syria.

But the Russians and Chinese are amateurs when it comes to overseas military bases. Those petty bases pale in comparison to the 700, 800 or 1000 or whatever overseas military bases that our empire operates.

> The debt handcuffs China is slapping on governments across Africa and Latin America?

Are they really doing that? The Chinese and the governments involved say no.

Meanwhile, many have written this is exactly what US banks and our gov't does as a planned strategy.

To dismantle the semi-socialist countries of Africa and other places, western banks deliberately give them unpayable amounts of loans. Then when the targeted countries (it is a deliberate targeting strategy) are unable to pay off their loans, the US banks and our IMF/World Bank tools forces the targeted countries to sell off their public assets at discount prices to western capitalists. And voila! -- we gain control of a country's economy.

Former NSA employee and long-time international banker John Perkins managed to get approval from our "Deep State" security censors to allow him to actually publish a book about this, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." That link is to Amazon; it's definitely worth buying and reading since Perkins describes this process in detail.

u/NO_Quit · 1 pointr/collapse

For a Leftist reply, see this. Stopping immigration won't stop the corporations from ruining the planet. Even you admit that neoliberals use migration to lower wages (don't ignore that Capitalists had no problems exporting the industries themselves to the South to use the superexploited labor and that was and is more profound than migration), yet somehow your answer isn't fighting the system that creates such conditions of exploitation, but fighting the victims of destructive policies by the IMF, WB and WTO.

u/shiny_debris · 1 pointr/EndlessWar

> The USA doesn't rule over anywhere it's invaded.

Let's see, except for Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the entire US southwest (fully 1/2 of old Mexico).

The British Empire did not officially rule over Iraq. That evil empire invaded Iraq, put a puppet king in power, and then ruled from afar while economically exploiting the country. But everyone knew it was part of the British Empire.

That form of empire -- neo-imperialism/neo-colonialism -- has been often used by empires and is the US' preferred method. We put in puppet regimes and then economically exploit them while letting the locals deal with the headaches of actually running the country (the local leaders only demand a relatively small cut).

The classic US example is the Philippines. We invaded promising them independence. We then fought a vicious, brutal war to terrorize the Filipino people into submission when they realized we were liars and were not giving them independence.

We then ran the Philippines as a flat-out colony of the US for a half-century.

After WWII, we gave them "independence" -- with US corporations in complete control of the Filipino economy, of course -- and supported a dictator (Marcos) to rule the country. That's just how we roll.

Former NSA guy and int'l banker John Perkins wrote an entire book on the topic which included many of his first-hand experiences. Those experiences included everything from assassinations of uppity nationalist leaders who would not follow US orders and/or allow US/western corporations to run rampant in their countries, to deliberately giving loans to poor countries run by dictators that we knew they could not pay back all so we could later force them to sell off their national assets.

I'm simply baffled at how Americans can look at the world, see US military forces operating in over 100 countries, retaining bases in Germany and Japan 70+ years after we conquered them, routinely attacking country after country to install puppet governments, the US gov't doing every dirty trick in the book to control other supposedly-sovereign nations -- and then say that we are not an empire, and all with a straight face.

Edit: Typos.

> "I hate all forms of imperialism, and I consider the US brand to be the most loathsome and contemptible." -- Nelson Mandela.

u/IntnsRed · 1 pointr/worldpolitics

LMAO! I hope you're not an American or European who's saying that. :(

The US is populated by African-Americans who we literally brought here in chains on slave ships to build the US. We destroyed Africa's development, weakened their countries and set them back by an immeasurable amount.

Europe then seized Africa by military force, held them as literal colonies and ruthlessly exploiting the continent.

Post WWII we in the west perfected "neo-imperialism" and "neo-colonialism" -- controlling countries and their governments and economies from afar. We propped up corrupt dictators and gov'ts if they did what we told them, and subverted and overthrew them if they did not follow orders.

Int'l bankster John Perkins wrote a book about how US and western banks literally give unpayable amounts of "development" loans to corrupt gov'ts, all in a scheme for the banks to force the sell-offs of valuable assets when the African country inevitably cannot keep up with the payments on their loans.

Yet you have the gall to complain about what China has done in the past 20 years?

> "I hate all forms of imperialism, and I consider the US brand to be the most loathsome and contemptible." -- Nelson Mandela.

u/carrierfive · 1 pointr/worldpolitics

No way; I don't buy it. I'd recommend reading the book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by a former int'l banker.

The author details pretty well the "offer you can't refuse" arrangement the US gave the Saudis in the 70s: Invest most of your oil money in Wall Street or we'll overthrow your petty dictatorship. That was right around the time Jimmy Carter publicly announced the Carter Doctrine (forget the anti-Soviet spin of that doctrine; that was the US claiming hegemony over the Middle East) to let them know we were serious.

And what do you know -- today the US has military bases in Saudi Arabia to shout our domination of that country.

> "The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination....It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike." -- Investigative journalist David Armstrong, explaining the Pentagon's policy of "full spectrum dominance."