Economic Hitmen

[Joanne98]

Run time: 02:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iljZQodDn2U   Posted on YouTube: August 29, 2010 By YouTube Member: polkasw Views on YouTube: 1   Posted on DU: August 29, 2010 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 1400

 
http://www.johnperkins.org/

[snot]

1. K&R'd

[valerief]

2. +666 trillion

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

Capitalism is cancer.

[elleng]

4. Kewl! John Perkins!

[Grinchie]

5. Thanks Joanne -- If only more people knew this and researched history themselves..

They would wake up and actually see the real enemy for what it is..

Perhaps they would be able to wake up and recognize the same systme that forces us into a docile mass of sheep, tehthered to the U.S. Dollar, which is created at will out of thin air to power the current unsustainable economic system.

[Joanne98]

6. You're welcome Grinchie

[underpants]

7. Read the book. I understood that was some movie talk

but I don't see where it has gone anywhere

[Pharaoh]

8. Nicely done!

K&R O8)

[swilton]

9. Although I highly recommend this

I disagree with John Perkins that the problem does not lie with capitalism. Capitalism is fatally flawed because it relies on a few underlying false premises. The most flawed of these underlying premises is that resources are unlimited.

[dotymed]

10. Capitalism

is a cancer on humanity.
It has spread and will eventually destroy the host (our world) but not before making us feel the agony of a slow and painful death.

[Raster]

15. And not just capitalism, CARNIVORE CAPITALISM.

[liberalmike27]

16. You and Others

Mistakenly believe Capitalism, Socialism, Communism are all fixed places. In truth, the whole econmic spectrum is more represented as a dial on a radio. To get the station to tune in just right, to have the most strength so all of us can hear properly, you've got to find just the right point.

As far as the little video, it's spot-on. We practice a very right-wing capitalism, a might-makes-right kind of capitalism. We can kill you, so give us your oil, give us your silver mines, give us your diamonds, your Coltan. Iraq was clearly about oil. Most of us don't dispute it, while some might question whether government is run by corporations, clearly with Iraq and the Gulf spill, we've seen how powerful they are, and how they truly seem to run our politicians, rather than the other way around.

We've just got to turn that dial back to the left a bit, put some controls in place, so that people will be back in control, so they won't be able to kill people in hopes for profits, like in the coal mines and the oil rig explosion. Many examples have cropped up in the last years, that it'll even help them, as they seem to not even understand the damage they have done to themselves of late.

[kenfrequed]

18. Err.

Actually there is a difference between the PR of capitalism which is sold to the believers and claims that there are no limits to wealth as it can be magically created and the reality of capitalism that requires a finite supply or source of a good or resource to ensure profitability.

It is all a manner of terms.

[florida08]

11. confessions of an economic hit-man

is a wakeup call for the country. The jackals go in when bribery doesn't work..when the jackals fail the government sends in the military. Thanks for posting :kick:

[nenagh]

12. Thank you..

Years ago, I bought Antonia Juhasz's book "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time".. which outlined the Bush/Cheney original economic plans for Iraq..

Essentially an economic invasion..

It made such depressing reading.. knowingly putting Iraquis out of their jobs while selling off assets to the corporations.. :(

But then it is far from my field of expertise..

[mnhtnbb]

13. Both Perkins' books are highly recommended reading.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World by John Perkins


There is a third which I haven't yet read: Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded--and What We Need to Do to Remake Them by John Perkins

[Raster]

14. Stand up!!! Recommended!!! OMG, I am blown away!

Thank you, John Perkins!!!:kick:

[mckara]

17. It Reflects the Concept of Informal Empire

Recommend: Williams, W.A. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

[ashling]

19. I watched the move THE INTERNATIONAL the other night

The murder/mystery/conspiracy was all about a huge mega international bank controlling the debt created through wars, rebellions and coups in the third world.

[DeMartMan]

20. Thank you for this

I am going to use it as an opening article on the C -n- C