{"id":604,"date":"2009-08-20T19:15:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T00:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=604"},"modified":"2009-08-21T10:01:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T15:01:54","slug":"economic-hitman-john-perkins-said-he-beleives-americans-are-compassionate-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/08\/20\/economic-hitman-john-perkins-said-he-beleives-americans-are-compassionate-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Hitman John Perkins said he believes Americans are “compassionate people”."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"perkins\"<\/a>Where did he get that idea?\u00a0 Compassion is not a visible trait among Americans.\u00a0 During an interview<\/a> about his 2004 best seller Confessions of an Economic Hitman<\/em> Perkins said that he thinks that once Americans know why other parts of the world have so much animosity for the US that Americans would change because we are “compassionate people”.<\/p>\n

Uh, John…no, we’re not.\u00a0 Is it any mystery that America is the world headquarters of personal greed?\u00a0 Just look at the right wing attack on health reform.\u00a0 One of the biggest complaints opponents have is that they don’t want to face a tax increase, even for the ultra wealthy, to pay for “deadbeats” who can’t afford health care for themselves.\u00a0 American’s don’t even care about each other.\u00a0 What made you think there is enough “compassion” in America to believe we would change our behavior because of the opinion of another nation or culture? \u00a0 These are nations and cultures clearly below the standards set for consideration by most American’s.\u00a0 America is the ultimate superpower empire on earth.\u00a0 The place where the living standards are the highest and the rest of the world is beneath us.\u00a0 What, you didn’t get the memo?<\/p>\n

For those not familiar, John Perkins was recruited by the National Security Agency to convince foreign nations to take out large international loans for domestic infrastructure projects and then collect the monies owed to US corporations.\u00a0 For example Ecuador owes 50% of their GDP (gross domestic product) to international lenders and corporations.\u00a0 When they can’t pay they have to turn over assets, like the Amazon rain forests, to energy companies.\u00a0 If they don’t turn over assets or pay then the “Jackyl’s” would be sent in.\u00a0 These Jackyl’s, which are CIA sanctioned operatives, would cause internal strife such as military coups and even assassinations.\u00a0 When they fail to get the assets US corporations are pursuing then “we send in our young men and women to die and to kill, like we are doing in Iraq today”.\u00a0 To date not one source has been able to scrutinize or denounce John Perkin’s claims.\u00a0 Those who tried to dispute his claims quickly retracted when confronted with evidence.\u00a0 In John’s words “it’s all about building Empire”.<\/p>\n

Watch the interview<\/a> and learn more than you want to know about the Empire that is larger and more powerful than the US government.\u00a0 It is the community of world corporations and their ambitions above and beyond all international laws.\u00a0 NAFTA and the WTO are their vehicles to legitimacy.\u00a0 The corporations grow rich regardless of any social or moral destitution they create.\u00a0 The mandate of their executives is profits at any cost, even lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where did he get that idea?\u00a0 Compassion is not a visible trait among Americans.\u00a0 During an interview about his 2004 best seller Confessions of an Economic Hitman Perkins said that he thinks that once Americans know why other parts of the world have so much animosity for the US that Americans would change because we … Continue reading Economic Hitman John Perkins said he believes Americans are “compassionate people”.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}