Confessions of an Economic Wellness Doctor
When the Laser Pointer finds my Brain Vector, I go back to the tried and true tactic of tracking back the Komodo Dragons. NOT A WAREHOUSE FRIENDLY POST. THIS HOW IT BE SOMETIMES.
Section One: Books
Anyone read this book?
Someone who runs a hospital was going to send me this book once.
::stares out window::
How about this one?
Quick Tangent on Spookipedia and Mockingbird Media…an ALLEGED program
Checking out Spookipedia on the former.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a semi-autobiographical book written by American economist and essayist John Perkins, first published in 2004.[1][2][3]
The book provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. Perkins claims that the NSA arranged for him to be hired by the firm, and that he was subsequently seduced and trained as an "economic hitman" by a mysterious businesswoman named Claudine. Perkins writes that his primary role at Chas T. Main was to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept substantial development loans for large construction and engineering projects, thus trapping them in a system of American influence and control.
The book was a commercial success, but critics expressed doubts about the accuracy and validity of claims Perkins made in the book. *Perkins was referred to as a conspiracy theorist by one reviewer, while a number of former colleagues at Chas T. Main disputed or disagreed with some of his allegations. Several reviewers discussed a lack of documentation or verification for Perkins' claims.
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*Spookipedia, ladies and germs!
We are wading into WrongThink, ladies and germs!
Quick tangent within a tangent:
Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes. According to author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and influenced the operations of front groups. CIA support of front groups was exposed when an April 1967 Ramparts article reported that the National Student Association received funding from the CIA.[1] In 1975, Church Committee Congressional investigations revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups.
ALLEGED LARGE SCALE PROGRAM.
ALLEGED!
They just can’t help themselves. 😅
Okay, let’s get back to that Economic Hitman book as described in Spookipedia.
The book provides Perkins' account of his career with engineering consulting firm Chas. T. Main in Boston. Perkins claims the involvement of the National Security Agency (NSA), with whom he had interviewed for a job prior to joining Main. According to the author, this interview effectively constituted an independent screening that led to his subsequent hiring as an 'economic hit man' by Einar Greve,[4] vice president of the firm (and alleged NSA liaison). Perkins claims that he was seduced and trained as an "economic hitman" by a mysterious businesswoman named Claudine, who used his NSA personality profile to manipulate and control him.[5]
According to Perkins, his job at the firm was to convince leaders of underdeveloped countries to accept substantial development loans for large construction and engineering projects. Ensuring that these projects were contracted to U.S. companies, such loans provided political influence for the US and access to natural resources for American companies,[1]: 15, 239 thus primarily helping local elites and wealthy families, rather than the poor.
The book heavily criticizes U.S. foreign policy and the notion that "all economic growth benefits humankind, and that the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits."[1]: xii Perkins suggests that, in many cases, only a small portion of the population benefits at the expense of the rest, pointing to, as an example, an increase in income inequality, whereby large U.S. corporations exploit cheap labor, and oil companies destroy local environments.[1]: xii
Perkins describes what he calls a system of corporatocracy and greed as the driving forces behind establishing the United States as a global empire, in which he took a role as an "economic hit man" to expand its influence. In this capacity, Perkins recounts his meetings with some prominent individuals, including Graham Greene and Omar Torrijos. Perkins describes the role of an economic hit man as follows:
Economic hit men (EHMs) 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 (USAID), and other foreign "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 included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.[6]
*Bonus Stacking* Short documentary and interview with Confessions of an Economic Hitman author John Perkins
Haiti as Spun out
Let’s go to Alleged Large Scale Programming now RE: Haiti.
The violence across Haiti is palpable, with its capital taking center stage. Gang wars have led to the prime minister stepping down. A state of emergency and a nighttime curfew were invoked to try to curb the gang attacks in Port-au-Prince. But the gangs remain unabated. The U.S. has also implemented several unfortunate policy decisions that only make it harder for Haitians, such as use of a mandatory mobile application form (CBP One) to request asylum. Racial discrimination and violence against Haitian refugees in Mexico was cited as a threat by Amnesty International.
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And much like the facial recognition software used across America that has shown biases when adapting to Black faces, so does CBP One’s app. The Guardian reported: “The U.S. government’s mobile app for migrants to apply for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border is blocking many Black people from being able to file their claims because of facial recognition bias in the tech, immigration advocates say.” People with darker skin tones have a hard time being able to register through the CBP One app, eliminating their opportunity to apply for asylum.
Someone want to track back this “brightenhaiti” concern?
I’m just sitting here trying to think like a Scorpion.
Of course you can tank Joe Biden and bring on the Father of the Vaccine Donald Trump.
Both of them stand with Israel, brehhhh…
As does Bobby! 👍
(Fun fact, I used to irritate the NYT readers when they allowed comments by linking Joe Biden talking about building a fence to keep out the drug traffickers from Mexico before he ran back in the lockerroom and turned into a Commie Open Borders and you meebeee wouldn’t have Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court without Joe Biden shutting down Anita Hill back in the day but this gets into the goldfish brainz of zeeeeeeeemmmmmurrrrrrricaaanszzzzz.)
Haiti.
Hmmm…looking like a two-fer and probably an eleven-fer.
Refugee crisis and some good old Empire Building using some private public partnership.
Meeebbeee some good old child trafficking.
Is the Clinton Foundation anywhere around?
Oh you like that talking point.
Was there some other private partner with some military connections that was moving on Haiti?
Before this latest kerfuffle?
I should take some time off and do some reading.
Become a proper Classical Journalist.
Is it too late for me to get indoctrinated at Oxford or London School of Economics?
Anyone want to send me a book about Public Private Partnerships and Empire Building and then I might be able to track back how the damn Commies are installing a One World Government.
But the Conservatives will fight them tooth and nail. (Not the “neo-Cons” who are No True Scotsman not the real conservatives.)
Islands
Hey remember Hawaii and the Tropical Island Wildfires due to klimate change and bad land management?
And that “botched” response for the Smart City Island?
Remember those curious burn patterns?
They are going to come for you.
They did come for you.
With the shots.
With the Train Derailment.
With Kalifornia, Kolorado, Hawaii, Texas fires.
Pay attention to Haiti.
Public Private Partnership.
This post is cryptic and I don’t know what to say.
My gut is so far out in front of my brain and my ability to express what I see and we are under the microscope like an illusory pathogen that emerged from bats to pangolins.
1. Comments are open to all now. This is an annoying setting default on Substack that I forget to toggle to all comments sometimes.
2. Added short documentary on Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
I've read the Perkins book, many years ago.
When I started to understand the Covid playbook, I thought a lot about that one and Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine.
https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999
Both very useful for understanding *that it's a set of plays,* which have been run many times before, in many different places, to step-wise bring about the same results.