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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.

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Mar 22·edited Mar 22Liked by Sage Hana

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.

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My attention sticks on the whole topic of NGOs, non-profits, think tanks, and how they fit in with the concept of "public-private" partnerships. And the data I have seen that allows government entities to hire non-government entities to do work they cannot do themselves. (apparently for instance, an intel agency that is prohibited from, say, working inside the US domestically, might hire a private security firm to do some work on their behalf....) Logically, if it is illegal for the intel agency to do something, they should not be able to hire an outside source to do it.... Just thinking out loud here -- Ginger

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Mar 22Liked by Sage Hana

Trust your gut, Sage.

Always trust your gut.

The only times in my life I didn't, I got into trouble.

Lately though, my gut is saying bad things...and I cannot figure out where or why..cause it

doesn't seem to be just one thing.

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Mar 22Liked by Sage Hana

Gonna add another 'K' to the list: Koala's. Y'all think that when the entire island of Australia burned, a while back, and all the happy Koala's got crisped...you think that was dews? You know, in retrospect, now that it's happened a lot more. The notion then wasn't even a glimmer in my eye...but now...

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Also, random tangent, but related to 'they are coming for you'. Had a bit of an insight yesterday. Was gazing up at the sky, watching shit slowly waft down, and I got to wondering 'why they hell do they keep making X shapes and triangles with the trails lately? It feels like a new-ish thing. Then it hit me. It's hard to track dispersion vectors with amorphous single lines that splay out into blob shapes. Cross two lines and now you have a single point. You can build a vector with that point. Track the intersection through time. Maybe they are honing their technique; dumping airborne dispersion data into some system AI is slicing and dicing. Anyone else noticing the crossing of the streams lately?

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Mar 22Liked by Sage Hana

I lived what he hypes and it is not nearly as exhilarating or bond esq.

Countries, mainly western, suck vast amounts of treasure from said country at the expense of their people. Front organization such as USAID, international Rescue and too many to mention offer ‘aid’ to help X country, but it comes with restrictions. Build roads to nowhere, farm soy or some other food, not necessarily what the people of your country eat or want, and so on.

The money flushed before these leaders eyes are huge. Some do try to have it refocused on what they need, but reality is every buck being given by the taxpayer in X country has been earmarked to swell the coffers of Y corporation.

Of course it is all so gently massaged. It will help your people and this is the only way we can give you the money. Back home where the money is actually coming from they have no idea how it will be used.

They might see on TV some fresh water pumps being installed in some far off place, and a village of people in joy. What they don’t know depending on how many countries paid for ( in other words you) they all sent out a delegate to “methodically asses” and report back. In other words “Justify it”.

I still shudder when I remember meeting the people responsible for this oversight. Same age as me around then. Late 20’s early 30’s. In our guest house, in countries it is was not allowed, they always had access to alcohol and much more.

How after a few they would sit around sharing how they gone this way or that to see implementation, but most of the parts had not arrived or did not work. They always had the model village or two, to fallback on

At this point I have a confession to make. I was young and naive and could not believe that many my age, who had “prestigious” government jobs with so much potential seemed in private absolutely disinterested, while publicly pretending to their citizens back home, how much helping.

So back to where I began. Over time I came to understand they were nothing more than well paid ‘darlings’. A self congratulatory ‘high five’. Nothing more than a stamp of approval

Meanwhile, millions, billions was being spent on nothing that actually helped the country in question

Their leaders knew it. For many greed got the better of them. Siphoned some off and then stood for photo ops with the “darlings”. Proclaiming loudly about the fresh water they had just secured for X village

What is not said is the real cost to that country and the people of the country paying for it.

We are in an abusive relationship with our government and those that actually profit from it. It is not new. It has definitely got worse.

They have never cared what countries, people, etc they sacrifice for their insatiable appetite. We are all expendable.

We are all just living in a time where their vision is becoming clear.

They are pro death. Ours.

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Mar 22·edited Mar 22Liked by Sage Hana

I read the Perkins book back in 2007 or so ... You can download a free PDF copy here: https://www.academia.edu/18758375/John_perkins_confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man

Haiti- yes, in real time for quite a few years...

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Mar 22Liked by Sage Hana

I read the Perkins book and it wasn't a waste of time, but he didn't/doesn't ask the next indicated questions, imo. Yeah I think it's too late for your indoctrination!

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I read John Perkins book when it came out, pretty much in one sitting at the book store. I had to buy it because I didn't finish before the store closed. Similar to current reality I had to distrust the guy and think deeply and analyze the book because:

- to me it was obvious that he was not quite there or deluded because I was already advanced on the 9-11 operation yet this guy ended his book talking about "no wonder those Arabs hate us" (based on what I just reported).

So yeah, good info, bad brains.

Way to link into current investigation and staying focused on land destruction/ redevelopment and focused on Haiti.

Sage, there is another big picture aspect that I would like to introduce. The infrastructure bill includes long range funding of small conventional military development throughout pacific nations. This is for the purposes of establishing skirmish areas and contested regions so as to perpetuate the reality of war, 1984 style. Oceania is officially used term now and inscribed within the infrastructure bill. Yet pacific is not the only region where Oceania will rub borders with other supranational entities. China already has control of Panama canal through Caribbean south of Cuba into Venezuela. In my mind what is happening in Haiti at least includes the prerogative of establishing contested or chaotic regions at the border areas between power centers.

These two are the advanced level of what Perkins was trying to say.

https://www.amazon.com/Worldwide-Evil-Misery-Satanic-Bloodlines/dp/1517125766

https://www.amazon.com/Opium-Diamonds-Empire-Nancy-Turner/dp/1450201717/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?adgrpid=57610640578&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tX-hijnV0j7mCiXcaztHNZQ1Di3B2h8x2Fvr1nY_7WzGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.YlAoXBy8JDu1XS3UExG3xuX8nyGYvnQhNJGzL0fUbQc&dib_tag=se&hvadid=580830015991&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9032758&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=6239877635207159572&hvtargid=kwd-346318770958&hydadcr=15122_13523057&keywords=aids+opium+diamonds+and+empire&qid=1711131731&sr=8-1

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Mar 24·edited Mar 25Liked by Sage Hana

ha! John Perkins. I flew on a light plane (6 seater) into the Amazon with John Perkins sitting opposite me, in 2004. Little did I know but then found out later that he was trying to publish this book Portrait of an Economic Hitman - and had great difficulty finding a publisher willing to publish his book. If I had known he was in the midst of this endeavor and a target, I probably would have changed plans. But, it wasn't til later that I found out. He had befriended the Shuar Tribe in the Amazon decades earlier, and was advocating on behalf of many Amazonian tribes to fight against the land grab pursued by the logging and oil companies. He knew corporate America and they did not. He is a senior Economist. They are tribal people that did not understand their land was worth far more than the trivial amount offered by the Corporatocracy. We circled around the landing strip amidst rain and lightening, waiting for the weather to clear. The first plane landed, it was a little bigger than us. I have video footage of us landing and a HUGE wave of water came over the wing of the light plane as we landed in sodden ground, and at the end of the grass runaway skidded sideways into the jungle. The Shuar tribe were waiting for us, and took us on canoes to their tribe where we stayed. John Perkins had left the corporate world and was running tours into the Amazon with the Shuar Tribe, who hosted us. We had a wonderful experience, slogging in gum boots through the jungle, drinking their 'beer', and being healed by their Shaman whilst undergoing the traditional shamanic initiation rites. Not for the faint hearted. The tribesmen even cleared a path for us and built a ladder to enable us to descend down into a valley where we were able to bath under a hot waterfall adjacent to a cold waterfall, always in honour of Pachamama. As the Shuar said "The World is as You Dream it"

https://www.amazon.com/World-As-You-Dream-Teachings/dp/0892814594

https://johnperkins.org/

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Mar 22Liked by Sage Hana

I read the Economic Hitman book years ago. The problem of loans being used to exploit countries was not new and had been a staple of colonial powers. Some examples include lending to late Qing dynasty for railway and other capital intensive construction. A large series of loans to the Ottoman sultan to build palaces, railways, and purchase military modernization equipment and ships. The Suez canal involved a similar scam.

These type of predatory international loans work especially well in democracies because the current leader can do all the spending and leave the next leader on the hook for the bill.

Forced economic crisis can also be used to restructure entire economies along NWO lines. Recently Igor Chudov was highlighting how wonderful the population implosion of Japan and Korea will be. I was quite upset about that because of what I know about Korean history.

Korea was a highly successful growth economy even coming out of a political crisis as it transitioned from military dictatorship. They had a sudden 'currency crisis' and were forced by the IMF to restructure their entire economy. Their wages and growth has never recovered and as a result their population is in decline. Who wants to have kids when you know you can't provide for them to be more successful than you? Think that was all an accident?

Forced economic decline is a mechanism of population control. You think the high cost of living in California for instance is an accident? It is quite deliberate. Only the wealthy and immigrants used to far lower standard of living will be willing to have children.

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Mar 22Liked by Sage Hana

Funny you mention Hit Man as this past week I was thinking maybe I should read it. It's one like "Rules for Radicals" I thought to but never would read for fear of damaging the remaining cells of my sweet summer goldfish hammer brain. I get it without all the monster machination details. Better to chuckle through the sly wry Sage Hana clif notes that for some reason are still guppy friendly while dealing with the toxins.

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Mar 24Liked by Sage Hana

Author Deborah Davis, cited in the article, is also another rabbit hole.

She wrote the book "Katharine the Great" in 1979 which was promptly destroyed by the beast system; 20,000 copies of the already-published book shredded at that time. She eventually won a lawsuit against the publisher.

Apparently, she has never written another book (other than updating the original).

One of the few links on her: https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKdavisD.htm

The intro to the 3rd Edition is interesting: https://www.academia.edu/35552556/Introduction_to_Katharine_the_Great

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Mar 24Liked by Sage Hana

Quickly: continuing a previous conversation: "rise in cancer rate" - when does the timeline start? I reported sightings of that timeline curiously placed at 2019 (rather than say, oh, 2021) - here one such timeline apropos the sad news from the Princess of Wales (promo code: Ann Barnhardt)

Indeed! Doctors are warning of a "mysterious cancer ‘epidemic’ ...Models ... predict that the number of early-onset cancer cases will increase by around 30 per cent between 2019 and 2030, a markedly faster increase than the previous 30 years."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/princess-reveals-diagnosis-doctors-warn-171346589.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZHJ1ZGdlcmVwb3J0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANFR_LNoHyAqG_Bec4yDBic3ubCKIq7Hoc5z8uu9np4AILb1Smh5Pwp2qRraIR2NkTTq8uuIkIlnaNChyYjVsLe95y2Lgn5YpxovIHCRJIQSn7rc6U6TkCalnM-eTdl9Yzhl5WXW7OA4IZcile_4KWX1fUk3ZGB8YH8SwCVCKAzb

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Hi Sage.

Sorry for not keeping up ... information overload, and just busy trying to pay the rent.

Just wanted to thank you for keeping the Maui Massacre in the public's mind.

Three podcasts that have managed to evade full censorship on YouTube include Eric West's "Hawaiian Real Estate", Melissa M's "Blossom Inner Wellness", and Traci's "Brush Junki". Traci has really hit the nail on the head with a couple of recent interviews ...

— The narrow escape of a licensed therapist (and those 'strange winds')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQ62vt6N8Q

— Military Operations during the Maui Massacre (and those 'strange winds')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ6xUe94I_0&t=1220s

Cheers Sage

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