John Perkins Confession: I received permission from the Jordan Harbinger Show to publish my translation of what I needed from the video, provided that I link to his Jordan Harbinger show John Perkins Confessions was added
“An American Agent Begs for Forgiveness” broadcast by NRK-TV on January 31, 2009 in prime time — and NRK should send it once again . The preview from NRK is still online:
“(Apology of an Economic Hit man) John Perkins was part of a secret group (National Security Agency) that, on behalf of the US government, carried out the dirtiest jobs in South and Central America. Military coups, rigged elections, political assassinations and falsified reports were part of the reality. In front of an angry audience in Quito, Ecuador, he asks for forgiveness and an apology for what he has been a part of. But the hall is stormed by a crowd who want clear answers as to why they have had to suffer for so long. The film gives an interesting and frightening picture of the mechanisms that have helped to control our modern world.”
I recently played this video on YouTube with English subtitles on the screen, — wrote down the most important things, sentence by sentence, and then translated them into Norwegian. A few words that I didn’t understand, I replaced with (?):
John Perkins — Confession of an economic hitman:
First of all my title was chef economist; I was very legitimate, I didn’t go out as a spy or something, I went out as a representative of the World bank or the Asian Development Bank, or for the US Agency for International Development or the State Department. But my job, and that of my staff, was to identify countries that had resources our corporations want, like oil. And then we went into that country and arrange for huge loan to that country from The World Bank or its sister organizations. But the money never actually went to the country. Instead it went to our own corporations — the big engineering companies; the Bechtels, the Haliburtons, the Brown and Roots, or the General Electrics that made the equipment to build huge infrastructure projects in those countries. Electric power systems, industrial parks, highways, ports things that made huge profits for the companies that built them; obvious our companies, but also made money for the few wealthy families in those countries; the people who owned the industries, the banks, the shopping malls, but they’d left the rest of the country in dire debt, and so the majority of the people suffered because the money was diverted from health, education and other social services to pay the interest on the loans.
And in the end the country couldn’t pay back the principal on the loan. So we, economic hitmen will go back in under the guise of the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, and we’d say: Hey, well structure that loan for you, but there’s conditions that you’ve got to meet. In those conditions were things like, you know, privatize your public sector, businesses, your utility companies, your schools, your prisons and sell them our investors, that at cut rate prices — first of all allow our companies to take your resources; oil or whatever it is — real cheap — without any environmental or social regulations. And privatize. And vote with us on the next UN vote. And let us build a military base on your soil. And so, this was the game we were playing.
And that was a game that in the beginning I thought was doing a big service to these countries… (discussion with Jordan Hardinger on economics and that these things are done by design…
John Perkins: Well, it’s by design because there’s a long history here of what we could call colonialism — so how do you take over countries – you threaten to send your military and threaten to overthrow presidents or assassinate them, which is something we have done, you know US has a history that we’ve admitted to. So these presidents of countries; when I would go in and say hey; put your country deep into debt, you know with this loan from the world bank , you and your people are going to make a lot of money out of it. But the majority of the people aren’t going to do so well. The leaders know this, but the other side of that formula is that these people know that if they don`t take these billions of dollars I’m offering them, then the guys with the gun are going to walk in. I didn`t carry a gun, but I knew that right behind me there were people we called jackals, who are CIA operatives, normally assets not, often not-employees, but contractors who either overthrow governments or assassinate the leaders. This isn`t a conspiracy theory, it’s a fact. Henry Kissinger — the united states — we’ve admitted that we did this sort of thing with Salvador Allende in Chile, and (Arbans?) and Guatemala and most of the deck. And Iran, and Lumumba, and Congo and ZM and Vietnam and on and on and on.
So the leaders of these countries were put in a very difficult position here; Put your country deep into debt, and you and your family will get wealthy and be able to go to college in the United Stater and so on and so forth — or, we`ll take you out of office, and the next guy will buy into the deal.
Jordan Harbinger: Right, like eventually we’ll kill enough people that somebody will have sense enough to listen. So it’s like a mafia business model to a banking business model which. …I don`t see a ton of difference… you’re making them an offer that they can’t refuse. And they just don`t get The Horse Head in the bed, as a warning? John Perkins: Yea, well The Horse Head is there, yes, it’s a little more subtle — they know what happened to Allende and Chile, they know what happened to most of the deck, they’re all very aware of that. So that knowledge itself is «The Horse Head. And if they’re» not getting it, we`ll give them subtle reminders of what’s happened to others. ….
Later in the film he tells that the two elected presidents in Panama and Ecuador were the only ones who turned down the offer. Within three months, each of them died when their small plane crashed in the sea, blown by a bomb. No evidence was found.
According to John Perkins’ latest book, “New Confessions” and lectures posted on YouTube, things have now gotten much worse. Because during the twelve years that have passed since the first book, he says that the United States has used this mafia method in Europe as well.
Then, when our norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg stated that: “The United States has negotiated similar agreements with several European countries, including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania” — it is now clear that US State mafia has made all the East-European countries to be marionettes for USA.
And today Sweden Finland, Denmark/Greenland and the entire EU and is made marionettes of US state mafia. Because the Supplementary Agreements on Defense Cooperation with USA, – without connection to Nato, but given to all their Nato allied countries, changed Nato´s status as free nations - to be USAs Private Army. Cleverly done. But against every UN-Charter articles. As if this wasn’t bad enough, all the West-African countries with border to the Atlantic Ocean have got their mafia offers: invitation to be member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Charter, NATO.