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Which there is no question, was

executed by CIA sponsored jackals.

A tremendous amount of evidence

that one of Torijjos security guards

handed him at the last moment as he

was getting on the plane a tape recorder.

A small tape recorder that contained a bomb.

It is interesting to me how this system has continued

pretty much the same way for years and years and years,

except the economic hit men have

gotten better and better and better.

Then we come up with very recently

what happened in Venezuela.

In 1998, Hugo Chavez gets elected president,

following a long line of presidents group been very

corrupt and basically destroyed the economy of the country.

And Chavez was elected amidst all that.

Chavez stood up to the United States,

and hed done it primarily by demanding that

Venezuelan oil be used to help the Venezuelan people.

Well we didnt like that in the United States.

So in 2002, a coup was staged which

was no question in my mind,

in most other peoples minds,

that the CIA was behind that coup.

The way that that coup was fomented was very

reflective of what Kermit Roosevelt had done in Iran.

Of paying people to go out into the streets, to riot,

to protest, to say that Chavez was very unpopular.

You know, if you can get a few

thousand people to do that,

Television can make it look like its the

whole country and things start to mushroom.

Except in the case of Chavez, he was smart enough and

the people were so strongly behind him that they overcame it.

Which was a phenomenal moment

in the history of Latin America.

Iraq actually is a perfect example of

the way the whole system works.

We economic hitmen are the first line of defense.

We go in, we try to corrupt governments and get them to try

to accept these huge loans which we then use as leverage,

to basically own them.

If we fail, as I failed in Panama with Omar Torrijos,

and Ecuador with Jaime Roldos,

men who refused to be corrupted,

then the second line of defense is we send in the jackals.

And the jackals either overthrow

governments or they assassinate.

And once that happens then a

new government comes in and boy

its gonna toe the line because the new

president knows what will happen if he doesnt.

In the case of Iraq, both of those things failed.

The economic hitmen were not able

to get through to Saddam Hussein.

We tried very hard.

We tried to get him to accept a deal very similar to

what the House of Saud had accepted in Saudi Arabia,

but he wouldnt accept it.

And so the jackals went in to take him out.

They couldnt do it.

His security was very good.

After all, he at one time had worked for the CIA.

Hed been hired to assassinate the

former president of Iraq, and failed,

but he knew the system.

So in 91 we send in the troops and

we take out the Iraqi military.

So we assume at that point that Saddam Hussein is gonna come around.

We could have taken him out, of course,

at that time, but we didnt want to.

Hes the kind of strong man we like.

He controls his people.

We thought he could control the Kurds,

keep the Iranians in their border,

and keep pumping oil for us.

And that once we took out his military,

now hes gonna come around.

So the economic hitmen go back in

in the 90s without success.

If theyd had success hed

still be running the country.

Wed be selling him all the fighter jets he wants,

and everything else he wants,

but they couldnt, they didnt have success.

The jackals couldnt take him out again,

so we sent the military in once again and

this time we did the complete job and took him out.

And in the process created for ourselves

some very very lucrative construction deals

had to reconstruct a country that

wed essentially just destroyed.

Which is a pretty good deal if you

own a construction companies, big ones.

So Iraq shows the three stages.

The economic hitmen failed there.

The jackals failed there. And as a

final measure the military goes in.

And in that way weve really created an empire,

but weve done it very very subtly.

Its clandestine.

All empires of the past were built on the military,

and everybody knew they were building them.

The British knew they were building them, the French, the Germans,

the Romans, the Greeks and they were proud of it.

They always had some excuse like spreading

civilization, spreading some religion,

something like that, but they knew

they were doing it. We dont.

The majority of the people in the United States have no idea

that were living off the benefits of the clandestine empire.

That today there is more slavery

in the world than ever before.

Then you have to ask yourself, well if its an empire,

then who is the emperor?

Obviously our presidents of the

United States are not emperors.

An emperor is someone who is not elected,

doesnt serve a limited term,

and doesnt report to anyone, essentially.

So you cant classify our presidents that way.

But we do have what I consider to

be the equivalent of the emperor,

and its what I call the Corporatocracy.

The Corporatocracy is this group of

individuals who run our biggest corporations.

And they really act as the emperor of this empire.

They control our media, either through

direct ownership or advertising.

They control most of our politicians

because the finance their campaigns,

either through the corporations or through personal

contributions that come out of the corporations.

Theyre not elected, then dont serve a

limited term, they dont report to anybody,

and at the very top of the Corporatocracy

you really cant tell whether

the person is working for a private corporation or the

government because their always moving back and forth.

So youve got a guy who is one moment is the

president of a big construction company like Haliburton,

and the next moment hes

Vice President of the United States.

Or the President who was in the oil business.

And this is true whether you get

Democrats or Republicans in the office.

You have this moving back and forth,

through the revolving door.

And in a way, our government

is invisible a lot of the time,

and policies are carried out by our

corporations on one level or another.

And then again, the policies of the government

are basically forged by the Corporatocracy,

and then presented to the government

and they become government policy.

So, there is an incredibly cozy relationship.

This isnt a conspiracy theory type of thing.

These people dont have to get

together an plot to do things.

They all basically work under one primary assumption,

and that is that they must maximize profits

regardless of the social and environmental costs.

This process of manipulation by the corporatocracy

through the use of debt, bribery

and political overthrow is called:

Globalization

Just as the Federal Reserve keeps

the american public in a postion

of indentured servetude, though

perpetual debt, inflation and interest

the Worldbank and IMF serve

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